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Working towards effective practice in a digital age

Sarah Knight

and Ros Smith,

e-Learning

Programme, JISC

A guide to technology-enhanced learning and teaching

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Overview of today’s session

What do you think is important when embedding technology in learning and teaching?

What can we learn from current practice and how should this shape our thinking about the future?

What are the messages for the next decade of practitioners designing learning for a technology-empowered generation?

Introduction to new JISC publication, ‘Effective Practice in a Digital Age’;

A case study of exemplar practice from University of Hertfordshire

Guiding principles for effective practice in a digital age.

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Please participate….

Share your thoughts using Twitter:

#jiscel10

Post –its!

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JISC e-Learning Programme

The aim of the JISC e-learning programme is to enable UK further and higher education to create a better learning environment for all learners, wherever and however they study, in order to realise the vision…

…The vision is of a world where learners, teachers, researchers and wider institutional stakeholders use technology to enhance the overall educational experience by improving flexibility and creativity and by encouraging comprehensive and diverse personal, high quality learning, teaching and research.

www.jisc.ac.uk/elearningprogramme

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By 2012 within this environment…

Learners and teachers are using a mixture of institutionally-provided and user-owned  technologies in a confident and effective manner;

Course teams are effectively exploiting the available technology in all aspects of course design, development and delivery;

Technology-rich physical and online learning, teaching and research spaces are accessible and flexibly designed to reflect an understanding of the learning styles preferences and diversity of their users;

A wide range of learning resources is freely available, easily discovered and routinely re-used.

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What we have been researching…

Institutional approaches to curriculum design;

Transforming curriculum delivery through technology;

Design for learning;

Learner experiences of e-learning and learning literacies in a digital Age;

Development of open educational resources in the Open Educational Resources programme.

Course Design

Session Planning

Activity Design

Learning Object Design

Designing for learning in an institutionalcontext (Beetham, 2009)

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Activity

Share examples of technologies that you have used or seen used recently

Discuss what benefits the technology offered

What were the disadvantages?

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Responding to Learners

Learner Experiences of e-Learning theme funded a total of 10 projects from 2005 to 2009, to explore learners’ perceptions of and participation in technology-enhanced learning in a digital age

The projects piloted a range of innovative methodologies and techniques for eliciting the learner voice

Nearly 3,500 learners responded to surveys, and around 260 were involved in a sustained way

www.jisc.ac.uk/learnerexperience

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Responding to Learners

Learners are immersed in a technology-rich environment and make use of the technology available to them in a wide variety of ways to meet the demands of study.

Colleges and universities need to consider, beyond the basic entitlement, how they support a wide diversity of technology practices at both individual and curriculum level

All learners emphasise the quality of the educational experience before the use of any particular technologies

Despite using technology extensively in their social and leisure lives, most learners have little idea how they could use technology in educational and innovative ways. In the main, learners rely on their course pedagogies and tutors for guidance.

Colleges and universities need to embed across the curriculum support for the development of students' lifelong learning literacies, in an increasingly digital economy and society.

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Understanding practice in a digital age

‘Combine technology-enhanced options with the best of established practice and the practitioner has greater capacity to create meaningful and transformative learning experiences.’

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Listening to practitioners…

‘It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.’ Lewis Carroll

Redesigning the curriculum…www.jisc.ac.uk/resourceexchange

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Key points for effective practice in a digital age

Appropriate use of technology to learners

Having an institutional drive from the top – institutional culture supports the use of tech

Starting fresh – what can I do differently?

Learning and teaching vs teaching and learning

Encourage independencies of students – so they are able to learn

Organise their own learning = learning literacies

Learners in control of the technology to create

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The guide…

Updates the 2004 Effective Practice with e-Learning publication;

Explores the process of designing learning;

Includes ten new case studies featuring different challenges and uses of technology - the ‘e-learning advantage’;

Which pathway shall I take? Case studies offer different levels of complexity to reflect the different circumstances of readers;

Captures practitioner voices - where people currently are;

Introduces planning tools – looking to the future;

Provides an effective practice planning template.

www.jisc.ac.uk/practice

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The Effective Practice Resource Exchange…

Supporting online resources that can be updated and added to;

Four video clips illustrating responses to design for learning themes:

o Responding to learners;

o Rethinking learning resources;

o Redesigning the curriculum;

o Relating research to practice;

Practitioner voices caught on camera;

Podcasts;

Extended case studies for deeper analysis and discussion;

Downloadable activity planning tool.

www.jisc.ac.uk/resourceexchange

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Conclusion

‘We still need constant innovation to see what’s over the horizon... Often the newer things bring something fresh and dynamic to meet students’ learning expectations.’

Professor Gilly Salmon, Professor of e-Learning and Learning Technologies, University of Leicester

‘You have got to make sure that you are using the technology to enhance the quality of the face-to-face... It’s a blend of what the institution can sensibly provide, what is best done by the individual academic and what is brought by the students in terms of their expertise and interests.’Professor Jeff Haywood, Vice Principal, University of Edinburgh

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www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/curriculum

www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/curriculum

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Find out more

A number of supplementary resources are available to accompany Effective Practice in a Digital Age:■Video clips■Podcasts■Effective practice planner templatewww.jisc.ac.uk/resourceexchange

Text-only and PDF formats of Effective Practice in a Digital Age are available to download from:www.jisc.ac.uk/practice

For more information on e-Learning Programme www.jisc.ac.uk/elearningprogramme s.knight@jisc.ac.uk and ros.smith@gpisolutions.co.uk