Establishing the digital City limits
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eLearning: Enhancing the learning experience Establishing the digital City limits 5 th July 2011 Zak Mensah @zakmensah @jiscdigital
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The digital landscape for education. We hear so many different opinions on topics such as digital natives, digital literacy and digital technologies such as ‘mobile’ that it is hard to know where to begin. In this session I identify where we currently are in UK education, where some of us are headed and what may be on the horizon to help us enhance the learner experience.
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eLearning: Enhancing the learning experience Establishing the digital City limits
5th July 2011Zak Mensah
@zakmensah@jiscdigital
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BSU e-learning strategy 2011 - 14
QualityMaximise students abilities
Greater use of the environmentPromote internationalisation
Ensure students receive individual advice and supportImprove infrastructure
e-learning delivers good experience
Study and support through online toolsUsable and accessible
Digital literacy
JISC
Mobile learning Student experience
Digital Literacies
Top tip: JISC is here to help
Digital natives and residents/visitors
Contact time
Definitions of mobile learning?
"Early definitions... which focused predominantly on the attributes of mobile
technology, have given way to more sophisticated conceptualisations suggesting that mobility is the central
issue (Winters, 2006). This denotes not just physical mobility but... having access to people and digital
learning resources, regardless of place and time."
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme (2010)Via Doug Belshaw
1. To be able to use their own devices with corporately-owned IT infrastructure.
2. For technology not to be used as a crutch for poor learning and teaching experiences.
3. Unhampered digital communication with their peers, tutors and administrators.
Context is king
OpportunitiesUser devicesAnytime, anywhere
Constraints SizeAvailabilityRange of devices
Location ClassroomSocialOut of class
Strategy
Library is king 625 hotspots 8000+ connected to wireless per week Devices, uses and attitudes
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Web vs Native
the confident and critical use of ICT for work, leisure, learning and communication
Mobile
VLEPLE
Contact
# 1 A pedagogy of abundance
Scarcity
it is no longer the content that it scarce, but their own time and attention becomes the key scarce resource now.One can classify responses to the digital era as ‘abundance’ and ‘scarcity’ responses.Weller, Martin (2011). A pedagogy of abundance. Spanish Journal of Pedagogy, 249 pp. 223–236. p4
# 2 Open everything?
OERStandardsToolsCreative Commons
# 3 Media enhanced assessment
# 4 Multimedia e-books
#5 Mobile learning
"People expect to be able to work, learn, and study whenever and wherever
they want to."
http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2011/
Horizon report 2011•Time to adoption: One Year or Less •Electronic Books•Mobiles•Time to adoption: Two to Three Years •Augmented Reality•Game-based Learning•Time to adoption: Four to Five Years •Gesture-based Computing•Learning Analytics
Thank you
Where we areDigital residents and visitorsDigital literacy # 1 pedagogy of abundance # 2 Open everything# 3 Media enhanced feedback # 4 Multimedia ebooks#5 Mobile learning
Zak Mensah www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk@jiscdigital@zakmensah www.zakmensah.co.uk
