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THE CHANGING LANDSCAPE OF HIGHER EDUCATION LEARNING
AND TEACHING
Professor Mike KeppellDirector, the Flexible Learning Institute
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‘GAME CHANGERS’
Digital literacies
Seamless learning
Personal Learning Environments
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DIGITAL LITERACIES
Literacy 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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IMPORTANCE
Digital literacy: those capabilities which fit an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society (JISC).
The main focus for us was that digital literacies is not just about studying, it’s about life skills and about employability skills, the idea being that unless peopleare digitally literate... they are going to struggle to function in a modern society and a modern workplace.. (JISC)
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DEVELOPING LITERACIESEmployable 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)
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Context of Digital
Literacies (JISC)
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JISC - DEVELOPING DIGITAL LITERACIES
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/publications/briefingpaper/2012/Developing_Digital_Literacies.pdf
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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.
Sharples, M., McAndrew, P., Weller, M., Ferguson, R., FitzGerald, E., Hirst, T., Mor, Y., Gaved, M. and Whitelock, D. (2012). Innovating Pedagogy 2012: Open University Innovation Report 1. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
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SEAMLESS LEARNING
Focuses on the continuity of the learning journey
Different places and spaces
Diverse technologies
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INNOVATING PEDAGOGY
http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/mike.sharples/Reports/Innovating_Pedagogy_report_July_2012.pdf
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Physical Virtual
Formal Informal InformalFormal
Blended
Mobile Personal
OutdoorProfessional
Practice
Distributed Learning Spaces
Academic
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DISTRIBUTED ‘PLACES’ AND ‘SPACES’ FOR LEARNING
http://www.slideshare.net/mkeppell/distributed-spaces-for-learning
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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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CONCLUSIONS
Digital literacies are no longer an option
Place of learning is becoming less important
Personalising our learning, teaching, place of learning, technologies and digital scholarship will become the norm
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