Developing Digital Literacy:5 Ps for online learners

Professor Rhona SharpeOxford Brookes University, UK

For BETT, January 2016

@rjsharpe elesig.net

What is learner

experience research?

Finding out what learners actually do

Uncovering learners’ effective practices

Challenging our assumptions

Changing our relationships with students

What have we learnt?

prioritise

personalise

participatepresent

progress

“I got behind and it was too hard to catch up”

PrioritiseActivities to get started

1. Plan for weekly activities2. Create a time management quiz 3. Choose (or create) a set text 4. Model the behaviour you expect5. Schedule shared learning experiences 6. Boundary management exercises 7. Badges for meeting milestones 8. Create a shared calendar9. Send a weekly summary email 10. Early formative assessment tasks11. Annotated reading list

Planning webinar

ParticipateActivities to encourage contribution

12. Use familiar metaphors13. Easy icebreakers14. Tell a story15. Make a timeline16. Twitter chat17. Microblogging18. Collaborative writing tools19. Student-led webinars 20. Assessing online discussions 21. Role play22. Create a Wikipedia entry

Collaborative writing

PersonaliseIdeas to make learning personal

23. Design a learner readiness quiz 24. Customise your computer for on-

screen reading25. Monitor learners’ activity26. Collaborate with online annotations27. Personalise your feedback 28. Analyse your feedback29. Strategies from disabled learners30. Alternatives to Google31. Design an infographic32. Developing a positive online identity

In groups, you must both (a) try at least 3 of the recommended strategies, and (b) generate 3 new strategies

ProgressEncouraging time on task

33. Making instructional videos34. Making pencasts35. Learner generated content36. Create a course glossary 37. Curated content 38. Watch more TV39. Gamification40. Alternate reality games41. Laptop use protocol42. Using smartphones for data collection43. Analyse open data

Encouraging progress

PresentActivities for lifelong learning

44. Create a digital profile 45. Self-assessment of blogs46. Create a course hashtag 47. Communicate with different

audiences48. Publish a book of student work49. Hold a live virtual conference50. Take charge of your own

learning 51. Build personal learning networks52. Digital scholarship53. Recruit expert participants

Communicating with different audiences

Infographics: Easel.ly, Pixlr, Piktochart, Infogr.am

Digital Posters: Powerpoint

Animations: PowToon, GoAnimate, Muvizu

Movie Trailers: iMovie, iMotionHD, Magistro

Easy Videos: Prezi, Photoshow, Powerpoint.

Successful online learners . . .• Are intentional, self-aware, manage boundaries

and distractions and have good information literacy skills (self regulated learning)

• Personalise their learning environment to suit their needs (meta-cognition)

• Are engaged participants (social, collaborative)

• Use technology to present themselves and their work to different audiences (identity)

• Are confident and agile with their technology use (experimentation)

Next steps• Register for First Steps in Learning and

Teaching #fslt15 (starts 25 Jan) http://ocsld.brookesblogs.net/

• Or Teaching Online Open Course (starts 2 March) http://www.brookes.ac.uk/OCSLD/Courses/

• Register your interest in the next ‘Developing Leaders for a Digital Age course’ http://bitly.com/1HTQanc

• Join network of learner experience researchers at elesig.net