Technology enhanced learning in higher education
- 1. Rhetoric vs Reality Some thoughts about technology adoption in UK HEIs Jim Pettiward Blended Learning Facilitator London Metropolitan University www.123rf.com
- 2. Challenges • Hype & Technological determinism • Institutional Barriers • Digital Literacies www.123rf.com
- 3. The rhetoric.. “Since the dawn of digital education, pundits have dreamt about the potential to provide every student with access to brilliant digital content that thoughtfully merges the best software, subject- matter knowledge, and pedagogy…” Keith Hampson (2012) HE Management Blog, 2012 http://inanimatealice.com/
- 4. The reality… Virtual Worlds Game-Based Learning 2006 Learning Management Systems 2012 Web 2.0?
- 5. Institutional Barriers • ICT infrastructure and services • Lack of time and resources for staff development (role of academics?) • Transmission model of education • ‘Perpetual beta’ CC-BY-2.0 ‘Tropewell’
- 6. “we need a sea change in the default position from ‘we buy it, we control it, we procure it, we install it’ to ‘we’re working with you but it’s actually yours’.” John Traxler, Professor or Mobile Learning and Director of Learning Lab, University of Wolverhampton
- 7. Digital Literacy: “Those capabilities which equip an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society” (JISC LLiDA, 2009) CC-BY-ND UMPCportal.com
- 8. Elements of Digital Literacy Doug Belshaw, 2011 http://www.slideshare.net/dajbelshaw/
- 9. “We should see a university or college as a design organisation where they are designing and developing new forms of teaching and learning rather than just responding to innovations in technology or changes in policy.” Professor Mike Sharples, Professor of Learning Sciences and Director of the Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham
Editor's Notes
- #2: Intro: virtual idealism to mundane reality… from the ‘chalkface’ of Higher Ed. About me: Blended Learning Facilitator – 10 yrs ago ?? – preparing students for jobs which don’t yet exist… exaggeration but highlights the pace of change which is astonishing and worth repeating.
- #4: He goes on to say: “Unfortunately, this vision crashes headfirst with conventional notions about the role of academics in teaching, how we finance course development and how reputation for both academics and institutions relies so heavily on subject-matter knowledge.” It’s not accidental that rich media is largely limited to K12 and corporate learning contexts; they have different business models that better enable the use of this kind of content.
- #5: There has always been hype around educational technologies. Over the last few years there’s been hype around Virtual Learning Environments (LMS), Virtual Worlds (Second Life), Game-based learning - but these have either failed to live up to expectations or are niche activities carried out be small pockets of innovators.
- #8: Digital Natives vs Immigrants – fallacy. Better dichotomy is visitors / residents (david white, Oxford Uni) Need to distinguish between knowing your way round hardware (phones, pcs, games consoles) and social media and knowing how to do something useful with it.