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Technical Curriculum Challenges and Solutions

in the Digital Agein Qatar

by Derrick C. Hann

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Today’s studentsStakeholder needs

Credentialling

Today’s workplace

Cultural and linguistic contexts

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Cultural and linguistic contexts

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Canadian Curriculum for the Gulf Region

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Canadian Curriculum for the Gulf Region

“The College’s perennial challenge lies in maintaining the academic integrity and rigor of a Canadian curriculum while revising thecontent of the curriculum itself to align with

a different social, cultural, educational and academic context.”

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Student English Language Levels

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Today’s students

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Web 2.0

reliance on platform over applicationharnessing collective intelligence of web usersbloggingcooperation and collaboration among users

O’Reilly (2005)

“crowdsourcing” O’Reilly and Battelle, 2009, p. 2

Today’s students

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Utilizing existing literacies and tapping into the current literacies or skills that students have or are exposed to could make curriculum more relevant and interesting for students of today’s technologically proficient society.

Today’s students

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Today’s students

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Web 2.0 technologies draw on the students’ natural tendency to utilize new technologies in their personal lives and personal communication which can be applied to their programs.

“the five C’s of participation: community, collaboration, creativity, conversation and control”

Hicks and Graber, 2010, p. 627

Today’s students

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Industrial Age

Digital Age

multiliteracies

Web 2.0

digital literacies

critical thinking

reading, writing and arithmetic

Today’s students

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Industrial Age

Digital Age

Blogging, social media, wikis

Personal Learning Network

Personal Web Technologies

critical thinking

reading, writing and arithmetic

McElvaney and Berge, 2009

Today’s students

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Stakeholder needs

Accreditation and

Certification Bodies

Industry and Government

College Headquarters

Students and Faculty

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Stakeholder needs

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Credentialing

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Credentialling

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Today’s workplace

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horizontal relations of teamwork as opposed to hierarchical structure“multiskilling” – employees with ever increasing skills sets of various typesrounded and flexible worker communication strategies Cope & Kalantzis, 2009

Today’s workplace

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Web 2.0 and Today’s Workplace

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Multiliteracies

Students will require:ability to shift between both open and closed modes of course deliverysocial bookmarkingblogosphere social networking the utilization of Web 2.0 microcontentnavigating within an online course management system as

part of their coursework.

Alexander (2008)

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Literacies

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Digital Literacies

Siemens (2005) has defined an innovative theory of learning called connectivism. He suggests that the channels for learning are much more important than the content itself.

In the new connectivist pedagogy, “Learning is building networks of information, contacts and resources that are applied to real problems”

Anderson, 2010, p. 33

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Traditional Literacies

Associated with the industrial agescript literacy skills only one way to access and

manipulate information or data alphabetical focus in a single mode (print)may not be enough for the knowledge

economy page vs. pixel – fundamental unit of the literacy

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Conclusion

Changing perspectives

Reconceptualization

Each institution uniqueIdentifying technologies

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Based on proposed paperDigital Literacies and Multiliteracies: Solutions for College Curriculum Challengesby Derrick C. Hann