Bangladesh Open University

Prof Dr Philip Uys 30th April 2015

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COL RIM visit as Commenwealth of Learning consultant

Personal: ◦ Director, Globe Consulting (www.globe-online.com) and ◦ Director, Learning Technologies at Charles Sturt

University, Australia Lived in SA, NZ, Botswana and Australia and

worked at tertiary institutions in these countries 2004 EU feasibility study through the British

Council for the government of Botswana to develop a national eLearning plan

Long history: chalk board – TV – audiovisual – online – mobile etc! Elearning is just another technology

Why educational technology: to extend and compliment the capacity of people e.g. Cars/emails

Technology is not neutral – it impacts positively of negatively on learning and teaching

Is F2F or elearning better? Wrong question: blended learning based on affordances

suite: LMS, subject and course design; ePortfolio; EASTS; Turnitin; online meetings; discipline-based technologies; paperless marking; external ed techs; learning analytics software; asynchronous and synchronous comms

Infrastructure LMS vs PLE FOSS (Free Open Source Software) e.g.

Linux/Moodle/Google software/Yahoo software/blogs; wikis etc.

MOOCS OERS – OERUni; Merlot Mobile, and BYOD external technologies/social media

Start with learning outcomes and student needs/characteristics

Constructive alignment (Biggs) Understand the rationale and affordances of learning

technologies e.g mobile learning◦ mLearning supports the mobility of the learner (anywhere, anytime)◦ It also integrates other uses of mobile devices (e.g. polls in the classroom)◦ Supports the following pedagogies: personalised learning (par

excellence); authentic, situated, contingent and contextualised learning; emergent learning; social constructivist learning via direct communication and social media.

course and subject design emerging pedagogies focuses on ◦ connected/social◦ Blended◦ Engagement◦ Interaction◦ Active◦ students as contributors◦ flipped classroom (f2f and online)

1. start with the learning outcomes 2. student needs/characteristics 3. evaluation 4. assessment 5. learning experiences: activities + content +

technologies 6. additional resources

Not: “what content do I need to cover?”

Professional learning/development options bottom-up and top-down LASO model

LASO ModelLASO Model

Vision

Reward Structure

Strategic Framework

LEADERSHIP

ACADEMIC AND STUDENT OWNERSHIP & READINESS

WorkgroupsPilots

Training Teams

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Student Interest

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Strategies: workshops; 1-1; CoP; online resources Students – critical gap Academics; tutors; educational support staff;

school administrative staff; sessional staff Educational designers play a critical role

Role of educational designers and educational technologists

Role of teaching staff: facilitation Position descriptions Induction New appointments: digital literacy

Learning analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs

Note that the learner context referred to above includes relevant computer systems, learning experience design, the role of teaching staff as well as learning and teaching support staff.

Focus of analytics Who Benefits?

“learning analytics”

Subject-level: alignment with learning experience design, social networks, conceptual development, language analysis

Learners, teaching staff, support staff

Aggregate (big data) predictive modeling, patterns of success/failure

Learners, teaching staff, support staff

“academic analytics”

Institutional: learner profiles, performance of teaching staff, quality of course and subject design, resource allocation

Administrators, IR, funders, marketing, learners

Regional & National (state/provincial): comparisons between systems

Governments, administrators

International: ‘world class universities’ National governments (OECD)

Quality: see some of the 49 COL-RIM indicators – many related to educational technology (next slides)

Student access is a critical issue Accessibility issues Intellectual property and copyright Ethics BYOD Storage in the cloud Scholarship of learning and teaching - changing

nature of publication

BOU is making good progress Link to national initiatives such as “Digital

Bangladesh” and “Access to Education” Understand the rationale, benefits and

affordances of technologies Make friends with technology Be practical and do what is possible – take the

next step!

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