introduction to technology enhanced learning
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Introduction to Technology Enhanced Learning
TaLIC, 2016
What is Learning Technology?
Learning technology is the broad range of communication, information and related technologies that can be used to support learning, teaching and assessment.
Association for Learning Technology (https://www.alt.ac.uk/)
…to tablet
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Socrates (via Plato) in Phaedrus on the dangers of writing:
...for this discovery of yours [writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
Invention of printing press raised concerns about information overload.
Luddites (19th Century textile workers) protested against newly developed labour-economizing technologies.
Technophile or Technophobe?
Does technology change the way
we think?
Reflections!
Learning… anytime, anywhere…
How Does Technology Enhance Learning?
• More use of technology?
• Increased efficiency of processes?
• Reproduce or supplement what you already do through technology?
• Transform teaching and/or learning processes and outcomes?
How to Evaluate Enhancement?
“Measures that are sensitive to the complexities of human interaction are more appropriate for gathering evidence of enhancement.” Kirkwood and Price (2014)
Audrey Watters:Need to ‘care’ for our technology otherwise
business (Silicone Valley) will appropriate education for its
own ends.
Diana Laurillard: Education adopts technology that has been developed for business.We have only begun to scratch surface of its potential.
Residents vs. Visitors (White & Le Cornu, 2011)
- a continuum of modes of engagement
- based on context and motivation
- doesn’t assume that ownership = capability
Digital Residents and Visitors
Are you a digital resident or a visitor?
Activity
Who are our students?
Who are our students?
Are they digital residents or visitors?
Reflections!
Digital Literacy
…. the capabilities which fit someone for living, learning and working in a digital society. (Jisc, 2015)
Access ≠ Ability to benefit from resources
Digital Literacy
What do you think digital literacy means for your students?
Activity
Howard Rheingold’s (2010) five social media literacies:
- Attention- Participation- Collaboration- Network awareness- Critical consumption (Crap detection)
Digital Literacy: Social Media
Digital Literacies
Howard Rheingold’s five social media literacies:
AttentionParticipationCollaborationNetwork awarenessCritical consumption (Crap detection)
Howard Rheingold’s painted shoes...
• mobile device ownership is high and continues to increase among students
• students and instructors need technical, logistical, and pedagogical support
• continuous support and targeted training lead to positive changes
Students' Mobile Learning Practices in Higher Education: A Multi-Year Study
Digital Literacy
Changes to Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA) and its implications
• Meeting learners’ needs in online and blended learning• Assessment workflow (online assessment)
Learning Analytics
Goldsmiths Context
Best Practices:
• Informed and selective
• Relevant to discipline and context
• Focused use of information and communication networks
• Fosters learning community
• Uses assessment to support learning
• Meets diverse learner needs
Goldsmiths Context
What is your context?(resources, practices of your
academic discipline,
expectations, challenges, etc.)
Reflections!
Future Trends
Key Trends Accelerating Technology Adoption in Higher Education (New Media Consortium, 2015):
Long-Term: 5+ yrs Advancing Cultures of Change and Innovation Increasing Cross-Institution Collaboration Mid-Term Trends: 3 – 5 yrs Growing Focus on Measuring Learning Proliferation of Open Educational Resources Short-Term Trends: 1 – 2 yrs Increasing Use of Blended Learning Redesigning Learning Spaces
If you’d like to learn more about the field of learning technologies…
LT as an Academic Discipline
Instructional Technology
CurriculumDesign
Learning Sciences
… check a variety of publications including:
Australasian Journal of Educational TechnologyBritish Journal of Educational TechnologyComputer-Supported Collaborative LearningDistance EducationEducational Technology Research and DevelopmentInternational Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative LearningJOLT - Journal of Online Learning and TeachingJournal of the Learning SciencesTechTrends
LT as an Academic Discipline
And blogs, Twitter, and other social networking platforms:
#ALTC Blog
#digped (Twitter)
Hackeducation (Audrey Watters)
JISC Blog
ProfHacker (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
LT as an Academic Discipline
A student is not:
• a ‘product’ but a person,
• a customer but partner,
• a passive consumer of knowledge but also producer
and curator.
As We Conclude...
The best way to learn something is to teach it.
Thank you!
You can find a copy of the slides at http://www.slideshare.net/TaLIC_Goldsmiths