What do you think? Digital Learner Project: Phase II - Environmental Scan Summary February, 2012 June 13 th , 2012 Prepared for ERAC by Cyri Jone ZEN Portfolio Networks Inc.
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What do you think?
Digital Learner Project: Phase II - Environmental Scan Summary
February, 2012
June 13th, 2012
Prepared for ERAC by Cyri Jones,ZEN Portfolio Networks Inc.
Terms of Reference
1.What approaches are school districts, provinces, states, etc. using to help students and teachers discover and access learning resources?
Terms of Reference
2. How have they funded their initiatives?
Terms of Reference
3. Best practices for how have they rolled-out these type of initiatives?
Terms of Reference
4. Detailed summary of what jurisdictions are doing in the US and Canada, and in Europe and Asia
Environmental Scan ContextProject / Phase Date
Digital Road Map Project September 2011 to April 2012
ERAC Commons Development & Launch
February 2011 to January, 2012
Phase I – Vision and Strategy May, 2011 to September, 2011
Phase II – Environmental Scan September, 2011 to April, 2012
Phase III - Implementation TBD
Environmental scan will help leverage best practices as ERAC rolls out its digital learner services
Phase I – Vision & Strategy
How can ERAC support the modern, digital learner?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pqLv1K72Q0
Phase I – Vision & Strategy
Communicating vision to stakeholders
Phase II – Environmental Scan
Source: Wikipedia Entry
Environmental scanning can be defined as ‘the study and interpretation of the political, economic, social and technological events and trends which influence a business, an industry or even a total market’
Environmental Scan Context
“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” - Eric Hoffer
Source: Wikipedia Entry
Environmental Scan Context
“The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed” – William Gibson
Source: Wikipedia Entry
Compelling vision but how to implement?
Implementation Gap
http://www.bcedplan.ca/
Systems need to be flexible, adaptive and iterative with user inputto stay relevant, long planning cycles = irrelevant offering
Tight Technology Expiry Dates
Discovery of quality learning resources
• Move to more granular learning resources
• Millions of apps• Billions of user generated
content items• Need to support
personalized learning• Crowdsourcing only
practical way to evaluate
Governance mismatch with IT infrastructure economies of scale
Disruptive technology
Shrinking budgets
Environmental changing at dizzying speed
Too Fast, Reactive
Too Slow, Deny
Quick and thoughtful
Good News
Opportunity
• Lots of expertise at hand here in BC• Compelling vision at provincial level and local
level• A lot of teachers and administrators
embracing change• Many jurisdictions faced similar questions 3 to
10 years ago– Lots of lessons learned
Trends
Collision between traditional face-to-face and online learning
Need to build a new, smart system from ground upnot just a “blend” that is “traditional face to face” + “online”
Education Trends
Blended Learning Consolidation of distance learning and face-to-face classroom opportunities for accessing digital resources and tools.
Raised expectations for digital tools in schools by students and teachers.
Why can’t school tools be as usable as digital tools they use in other areas of their life.
Mobile learning a game changer Students and teachers want to bring their personal devices to the school and leverage.
Quality and quantity of learning resources increasing
Challenge is in finding the right resources for the task or learning outcome at hand.
Teachers and students becoming creators of content, not just consumers
Not just consuming traditional publisher content. Engaging project-based teaching involves creating things and collaboration. Creative Commons licensing facilitating this. Growth of service learning.
Education Trends
Repositories to registries Moving away from a siloed learning object repository approach to one where only local resources are stored, external resources hosted with original content owner.
Growth of learning analytics Technology emerging to track para-data about learning resources (e.g. ratings by teachers) and consolidating to help filter. Ability to tie a learning resource to specific learning outcomes and see effectiveness of learning resource.
Consolidation of learning outcomes across jurisdictions
Growing realization that most learning outcomes from different jurisdictions are almost identical in core subjects (e.g. Common Core initiative in US with 42 states participating)
Cloud approach to learning technology delivery
Mirroring trend in other sectors, IT infrastructure is migrating from within the organization to external providers saving money and improving service.
Education Trends
Innovations coming from outside traditional education sector
Organizations like Khan Academy are disrupting education sector. Traditional delivery approaches are threatened with being redundant.
Growing awareness of important role of social networked learning
Many jurisdictions starting to set up social networks for their students and teachers.
Just-in-time instead of just-in-case learning Less important to “cover all the curriculum” than to provide authentic, project based learning experiences for students.
Importance of cross-functional teams Most meaningful work is done today in cross-functional teams. Students need to go beyond program and school siloes to get experience with this.
