Future evolution of the learning technology

ecosystem

JUNE 2017

NTNU CONFERENCE

Ecological Restoration and Innovation of

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

tools

people

data

tools

people

data

Overview

• Where we were, where we now are

• Dimensions of activity in learning

technology

– Content

– Assessment

Where we were,

Where we are

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Slide credit: Eric Grimson (MIT)

Slide credit: Eric Grimson (MIT)

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http://mfeldstein.com/opening-lms-walled-garden/VLE

‘It’…. but ‘not it’

• At UBC, 96 million user logins in Sept-Dec

2016

• But… most faculty not satisfied with ease of

use

“On par with Windows 1998 usability”

“The ham handed interface is like trying to eat dinner while

wearing hockey goalie equipment”

http://mfeldstein.com/opening-lms-walled-garden/

www.menti.com

Use code

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What one word would you use to describe

the learning technology environment at your

institution?

What I have heard previously

• Comprehensive Monolithic

• Uninspiring / ‘clunky’ ‘Bewildering’

• Outstanding – improving – ‘stodgy’

A learning technology

ecosystem

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An ecosystem that empowers faculty and students to achieve their teaching and

learning goals by providing robust, dynamic and pedagogically sound tools and

services that are time-efficient to learn and use

Vision

Pedagogically sound • Derived from evidence-based teaching and learning practices

Robust • Reliable and scalable

Adaptable • Flexible to different learning contexts, agile and supportive of

innovation

Intuitive • Simple and easy to learn and use, facilitating a coherent user

experience

Cost effective • Supportable with reach and transferability across Faculties,

disciplines and users

Collaboration-aligned • Enabling of interaction and relationship building

Principles

Dimensions of

activity in TEL

Content

Content

Content

Data on content

Assessments

Assessments

http://ubc.github.io/compair/site

Title of slide

• Content

Graph extracted from http://vikparuchuri.com/blog/on-the-automated-scoring-of-essays/

Take homes

The monolithic VLE is not all there is: interoperability brings choices

The LT ecosystem can realize digital instances of different pedagogies

Institutions need to make deliberate choices around how to select, manage and

support tools used

Further information

• UBC’s Learning Technology Ecosystem Project (LTEP) – a collaborative visioning exercise on the

future of learning technology at UBC - http://ctlt.ubc.ca/2015/05/19/learn-about-the-learning-technology-

ecosystem-project/

• EDUCAUSE’s Next Generation Digital Learning Environment (NGDLE) article

https://library.educause.edu/resources/2014/9/next-generation-digital-learning-environment-initiative

• The e-literate blog of Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein

http://mfeldstein.com/

• Collaborative Learning Annotation System (CLAS) at UBC

http://clas.sites.olt.ubc.ca

• Webwork http://webwork.maa.org/

• comPAIR tool at UBC - http://ubc.github.io/compair/site/