Visioning learning To Inform New Build:
Creating Learning Futures24th March 2009
LondonProfessor Gilly SalmonUniversity of Leicester
External Environment
Your institution
Hindsight
Insight
Business case
Pedagogical driver
Technological choices
Foresight
Why waste a good economic crisis?
How can we educate now those who will solve the global problems of the future?
Demographic changes
Oil consumption/discovery
Climate
Economics
Global Security
Travel
Fees and costs
Regional collaborationse.g. Bologna
Modes of learning
Access
Commercialisation of HE
Health
Technology;
Computer security
Technology
Staff
Learning from failures:Distance Learning
• Need strong and robust experience in e-learning• & stable technologies• Rapid development model• Don’t compete with ‘mother institutions’• Need excellent market intelligence and good choice of programmes,
especially if outside known ‘home economy’.• Accredited courses necessary• Longer term financial planning needed• Define institutional model, and relationship with existing providers
From ‘E-learning initiatives that did not reach targeted goals’http://nettskolen.nki.no/in_english/megatrends/
Insight
20 Nov 2008 Global Business Leader appointed to Open University top jobThe Open University today announced the appointment of Martin Bean as its fifth Vice-Chancellor. Currently General Manager responsible for product
http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/obama-web.htm
1,000Horse power
1 horse power
http://www.computerhistory.org, http://www.informationeconomy.sa.gov.au/digital_engagement/jargonbuster/optical_fibre, http://www.applebytes.info/apbC.html,Laszlo ( 2006 p. 106)
Motive power: industrial revolution 10 3
Computing powerPerformance =10 increase
Costs = 10 decrease
5
3
Communication powerPerformance = 10 increase
Costs = 10 decrease
4
2
2008 UCISA/JISC Survey of Technology Enhanced LearningBrowne, Hewitt, Jenkins & Walker
E-assess
Blog Podcasts
E-portfolioWikis
Socialbookmarks
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TechnologyEnhanced Learning
DriversConstraints/challenges
Enhancing L & T
Committed local champions
E-learning strategies
Central support/funding
Lack of time
Staff skills
2008 UCISA/JISC Survey of Technology Enhanced LearningBrowne, Hewitt, Jenkins & Walker
Support for Web 2.0 technologies
Career Development Opportunities
Meeting students’ expectations
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Grassroots video(capture, edit, share)
Collaboration webs(personal, flexible,
free)
Mobile /devices & broadband(affordable,
portable, deliverable)
Data mash-ups(converge, re-
represent)
Collective intelligence(large numbers,
explicit & implicitcollection)
Social operatingSystems
(organisation of knowledge round
people rather than content)
Technologies ‘to campus watch’Adoption Horizons (in years)
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http://www.nmc.org/horizon/
Types of learning technology
Institution owned/provided
User owned Web 2.0 platforms
Technology Pedagogy
Wink, J. 3 Perspectives on PedagogyRetrieved 22.2 2009 , www.joanwink.com/3perspectives.html
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Purposes
External Environment
Your institution
Business Case
Pedagogical driver
Hindsight
Insight
Technological choices
Foresight
Extend &defend
core business
Buildemergingbusiness
Create viable options
Adapted from Social Innovation: Young Foundation 2006 p. 23
Established Student FocusStable & Familiar Learning Technology
New StudentsExisting Technology
Mission /Market
Present
New
Present New
Pedagogy/
Technology
Existing StudentsNew Technology
New StudentsNew Technology
Peripheraltechnologies
Coretechnologies
development research
Achieving innovation:The Media Zoos
www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/mediazoo
Never doubt the power of a small group of people to change the world.
Nothing else ever has.Margaret Mead
Be the change you want to see in the worldMahatma Ghandi
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Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers." Mignon McLaughlin