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European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning UNIQUe Award
Learning Technologist ofthe Year 2009: Team Award
Beyond DistanceRESEARCH ALLIANCE
Learning Futures: A Model for Embedding Student Employability Skills into Futures Research
Dr. Sandra [email protected]
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Here Be Dragons...
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Higher education……
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Listening to learners
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The Creating Academic Learning Futures Project (CALF)
AIM
To involve students in creating and exploring a variety of plausible ‘alternative futures’ for learning and teaching in higher education.
To inform teachers, managers and policy-makers of the “student voice” for the future of learning.
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Learning Futures Thinking
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Employability Skills
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Finding relevant information quickly.
Evaluation of information
Multi-tasking, time-management and prioritising
Networking and team working
Action-planning, target-setting
Self-presentation and communication
Technology skills that contribute to effective execution of tasks
Employability Skills
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Learning Futures for Employability
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• STEEPLE:
– Social
– Technological
– Economic
– Environment (natural)
– Political
– Legal
– Ethical15
Scenario Building
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Involvement:Actors, stakeholders and agency
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Cognitive Mapping
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Present
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Finding relevant information quickly.
Evaluation of information
Multi-tasking, time-management and prioritising
Networking and team working
Action-planning, target-setting
Self-presentation and communication
Technology skills that contribute to effective execution of tasks
Employability Skills
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Take Away from Today
• Incorporate employability
• Demonstrated and demonstrable
• Motivate students
• It is easy
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The Learning Technology of the Future
OUTCOMES
Collaboration reduced the time necessary for development of personal employability plans
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The outcomes are stored and accessible after the end of the research project.
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Learning Futures Festival Online 2011
Follow the Sun13-15 April 2011
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• Handovers between Leicester (UK), Seattle (USA) and Toowoomba(Australia)
• Six shifts, six keynote speakers
• Delivered through Adobe Connect 8, Second Life and Moodle
• Simulcast through all platforms
Three countries, three time zones, a non-stop global online conference
Distance Research Alliance and Australian Digital Futures Institute
Thanks for listening
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