MSL4204 – Integrating Learning Technologies

e-Learning in the Digital Information Age

Vanessa Camilleri

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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo.You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward.And while some see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

• Different factors impinging on the state of Higher Education

• Rise in a “Global Faculty and student mobility

• “The Invisible College”• The changing student

Changing Trends in Higher Education

Shifting Cultures

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• Shift towards the online world; online & blended programs – more access

• Student needs create a more learner-centric program – more collaboration

• Crowd sourcing or crowd learning? – more sharing

• Gamification or game-based learning? – more play

New Models in Teaching and Learning

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How we learn today, is not how we will learn tomorrow.

Does education need transformation?

Source: Chambers English Dictionary

"In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad."

- Nietzschehttp://thescholasticdiary.wordpress.com

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Young people’s out-of-school

experiences with technology can

mean that students find the presentation of school curriculum

less challenging, less relevant and less engaging.

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“Education must begin with the solution of the teacher-student contradiction, by reconciling the poles of the contradiction so that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”

- Paulo Friere

http://arts.anu.edu.au

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Education

Educere (latin) = to draw out what is within = to bring out potential

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Socratic discourse is based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical

thinking and illuminate ideas.

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• Coursera• Udacity• MOOCs• MIT• Stanford – the 100,000 classroom

Open Higher Education – what is happening around us?

CourseraHow Higher Education is becoming more open

Source: https://www.coursera.org/

MOOCsThe current and future state of Higher Education

Source: http://edfuture.net/

Peter NorvigThe 160,000 classroom – talk from Ted

Source: http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_norvig_the_100_000_student_classroom.html

Learning inside a virtual worldA 3-D immersive experience

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge – Einstein

• We need diversity of thought in the world to face new challenges – Sir Tim Berners Lee

What is happening around us?

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Networked learning

“Understanding how networks work is one of the most important literacies of the 21st Century.”

- Howard Rheingold

What is happening around us?

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Making Connections

In connectivism, learning involves creating connections and developing a network. It is a theory for the digital age drawing upon chaos, emergent

properties, and self organised learning.

(It’s not what you know but who you know)

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Social Networks...

Redefine community, friendship, identity, presence, privacy, geography, power relationships

Enable learning, connections, collaboration, sharing, exploration

Networks form around shared interests, ideas and objects

Adapted from Couros, A. (2010)

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“We are seeing peer-based learning networks where students are learning as much from each other as they are from their mentors and tutors.” – John Seely-Brown

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Doctors save lives.

Teachers make lives.

THANK YOU!

Vanessa Camilleri

Email: vanessa.camilleri@um.edu.mt Blog: https://seriouslyvirtual.wordpress.com/

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Skype: vcami01