1. CRICOS 00111D TOID 3059
LEARNING WITH
TECHNOLOGY
Professor Mike Keppell
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning Transformations
2. Relevant Background
• Instructional designer
• Solving problems
• Oil and gas industry, Coal miners,
QAL, Medical, Hong Kong Police
Force, distance education,
Australian Digital Futures Institute,
digital literacies
3. Key Questions
• What are the learning outcomes?
• What are the affordances or ‘action
possibilities’ of the technology?
• Evidence of enhanced learning?
• Professional development of trainers
4. Learning Ecosystem
• Simple to complex scenarios
• Complementation with other training
• Authentic Assessment
• Refresher training
6. Authentic Learning
• …require students to complete
complex real-world tasks over a
period of time in collaboration
with others as they would in a real
setting or workplace (Herrington,
2006)
7. Herrington
• Authentic context that reflects the way the
knowledge will be used in real life
• Authentic activities
• Access to expert performances
• Multiple roles and perspectives
• Collaborative construction of knowledge
• Reflection
• Articulation
• Coaching and scaffolding
• Authentic assessment
8. Authentic Assessment
• Empowering the learner by engaging
them in assessment tasks that
simulate or engage the learner in
real-life situations.
• “Engaging and worthy problems
or questions of importance, in
which students must use
knowledge to fashion performances
effectively and creatively”
(Wiggins, 1993, p. 229).