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Public Lecture about the trend towards using online education and its implications for how and why we learn
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The Future of Education - Online
Frank Rennie
Why bother with teachers?
Valerie Everett - Flikr
No magic answers
SummaryWhat is available nowSample some trendsSuggest some possibilities
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Known attributes Greater speed of technology change Commercialisation of technology Greater affordability of devices Speedier access to information Greater mobility in learning options Extended geography of social links
Pedagogic Styles
Distributed Learning
Blended Learning
Distance Education
elearning
f2f Open Education
What are the Drivers? Extending educational opportunities Flexibility and convenience The pressures of 'real life' Career elitism (CPD) Disaggregation of knowledge New technologies available (iPod etc) Intellectual stimulation
The Connecticon
Multiple connections Metcalfe's Law x= n2
Reed's Law
Network Connections can be
powerul nodes of interaction
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Online libraries
Geographical data
E-book repositories
YouTube
Open Courses
Wikipedia
Certification
Social networking
Journals
Images
Symbiotic LearningThree forms of symbosis:
MutualisticCommensalParasitic
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Apparent Trends Technology assisted learning is
increasing Convergent devices are becoming
prevalent Ubiquitous internet access Increasing openness of resources (?) Opportunities for personalisation of
learning
Some possibilities Open science opportunities expand Next generation internet ? Copyright changes – (add-on services) Collective branding of OER Research, Teaching, and Assessment will
diverge Institutions will select and manage contents
The essence of OER 1) Open access for users 2) Freely available 3) Shareable 4) Relatively discrete 'chunks' 5) Saves needing to 'reinvent the wheel' 6) Needs to be contextualised 7) You can add to the OER pool
Some Examples
Presentations from another perspective
Difficult or dangerous experiments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9z5-mJ8NZk
Specialist or rare publications
Specific photographs and illustrations http://picasaweb.google.com/frankrennie
Issues of Personalised Learning Localisation
Flexibility/ convenience / cost / relevance Ethical issues
Digital profiles held by companies Sharing of information (+ plagiarism) Ethical travel (in an age of anthropogenic climate
change) Students as part of the community “Virtual” is not the same as “online”
Paradigm Shift
From TeddY on Flickr
OER Template
Learning Resources
OER
OER
OER OEROER
OER
Certification
Award
Assessment
TMA
Exam
Tutorials
LMS
Peer-to-peer
Dboard
skype
I cannot teach anyone anything, I can only make them think - Socrates
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Books
Video
Dialogue
Images
Audio
Experiments
Tests
Articles
Inherent Dangers Not every resource is of equal
value This is no different from non digital Ease of access may be deceptive e.g.
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
Self Study
Face to Face
Online Tuition
Act
ive
Lear
ning
Instructional Learning
Educational Technology
Self Study
Face to Face
Online Tuition
Act
ive
Lear
ning
Instructional Learning
Educational Technology
Online Tuition
Face to Face
Self Study
Cost Benefit
Some things to watch
The Attention Economy Self-organisation of learners Integration of platforms BIG OER meets small OER Course components will be owned Dominance of Third Places Institutions will provide student support
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The process begins....
This presentation is already on slideshare at
www.slideshare.net/frankrennie
It will also be with audio and video on the UHI website
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