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New ecologies of learning: design, digital literacies, spaces and metaphors
Gráinne Conole, University of Leicester ALDinHE conference, Leeds
2nd April 2012
Outline• Technologies trends• Learner experience• Open practices• Teacher practice and paradoxes• Strategies for change– The VLE as a Trojan horse– New approaches to design
• Metaphors
Technological trends• Mobiles and e-books• Games-based learning &
learning analytics• Gesture-based learning &
the Internet of things• Personalised learning• Cloud computing• Ubiquitous learning• BYOD (Bring your own device)• Digital content• The flipped classroomhttp://learn231.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/trend-report-1/
User generated content
Peer critiquing
Networked
Collective aggregation
Personalised
Open
Social media revolutionThe machine is us/ing us
www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/EvidenceNet/Conole_Alevizou_2010.pdf
Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
• Take the long view• The web is not the net• Disruption is a feature• Ecologies not economics• Complexity is the new reality• The network is now the computer• The web is evolving• Copyright or copywrong• Orwell (fear) or Huxley (pleasure)http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2617472088/
http://memex.naughtons.org/
• Technology immersed• Learning approaches: task-
orientated, experiential, just in time, cumulative, social
• Personalised digital learning environment
• Mix of institutional systems and cloud-based tools and services
• Use of course materials with free resources Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010
Learner experience
http://www.educause.edu/studentsAndTechnologyInfographic
Promise and reality
Social and participatory media offer new ways to communicate and collaborate
Wealth of free resources and tools
Not fully exploited
Replicating bad pedagogy
Lack of time and skills
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Pandora’s box
Open resources Open courses
Open scholarship Open research
Open practices
Open resources
http://www.oer-quality.org/
Open courses
http://mooc.ca/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
MassiveOpen Online Course
Open accreditation
www.p2pu.org/en/
Peer to Peer University
wikieducator.org/OER_university/
OER University
• Exploiting the digital network• New forms of dissemination
and communication• Promoting reflective practice• Embracing the affordances of
new technologies
Open scholarship
Weller: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/
Open research
Citation indicators
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•Technologies not extensively used (Molenda)
•Lack of uptake of OER (McAndrew et al.)
•Little use beyond early adopters (Rogers)
•Despite rhetoric and funding little evidence of transformation (Cuban, Ehlers)
Pandora’s box
Teacher practices: paradoxes
The VLE as a Trojan horse
• VLE as a safe nursery slope• Shift from content to
activities• Promote reflection and
collaboration• Mobile VLE• Integration with cloud
computing
Blackboard audit
• Data– Online survey (260 returns)– Departmental visits
• Key findings– Used as content repository and
administration– Pockets of innovation– More support needed on
effective design strategies– Tension between teaching and
research– Usability issue
Blackboard+ at Leicester
BB plus Google+Maths video-lets
Prof-casts
History conundrum Voicethread
LearningDesign
Shift from belief-based, implicit approaches to design-
based, explicit approaches
Encourages reflective, scholarly practices
Promotes sharing and discussion
Learning DesignA design-based approach to creation and support of
courses
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/
ConsolidateEvaluate and embed your design
ConceptualiseWhat do we want to design, who for
and why?
http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/
Carpe Diem:7Cs of learning Design
How to ruin a course
http://linoit.com/home
Course features
Group A – not includedGroup B – used to some extentGroup C – significantly present
Course map view
Pedagogy profile view
• Assimilative– Reading, viewing, listening
• Information handling– Manipulating data
• Communicative– Dialogic interactions
• Productive– Creating an artefact
• Experiential– Practicing, mimicking
• Adaptive– Modeling or simulation
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/2459
Metaphors
EcologiesSpaces
Memes Rhizomeshttp://e4innovation.com/?p=489
Ecologies
• Co-evolution of tools and users
• Niches colonisation of new habitats
• Survival of the fittest
MemesAn internet meme is somethingThat spreads like wildfire on theWeb (Blackmore)
To describe the interactionwith digital technologies
What makes us different Is our ability to imitate
The Internet allows forThe unprecedented Spreading of ideas
Issues in terms of convergence of thought
Spaces
Rhizomes
A rhizome is a stem of a plant that sends out roots as it spreads. Describes the way that ideas are multiple, interconnected and self-replicating. A rhizome has no beginning or end like a learning process
http://davecormier.com/edblog/2011/11/05/rhizomatic-learning-why-learn/
MSc in Learning Innovation
Technology-Enhanced Learning
Learning Design
Research Design and Methods
Case Studies of Innovation
Dissertation
Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: SpringerChapters available on dropbox
