ALT Learning Technologist of the Year: Team Award

2009

European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning:

UNIQUe Award Winner

Evolution & The Tree of Learning

Professor Gilly Salmon

2May 2010

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The Tree ofLearning

TechnoShine

InformalSecondary

Primary

Vocational

Work Based

CPD

Universities

Communities ofPractice Campus

Based

Schools

learning

Distance

Professional

Blend

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Ptolemaic Library & Research Institute at Alexandria

Raphael’s School of Athens

Drawings of horses from Chauvet Cave

John Locke, Empiricist

Ralph W TylerCurriculum

Charlemagne

Erasmus “On the Method of Study”

5

6

Ivy Bean @ 104‘Oldest Tweeter’

Without most of us noticing when it happened, the web went from being a strange new curiosity to a background condition of everyday life.

Guardian 23.10.09

Chained Libraries

Creating Open Educational Resources

7

Royal Navy warfare engineering Technicians learning with Sony PSPs

Studying at a distance using e-book readers

Emergencyevacuation proceduresin virtual worlds

“I can’t believe how svelte is. The controls are idiot proof. It’s great having all the module materials on the device.”

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Bologna 1088Salamanca 1218Padua 1222Oxford 1249Cambridge 1284

The aims of wide access, high quality, and low cost are not achievable, even in principle, with traditional models of higher education based on classroom teaching in campus communities Sir John Daniel, March 2009

British Library

University of Cambridge

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Building Schools for the Future

Alsop High School, Liverpool

School bus in Japan

“Hole in the Wall”, India

In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the

learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer

exists

Eric Hoffer

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When it comes to the future, there are three kinds of people: those who• who let it happen, • wonder what happened.• make it happen

John M. Richardson, Jr

Differentiation = innovation

Learner preferences = natural selection

New generations = constant evolution

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ALT Learning Technologist

of the Ye

ar: Team Award

2009

European Foundation for

Quality in E-Learning:

UNIQUe Award Winner

Extend &defend

core business

Buildemergingbusiness

Create viable options

Adapted from Social Innovation: Young Foundation 2006 p. 23Gilly Salmon, Sep 2008

3 Horizons of Innovation for Educational Enterprizes…

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Existing StudentsExisting Technology

New StudentsExisting Technology

Mission /Market

Present

New

Present NewPedagogy/Technology

Existing StudentsNew Technology

New StudentsNew Technology

peripheralcore

Development ResearchUniversity of Leicester:Learning Innovation Strategy

Existing StudentsExisting Technology

New StudentsExisting Technology

Mission /Market

Present

New

Present NewPedagogy/Technology

e-Learning strategy

Existing StudentsNew Technology

New StudentsNew Technology

Existing StudentsExisting Technology

New StudentsExisting Technology

Mission /Market

Present

New

Present NewPedagogy/Technology

Existing StudentsNew Technology

New StudentsNew Technology

flexdiversifyengage access

scale add value

blend, enthuse,enable

develop

20th C to 21st C distance4th generation courseware + communication, qualityeffectiveness & efficiency

Existing StudentsExisting Technology

New StudentsExisting Technology

Mission /Market

Present

New

Present NewPedagogy/Technology

e-Learning strategy

Existing StudentsNew Technology

New StudentsNew Technology

Business developmentTransferability of

capabilities & approaches,Collaborations

new to you countries, new to you disciplinesnew to you challenges

Existing StudentsExisting Technology

New StudentsExisting Technology

Mission /Market

Present

New

Present NewPedagogy/Technology

e-Learning strategy

Existing StudentsNew Technology

New StudentsNew Technology

New learning technologiesespecially mobile

& broadcastBlends & combinations

Take a few risksSome innovators needed

New StudentsNew Technology

Mission /Market

Present

New

Present New

Quadrant 4

Respond to‘weak signals’

viable opportunities& collaborations

exploit research findingsRadical thinkers needed

Existing StudentsNew Technology

New StudentsExisting Technology

Existing StudentsExisting Technology

Pedagogy/Technology

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www.le.ac.uk/mediazoo

On Second Life:The Media Zoo

Innovation Video:http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance

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Markers on the horizon:Gilly/Genevieve’s 2010 learning predictions…

•Learner voice, partnerships & contributions

•Relationship between 3D Virtual Environments & real world

•Renaissance for voice: iTunes, voiceboards, podcasts

•Open Educational Resources

•Greening of learning

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The Tree ofLearning

TechnoShine

InformalSecondary

Primary

Vocational

Work Based

CPD

Universities

Communities ofPractice Campus

Based

Schools

learning

Distance

Professional

Blend

Thank you for listening

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References & acknowledgements• Tree of Life drawing created by Rod Angood• Marzano, R & LeMaster, H (2004). ‘Potential in Action’, Classroom Leadership, retrieved 15 September 2006 from

www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/menuitem.ed021bd159f71ce0b17855b3e3108a0c/• Kerr, C. (1982) The Uses of the University. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press.• The Internet at 40: Uk Guardian• http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/series/internet-at-40• Darwin picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Darwin_seated.jpg• Library at Alexandria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ancientlibraryalex.jpg • Bill gates quote- Emily Bell ‘And the next 40 years?’ Uk Guardian 23rd Oct 09 p. 23• Chauvethorses http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chauvethorses.jpg• Parrallell mirrors: http://mathdl.maa.org/mathDL/23/?pa=content&sa=viewDocument&nodeId=3350&bodyId=374• http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/23/internet-history