Teaching and learning in the digital age. Evidence for change.

1. DESIGNING FOR
DIFFERENCE:
ISSUES FOR TEACHING,
LEARNING AND
TECHNOLOGY
COLLEEN CARMEAN
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON TACOMA

2. WHAT’S DIFFERENT?
Society
Digital Natives
Social Technologies

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4. TEACHING
AND LEARNING
IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

5. DESIGN 2.0:
RESPONDING TO THE STAKEHOLDERS
Society
Institution
Faculty
Learners

6. SOCIETY
Better Critical Thinking Skills
Better Communication Skills
(written, oral and visual)
Better Teaming & Collaboration Skills
Greater Expectations Report of AAC&U

7. INSTITUTION
Relevancy
Responsibility
Resilency
personal communication with ASU VP
Mark Searle

8. FACULTY
Stability
Evidence of Value
Seamless Integration
Barone & Hagner (2001)

9. LEARNER
Research Theory:
deeper learning… is social, active, contextual, fosters
ownership and encourages engagement
http://freerangelearner.com/learning/map.htm
Reality:
Learners now demanding new skills and expressing new
expectations
(Greater Expectations Report of AAC&U)

10. PERSONAL FIELD WORK
NG-C/LMS
Digital Learners
E-Learning
Meaningful Learning
Emergent Learning
(self-directed, informal,
personalized, shared outcomes)

11. AREAS FOR EXPLORATION
New Learning Environments
Next-Gen Learners
Shifting Expectations on the Academy & Faculty
Cost of an Education
Mobile Computing
Independent learning

12. NEXT-GEN LEARNING
Student as Consumer
Digital Learning
Anytime/Anywhere Access
Smarter, more personalized interactions

13. EMERGENT LEARNING
Just-in-time
Informal
Collaborative
Learner-constructed
Web 2.0 tools…

15. MOBILE COMPUTING
iPods
Web phones
Wireless everywhere
1:1 Initiatives

16. WHERE ARE WE GOING?
Horizon Reports:
user created content,
social networking and softwares,
mobile learning,
virtual worlds/gaming,
new kinds of scholarship,
analytics,
PLEs,
anytime / all the time access
New Media Consortium

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