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DISAGGREGATION IN TEACHING AND LEARNING
‘Being parties in the work’ A view of the changing digitally-mediated
teaching and learning landscape
Laura Czerniewicz28 November 2013
A University is, according to the usual designation, an Alma Mater, knowing her children one by one, not a
foundry, or a mint, or a treadmill.
The best telescope does not dispense with eyes; the
printing press or the lecture room will assist us greatly,
but we must be true to ourselves,
we must be parties in the work.
John Henry Newman, The Idea of the University, 1824
Photo- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/newman/jhnbio2.html
THIS TALK
o About technology• The characteristics of new technologies• How technology is changing the possible shape of
teaching and learning, and of course provision
o The global role players in the teaching and learning landscape• Values and interests
o What this means for access, participation & learning• with a particular view from South Africa
HIGHER EDUCATION UNDER PRESSURE
o Financial crisis• Government cuts in many countries• Under funded and resource constrained
o Massification globally• SA: Gross enrolment rate (no of students at particular level)
• 16%. Low internationally, Low considering 700 000 matriculants officially qualifying for HE
o SA: Low participation high attrition system• In SA, 40% students leave HE in 1st year • Only 5% of African youth succeed in HE
See Fisher, Scott, Altbach, Jegede
TECHNOLOGY
o Pervasive • A cause of change in the higher education
environment• Seen as solution for higher education
problems• Mediating all higher education practices
• Assumed to be increasingly ubiquitious
TECHNOLOGY
Principles of new mediaAffordances of the digital
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF NEW MEDIA
o Numerical representation• new media objects exist as data
o Modularity• the different elements of new media exist
independentlyo Automation
• new media objects can be created & modified automatically
o Variability• new media objects exist in multiple versions
o Transcoding• the logic of the computer influences how we
understand and represent ourselves
Manovich , L 2002, The Language of New Media
SOME KEY DIGITAL AFFORDANCES
o Granularo Dynamico Communication visible
• a form of content
o Sharing - free & easy• Sharing means multiplying not dividing
o Affords more closed/ lock down as well as more open & accessible
MODULARITY: DISAGGREGATION IN
TEACHING & LEARNING
Disaggregation of
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Certification
TRADITIONAL FORM OF TEACHING & LEARNING
Teaching & learning interactionAssessment & certification
Content
SINGLE PACKAGE
Time Space
DISAGGREGATION
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Assessment & certification
TimePlatfor
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DISAGGREGATION
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Assessment & certification
TimePlatfor
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Legal
Digital
Analogue
Illegal
Textbooks
Some photocopying
E-TextbooksOpen
Education Resources
Photocopying
Pirate sitesFile sharing
ACCESS TO LEARNING CONTENT
DIGITAL CONTENT
o From products to services• From tangible to intangible• Control no longer with customer when
purchased
o From ownership to access/licenseo Intermediary - platforms
• Services via an intermediary• May need to buy the platform, or access
to the platform, not the content
OPEN CONTENT
o Free to user• To download (gratis)• To re-use & remix (libre)
o Available under an open license or public domain
o Grants permissions not copyright
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DISCOURSES OF PIRACY
CHANGES IN TEACHING & LEARNING
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Assessment & certification
Time Place
On campus Remote
Internet supported
Fully online
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DISAGGREGATION
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Certification
Time Place
DISAGGREGATION
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Certification
TimePlatfor
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Free content
Pay to access platform
DISAGGREGATION
Content
Teaching & learning interaction
Certification
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CERTIFICATION
BADGES
o Micro, granular certificationo Some sort of formal(ised) recognition
• for informal learning processes• for chunks of content• for competencies
PRIVATE ASSESSMENT
IN SUMMARYNumerical
representationNew media objects exist as data
Modularitythe different elements of new media exist
independently
Automationnew media objects can be created & modified
automatically
Variabilitynew media objects exist in multiple versions
Transcodingthe logic of the computer influences how we
understand and represent ourselves
Learning analytics
Automated assessment
Disaggregation of teaching & learning
Culture of technology shapes social /pedagogical culture
Versions of content
IN SUMMARYA modularised, variable, transcoded
teaching and learning landscape
TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM?
TECHNOLOGY AND THE GLOBAL
HIGHER EDUCATION LANDSCAPEIncreased private sector investment
New opportunities for the private sector New players
Globalisation: extended reach
THE INTERNET
The network society
Promises and perils
Dominant functions and processes in the information age are increasingly organized around networks. Networks constitute the new social morphology of our societiesand the diffusion of networking logic substantially modifies ….processes of production, experiences of power and culture
Castells, M. (1996) The Rise of the Network Society.
In the past, social networks were more limited in different spheres. Networks were more exclusive. The Internet changed the nature of networks by making them more inclusive and easy to participate in.
