Digital Identities, Footprints and Networks

2013 Eportfolio ForumDigital Identities, Footprints and Networks

University of Canberra, 3 October 2013

The session will begin at 9.45am AEST

- 9.50am Keynote: Prof. Phillip Long

- 10.30am Opening Speaker: Dr Alan McAlpine

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ePortfolios in the New World of Learner Driven Pathways

October- 2013

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Prof. Phillip LongExec. Dir., Innovation & Analytics

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School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering

Robert ReichChancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration.

Black Monday, October 19, 1987

Betting against the house.

Australian UniversitiesWell Publicly Regarded

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But the Public See Tertiary Ed For Professional Job Training

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“While technical and job specific skills have sufficed in the past, it is increasingly being accepted that the worker of the future will need a morecomprehensive set of competencies, “meta-competencies” such as learning skills, life management skills, and communication skills that are not occupation specific and are transferable across all facets of life and work.”

M. McMahon, W. Patton, & P. Tathamhttp://www.blueprint.edu.au/Portals/0/resources/DL_life_learning_and_work.pdf

Universities Lag in Uses Technology

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Impact of Digital Culture on Lagging HE

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+ ECP & iTunes

Main eLearning Systems @ UQ

Virtual Classroom - Adobe

Text Matching & Marking - Turnitin

Learning Management System - Blackboard Lecture Capture - Echo

2011 - 98% of UQ students own a smart device with WiFi and a browser

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Digital Learners & Their Gadgets

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At Place-based Campuses: more students are online than on-campus.

UQ 2012

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The Rise of Lecture Capture

Lecture Capture

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With lecture capture we are engaged currently in a massive “distance learning project” – delivering online education every day that is totally devoid of good learning design.

@UQ: Any classroom seating 50 or more students is auto-

recorded

Is this really where we want to go?

High Impact Practices (National Survey of Student Engagement--NSSE)

• First-year seminars and experiences

• Learning communities

• Writing intensive courses

• Collaborative assignments

• Undergraduate research

• Global learning/ study abroad

• Internships

• Capstone courses and projects

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Participatory Culture of the Web

• Features of participatory culture How do we make classroom learning more like participatory culture?

o Low barriers to entryo Strong support for sharing

one’s contributionso Informal mentorship,

experienced to noviceo Members feel a sense of

connection to each othero Students feel a sense of

ownership of what is being created

o Strong collective sense that something is at stake

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Jenkins, et. al., Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture

The Post-Course EraEnd of the era of the self-contained course as the center of the curriculum

“The fragmentation of the curriculum into a collection of independently ‘owned’ courses is itself an impediment to student accomplishment, because the different courses students take, even on the same campus, are not expected to engage or build on one another.” (AAC&U, 2004) The Centre for Educational Innovation & Technology

US student’s have been moving across schools, seeking their own pathways has decade

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What’ the point?…Develop habits of mind that are useful for managing chaos and complex thought with increasing effectiveness. contingency thinking

ePortfolios & authentic learning?

•Real-world relevance•Ill-defined problems•Diversity of outcomes •Applied across different subjects•Opportunity to reflect•Seamlessly integrated with assessment

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Of course the problem with portfolios?• There are so MANY of them!!!

Working Portfolios

Working Portfolios

Learning Portfolios

Personal Development Portfolios

Personal Development Portfolios

Multiple Owner

Other

IMS

PortfolioCategorisation

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Artifact Store(portfolio)

Traditional IT Apps

An Attributes of the Web

Light Weight

Mozilla Badges

EcosystemOpen Badges Metadata Spec• Badge Title• Badge Img URL• Short Description• Badge Criteria-URL*• Issuer Org (name)• Issuer Contact (email)

• Issue Date• Badge Expiry Date**• Badge Evidence URL**

signed with AuthN/AuthV framerwork

Who is issuing badges?

• Precious few traditional ed institutions….at the moment.

A good start but something’s missing

• The mechanism for badging iso Institution independento Linked to verified issuero Link baked into badgeo Owned by the learner

BUT…How do we really capture the richness of learning?

What is the Tin Can or Experience API (xAPI)?

• Tracks experiences, scores, progress, teams, virtual media, real-world experiences (not just completions) – the learning activity stream

• Allows data storage AND retrieval (ex. 3rd party reporting and analytics tools)

• Enables tracking mobile, game, and virtual world experiences

• And it’s open source!

Key Concept – Activity Streams

• Format: <Actor> <Verb> <Object> (I did this) o I (actor) completed (verb) the circuits course

(activity)• Allows reporting of experiences, not just

completionso Nikolaus posted a photoo Nikolaus liked a photoo Nikolaus commented on a photo

Combining the xAPI

with Badges & their

storage in Portfolis

http://www.eportfolio.eu/sites/default/files/europortfolio_newsletter_july_august_2013_0.pdf

Tin Can Tuples

Where do you store this?

Mozilla Backpack

Tin Can Learning Record Store (LRS)

A mobile learning capture tool using xAPI

But wait! There’s more!!

Learning Analytics: analysis, predication, intervention

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At the Program Level

• Degree Profiles

http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/The_Degree_Qualifications_Profile.pdf

The Degree Spider Web

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• xAPI statement (actor, action verb, object): “I did this”

• Open Badge (issuer, owner, assertion, evidence): "She can do this”

• Portfolio: (repository of data supporting the generation of statements and badges -and to collect them): "I can do all these things, and I can prove it”

• Learning credentials, owned by & in the hands of the learner!

Where will the traditional school, TAFE, Uni be in this ecosystem?

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Time to bet against the house

Thank you.•longpd@uq.edu.au

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