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Harnessing the power of new media for learning, teaching and research
Gráinne Conole, Leicester University23rd May 2012
JTEL Summer SchoolEstoril, Portugal
Outline
• Characteristics of new media
• Harnessing the net for research
• A new approach to design
• Reflections and implications
Activity
• What are the characteristics of new technologies?
• What are their implications for learning, teaching and research?
New media
Characteristics Implications
Conole and Alevizou, 2010
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• Technology immersed• Learning approaches: task-
orientated, experiential, just in time, cumulative, social
• Personalised digital learning environment
• Mix of institutional systems and Cloud-based tools and services
• Use of course materials with free resources
Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010
Learner experience
EDUCAUSE study• Students drawn to
new technologies but rely on more traditional ones
• Consider technologies offer major educational benefits
• Mixed views of LMSs
http://www.educause.edu/studentsAndTechnologyInfographic
Game changers
• Harness the power of new media
• Need to rethink education• How can we reach more
learners, more effectively?• Impact of free resources,
tools and expertise?• New business models?• New digital literacies?
http://www.educause.edu/game-changers
Activity: What’s your digital network?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/195492568/
My network
Activity: fb love it or hate it?
Pros Cons
Activity: using new media for research• How would you use the following for research (i.e. data
collection, dissemination, discussion)?–Blogs–Facebook–Google+–LinkedIn–Academia.edu–Twitter–Flickr and Youtube–Diigo–Mandeley–Dropbox–Others?
Using new media for research
So why use blogs?• Of the moment reflections• Digital archive• The power of peer review• Record of events, reviews and resources• Wider audience reach and hence profile• Link into facebook and Twitter• Complements traditional publication routes
Bloggers worth readingM. Weller
G. Siemens
T. Anderson
Using facebook
Ideas for harnessing Web 2.0?Twitter
Twitter and facebook #fb
•Think about strategies to make the most of each of the following and then think about how you can do this both in a face-to-face and virtual context– Conferences– Networking– Publishing
Blending real and virtual
Conferences• Purpose: presentation & feedback• Network, network, network!• Potential collaborators & bid partners• Put in a symposium of experts• Expert validation workshops• Put papers/presentations online• Follow up contacts afterwards: email,
fb, Twitter, blogs, etc.• Work up into a research paper• Work the hashtag• Live blog or follow conference-related
blogs
A personal example
Networking• Build links with
international colleagues•Get on national-level
committees• Invite key researchers in
your field to be involved in a joint research activity• Invite people to give
seminars at your institution• Build connections online
via Twitter, facebook, etc. • Participate in online events• Leave comments on blogs
Publishing•Write books - edited or single authored (post drafts)•Become an editor for a special issue of an online
journal•Keep publication list up to date in your research
repository• Set up a writing group or workshop (real/virtual)•Co-write with lots of different people (using a wiki)•Disseminate publications via Tweet, fb etc •Post up drafts for comment on blogs etc• See Twitter, blogs, journals, books as complementary
GO OPEN!!!!
Promise and reality
Social and participatory media offer new ways to communicate and collaborate
Wealth of free resources and tools
Not fully exploited
Replicating bad pedagogy
Lack of time and skills
Learning Design
Shift from belief-based, implicit approaches to design-
based, explicit approaches
Encourages reflective, scholarly practices
Promotes sharing and discussion
Learning DesignA design-based approach to creation and support of
courses
http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/OULDI/
ConsolidateEvaluate and embed your design
ConceptualiseWhat do we want to design,
who for and why?
http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/
Carpe Diem:7Cs of learning Design
MSc in Learning Innovation
Technology-Enhanced Learning
Learning Design
Research Design and Methods
Case Studies of Innovation
Dissertation
Session 1•Overview of learning design•Mini-pres: background to workshop •Intro to e-tivity 1
Session 2•Review of Course Features•Intro to e-tivity 2
E-tivity: Course Features
E-tivity: Course Map
E-tivity: A Learning Design Resource Audit
Plenary work Course team work (e-tivities)
Session 3• Review completed course maps • Intro to e-tivity 3
http://cloudworks.ac.uk/cloudscape/view/2379
E-tivity: How to ruin a course
Session 5•Review of Activity Profiles •Intro to e-tivity 5
Session 6•Review of Storyboards •Task Swimlane •Intro to e-tivity 6•Stock-taking and target-setting for next day
E-tivity: Storyboard
E-tivity: E-tivities
Session 4• Review of completed resource audit• Intro to e-tivity 4
E-tivity: Activity Profile
Plenary work Course team work (e-tivities)
Background to the workshop• Useful sites and resources– OULDI website– Carpe Diem website– 7Cs OER page– Cloudworks cloudscape
How to ruin a course
How to ruin a course
Course Features resources
• http://tinyurl.com/coursefeatures• http://tinyurl.com/coursefeatures-Excel • http://linoit.com
Course features
Linoit.com
Course Features Key
• Orange = Guidance and support• Blue = Content and activities• Green = Communication and collaboration• Purple = Reflection and demonstration
Course map view
Course Map resources
• www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-cloudworks • www.tinyurl.com/ouldi-coursemap • www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-ds • www.tinyurl.com/coursemap-flickr
Develop your Activity Profile
• http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileFlash • http://tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileExcel
Activity Profile Resources
• www.cloudworks.ac.uk/cloud/view/3420 • www.tinyurl.com/activity-profile-ds• www.tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileFlash • www.tinyurl.com/ActivityProfileExcel
Learning outcomes
Assessment
START END
Story board
Develop your e-tivities
Social
Individual
Informal Formal
Information
Experience
Mapping pedagogies to technologies
Activity: Mapping e-pedagogies to technologies
Pedagogies• Problem-Based Learning (PBL)• Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL)• Didactic (Did)• Reflection (Ref)• Dialogic Learning (Dial)• Collaboration (Collab)• Assessment (Ass)• Communities of Practice (CoP)• IBL – social• User-Generated Content (UGC)
Technologies• Virtual Worlds (VW)• Google• E-Books• Blogs, e-Portfolios• Discussion Forums (DF)• Wikis• MCQs• Google+• Twitter• Youtube
Social
Individual
Informal FormalExperience
Information
Informal Formal
Social
Individual
Informal Formal
PBL/VWDial/forumCollab/Wiki
IBL/TwitterCoP/Google+Dial/Skype
Ref/BlogIBL/GoogleUGC/YouTube
Ref/e-PortfolioDid/e-BookAss/MCQs
Experience
Information
Informal Formal
PBL/VWRef/e-PortfolioDial/Forum
Ref/BlogCoP/Google+Dial/Skype
IBL/TwitterIBL/GoogleUGC/YouTube
Coll/WikiDid/e-BookAss/MCQs
Conclusion
• Structured guidance to think about design
• The power of visualisation• Beyond content to activities and
experience• Iterative, creative and messy• Making designs explicit• Social media to foster
communication and collaboration
Final thoughts• Participatory and social media enable new forms of
communication and collaboration• Communities in these spaces are complex and
distributed• Learners and teachers need to develop new digital
literacy skills to harness their potential•We need to rethink how we design, support and assess
learning•Open, participatory and social media can provide
mechanisms for us to share and discuss teaching and research ideas in new ways•We are seeing a blurring of boundaries:
teachers/learners, teaching/research, real/virtual spaces, formal/informal modes of communication and publication
http://www.ld-grid.org/Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer
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