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The Future of Research on Technology Enhanced Learning
Professor Barbara WassonInterMedia &
Dept of Information Science and Media StudiesUniversity of Bergen, Norway
& Network of Excellence
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Rapid technological advancements
Understandings of learning
Knowledge as a cultural artefact
Pervasiveness of technology
Technologically fluent youth
Learning Economy
Ambient Intellig
ent Society
Globalisation
Digital DivideParticipatory Society
Mobility
Technological literacyThe Changing World
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Knowledge Society
The Changing World
Rapid technological advancements
Understandings of learning
Knowledge as a cultural artefact
Pervasiveness of technology
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Technologically fluent youth
Learning Economy
Ambient Intellig
ent Society
Globalisation
Digital DivideParticipatory Society
Mobility
Technological literacy
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Fundamental Challenge
Rethink learning, teaching and education in the knowledge society
exceptional complexity of the institutional, social, political and economical
nature of learning To produce knowledge about the design, implementation and use of TEL
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Background
20+ years of experienceAIEd, networked learning, CSCL, socio-cultural issues
InterMedia, University of Bergenwww.intermedia.uib.no
Kaleidoscope Network of Excellencewww.noe-kaleidoscope.org
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Technology Trends
• Faster• Smaller• More intelligent• Embedded
• Internet expansion
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Technology Trends
• Faster• Smaller• More intelligent• Embedded
• Internet expansion
6 months is an eternity!!
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Research Strands
Population Diversity
Productive Learning
Design of TEL Environments
Conceptual Framework
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Population Diversity
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Population Diversity
• Understanding the various individual, group and cultural differences related to the use of emerging technologies
• Learning related attitudes and behaviour
• Complex interplay of factors including age, gender, disability, psychology, ethnic origin, socioeconomic status
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Psychological and Behavioural Divergence
Why can some individuals and groups successfully integrate learning with
technology?
Identity
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Biological and Physical Divergence
What is the technology related impact of the perceptual and mental differences associated with gender, maturation & aging populations?
Digital literacy and fluency
Power Users of Technology
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Social and Cultural Divergence
How can technology be used to promote equity of educational opportunity
regardless of gender, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion, and
socioeconomic status?
Digital divide
Stellenbosch Declaration
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Productive Learning
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Productive Learning
• Learning issues and Educational Practice
– ties into a cluster of concepts around activity and transformation
– bridges the gap between learning processes and learning outcomes
– new understandings of the learning processes by exploring links between human learning, cognition, social context and technologies
– deep understanding, knowledge production
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Productive Learning
• Means different things in different contexts
• Individual and Collective Competence– how people develop deeper insights but also to
understand how such insights can be shared and used to develop collective competence
• Productive Learning Environments will show great variation
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Productive Learning
For example
• the ability to use knowledge and skills in new contexts
• the connection between a learning community and its learning resources
• engagement in rich interaction
• creation of new knowledge
• …
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Productive Learning
How can we raise learners’ active engagement and participation in meaningful activities designed to combine f2f and online
collaboration?
How do digital technologies change writing as a knowledge-producing practice?
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Design of TEL Environments
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Design of TEL Environments
• How to design TEL environments
– exploring the functional potentials of emerging technologies (affordances)
– ensuring pedagogical and organisational issues are as important
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Design of TEL Environments
• emerging technologies and applications such as learning grid, ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, semantic and social web, collaboration technologies, educational gaming, web logs, agent technology
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Design of TEL Environments
• issues related to open source, open content, international standards (e.g., SCORM, IMS-LD), interoperability, reuseability
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Design of TEL Environments
• pedagogical approaches such as problem oriented project pedagogy, case-based learning, progressive inquiry learning, collaborative learning, experiential learning, problem-based learning
• methods for the design of learning environments, such as design research methods and rapid prototyping methods
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Design of TEL Environments
• organisational issues, e.g., school curriculum, infrastructure, personnel privacy and security of learners and their learning space
• lab experiments, field trials, design experiments, ethnographic studies
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Conceptual Framework
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Conceptual Framework
• Over 40 years of experience within disciplines such as Human Factors, Computer Science, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, TEL
• Numerous theoretical frameworks (biological, cognitive, sociocultural)
• Diverse set of evaluation methods
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Conceptual Framework
• Levels of analysis (micro, mezzo, macro)
• Units of analysis (e.g., trajectories over time)
• Conceptual models for using and assigning meaning to results
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Conceptual Framework
• Systemic Approaches– generate models of how ’technology’
influences collaboration, discourse and learning
• Interpretative Approachs– investigate how the meanings and functions
of discourse, tools and reasoning are constituted in human practices
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Conceptual Framework
Systematically and critically evaluate the existing methodologies and their
theoretical underpinnings in a way that permits the development of a new
understanding of how digital technologies impact human user populations
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Interesting Trends
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“must-have must-use” technology
in organisations (www.det.act.gov.au)
“old fashioned, formal, mamma & pappa send email”
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Participatory Society
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Informal & Formal Learning
14% of time in schools How People Learn, NRC 2000
“emerging technological fluencies give access to informal learning opportunites”
LIFE Centre
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New Creativity
technology saavy youth
constrained in formal learning / work situations
Tsumani / Katrina & Pakistan / Danish company
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Distributed Cognition
MASTOR
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High Expectations
ICT can revolutionize education
unrealistic pessimist
How can we create a more balanced relationship between unrealistic expectations
and the actual developments?
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Summary
TEL Research is complex
Difficult to predict the future
New generation of technological natives who will be teachers, workers, researchers
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