E-Learning as Open Learning Flexible Delivery Workshops Series No. 2 March 2005 Nicki Hedge Flexible provision through e-learning: myths, miracles & map-making.

E-Learning as Open Learning

Flexible Delivery Workshops Series No. 2March 2005

Nicki Hedge

Flexible provision through e-learning: myths, miracles

& map-making

Flexible provision through e-learning: myths, miracles & map-making

1 Flexible provision through e-learning: role & location of e-learning

2 E-Learning: myths and miracles

4 Map-making & leaps of imagination?

3 Supporting e-learning: models, methods and challenges

flexible provision

1 Flexible provision through e-learning: role & location of e-learning as tool for flexible provision

e-learning

distance education

open?

flexible?

2 E-Learning: myths and miracles

panacea

quick fix

cheap fix

second best

new hobby

fringe activity

new/innovative

tech

noph

ile

utop

ic

technophobedystopic

inaccessible

too time-consuming

e-

m-

networked

distributed

distance

open

flexible

LEARNING

support enhancement

support for

staff?

technologypedagogy

content infrastructure

competing pressures

declining resources

policy tensions

confidence &

competence

Supporting e-learning: models, methods & challengesI know it’s the way

of the futureI’m

not a technologist

I don’t have timeWill GUIDE put it online for me?

This is a steep learning curve

It’ll never be as good as f2f

This sounds exciting

I’m beginning to see the possibilities

Supporting e-learning:

models,

methods,

challenges

collaboration

hub model ownership

pedagogy &

technology

driven by social

constructivism

platform?

harnessed to meet educational challenges

collaboration

pedagogy & technology

moodle

driven by social constructivism

moodle

open source

‘free’ and not free

community owned, developed, responsive

open source

‘free’ and not free

community owned, developed, responsive

approachphilosophy

community of practice

‘It’s not a technology issue: it’s a business issue to do with externalization’ Andy Mulholland, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

approachphilosophy

community of practice

for companies with external focus, used to working collaboratively

they stand to gain much more from open source than companies with an internal focus, which see the technology in terms of cost savings

collaboration

hub model

Supporting e-learning: models, methods and challenges

hubs & one-stop-shops

GUIDEas

HUB

Registry

matriculation WebSURFStudent Updateable

Records Facility

Planning Office

RAM

Research &

Enterprise

funding bidscostings SRAS

publicity, marketing, fee setting

ComputerService

Moodle (VLE) infrastructure,

Help Desk

Library

P-T &

DE Support

MoodleTSC/LSC

Faculties

Departments

Course Teams

IT support

GUIDEas

HUB

Faculties

Departments

Course Teams

IT support

responsibility

‘levels’ of e-learning

ownership

supportingtransformational

change

map-making &

leaps of imagination?

e-learning = learning

learning for learners

transformational sustainable change

learning for organizations

map-making &

leaps of imagination?

better together?

thinking the unthinkable?

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map-making &

leaps of imagination?

collaboration

hub model ownership

pedagogy &

technology