Technology Outlook for African Higher Education

Greig Krull 13th March 2014

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Context – Drivers and Constraints

Key Trends and Challenges

Higher Education Technology Integration

Modes of Educational Provision

Technology Outlook

Discussion

Agenda

Context

1. What is your biggest motivator to integrate technology into your teaching and learning?

2. What is your biggest constraint to integrate technology into your teaching and learning?

Motivators

Constraints

Trends and Challenges

Growing Usage of Social Media

Integration of Online, Blended and Collaborative Learning

Rise of Data-Driven Learning and Assessment

Shift from Students as Consumers to Students as Creators

Agile Approaches to Change

Evolution of Online Learning

Global Trends in Higher Education

The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition

Low Digital Fluency of Faculty

Relative Lack of Rewards for Teaching

Competition from New Models of Education

Scaling Teaching Innovations

Expanding Access

Keeping Education Relevant

The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition

Global Challenges

Integration of Technology in Higher Education

Technology in Higher Education

ResearchData Processing, Searching

Teaching/LearningVLEs, eContent, eAssessment,

Support

AdministrationRecords, Finance, Management

How do we use technology?

Efficient way to transmit contentAccess a wider range of resources Facilitate 2-way communication

Shift from content provision/testing To exploration, co-creation & interaction

Institution Strategy

Programme

and Course Design

Staff Professional Development

Student Digital Literacies

Student and Academic Support

Applications

Hardware / Devices

Network

Physical Spaces

Educational Technology Stack

Adapted from Marquard, 2013

Implications for Educational Modes of Provision

Continuum of Educational Provision

Face to face (F2F) Mixed Mode Distance Education

On Campus Off campus

Spatial / Geographic distribution of teachers and learners

Delivery using Technology

No digital support Digitally Supported Internet-supported Internet-dependent Fully online

Offline Online

Extent of ICT support

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D

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B

Fully Offline

Internet Supported

Internet Dependent

Fully Online

Campus-based Hybrid / Blended Remote

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Digitally Supported

Mode of Delivery O

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Course FlowSynchronous Asynchronous Semi-synchronous

Students do all work at the same time as everybody else

Students do everything at their own pace and have no deadlines

Students do some parts of the course at their own pace and do other parts of the course on a fixed schedule

• Good likelihood of peer support as all at same stage

• Expect deadlines are fixed

• Work at the pace set by lecturer, not at own pace

• Work at their own pace• Limited peer support as

others may be at different stages

• Can finish “later” but procrastination leads to not finishing

• Instructors release course materials on a fixed schedule, student can work on it anytime after

• Live events e.g. Q&A sessions happen at a fixed date and time, archive versions

• Assessments due by a fixed deadline

Google (2013)

Anderson (2008)

Collaborative and Community OnlineLearning

Technology Outlook

Outlook

Developments in Educational Technology

Short-term

Flipped ClassroomsLearning Analytics

Mid-term

3D Printing Gamification

Long-term

Quantified SelfVirtual Assistants

The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition

Consumer Technologies

The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition

Digital Publishing

Mobile Phones

Tablets

Wearable Technology

3D Printing

Social Media

Technology is Disruptive

No-name brand, Android OS, 7” screen with 3G,

GSM etc.

$134.00

Falling costs are making devices affordable

– Tablets with 3G ($134)– Smart phones– Laptops (starting around $250)– Bandwidth costs reducing

Internet Technologies

The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition

Cloud Computing

Internet of Things

Quantifiable Self

Digital Strategies

The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

Flipped Classrooms

Gamification

Digital Identity

Top 20 Tools for Learning in 2013

© 2013 Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

Learning Technologies

The NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition

Badges

Learning Analytics

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Open Educational Resources (OER)

Open Education Movement

Open Source movement -> cost effective tools– Learner Management Systems (Moodle, Sakai,

Canvas)– Student Information Systems (Fedena, Kuali, Open

SIS)

Open Education movement -> free quality content– Open Education Resources – Open Courseware– Massive Open Online Courses

Open Research movement -> expand research– Open Access Journals– Open Access Publishing

Supporting Principles

Adaptive to Change

Build Capacity

Open Educatio

n

Collaboration

Look to Add Value

A Final Thought

Good teaching may overcome a poor choice of technology but technology will

never save bad teaching

Tony Bates, 2012

Thank you

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