Castells, M. (1996) The Rise of the Network Society.
Conventional core– periphery relationships
…can be replaced with networked relationships
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GLOBAL MARKETISATION DISCOURSE
INCREASED PRIVATE SECTOR INVOLVEMENT
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THE GLOBAL MARKET PLACE
Daniels, J 2012
o Online education is in the hand of the private sector• “In the US the for-profit sector has a much
higher proportion of the total online market (32%) than its share of the overall higher education market (7%).
• Seven of the 10 US institutions with the highest online enrolments are for-profits.
• For-profits seem better placed to expand online because they do not have to worry about resistance from academic staff, nor about exploiting their earlier investment in campus facilities.”
Source: Kris Olds (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Susan L. Robertson (University of Bristol)http://www.aca-secretariat.be/fileadmin/aca_docs/images/members/Kris_Olds.pdf
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VARIETY OF
INTERESTS
PLAYERS IN HE LANDSCAPE
o New players• For profit educational / service providers
• Eg Coursera
• Non-profit educational providers• eg Ed-X
o New roles for old players• E.g. Educational publishers as providers of
services
o Old players with new value• Eg distance education providers
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If you are not paying for the product you are the product
If you are not paying for the product you are the product
Access via the platform
THE GLOBAL MARKET PLACEo The developing
world as the new market to solve crises at northern universities
GLOBAL REACH
http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/globalhighered/mapping-courseras-global-footprint
https://www.edx.org/press/queen-rania-foundation-partners-edx
Traditional New model (MOOC)
Fees to enter
Pay No
Entrance requirement
Yes No
Content May be free/included in fees May be paid
Support Free/included in fees May be paid
Certification Free/included in fees Paid
User generated
content
Private, owned by student Owned by provider
Ownership of course
Not traditionally shared Proprietary, paid for re-use adaptation
Platform May be licensed or open May be licensed or open
MODELS- MONETISATION
Traditional New model (MOOC)
Fees to enter
Pay No
Entrance requirement
Yes No
Content May be free/included in fees May be paid
Support Free/included in fees May be paid
Certification Free/included in fees Paid
User generated
content
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Ownership of course
Not traditionally shared Proprietary, paid for re-use adaptation
Platform May be licensed or open May be licensed or open
MODELS- MONETISATION
Traditional New model (MOOC)
Fees to enter
Pay No
Entrance requirement
Yes No
Content May be free/included in fees May be paid
Support Free/included in fees May be paid
Certification Free/included in fees Paid
User generated
content
Private, owned by student Owned by provider
Ownership of course
Not traditionally shared Proprietary, paid for re-use adaptation
Platform May be licensed or open May be licensed or open
MODELS- MONETISATION
What does this mean for the coherence of
teaching and learning processes?
EXAMPLE OF “FREEMIUM MODEL”
(A South African example)
EXAMPLE OF “FREEMIUM MODEL”
EXAMPLE OF “FREEMIUM MODEL”
EXAMPLE OF “FREEMIUM MODEL”
EXAMPLE OF “FREEMIUM MODEL”
TRADITIONAL MODEL: COSTS OF SUPPORT
o Student supportRelative costs over 8 year lifecycle of a Distance Education course
From: Weller, M some MOOC thoughts, presentation to UCT, November xx. 2013
From: Tim Gore Making Sense of MOOCs Brussels 10th October 2013
EXAMPLE: ANALYTICS
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TENSIONS IN THE ECO SYSTEM
o Values• Private sector imperatives• Higher education role - as a public good, for
sake of knowledge, workplace etc• Learning & pedagogy needs
o Control & participation• Who has control, of what, at which point?• Role and control of technology?
o Geopolitics• How do these tensions play out locally?• Whose global interests are served?
BEING PARTIES TO THE WORKAccess
YES, BUT: A PAUSE FOR
BOURDIEUo In a network society, forms of capital are
forms of power • Economic capital • Social capital- (networks across/within)• Embodied cultural capital (expertise, competence)• Objectified cultural capital (the object, technology)• Institutional cultural capital (qualifications)• Symbolic cultural capital (recognition, status, legitimacy)
WHERE DOES THE POWER LIE?
