The Great Learning Experience Project: An attempt to understand

learninglearning from the views of the Millennial learnersPART 1

Maria Victoria PinedaDe La Salle University, Manila, Philippines Email: mavic.pineda@delasalle.ph

Lennarth BernhardssonUniversity West, Trollhattan, SwedenEmail: lennarth.bernhardsson@hv.se

BACKGROUND – BEC OF EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES

There are limitless ways of producing knowledge. (Attwell, 2007)

And learning becomes multi-episodic, taking place in concurrence, in multiplicities, different facets, transforming and expanding.

WHO ARE OUR STUDENTS?

Born after 1985Born after 1985

High degree of High degree of media exposure media exposure since age 0since age 0

Ownership of a game Ownership of a game console, music player or console, music player or mobile phone at age 8mobile phone at age 8

““Millennial learners”Millennial learners”Grew up with computers Grew up with computers

or web connectivityor web connectivity

Social media is the Social media is the new form of new form of expressionexpression Content creatorContent creatorSelf-service learning skillSelf-service learning skill

Neomillennial learners - Dieterle, Dede, & Schrier, (2008)

OBJECTIVES

First, to explore what drives the educational practices of these millennial learners.

Second, to focus on the learning content experience rather than the student profile or background.

Third, to scrutinize the experiences coming from two sets of undergraduate students, both with perpetual access to technology

METHODOLOGY - PLAN

Gather videos for six months - Jun – Dec Students create a two-minute videos with

annotations Use Creative Commons license Use a blog as a hub of submissions

Submissions from University West and De La Salle University

METHODOLOGY – BUILDING THE VIDEO

Orientation of the expectations of the activity Model – the VOST2011 Project of KSU Explanation – why a two minute video Explanation – why use Creative Commons

license Annotation of the work Submission

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XogdMUUX6U8

INITIAL FINDINGS

First, the effective and affective experiences are derived from her personal learning experience.

Second, the millennial learner is able to define her learning priorities or preferences.

Third, a collective observation in the experiment exhibits the millennial learner as an excellent content and knowledge producer.

NEXT STEPS

More descriptive ways of tagging or annotating the videos

Comprehensive video content analysis Extract video submissions from other

colleagues