Dr Palitha Edirisingha[pe27@le.ac.uk]

Institute of Learning InnovationUniversity of Leicester, UK

Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for AsiaRegional Workshop on ICT Leadership in Higher Education

June 6 – 7, 2014, Kandy, Sri LankaJointly hosted by the Open University of Sri Lanka

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Established programmes,students

Stable and familiar technologies

New programmes,students

Existing Technology

Mission /Market

Present

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Present NewPedagogy/Technology

Existing programmes, students

New Technology

New StudentsNew Technology

Peripheraltechnologies

Coretechnologies

Development Research

Source: Salmon (2005).

http://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/mediazoo/

In the Media Zoo …

Technologies as animals that can be

- tamed- domesticated

“When the domestication of technologies have been ‘successful’, the technologies are not regarded as cold, lifeless, problematic and challenging consumer goods” (Haddon, 2007, p. 3).

Technology Pedagogy

Wink, J. 3 Perspectives on Pedagogy Retrieved 22.2 2009 , www.joanwink.com/3perspectives.html

Source: Gilly Salmon (2009). Podcasting for Pedagogical Purposes meeting, 24 Feb 2009, University of Leicester. 5

Podcasting

Web2.0 and PLE

PDAs and work-basedlearning

Designingfor learning

Most of thetechnologies

Second Life

Podcasting for learning in higher education

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Gets learnersgeared up for

RemindsE-tivity 1 E-tivity 2

Pod-1 Pod-2 Pod-3 Pod-4

Representation of the course design: Incorporating podcasts to support students’ online and distance learning

PDAs for work-based learning

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/beyond-distance-research-alliance/projects/wolf/wolf/?searchterm=wolf

http://tinyurl.com/projectwolf

Web 2.0 tools for developing Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)

Web 2.0-PLEs: four approaches

Wiki-based

Social-networking based

Start-page based

Browser-based

Wiki-based PLE: Google sites

 

Social network-based PLE: Facebook

Aggregator-based PLE: Netvibes

Browser-based PLE: Flock

3-D multi user virtual environments for learning in HE

MOOSE

Scaffolding learning in SLbased on Salmon’s 5 stage model

Online socialisation

Access & Motivation

Information exchange

Knowledgeconstruction

Development

Saami tent

Kalash village

Second Life…Provided environment for meeting and in-world

socialisationRemote network building- crossing boundaries

“I felt like I was part of a university…participating in a class”

“I don’t know where to start…it was good to ‘meet’ others.I felt that they were not distant any more”

“It made me feel connected to the class & the teacher”

Designing for learning

Moving a technology from Quadrants 3 and 4 to 1

Carpe Diem: Key features

Small, subject-specific course teams (‘epistemological safety’)

Subject librarianLearning technologistTwo-day workshop on designing for learning and

assessment for learning via e-tivitiesOutcomes-driven: a set of running e-tivitiesNot a ‘how-to’ workshop

E-tivity 3a: Is Performance Appraisal Working?This e-tivity is not the assignment itself. It helps you plan the content of the report you are required to submit for assessment.

You have been given privileged access to one document and two audio recordings. All parties have given their consent for you to see and use this information, which will help you understand some of the issues that you could include in your report.(1) Document: Job, performance and statistics information.doc(2) Interviewer Training Audio File (55 seconds).

(3) Audio File of a "typical" performance appraisal for In-Branch Customer Services Staff (2 minutes and 34 seconds).

Purpose To identify and elaborate on three key issues on performance appraisal.

TaskIdentify 3 major issues that arise when you have listened to and read these resources. In no more than 150 words explain why you have chosen these 3 issues. Post your message to the discussion group by Friday 2nd March 2007.

RespondBy the Friday 9th March 2007 return to the forum and elaborate on one or more of your fellow participants’ posts, responding to their arguments.

DELIVERING UNIVERSITY CURRICULA: KNOWLEDGE, LEARNING AND INNOVATION GAINS

Duckling modulesOnline MA in Applied Linguistics and TESOL

MSc Occupational Psychology

MSc Psychology of Work

Challenges for both teamsInteraction between students and

tutorsMaterials too ‘dry’PersonalisationMobility and flexibility

Specific pedagogical challenges

Psychology: assessment and supportDissertationEssaysSupervision processThreshold conceptsResearch methodsSupervisionFeedback provision

Education: learning and teachingUsing each medium for what it does best, e.g.

audio for varieties of English and discourse analysis

3 technologies to enhance curriculum delivery

Podcasting

E-book readers

Second Life

Psychology podcast seriesDissertation podcast series

20-25 podcasts to enhance the supervision processModule 1 podcast series

15-20 podcasts to address research methods challenges

Threshold conceptsCurrently being planned, within various modules

Feedback to assignments & dissertation4 podcasts so far

Education podcast seriesWorld Englishes series

Interview with BDRA colleaguesIntegrated into Module 3: Language, Discourse and

Society, SOCIOLINGUISTICS, Unit 3 World Englishes

Middle English seriesPhonology seriesStudent-produced podcasts for learner-learner

interaction, study skills, time management, etc.

World Englishes examplesExample 1 – Birmingham (6’ 30’’)Example 2 – Bulgaria (7’ 24’’)

Introducing learning innovations into campus and distance learning

large-scale centralisation

incremental

Costs and benefits of distance and e-learning

More up front investment

But a low cost and sustainable models over several years

MA International EducationPost Graduate Certificate in Learning Technology