Innovative learning conference - maximising technology, maximising
potential
Keynote address - Dr. Barbara Newland - Lecturer, center of learning and teachig,
Uni. of Brigton
Nothing that new being presented here. Focus on the Educase Horizon report. Some
Personalisation of learning
Tech. major impacts - timeline of techs. Dont think that web 2 has had particular
impact in learning
Horizon report 4 - 5 gesture based computing
Educase Centre - hardware graph 17 different devices
Digital media literacy
See figure 3 - crazy diagram
Semi-certified free online courses from Harvard and MIT http://web.mit.edu/press/2012/mit-harvard-edx-announcement.html
Flipped lectures - freeing up the face to face time to do other stuff than
transmitional sage on the stage model.
Presentation on Barbara's slideshare - http://www.slideshare.net/barbaranewland/thefuture-of-learning-13493667
Session 2 - Mike Neary - Dean of Teching and learning at Uni of Lincoln Access all areas: higher education, technology and the future of the future
Abolishing work - away from the capitalist model
Mike presented his ciritic of the horizon report, going on to talk about Alternative
view of work that he draws on from Andre Gorz influencial book Farewell to the
working class in the 1980's. Thirdly, Mike spoke about a experiential learning
environment called the Social Science Centre, which he is involved in piloting in
Lincoln (not affiliated with the Uni. of Lincoln though). See more detailed notes in
the attached.
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Horizon report - little critical thinking contained in the report
Skills learning is required rather than knowledge learning
Report is implying that the School is becoming less important
Thinking harder about the things that we disagree with rather than agreeing that
Future of work
Part 2
We are able to produce more than what we need
We don't need to work all the time - dedicate our time to working on interesting
stuff rather than medial tasks
Work we have to do - autonomous work, compared to hetromemous work
Part 3
Social science centre
Co-operative form of learning
Set up by 20 academics, giving their time freely
Awarded a degree - which is validated by the academic
Finding alternatives to work - 10 city Universities
Summarising
New formal social intuitions - not based on market forces but on political drivers
Session 3 - Dr. Amanda Jefferies - Uni Hertfordshire
E-learning and the 21st Century student
Sloan consortium 2012
JISC eLearning programme - student video blogs
Quotes from students - "whole life affected tech. Routines of tech. All my life is
tech."
Digital residences rather than natives
European commission digital literacy definition - reference?
Digital competence - one of eight important life long learning skills
Face to face a luxury in the future
EdX MIT Harvard - example also referred to
Learning spaces – your kitchen table?
Of com report for tech. Comms in the uk
Changing Pedagogy
Michael Wesch YouTube vids –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
Loads of info - masking a superficial engagement with the content
Develop digitally competent students rather than speedy web browsers
Building understanding in face to face sessions - precious time
Masterclass 1 - Virtual internships - toolwire
Live labs
Skills development based around a business situation
Illustrated characters, day in the life experiences
Toolwire learnscapes
Offering concrete experiences, opp to reflect on these experiences, abstract
conceptualisation, active experimentation. Natural assessment
Court room scenario Explained by Sonia - academic. advocacy exercise
Loads of positive student feedback
Students in past breaking down in tears - not happened since using the resource
Marks seemed to go up
Asking quite a lot of them
Option module
Cell scene - asking them questions
Pub scene - getting hints and tips in the pub
Not Expensive and short turn around - claimed?
Leeds met - training social workers 6 month turn around?
Creating virtual locations in the learnscape
Building assessment - representative of the role, creating a social media strategy
Student uses resource multiple times
Gamescapes Multi paths - multiple costs
Collaborative working - other
Multiplayer panels
Leeadership, decision making, polling
How long students spend in Learnscapes - 1 - 1.5 hours of video - some lectures use
episodes
Copyright remains
Licences to use different learnscapes
500 - 1000 users around £50
Masterclass 2
Adaptive
How does assessment engage the student
Learnsmart
Rich stats
System delivers smartly
Individual learning plan
Wiley Masterclass
Ebooks - basic vle, video
BB VLE integration others to come. D2L heard of but no plan to include as yet.
Wiley plus comes with any books
Keynote after lunch
slideshare and blog from the presenter - add name
DMU Commons
Buddy - Wordpress Self forming groups
Commons system
Top 10 IT influences - check out the slide
Issues with working in public - hacking linked in
How do we enable staff to make good decisions
Tech. Underpinned by liquid fuel supply - limits on climate change too.
Future lab link -bristol
Principles slide - facer and sandford
Innovation in the public sector
Dr. John McGurk
Three game changers
Mindlessness around eLearning
Refreshing our insights and developing our diagnostics
Working at the Center of innovation and knowledge
You're not a gadget - book recommendation
Last talk - open university
Gartner
Moodle interaction development
Apps provide cleaner interfaces
Making any part of a degree accessible from a smartphone
Study calendar
Openlearn
Apps in the commons?
myOU - personalised learning environments - iGoogle widget
Annotation tool - OU Tool, Sharing annotations
Busuu.com language learning, badging - credit for learning not delivered in a formal
way - currency with learners
Panel debate
Reality is broken book recommendation - SIG in games
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