New Digital Media Ecosystems for Learning

New Digital Media Ecosystems for LearningTim O’Riordan

JISC Digital [email protected]

www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk

Theo KuechelDigital Media and Educational

Technology Research [email protected]

Adam Richards & Deri RobertsBridgend College

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JISC Digital Media

Who we are• Publicly funded JISC Service in UK• Advises on all aspects of digital media• Help the community to help each other• Services: training, advice documents, social

media & helpdesk

www.edmediashare.org

What we do

Helpdesk• Free• Monday to Friday• Respond within 12 hours• Covers whole digital media life cycle

(creation, management and dissemination)

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Image: Henry Ryder, from The Noun Project

• Do you use online tools?• What tools do you use?


Key areasTools

Pedagogy Implementation

Schedule

• Digital Media Ecosystem - Theo Kuechel

• Selection Criteria – Tim O’Riordan

• Facebook for Learning – Adam Richards & Deri Roberts

• Q+A



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Towards a Digital Ecosystem for Learning

http://youtu.be/nJmGrNdJ5Gw

Focusing on individual tools or applications - unlikely to lead to integrated and effective use of technology

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• Why am I using this Tool/Technology/Space?

• What does it add?

• What is the half life?

• Progression or Sustainability

Seeing the big picture - helps us ask the right

questions about how we use technology

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Technologies

• (Online) MindMaps

• Curation

• YouTube Ecosystem

• Why - Quick win

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Mind Maps

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Collaborative Thinking & Planning

mindmeister.com (freemium model)

• Discover new educational resources & practice

• Discover resources created by other teachers & students

• Share resources discovered by teaching staff & students

• Form new relationships with colleagues & peers

• Build communities on subject or topic expertise

• Curation is an important part of digital literacy

Curation: Managing Knowledge

Phenomenon

The

Scoopit: Social Knowledge Building

John Sayers

Managing Video

ECOSYSTEM

• Subscriptions

• Playlists/Fav’s

• Video Editor

• Video Manager

• History

Generic time line based video editing tools tools

Creative Commons

Please consider making your uploads CC

Video Editor

Continually evolving toolset and capability

THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF A DIGITAL

ECOSYSTEM FOR LEARNING

The Missing Essential Element is Conversation

Thank you ....


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Key areasTools

Pedagogy Implementation


Tool selectionSelect platform

Technical Test

Adopt platform

Pedagogic Test

What context?

Will it work?

Learning Design



Technical Test

Adopt platform

Pedagogic Test

What context?

Will it work?

Learning Design


Technical Test

• Pragmatic Review• Neilsen Heuristics


Technical TestPragmatic Review

• Interoperable (browser support)

• Re-usable

• Accessible (incl. access to data)

• Reliable

• Legal (contracts, IPR and data protection)


Technical TestNielsen Review


Technical TestNeilsen Review

• Does the interface support all tasks expected by the user?

• Are there conflicts in the functionality of interface?

• Does functionality change the underlying task?



Technical Test

Adopt platform

Pedagogic Test

What context?

Will it work?

Learning Design


Pedagogic TestChickering & Gamson

• Encourages contacts between students and faculty• Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students• Encourages active learning• Gives prompt feedback• Emphasizes time on task• Communicates high expectations• Respects diverse talents and ways of learning

“...new technology easily supports a fragmented,

informational view of knowledge…and is in

danger of promulgating only that.” Diane Laurillard, Rethinking University Education, 2002, p227



Pedagogic TestChickering & Gamson

• Encourages contacts between students and faculty• Develops reciprocity and cooperation among students• Encourages active learning• Gives prompt feedback• Emphasizes time on task• Communicates high expectations• Respects diverse talents and ways of learning



Technical Test

Adopt platform

Pedagogic Test

What context?

Will it work?

Learning Design



Technical Test

Adopt platform

Pedagogic Test

What context?

Will it work?

Learning Design


Learning DesignDial-e





• stimulating interest and engagement• exploring concepts and processes• exploring textual qualities and alternative perspectives• creating a project or artefact


Learning DesignDial-e & Bloom







Technical Test

Adopt platform

Pedagogic Test

What context?

Will it work?

Learning Design





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Facing reality in a Further Education context – Using Facebook to create

learning communities without the cost of a hosted solution

Bridgend College

The FE Context• Constrained resources in an FE context• FE delivery• How Facebook acted as a vehicle for achieving

learning that was not possible otherwise

Memphis Trip Page

Why Social Networking?• Access 365 days a year• 24/7• Free• Embedded in their experience• Available on mobile and desktop devices• Direct Interaction and group focus

Social Intrusion• Managed by the tutor administrators, use of closed

group• The groups are subject specific, not College based• No personal Facebook interaction – not friending

students• Not in their direct interaction - its in group spaces• To date 100% of our students are facebook users

Creative Industry Specific

Better than face to face• Continuous learning outside the college• Enables follow-up discussion from class and Student

led research• Options for students who don’t interact as well in face

to face contexts

Student benefitThe students’ perception has been that the group has improved the range and flexibility of communication and provided an effective hub for communicating and learning between the staff and learners – evidence of support

“I found the group page a huge benefit, it enabled me to communicate with tutors and group members, it was a good source to contact members and share ideas”.

Danni Kennedy student 2012

Risks and how to address them• Facebook group is part of induction week• Risks were avoided • To date all students have respected the groups• All tutors are group administrators• All students feel part of a unique, specialised

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