Innovating pedagogy, Essi Vuopala, 2.10.2014

Innovating pedagogy

Next steps of technology-enhanced learning

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How education may change over next ten years?

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MOOCs

Seemless learning

Crowd learning

Gamification

How education may change over next ten years?

• Strong relationship with an originating course.

• Usually few weeks long.• Online access with short

videos and quiz-type assessment.

• Peer support. • Assessment: automated

evaluation, peer assessment etc.

• ’Flipped classroom’

• In practise:– Works for people who can cope

with the challenge, but not necessarily for those who needs support.

– Offer a good route for professional development, leisure learning and the study of courses alongside formal learning.

– 10% of people who registered on a MOOC complete the course.

• Still…– MOOCs are evolving.

• Example

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MOOCs

How education may change over next ten years?

Connecting learning across settings, technologies and activities.

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Seemless learning

How education may change over next ten years?

• Mobile technologies

• ’Flow’• ’BYOD’• Lifelogging

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Seemless learning

How education may change over next ten years?

• Personal ownership

• Examples– iSpot– Forvo online

• ’Wisdom of the crowd’

• Educator’s role

Harnessing the knowledge of many people

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Crowd learning

How education may change over next ten years?

• ’Chocolate-covered broccoli’– Junior Brain Trainer

• Game environments, virtual worlds– SecondLife

• However…– Does not automatically

promote construction of knowledge.

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Gamification

or eduntainment

There are clear links between gaming and learning.

SWOT – innovative pedagogy

Strenghts, weaknesses, opportunities and threads

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