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Digital Drivers for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Professor Mike KeppellExecutive Director Australian Digital Futures Institute

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Overview

Horizon Report CSIRO MegatrendsUniversity of the future report Digital literaciesSeamless learningPersonalised learning

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CSIRO Megatrends

On the movePersonalisationIWorld

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University of the Future

Democratisation of knowledge and access

Contestability of markets and funding

Digital technologiesGlobal mobility Integration with industry

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Horizon Reports

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Horizon TrendsPeople expect to be able to work, learn, and

study whenever and wherever they want. The abundance of resources and

relationships will challenge our educational identity.

Students want to use their own technology for learning.

Teaching paradigms across all sectors are shifting to include online learning, hybrid learning and collaborative models.

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ChallengesSeamless learning – people expect to be

able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever they want.

Digital literacies – capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society (JISC)

Personalisation - our learning, teaching, place of learning, technologies will be individualised

Digital scholarship will be the norm.

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Game Changers

Digital literaciesSeamless learningPersonal learning environments

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Digital LiteraciesLiteracy is no longer “the ability

to read and write” but now “the ability to understand information however presented.”

Can't assume students have skills to interact in a digital age

Literacies will allow us to teach more effectively in a digital age

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Developing Literacies Employable graduates need to be digitally

literate Digital literacies are often related to discipline

area Learners need to be supported by staff to develop

academic digital literacies Professional development is vital in developing

digital literacies Professional associations are supporting their

members to improve digital literacies Engaging students supports digital literacy

development i.e. students as change agents (JISC)

Context of

Digital Literacies

(JISC)

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Seamless Learning

Seamless learning occurs when a person experiences a continuity of learning across a combination of locations, times, technologies or social settings.

Seamless Learning

Focuses on the continuity of the learning journeyDifferent places and spacesDiverse technologies

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PhysicalPhysical VirtualVirtual

FormalFormal InformalInformal InformalInformalFormalFormal

BlendedBlended

MobileMobile PersonalPersonal

OutdoorOutdoorProfessional Professional

PracticePractice

Distributed Distributed Learning SpacesLearning Spaces

AcademicAcademic

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Personal Learning Spaces

‣ Personal Learning Environments (PLE) integrate formal and informal learning spaces

‣ Customised by the individual to suit their needs and allow them to create their own identities.

‣ A PLE recognises ongoing learning and the need for tools to support life-long and life-wide learning.

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Connectivism

‣ PLE may also require new ways of learning as knowledge has changed to networks and ecologies (Siemens, 2006).

‣ The implications of this change is that improved lines of communication need to occur.

‣ “Connectivism is the assertion that learning is primarily a network-forming process” (p. 15).

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Questions?