Scenarios for the future of tertiary education to inform views of place in learning & teaching Presentation to the HERDSA

Niki DavisProfessor of e-Learning, APVC

EducationUniversity of Canterbury e-Learning Lab

President DEANZ 2010-2013The New Zealand Association for open,

flexible and distance education

•“Our academic world is changing rapidly as a result of globalization, technology, funding shifts, economic imperatives and growing competition for students, to name a few.” (Debowski, HERDSA 2012)

•Digital technologies and education are evolving and co-evolving within our ecologies

•DEANZ 2016 scenario set informs challenging views of place and time in HE

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Co-evolution... notions of place

Evolution of higher and tertiary education

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Future scenarios

Articulation

1. Articulation

Facing the Academy &Standardised

Learning environment:• Internally focused maintains

organisational system & structures• Faculty sure of practice continue &

avoid risks• Learners offered flexibility with

mapping & transfer of courses• Competing QA and research damp

pace of change

E-learning used to increase flexibility of space and mode of study, including on campus and on-line

How will your institution improve articulation across offerings and programmes?

Teaching art education - can be most effective online

Rotorua students lead the discussion forum

groups nationwide, inc. Christchurch campus

On campus class in blended space

The “supermarket”

2. The ‘supermarket’

Learning environment:• Specific academic & production

standards, inc OER• Address needs of employers etc.• Massive range of units etc• Added QA by ITOs, NZQA etc.

Technology employed for efficient production, may inc. multiuser simulation with learning analytics

How does your institution ensure the quality of resources for learning?

Facing NZ employers, professions & iwi& Standardised

Sorada Wattana’s PhD research:• computer games can be used to increase ‘willingness to talk’ and so improve English skillsProviding the teacher• prepares well • is determined to make it work+ students like playing games(Reinders & Wattana 2011)

Computer games for language learning

Spaces and times where the students are introduced to and play the games become part of the planning process

Quality branded consortia

3. Quality branded consortiaLearning environment:• Programmes link students to

professional networks• Consortium brands bring NZ tertiary

education into the global market • Increases in interdisciplinary and

faculty collaboration include students project work similar to multinationals

Digital technologies enable project work, networking and publication

What initiatives could your institution bring to a quality branded consortium to market globally?

Facing the Academy & Customised

The representatives of the founding anchor partners of the OERu initiative

in Otago Polytechnic, November 2011

• The OER university is a virtual collaboration of like-minded institutions committed to creating flexible pathways for OER learners to gain formal academic credit. The OER university aims to provide free learning to all students worldwide using OER learning materials …

Self determination

4. Self determination Learning environment:• determined by learner with

support• advisors & faculty recruit & work

with mentors who provide some QA

• wide range of resources complement internships

• library & other staff play key roles

• space is used in different ways within and beyond institutions

Mobile technologies are key alongside ePortfolios to organise & celebrate achievements.

How will your institution support learners to manage and increasingly lead their own learning?

Note: Also borrows from sectors 1 and 3

Strategies

http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/projects/2016-scenario-guide-effective-tertiary-education-new-zealand

Guides to the future of time and space

++OERu-UCmOOC workshop ‘futuring’ in 2013

Questions & CommentsNiki.Davis@Canterbury.ac.nzUniversity of Canterbury e-Learning Lab

Project web site for more information & input please,

kia ora!

http://akoaotearoa.ac.nz/projects/2016-scenario-guide-effective-tertiary-education-new-zealand

Thanks to DEANZ and participants, including today Mentors Mark Nichols, Julie Mackey, Scott McLeod et al Ako Aotearoa for network funding, esp. Dr. Peter Coolbear &

Kirsty Weir TeLRG as Reference Group Researchers’ universities: AUT, Canterbury, Massey & Otago Horizon collaborators especially Larry Johnston, NMC, USA

from JISC, 2010 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/generalpublications/2008/scenarioplanningflyer.aspx

JISC Methodology 1-4

Principles & Values in Aotearoa New Zealand include

The principles of the Treaty of Waitangi and the bi-cultural foundations of Aotearoa New Zealand

Manaaki and Awhi – respect for themselves, others and human rights

Kaitiakitanga – ecological sustainability, including care for the environment

Porihanga – community and participation Rereketanga – diversity

Blending online opportunities

Online courses & resources give students more access To their teacher(s) To resources To diverse peers & communities

Online and blended learning more effective than face to face (Means et al 2009) - time & access

Learning communities, pedagogy (Larreamendy-Joerns & Leinhardt 2006; Hunt et al 2011)

Adds resilience (Mackey et al 2011) Cultural blend growing online too (Greenwood et al 2011; Hunt

et al 2012)

Rotorua campus noho Marae retreat

Immersion within Maori

spaces & language is a key strategy

– best in Rororua

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...2010 - 2011

Resilience & Rapid Growth of flexible learning University Wide

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GoogleOnline marking iPads

FaceBookWikiEducator

AnalyticsAdobe Connect

Real games…

The case of...

Flexible Learning Options

2000->2010 StudentNet

Moodle

http://www.education.canterbury.ac.nz/regions/rotorua.shtml

The evolution of our culturally sensitive and resilient universityIncludes evolving open flexible and distance learning