Clicks and Bricks: From the OU to Leicester From Distance to Mixed Mode.

Gilly SalmonProfessor of

E-learning & learning TechnologiesNational Teaching Fellow

http://www.le.ac.uk/external/

So what’s new about learning in the 21st Century?

pace

space

place

Extend &defend

core business

Buildemergingbusiness

Create viable options

Adapted from Social Innovation: Young Foundation 2006 p. 23

Freshers’ landing

Research Heights

Dot.com Marsh

ShadowlandsTechno Jungle

Opportunity Falls

Early AdoptRiver Temple

Of Pedagogy

Peaks of Duty

TechieFirewall

MountAdministration

Spring of Innovation

Government Cumulus

Isle of Instead Of

ManagementCamp

As Well Bay

E-learningUniversity

Land

Crafters Plain

Established Student FocusStable & Familiar Learning Technology

New StudentsExisting Technology

Mission /Market

Existing StudentsNew Technology

New StudentsNew Technology

peripheralcore

A framework for pedagogical innovation

Present

New

Present

NewPedagogy/technology

development research

Key strategic aims: eLearningA: Students: full access & equivalence

B Building institutional capacity through staff

C: E-learning & Learning Technology research

D: Future projects and positioning

E: Impact on business development

3 Versions of The Media Zoo

Media Zoo

www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/mediazoo

1. Profcasting:Weekly short

Updates/feedbackIntegrated

into VLE basedcourse

2. Lecture summaryReview key concepts

Links forwardFurther reading

10..Digital story tellingDevelop reflective& active learning

Based on field trips

8. Guide toequipment

UsingIn the field

3. Topical & informaldiscussion of upto date issues

Includes experts, local people etc

4. Location specificInformation for

field trips

5. demo of software application

11. documentarybased on field trips

12. collaboration& 1st yrskills

development

9. Challenging topicsdevelopment

: student exploration

6. museumartefactsSupport

7. quickmini lecture

For Reusability

ReviewRevision

Access & motivation

Online socialisation

Information exchange

Knowledge construction

Development

Welcome

Build bridges

Support task

Facilitate

Enable

Set up system

Send and read

Search/personal

Conference

Links

spark

Designing e-tivities

invitation

participation & action

time

elapsed

online &

offline

summary … feedback … close

Prior design

Access & motivation

Online socialisation

Information exchange

Knowledge construction

Development

Purposeful wiki/e-/tivities

Develop each w/e-tivity to address either one stage of the 5 and/or movement between them

Access & motivation

Online socialization

Information exchange

Knowledge construction

Development

The 6 Stages of the CARPE DIEM processDAY 1

DAY 2

1. Write a blueprint

Work together to lay out the essential aspects of your course.

2. Make a storyboard

Draw out the process of your course as a ‘storyboard’.

3. Build your prototype online

Try out your design online

4. Check reality Your reality checker, to see how they work.

5. Review and adjust

Review the work, make adjustments, refine timings, flag up places to return to, indicate more work is needed, who responsible

6. Plan your next steps

Build an action plan together

Change & development

Scholarship of Learning& Teaching

Futures - QualityChange & development Resource based strategy

Research & evidence based models of innovation

& change Leadership & change

agents Cost effectivenessUniversity mission

Scholarship of Learning & Teaching

Diversity & flexibility: overarching themeMethodologies for student

experience researchResearch into learning & teaching

Research into implications for practiceEvidence based change processes

Futures- QualityLearners’ voices

Preferred & viable futuresPredictions & preparationPersonalisation, E-literacy

Student Engagement“new culture of learning”

(Leitch)

University missionReputation & positionAppropriate growth

TransitionsEmployability

Formative & summative assessment

FlexibilityWidening participation

Resources

• www.le.c.uk/beyonddistance/mediazoo

• www.e-moderating.com

• www.e-tivities.com

• www.atimod.com

• www.learningingroups.com

• Gilly.salmon@le.ac.uk