1. Mark Brown
Director, National Institute for Digital Learning
Dublin City University
Dublin, Ireland
23rd May 2018
Look Ahead:
The Developing Digital Landscape
ePortfolios & More
2. The light comes
through the gaps
https://pixabay.com/en/train-tracks-walking-journey-alone-1081672/
@mbrownz
10. “With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1994; cited
in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).
11. (Uzanne, 1894; cited
in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).
“With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
12. “I believe that the motion picture is destined to
revolutionize our educational system and that
in a few years it will supplant largely, if not
entirely, the use of textbooks,”
(Thomas Edison, 1922)
13. “We will undoubtedly have lectures of every
conceivable kind presented to us right in our
homes, when practical television arrives,
possibly a year or two off.”
Short Wave Craft, 1935
15. Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology
since 1920. New York: Teachers’ College Press.
Subsided Enthusiasm
Growing
Support
Bold Predictions
Technology
Expectation Cycle
(1986)
22. Off Campus
in Class
Off Campus
out of Class
On Campus
in Class
Acquisition
Participation
On Campus
out of Class
Physical Virtual
The new learning ecology…
Leakage
34. “Metacognitive awareness and self-regulatory
activity has its root in social interactions with others”
Reeve, R. A., & Brown, A. L. (1985). Metacognition
reconsidered: Implications for intervention research. Journal
of Abnormal Child Psychology, 13 (3), 343-356.
(Reeve & Brown, 1985, p.347).
36. Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
Mark Brown, 2016
TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES
DIGITAL
LEARNING
• Threat
• Unbundling
• Re-imagination
Crisis •
Disruption •
Democratization •
37. ReconceptualizingDeschooling
ReschoolingReproducing
• Democratic
• Opening access
• Micro credentials
• Personalized learning
Learning Society
Knowledge Economy
Mark Brown, 2016
• Competencies
• Entrepreneurship
• Technology as progress
• Increased market competition
• Just society
• Lifelong learning
• Pillars of learning
• Education for citizenry
• Sifting agent
• Human capital
• Social cohension
• Cultural heritage
• Openness
• Online Learning
• Anytime Anywhere Learning
eLearning •
Digital Learning •
Technology-enhanced Learning •
TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES
DIGITAL
LEARNING
38.
39.
40. ‘You can’t just take something off
the shelf and expect it to work
just because it looks good’
(Belshaw, 2017)
The Reconceptualising Discourse builds on the original UNESCO pillars of learning—learning to be, learning to do, learning to know and learning to live together. It promotes life-long learning and skills and knowledge beyond mere preparation for work. The focus is on active participation in all aspects of society.
The Reconceptualising Discourse builds on the original UNESCO pillars of learning—learning to be, learning to do, learning to know and learning to live together. It promotes life-long learning and skills and knowledge beyond mere preparation for work. The focus is on active participation in all aspects of society.