Presentation to new staff; March 1st, 2013

1. Information
Communication
Technology
and TAFESA

2. A LITTLE HISTORY

3. 1989
THE TECHNOLOGY

4. http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/

5. THE DIGITAL
AGE
•User has total editorial control
•No third party need be involved
•DISINTERMEDIATION (the decline
of the gatekeepers)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/khedara/445340228 /

6. PERSONAL PUBLISHING/ PARTICIPATORY
MEDIA TOOLS
• Blogs (written text)
• Podcasts (audio)
• Wikis (collaborative workspaces)
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Now often indistinguishable
from each other as they all now
house text and all available media.
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• Flickr (photo sharing)
• Video repositories (YouTube, Google Video, BlipTV,
TeacherTube, etc)
• Social Networking (Facebook, MySpace, Ning, Bebo,
Orkut, etc)

7. HERE COMES EVERYBODY
Clay Shirky

8. THE CROWD:
Stupidity of the masses?
Collective wisdom?

9. “The Read/Write Web”
(Tim Berners Lee)
Original photo by Hummanna.

11. WE HAVE BECOME
A GLOBAL NETWORK

13. GLOBAL TRENDS
(NMC sponsored retreat on
The Future of Education)
• Work is increasingly Global and • Ownership (copyright) and privacy
Collaborative
• Access, and Scale are redefining
• People learn anywhere, anytime what we mean by quality
(BYOD – bring your own device) and success (MOOCS)
• Notion of literacy is being
• Mobile redefined (multi- or transliteracy)
• Openness — content, resources, • Rise of Informal Learning
courses, research, attitudes
• New Business Models
• The CLOUD

14. The Future of (Learning)
Institutions in a Digital Age
• “Traditional learning environments convey
knowledge via overwhelmingly copyright-
protected publications. Networked
learning, contrastingly, is an “open source”
culture that seeks to share openly and
freely in both creating and distributing
knowledge and products.”
(HASTAC Report, June 2009)

15. Creative Commons Licensing
from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

16. The Question of Values
Our philosophy
determines ...how (or
if) we choose and use
e-learning
technologies.
(http://www.aupress.ca/books/120146/ebook/04_Anderson_20
08_Kanuka-Online_Learning.pdf)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/konarheim/4073209881

17. The Question of Values
Mark Pegrum:
• “discussions about the
Internet and education
often reflect deep-seated
social beliefs”
• “technology is a
battlefield on which
contests over different
visions of society are still
being fought out.”

18. Awareness or a Set of Skills?
• New Practices predicated
upon an awareness that
things have changed…

19. Courtesy of Greg Whitby

20. Employability Skills
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Initiative and Enterprise
• Planning and Organising
• Self-management
• Learning
• Technology

21. The Future of (Learning)
Institutions in a Digital Age
• “traditional institutions must adapt or risk a
growing mismatch between how they
teach and how this new generation*
learns” (and works)
(HASTAC Report, June 2009)
Note*: this new generation includes a good many Baby Boomers. It
is not just about younger people.

22. TENSION
Web 2.0 ORGANISATIONAL
DEMANDS (standards,
(Personal Learning
Network - PLN) V auditing, duty of care,
copyright, proprietary
technology, etc)

23. Organisations will need to adapt to the fact that web 2.0 citizens
will enter places of work and learning highly connected to a
network of peers that they rely on for entertainment, mutual
learning, and collaboration. They may expect to be able to make
use of these personal learning and social networks, and the
technologies that make these networks possible, in their places of
work or study. These web 2.0 citizens operate in a world that is
open and mobile, and they are unlikely to accept authority that is
automatically assigned to a position. Their world is flat and devoid
of hierarchy. In a world where information about their areas of
interest or expertise is increasing exponentially they will place
greater store on connected networks, which may extend beyond
classroom or workplace boundaries,and knowing where to get the
knowledge and information they need, rather than having that
knowledge and information themselves.
http://flickr.com/photos/7447470@N06/1345266896/

24. MODELS
OF
ELEARNING
http://what-is-elearning.wikispaces.com/

25. MODELS OF ELEARNING
• Etraining
• Distance Education
• Blended (or Web Enhanced) Learning Type 1
• Blended (or Web Enhanced) Learning Type 2
• Virtual Classroom Type 1 (Collaborative)
• Virtual Classroom Type 2 (Presentational)
• The Community of Practice
• MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
• Flipped Classroom
Source: http://what-is-elearning.wikispaces.com/

26. TAFESA TOOLS
ASYNCHRONOUS
• Moodle (LMS = Learning Management System)
SYNCHRONOUS (real time)
• Centra (virtual classroom or web conferencing
software)
OTHER
• Podzone (for audio storage/podcasting)
• Yammer (communication)

27. NON-TAFE TOOLS
Software/Services
• Facebook
• Wikis
• Blogs
• Flickr, Picasa
• YouTube
Devices (BYOD = Bring Your Own Device)
• Ipads, tablets, laptops, netbooks
• Smart phones

29. http://flickr.com/photos/chunyang/800589975/
Why does media
matter?
• Adrian Miles (RMIT):
“ make our institution…more porous to the students’ private
technologies – their mobile phones, their laptops and their
cameras.”
• Innate human desire/need to create
• Ubiquity and ease of participatory media enables creation of
images, film, documents, course content, assessments, etc
• develops Digital Literacy
• Ascendance of VIDEO LITERACY*

30. http://flickr.com/photos/chunyang/800589975/
Why does media
matter?
• A majority of students (74 – 85%) who had taken courses with
multimedia learning materials found them easier, and spent
less time completing the course. (Michael Sankey, USQ)

31. WHO FINDS READING/WRITING
DIFFICULT?
• English as Second or Other Language Learners
(ESOL)
• Low level literacy
• Those with little recent formal learning
experience
• Those with poor keyboard skills
• Those who prefer an auditory style of learning

32. DON’T FORGET THE STUDENTS
• Don’t forget to give
your students the
opportunity to create
media!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fishgirl7/3577452931

33. Michael Coghlan
michaelc@chariot.net.au
March 1st, 2013