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Is it possible to be smart?addressing the inevitabilities,
opportunities and challenges of using personal smart technologies to support learning in higher education
Andrew MiddletonHead of Innovation & Professional
Development
@andrewmid
#smartSEDA
19th Annual SEDA Conference 2014Opportunities and challenges for academic
development in a post-digital age13th November 2014 -14th November 2014
NCTL Learning and Conference Centre, Nottingham
About this session Smart Learning - the opportunities, challenges
and inevitabilities of personally owned smart technologies for teaching and learning, and
Academic innovation - the capability of academic innovators to effectively transform their own practice and influence the practice of others
by developing emerging thinking using a communal agency method
InnovationChallengesOpportunities...or Inevitabilities
cc US Army
Based only on what you know please complete the
Challenge and Opportunity cards
You will use these as the basis for beginning to explore the idea of smart learning in this session
Just 3 minutes – first thoughts only
The Challenge & Opportunities method
In small groups
Compare your Challenge and Opportunity cards
Quickly note:
1.Are the statements about: teaching and learning? technical barriers? the need for leadership or support? something else?
2.How ambitious is the challenge statement?
The Challenge & Opportunities method
The Challenge & Opportunities method Examine and compare
preconceptions Establish focus Establish contextual
complexity Valuing participation Promote productive
networking Develop communal agency
Elicit the range of issues Elicit benefits
Analysing Challenges & Opportunities
PEDAGOGIC READINESSof learners and teachers
ORGANISATIONAL READINESSstrategic
TECHNICAL READINESSpersonal and institutional
AWARE AWARE AWARE
ENHANCINGACCOMMODATING
DEVELOPINGSUPPORTING
ABLE & STABLE
TRANSFORMING ADVOCATING FLUENT & FLEXIBLE
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Challenge results: Pedagogic Readinessof learners and teachers
AWARE• Resistance from staff (Careers)• Current role. Breaking barriers/habits• Pedagogical support for iPad for teaching
ENHANCING• How can communication skills be developed via smart
technology?• Get away from the assessment=exams and essay regime
(Academic)
TRANSFORMING• Technology is fully embedded and well-used. Not a
gadget for gadget's sake (Learning Technologist)• Non-linear innovation (TEL)
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2
3
• Quote (attribution by role)
Opportunity results: Pedagogic Readinessof learners and teachers
AWARE• Explore all available technologies rather than focussing on
one or two.• Experience of learning is more valued and integral to life
ENHANCING• Expanding student experience... Making learning more
differentiated• Collaborative learning (Learning Technologist)• [Access to] huge range of people and skills (Student)• Participating in change... • Feedback (Academic)• Liven up delivery (Careers)
TRANSFORMING• Social networkers... make shift to social learning (Ed Dev)• Open learning (PicBod/Phonar) new digital degree. Take
this into Journalism (Academic)• Considering the blending of traditional methods with new
technology (Senior Lecturer)
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2
3
• Quote (attribution by role)
Challenge results: Organisational Readinessstrategic capacity
AWARE• To get all the staff interested... (e-learning Developer)• Myself- finding time to learn how to use the different
devices. I work P/T...• Reason to leave comfort zone• BYOD argument! ...So, do we buy students devices or
allow them to BYOD (?)• ...There must be support from above (Ed Tech)• Budget to implement technology (Faculty Dean)
ACCOMMODATINGDEVELOPINGSUPPORTING
• Scalability..: money, ethics, time, energy• Attitude ...using smart technology in the classroom
(Int. Advisor)• Time!... space to innovate... I want it! I need it! (SL)• Lack of knowledge/support for academics to integrate
[smart technology] into teaching (HoT&L)
ADVOCATING• Mindset and culture• Innovators valued as leaders
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2
3
• Quote (attribution by role)
Opportunity results: Organisational Readinessstrategic capacity
AWARE• Smart technology should be embedded into the
physical environment with QR Codes - huge potential in our university - bilingual environment (Learning Technologist)
ACCOMMODATINGDEVELOPINGSUPPORTING
• Embracing new technology and ideas for use• Seamless solutions - Joining up the thinking and
breaking down barriers (Academic)
ADVOCATING• Learning analytics - personalise/tailor student
learning (Academic)• Timeliness as when students want to engage
(Academic)• The chance to offer more creative forms of
assessment across all disciplines (Information Specialist)
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2
3
• Quote (attribution by role)
Challenge results: Technical Readinesspersonal and institutional
AWARE• IT infrastructure, wifi capacity and plug sockets
(Academic)• Ensure wifi coverage is robust enough• Connectivity and policy issues so our IT services can be
supportive of this and not be scared of it!
