The iSchool Institute
Symposium Series
Sept 30-Oct 1, 2013
Pushing the Envelope in Education
New Roles for Libraries
MOOCs, eLearning and Gamification
Welcome
Welcome
Washrooms
Hashtag #moocslib
WiFi: Select: UTorwin
Password: UToronto1home To sign in:
UTORid: fis.guestPassword: tor0011
Lunch
Starbucks
No-host drinks tonight – dinner for those who want to stay
Tomorrow
The Philosophy
What are the opportunities for libraries in the e-learning space?
Support? Provider? Creator? School? Colleges? None?
What are the academic underpinnings of e-learning and gamification?
How does this relate to libraries, learning, and research institutions?
What’s happening today in real experience and practice?
And, what can we vision and imagine for the future?
How do we do this? Where can we start?
The Agenda for Monday
Introduction
Framing the Opportunities for Libraries
CISCO learning, access to knowledge, and employability
Underpinnings of eLearning: How the "Tried and True" Informs the New
MOOCs for Librarians
Lunch (provided)
eLearning in Libraries
Research
Gamification in Action
Quick trip for a beer conversation afterwards
The Agenda for Tuesday
Coffee & Muffins
MOOC Toolkit
eLearning Support in Action
Supporting eLearning
Lunch (*provided)
MOOCs to Online Learning
ELearning/MOOC Platforms
Putting it All Together: Brainstorming Roles for Supporting eLearning, MOOCs & Gamification
What came together to threaten the current social and business models of education?
Perfect Storm? Critical Mass?
Digital content – web, licensed, free and fee
Shareability
Globalization of edu-markets
New research into understanding learning styles and intelligence
Production price point is doable and mass market potential\
Devices are ready and available in core market(s)
Cloud software and hosting creates a simplified online environment – no downloads…
Perfect Storm? Critical Mass?
Devices are affordable
Alignment of synchronous and asynchronous strategies for learning
Collaboration based software is emerging more fully into the workplace
Social software is fully embedded in the consumer space and especially with targeted young scholars
Online registration and payment methods are more rugged
Homework and assignments can be done and submitted by individuals and cohorts
Perfect Storm? Critical Mass?
Decent video, audio, recording, and graphics tools. Way past PPT
Online assessment is emerging as doable
Class size variable seems to be based on judgment combined with business models
Class size depends on how learning happens – technical transfer or knowledge embedding?
Solid tools and practices are emerging for learning and engaging. Real challenge is on the instructor / designer level and with evaluation of same.
Content is differentially emerging…
The Landscape
Content
Infrastructure
Technology
Environments
Content
Textbook publishers: Cengage Learning, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill
e.g. Ed2Go, Learn4Life, Gale Online High School
10’s of thousands of authors, rugged editorial and updating… major investments in development
Other content – open-textbooks, open source, open access
Loads of excellent and questionable content available for free (or hopefully free)
Infrastructure
The “Cloud”
Linked Data
The Web
Technology
Simple tools make an e-learning environment like multiple instruments make and orchestra.
The musicians AND the conductor make the experience.
It takes work, plans, scripts and practice.
The experience happens on many levels whether there’s and audience of one or more . . . or not.
Environments
MOOCs
EdX, Coursera, Udacity
Learning Management Systems
Blackboard, Moodle, Desire to Learn (D2L)
Very interesting early successes in pilots and trials: TED and Khan Academy, University of Phoenix, MIT and Harvard, etc.
Unresolved Issues
Copyright
Rights
Ownership (unions and faculty contracts)
Compensation
Sustainability
Accreditation
Credential(s) acceptance
Key Questions
How does e-learning fit into the library service portfolio
Do we just support or get more fully into it? Where does our library fit?
To build or not to build your own?
How does learning happen best?
How do we assess student success in this environment?
How do we measure success?
MOOCs
How could the landscape change?
Prediction: 45% of higher education institutions in North America merge or go under…?
New entrants: the periphery moves to the centre.
Public Libraries offer K-12 credits and become schools
Public Libraries offer college courses and online support and coaching
Associations adopt technical certification and accredited diplomas for IT, and technical trades
How could the landscape change?
Disruption: Local boards of education are no more. They are forced to merge at the state and provincial level as cost-effective models and technical scalability become concerns based on financial considerations.
Disruption: Massive mergers/consolidations, bankruptcies of traditional publishers and institutions of higher education
Disruption: Global providers emerge from the Far East and drive west.
Questions . . .
ENGAGE
Enjoy the Symposium
Stephen Abram, MLS, FSLAConsultant, Dysart & Jones/Lighthouse Consulting Inc.
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