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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http://www.globe-online.com/philip.uys*LASO: Leadership, Academic & Student
Ownership and ReadinessSeptember 2001
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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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