the relationship between content and innovation

DOES FLASHY SPARKLING SOPHISTICATED LOOKING

CONTENT EQUAL INNOVATION?

(All that glitters is not gold)

Michael Coghlan19/11/10

THIAGI

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WHAT ABOUT

TONIGHT?

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CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WITHOUT ANY CONTENT?

CONTENT or PROCESS?

V

DESTINATION or JOURNEY?

V

CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WHERE YOU CO-CREATE THE CONTENT AS YOU GO?

The Best Way to Learn How To Do Something

is to Teach It!

Gathering Content Involves

• Browsing possible resources• Deciding which resources to use• Creating resources• Deciding where and how to use them• Assembling resources into a coherent body of

contentTHEN• You work on how they look

Gathering Content Involves

• Browsing possible resources• Deciding which resources to use• Creating resources• Deciding where and how to use them• Assembling resources into a coherent body of

contentTHEN• You work on how they look

Where does most of the

thinking take place?

Gathering Content Involves• Browsing possible resources• Deciding which resources to use• Creating resources• Deciding where and how to use them• Assembling resources into a coherent body of

content

THENYou work on how it looks

Most of the thinking takes

place here

INNOVATION involves:

• Challenge• Change of behaviour• New

insight/knowledge/skillsTO INCREASE CHANCES OF SUCCESS IN A CHANGING WORLD (21ST century skills)

Employability Skills

• Communication • Teamwork • Problem Solving • Initiative and Enterprise • Planning and Organising • Self-management • Learning • Technology

INNOVATIVE?

OLD METHODOLOGY IN NEW CLOTHING

IS STILL OLD METHODOLOGY

INNOVATIVE?

kenya

KENYAN VILLAGE DISPLAY

THE UBIQUITOUS QUIZ

Skills of the VET Teacher/Trainer

Callan and Clayton: E-assessment and the AQTF: Bridging the divide between practitioners and auditors

● Many VET staff don't have a proper understanding of ASSESSMENT, let alone e-assessment!

● 90% of e-assessment is done via quizzes!!

QUIZZES

Cathy Moore:• Quizzes often test

whether or not you remember or understand what you read in the last 10 minutes

QUIZZES

Alternative Type Quiz Questions Might....

..... ask you to get up from the computer to:• Check an OH and S issue in a workshop and report back

on it• Take a photo that satisfies set criteria, tag it, and upload

it to a database (identifying plants in Horticulture)• Speak to a fellow student about the best way to solve a

problem (Dealing with Difficult Customers; Hospitality)• Research (Net, library, people) the various ways people

have addressed a similar problem in the past (parents with dementia; Aged Care)

Alternative Type Quiz Questions might...

... ask you to get up from the computer to:• Telephone 2 suppliers and evaluate their

products/services and explain why you chose one supplier over the other (Building, Plumbing)

Leave the quiz and • look for suitable YouTube videos that could be

used for instruction; describe, tag, and bookmark. (any subject)

WHAT ABOUT

YOUTUBE?

Lecturer: “I’m amazed at the extent of videos relating directly to the topics I teach in Painting...it would be easy to use them in the classroom as a lot of our old teaching videos are on cassette and are now poor quality & outdated. “

And other user-

generated content?

Creative Commons Licensing

from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT NEED ASKING/ANSWERING?

SCENARIO

400 gigalitres of water per year have to be put back into the Murray River if it is to be a healthy, sustainable system. This will have social and economic impacts on all towns along the river. How do we do this? What questions does each town need to address in order to achieve this goal?

“The whole world has become curricularised.” (Pachler)

Image courtesy of Nancy White

YES IT ALL TAKES MORE TIME

Courtesy of Greg Whitby

Where are the competent eLearning Practitioners?

Mitchell and Ward: ● A report on the National Survey of

Vocational Education and Training (VET) Practitioner (January, 2010)

● Elearning seen as part of an advanced skill set; less than 10% of VET lecturers see themselves in this category

Michael [email protected]

THANK YOU

An Innovator’s Point of View

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