george veletsianos: emerging academic practices in open online learning environments
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Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence Summitt, Feb. 2015
Emerging practices in digital (often open) learning environments
George Veletsianos, PhD Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning & Technology
Associate Professor School of Education and Technology
Royal Roads University: Universities reflect the societies that house them
Emerging practices and technologies
Online and open learning: Emerging
Finding #1
1. Openness in the absence of institutional incentives
What open practices do faculty at institution X enact? The majority are • publishing manuscripts in open ways, • creating (and reusing?) open educational resources, • offering opportunities for open learning.
1. Openness in the absence of institutional incentives
In the words of Weller (2014): “Openness won” (but, beware of openwashing à Wiley’s talk) Implications from this research: • Individual rather than systemic motivators appear to be
significant drivers • Some practices are more privileged than others • The tyranny of default settings (à free vs. open)
1. Openness in the absence of institutional incentives
Finding #2
2. Research into online learning is becoming more interdisciplinary
How confident are we in this result? 10,000 repetitions.
A positive trend, but it presents both an opportunity and a challenge.
Finding #3
“By collecting every click, homework submission, quiz and forum note from tens of thousands of
students, Coursera [a MOOC platform] is a data mine that offers a new way to study learning” (May,
2012)
3. Data, data, everywhere
“By collecting every click, homework submission, quiz and forum note from tens of thousands of
students, Coursera [a MOOC platform] is a data mine that offers a new way to study learning” (May,
2012)
Thille: To design learning activities to collect data to make learning visible
3. Data, data, everywhere
3. Data, data, everywhere
3. Data, data, everywhere
3. Data, data, everywhere
3. Data, data, everywhere
3. Data, data, everywhere
Can online learning be fully understood and improved using data trails & data science?
… Are there practices that will remain invisible?
Powerful! But also consider this perspective
Yes, parts of it can refined. Other parts need different strategies…
Finding #4
4. Life’s daily realities shaping learning and participation
Finding #5
5. Notetaking – on paper
5. Notetaking – digital
Image attribution • Royal Roads University, Hatley Caste
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• Life emerges from the dark https://flic.kr/p/7LxQTe • Taking notes https://flic.kr/p/oyYv6M • Typing I https://flic.kr/p/drswmN • Day [009] Schedule https://flic.kr/p/8XbPUw • My new old pants https://flic.kr/p/GyggV • Abstract fluid
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