2. Outline
• The evolving landscape of e-learning
• Affordances of new technologies
• From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
• Learner experience
• New pedagogiesandimplications
• Open practices
• Teacher practice and paradoxes
• Strategies for change
– Intervention framework: linking
research to policy and practice
– TheLMSasa Trojan horse
– New approaches to design
3. Research questions
• What:
– Is the learner experience and teacher practice?
– Are the emergent technologies and their affordances?
– Resources, OER and Pedagogical Patterns are there and
how are they been used?
– E-Pedagogies are there and how do they facilitate
different forms of learning?
– New learning design approaches can be used to
promote and support e-learning?
– Strategies are in place to promote and support e-
learning?
– Theories and methodologies are been used?
4. Evolving e-learning landscape
Emergent technologies
and affordances
Theory and methodology
E-pedagogies, strategies
and learning design
Resources, OER and
Pedagogical Patterns
Evaluations Interventions
5. Technological trends
• Mobiles and e-books
• Gesture and augmented
learning
• Learning analytics
• Personalised learning
• Cloud computing
• Ubiquitous learning
• BYOD (Bring your own device)
• Digital content
• The flipped classroom
http://learn231.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/trend-report-1/
6. Social & participatory media
Media sharing Blogging
Mash ups Messaging
Collaborative Recommender
editing systems
Virtual worlds
Social
and games
networking
Social Syndication
bookmarking
http://magicineducation.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/web-2-0-world-map/
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Conole and Alevizou, 2010
7. Peer Open
critiquing
User
Collective
generated
aggregation
content
Networked Personalised
Social media revolution
The machine is us/ing us
8. Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
• Take the long view
• Theweb is not the net
• Disruption is a feature
• Ecologies not economics
• Complexity is the new reality
• Thenetwork is now the computer
• The web is evolving
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2617472088/
http://memex.naughtons.org/
9. Disruptive technologies
• The web has transformed
practice
• No central ownership
• Ecology of abundance
• Examples
– Napster
– Malware
10. Learner experience
• Technology immersed
• Learning approaches: task-
orientated, experiential,
just in time, cumulative,
social
• Personalised digital
learning environment
• Mix of institutional systems
and cloud-based tools and
services
• Use of course materials
with free resources
10 Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010
11. EDUCAUSE study
• Students drawn
to new
technologies but
rely on more
traditional ones
• Consider
technologies
offer major
educational
benefits
• Mixed views of
VLEs
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12. 8-Learning Events Model
The essence of learning
Reflection Dialogue
Collaboration Application
19. Mobile learning
E-books
Study calendars
Learning resources
Online modules
Annotation tools
Podcasting
19 Communication mechanisms
20. Inquiry-based learning
My community
The Personal Inquiry project
Inquiry-based learning across
formal and informal settings
Sharples, Scanlon et al.
http://www.pi-project.ac.uk/
21. Virtual genetics lab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMfHZUNpZY&feature=youtu.be
The SWIFT project
25. Open scholarship
• Exploiting the digital network
• New forms of dissemination
and communication
• Promoting reflective practice
• Embracing the affordances of
new technologies
Weller: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/
28. Open accreditation
Peer to Peer University OER University
www.p2pu.org/en/ wikieducator.org/OER_university/
29. Teacher practices: paradoxes
• Technologiesnot extensively
used (Molenda)
• Lack of uptake of OER
(McAndrew et al.)
• Little use beyond early
adopters (Rogers)
• Despite rhetoric and funding Pandora’s box
little evidence of
transformation (Cuban,
Ehlers)
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30. Intervention framework: linking
research to policy and practice
OER
Horizon scanning
Learning design
Virtual worlds
Research
Learner experience Web 2.0
Blackboard rollout Design practice
Policy Teacher practice
OER/iTunes
Use of technologies
Learning spaces
Cloud computing
Learner practice
Use of technologies Diversity/culture
31. TheLMS as a Trojan horse
• LMS as a safe nursery slope
• Shift from content to
activities
• Promote reflection and
collaboration
• MobileLMS
• Integration with cloud
computing
32. Blackboard audit
• Data
– Online survey (260 returns)
– Departmental visits
• Key findings
– Used as content repository
and administration
– Pockets of innovation
– More support needed on
effective design strategies
– Tension between teaching
and research
– Usability issue
34. Learning Design
Shift frombelief-based, implicit
approaches todesign-
based,explicit approaches
Learning Design
A design-based approach to
creation and support of
courses
Encouragesreflective,scholarly
practices
Promotessharing and discussion
35. Conceptualise
What do we want to design, who for
and why?
Carpe Diem:
7Cs of learning Design
Consolidate
Evaluate and embed your design
http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/
38. MSc in Learning Innovation
Dissertation
Case Studies of Innovation
Research Design and Methods
Learning Design
Technology-Enhanced Learning
39. The future of e-learning
Continuing emerging
technologies and pedagogies
New business Co-evolution of
models tools & users
Maturing theory & More sophisticated
methodology mechanisms re: uptake
40. New metaphors
Ecologies
Spaces
Memes Rhizomes
http://e4innovation.com/?p=489
41. Final thoughts
• Participatory and social media enable new forms of
communication and collaboration
• Communities in these spaces are complex and
distributed
• Learners and teachers need to develop new digital
literacy skills to harness their potential
• We need to rethinkhow we design, support and assess
learning
• Open, participatory and social media can provide
mechanisms for us to share and discuss teaching and
research ideas in new ways
• We are seeing a blurring of boundaries:
teachers/learners, teaching/research, real/virtual
spaces, formal/informal modes of communication and