ABLE & STABLE• Institution only speaks 'Microsoft' (Lecturer)• Not all students will be able to take part if they do not
have compatible devices (Careers staff)• Is technology moving too fast..?• Robust wi-fi (Lecturer)• Access to devices within the classroom (e-L support)
FLUENT & FLEXIBLE• Variety of platforms used on student devices
(Lecturer, Fieldwork)• Not everyone has a device (Student)• Create an open media citizen-journalism app to
enhance our Journalism & Media course (Academic)
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2
3
• Quote (attribution by role)
Opportunity results: Technical Readinesspersonal and institutional
AWARE• Increased independence and flexibility• Less dependence on the wired environment and
infrastructure
ABLE & STABLE• Apps usually free or cheap, task oriented and
simpler to support• Opportunities for learning and knowledge creation
'on demand' not within a prescribed timetable or working week.
FLUENT & FLEXIBLE• Anytime, anywhere, anyhow• Make university greener by facilitating distance
learning. Use devices to get students to study 'smarter' more autonomously, self directed.
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2
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• Quote (attribution by role)
13:40
Smart: mobileMeaning
portable handheld deviceson the move
being in remote, non-traditional, or authentic places
using non-wired environmentsteaching and learning in, across
and through a range of physical and virtual spaces seamlessly
enhancing formal spacesenhancing informal spacesenhancing or transforming
experience across spaces
cc Giorgio Luciani
BYOD Employees find it more
productive to use their own smart devices rather than the technologies provided for them
Personal devices bypass the constraints and protocols of provided technologies
Employees to be more productive as they work across formal and informal spaces (Caldwell, Zeltman & Griffin, 2012).
Caldwell, C., Zeltman, S., and Griffin, K. (2012). BYOD (Bring Your Own Device). Competition Forum, 10(2), pp. 117-121
cc Gailjadehamilton
"the planned curriculum"
"the unplanned curriculum"
Smart: formal-informalEverywhere. Anywhere.In between and across locations…Lecture theatres, classrooms, corridors, outside, pub, home office, student rooms, workplace, placements, professional settings, international settings, online, on the move…
13:45
Where does learning happen?
Middleton (2015) 'Introducing Smart Learning' In: A. Middleton (ed). Smart learning: teaching and learning with smartphones and tablets in post compulsory education. MELSIG and Sheffield Hallam University
RICH DIGITAL MEDIA
USERGENERATED
MEDIA
BYOD
MOBILE LEARNING
OPEN LEARNING
SOCIAL MEDIAFOR
LEARNING
incorporates and multiplies
related opportunities
disruptsformal
models of delivery
disruptsone-to-many
model
disruptsdependency
on text
disrupts provided content model
disrupts provided
"classroom" model
disrupts provided
technology model
connectivity
social reach
AUTHENCITY
maturity of the technologies
affordability of software
multiple functionality
location sensitivity
personalisation
computing power
real and virtual capacity
device neutrality and interoperability
range of media
SPONTANEITYCREATIVITY
CO-OPERATION & COLABORATION
LIFE-WIDE & LIFELONG
UBIQUITY & ACCESS to LEARNING
PRODUCTIVITYLEARNER-CENTREDNESS
CONNECTIVITY
"Defining factors and attributes of Smart Learning" from Middleton (2015) 'Introducing Smart Learning' In: A. Middleton (ed). Smart learning: teaching and learning with smartphones and tablets in post compulsory education. MELSIG and Sheffield Hallam University
portability and compactness
personal ownership
InnovationComplexity and Inevitability?
cc Jenny Downing
How necessary is intervention anyway?
To what extent does change just 'happen'?
For a paradigm shift to occur conditions for change need to be in place - adjacent possibilities (Johnson, 2010)
C&O method is useful for stimulating academic innovation
Also, describes complexity Complexity requires holistic
leadership for enhancement and transformation, connecting: Pedagogic strategy Organisational strategy Technical strategy
Conclusions
Thank youemail:
a.j.middleton@shu.ac.uk