Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Dr. Gemma Towle

University of Northampton

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

JISC learner experiences of e-learning studies

• Learner Scoping study, Sharpe et al, 2005

• The Learner Experience of e-Learning study (LEX) Creanor et al, 2006

• Student Experiences of e-Learning: Exploring subject differences study (LXP) Conole et al, 2006

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

JISC learner experiences of e-learning studies

• ‘In Their Own Words’, a synthesis of outcomes from Phase 1 launched ALT-C September 2007

• Phase 2 ongoing between 2007-09

Video case studies of e-learners in action

www.jisc.ac.uk/elp_learnerexperience

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

• A profound shift in the way learners are working

• Learners lead complex lives and require sophisticated technology-based strategies

• Personal technologies play a central role often blended with institutionally owned ones

Listening to learners – what is emerging

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

• Learners demonstrate sophisticated choices about which technology to use. Control and choice are of increasing importance to them

• Some are already skilled in content creation and management– wikis, social software, tagging, blogging, audio, video recording

Listening to learners – what is emerging

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

So what are your experiences?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Tanya gets ready for university but before she goes she checks for

messages from friends on Facebook. Oh no! More messages from the business studies group her tutor set up – she wished uni stuff

didn’t mix with fun stuff

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Should things like social networking sites be kept separate from

learning?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Tanya gets to uni and heads to the library. Whilst checking the library catalogue she realises she’s not

sure what the lecturer was on about. Should she email him or go

and see him?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Face to face or electronic contact, which do you prefer and why?

?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Yawning as she sits to type up coursework, Tanya daydreams

about how lovely it would be to stay in bed and not go to lectures and

what learning might be like in 2020.

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

What technology would you like to use as student and what do you

think learning will be like by 2020?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Looking at her watch, Tanya rushed off to meet her friend David for

coffee. Whilst talking about coursework, David explains the

problems he is having with technology including pop-ups.

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

We may want whizz bang technology but what about accessibility for

those with disabilities?

Technology and learning shouldn’t mix?

• Three reports from Phase 1 of the Learner Experience of e-Learning studies

• Information sheets on learners’ use of social software, and personal tools and technologies

In Their Own Words