o In a network society, forms of capital are forms of power • Economic capital • Social capital- (networks across/within)• Embodied cultural capital (expertise, competence)• Objectified cultural capital (the object/technology)• Institutional cultural capital (qualifications)• Symbolic cultural capital (recognition, status,
legitimacy)
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ELECTRICITY
http://submarine-cable-map-2013.telegeography.com/
UNDERSEA CABLES
CONNECTIVITY IS INCREASINGbut unevenly
CONNECTIVITY DIVIDES
o Households with/ without Internet• Developed countries 78%, • Developing countries 28%
o Speed• Dramatic differences, Asian countries
fastest, African countries slowest
o Education levelso Rural/urbano Income
MORE LEVEL PLAYING FIELD
o Mobiles: eg South Africa
LSMLiving StandardsMeasure
MOBILE BROADBAND
o % cost
BEING PARTIES TO THE WORKAccess
o In a network society, forms of capital are forms of power • Economic capital • Social capital- (networks across/within)• Embodied cultural capital (expertise, competence)• Objectified cultural capital (the object, technology)• Institutional cultural capital (qualifications)• Symbolic cultural capital (recognition, status, legitimacy)
ACCESS
To promote equity of access and fair chances of successto all who are seeking to realise their potential through higher education
Department of Education ( 1997) Education White Paper 3: A Programme for the Transformation of Higher Education,
GLOBAL SCARCITY
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EQUITY: STUDENTS ONLINE
o Surveyed 40 000 students in nearly 500 000 courses
o Findings• …While all types of students in the study
suffered decrements in performance in online courses, some struggled more than others to adapt: males, younger students, Black students, and students with lower grade point averages
Xu & Jaggar 2013 Adaptability to Online Learning: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas
Access without support is not opportunity.
Effective student support does not arise by chance. It requires intentional, structured, and proactive action that is systematic in nature and coordinated in application.
Prof. Vincent Tinto, Distinguished University Professor Regional Symposia on Student Success
19 - 23 August 2013, South Africa
We were on the front pages of newspapers and magazines, and at the same time, I was realizing, we don't educate people as others wished, or as I wished. We have a lousy product. It was a painful moment.
These were students from difficult neighbourhoods, without good access to computers, and with all kinds of challenges in their lives ….
It's a group for which this medium is not a good fit.
Sebastian Thrunfounder of Udacity,
November 2013
http://www.fastcompany.com/3021473/udacity-sebastian-thrun-uphill-climb
Online education: MOOCs taken by educated few, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Nature 503, 342 (21 Nov 2013)
http://theory.cribchronicles.com/2013/01/04/the-mooc-is-dead-long-live-the-mooc/http://clarissasblog.com/2013/11/24/moocs-are-dead-lets-move-on/https://chronicle.com/article/MOOCs-May-Not-Be-So-Disruptive/140965/
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BEING PARTIES TO THE WORK
Participation
Castells, M. (1996) The Rise of the Network Society.
…Power, money, and information are primarily organized around flows which link up distant locales, and unite them in a shared logic.
The variable geometry of networked integration and switched off exclusion of the network society translates into the juxtaposition between two spatial forms/processes: the space of flows, on the one hand, the space of places, on the other hand.
. People still live in places, and construct their experience, their meaning, and their political representation around these places.
MEANING MAKING
& the geo politics of content
African universities are essentially consumers of knowledge produced in developed countries.
Minister of Higher Education, Blade Nzimande UNESCO Conference on Higher Education, 2009
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BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION
A MORE DEMOCRATIC CASE?
o Insert the example
SEE: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829122.200-free-for-all-lifting-the-lid-on-a-wikipedia-crisis.html#.UphtIcQW0rU
BUT: MOOC PROVIDERS
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Mediation?Recontextualisation
?
…….situated educational activity ….of education The programme content must be the present, existential, concrete situations reflecting the aspirations of the people.
In order for education to be most effective, content must be presented in a way that allows the student to relate the information to prior experiences.
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MOOC LICENSES
o Review of 8 providerso Almost entirely full copyright
• Udacity- some content CC-NC-ND (not whole course)
o All keep user-generated content rights• Some specify including for commercial use
o Users as consumers not adaptors or creators
POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION
o The Read-Write web• Who reads and who writes• Replicating global power relations
CONCLUSION
The ecosystem includes a great deal of existing knowledge about good learning
GOOD LEARNING
o Good learning requires mediationo We are more likely to get the learning outcomes we
want when the curriculum is aligned o Learning is more likely to happen when students are
actively engaged o Learning is more likely to be successful where the
teaching is cognizant of what students bring with them: prior knowledge, language, experience
o Learning involves some degree of transformation of self
Shay, S 2013
Shay, S Good Learning: What we Know. Presentation at Heads of Department Workshop, University of Cape Town, April 2013
IN SHORT
Asserting the interests of good learning is essential
The realignment of interests in the networked society
enabled by new technologies isnot necessarily serving the requirements of learning
the needs of disadvantaged learnersconcepts of education that serve democracy
and social goodthe needs of the “global south”
Let’s ensure that those networked relationships don’t only serve the interests of the educated &
advantaged
We must be parties
in the work!
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THANK YOU
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Also, see URLs on examples on individual slides
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