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Personalised Learners: Strategies for Higher Education

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Student Centred Learning in Higher Education Diplomas Developing Practice Conference August, 5-6 2014 - State Library Victoria

Professor Mike Keppell Executive Director

Australian Digital Futures Institute Director, Digital Futures - CRN

Start With the End in Mind

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OverviewnContext nPlace of learning nNext generation

students nPersonalised learning

strategies nBeing a personalised

learner

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Dynamic Context

‘Place’ of Learning

Formal On-campus

Informal On-campus

Informal Off-campusPersonalised

Learning Strategies

Face-to-face ‘Campus’

Next Generation Students

Personalised Learning Strategies

CharacteristicsnDigital citizenship nSeamless learning nLearner engagement/

self-regulated learning/learner autonomy

nLearning-oriented assessment

nLifelong and life-wide learning

nDesire paths

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Wheeler Digital Literacies

n Social networking skills n Transliteracy skills n Maintaining Privacy n Managing Identity n Creating content n Organising and sharing content n Reusing/repurposing content n Filtering and selecting content n Self broadcasting

!!http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/what-digital-literacies.html

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Developing Literacies

n Employable graduates need to be digitally literate

n Learners need to be supported by staff to develop academic digital literacies

n Professional development is vital in developing digital literacies

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Mindfulness (Rheingold, 2010)

What is Digital Identity?

nSafe and engaged digital citizenship

nAppropriate and responsible technology use

nDigital wellness

nhttp://digitalcitizenship.net/Home_Page.html

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What is Digital Identity?nHow we portray,

represent ourselves online

nRich ways of communication

nDigital etiquette

nDigital ethics

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Digital Identity Spaces

I can see a day in the not too distant future (if it’s not already here) where your “digital footprint” will carry far more weight than anything you might include in a resume or CV (Betcher, 2009)

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http://chrisbetcher.com/tag/digitalfootprint/

Seamless Learning

nContinuity of learning across a combination of locations, times, technologies or social settings (Sharples, et al, 2012, 2013).

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Physical Virtual

Formal Informal InformalFormal

Blended

Mobile Personal

Outdoor Professional Practice

Distributed Learning Spaces

Academic

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Virtual Learning Spaces

Learning Space LiteraciesnLearning space literacies are the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are required to recognise, utilise and adapt distributed learning spaces so that they allow the personalised learner to engage with their learning (Keppell, 2014).

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Learning-oriented Assessment

Assessment tasks as learning

tasks

Student involvement in

assessment processes

Forward-looking feedback

nAssessment tasks determine student effort

nTasks should require distribution of student time and effort (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004)

Assessment Tasks as Learning Tasks

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Student Involvement in Assessment nStudents begin to learn about assessment

nStudents begin to determine the quality of their own work

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Forward-looking Feedback!

nFeedback should be timely and with a potential to be acted upon (Gibbs & Simpson, 2004)

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Lifelong & Life-wide Learningn Encompasses both formal

and informal learning, self-motivated learning..(Watson, 2003).

n Life-wide learning “contains many parallel and interconnected journeys and experiences...”

n (Jackson, 2010, p. 492).

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E-portfolios!

nPopulated by the learner

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nAble to present multiple stories of learning

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http://daniel.fone.net.nz/blog/2013/05/19/desire-paths-in-web-ui/

Being a Personalised Learner

Being a Personalised LearnernBe a lifelong learner in

physical and virtual networks

nBuild a robust digital identity as your future CV

nPlay with new technology like you’re back in kindergarten

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Being a Personalised LearnernConstantly enhance and

elaborate your digital literacies

nFine-tune your knowledge of diverse spaces to determine their suitability for different activities.

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Being a Personalised Learner

nReflect on successes and failures in learning and utilise ‘feedback as feedforward’

nFollow desire paths to foster creativity in your learning

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Student Centred Learning in Higher Education Diplomas Developing Practice Conference State Library Victoria August 5 and 6, 2014