Growth of Microsoft.edu
Growth of Google Apps for Education
Consolidation of New Google Design
Powerful Learning Resource Metadata Sharing Approaches Emerging
Learning Resource Metadata Initiative
Learning
2.0
ILT (instructor-led/classroom)
VILT (virtual instructor/web)
Virtual World (eg. Second Life)
eLearning
Professional Video
Leadership Forums
Mentoring/ Coaching
Live Webcasts
Recorded Webinars
Video Conferencing
Workshops
Learnshops
Websites
Audio / Podcasts
Case Studies
Books
Wikis
Blogs
Discussion Forums
Micro-blogging
Webjams
Rating / Comments
TaggingFriending
Folksonomy
Networking
User Generated Content
Move from formal to informallearning
Source:Dan PontefractHead of Learning & CollaborationTelus
Recognition for Informal Learning
Open learning content providers launching interactive tools
Pedagogy changing
Learning Analytics
Quality improvements in online learning
• In Carnegie Mellon's rigorously evaluated online statistics course, students learned a full semester's worth of material in half as much time—and performed as well or better than students learning from traditional instruction.
Multiple channels
for same content
Preface by Seth Godin to popular e-Marketing Textbook
Growth in Open Education Resources
http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.ca/2011/12/more-pedagogic-change-in-last-10-years.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEJ_ATgrnnY
Around the world: British Columbia
Planning phase… 5% complete
Around the world: Thailand
Tablets for all students
Around the world: Singapore
Mobile learning
Around the world: Greece
School social learning network
Around the world: Scotland
Region wide digital learner platform
Around the world: India
Tablets for all grad students
Around the world: Turkey
Virtual learning environments
Around the world: South Korea
Migration from printtextbooks to e-booksfor all subjects and all schools
Around the world: United States
Learning registry leveraging paradata
Around the world: United States
Learning resources metadata initiative
Case Studies:
After doing an inventory of more than 100 digital learning commons in different jurisdictions, we selected eight case studies that demonstrated innovative approaches and powerful lessons learned.
Case Study: Scotland eduBuzz
Case Study: Edmonton Public Schools
Case Study: Pennsylvania’s Standards Aligned System
Case study: http://connectlearn21.net/2011/12/08/case-study-penn-new-york/
Case Study: West Vancouver SD #35
Case Study: http://connectlearn21.net/2012/04/10/west-vancouver-school-district-digital-dashboard/School District Site: http://www.sd45.bc.ca/
Case Study: CUNY
CUNY site: http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/Case study: http://connectlearn21.net/2011/11/23/commons-in-a-box/
Case Study: Learn Maine
http://eraccommons.ca/mobileapps/
Findings: Components
http://connectlearn21.net/phase-ii/digital-learning-commons-components/
62 components of digital learning commons were identified
Findings: agile better than monolithic
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/01/facebook-ipo-letter/
“The Hacker Way is an approach to building that involves continuous improvement and iteration. Hackers believe that something can always be better, and that nothing is ever complete. They just have to go fix it — often in the face of people who say it’s impossible or are content with the status quo.”
From Facebook’s S-1 filing…
Findings: agile better than monolithic
“Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than trying to get everything right all at once.. We have the words “Done is better than perfect” painted on our walls to remind ourselves to always keep shipping…
Findings: agile better than monolithic
Instead of debating for days whether a new idea is possible or what the best way to build something is, hackers would rather just prototype something and see what works.”
Findings: summary
Main findings are available on the connectlearn21.net site:http://connectlearn21.net/2012/06/13/erac-environmental-scan-project-summary/
Credits
ERAC Staff & Executive – Project LeadershipAudrey Van Alstyne, District Principal Learning TechnologiesJudy Dallas, Executive Director ERACMarjanne Yusyp, Project Manager, Professional Learning & TrainingMaureen Ciarniello, Chair, ERACSherry Kallergis, OperationsBarb Hyde, Executive Assistant
MusicBerty Cox
Credits
Digital Learners “Think Tank”Andrei Iancu, CEO, Dynamic Leap TechnologyBrent Calvert, Program Leader, Interactive Design, Capilano UniversityElena Kuznetsova, Operations Management BCIT gradGrant Daisley, Social Media ConsultantMark Bullen, Dean, Learning & Teaching Centre, BCITMorten Rand-Hendriksen, Developer (Pink and Yellow Media)Niklas Eriksson, Faculty, Arcada, FinlandReza Ghaeli, Business Analytics Consultant
CreditsDigital Learners Vision VideoBiljana Zecevic, Artist & Director, see2learn.comAudrey Van Alstyne, District Principal Learning TechnologiesJudy Dallas, Executive Director ERACMarjanne Yusyp, Project Manager, Professional Learning & TrainingMaureen Ciarniello, Chair, ERAC
ERAC Commons Development, eraccommons.caBoone GorgesBrad HoweDavid SmithJill BinderMorten Rand-Hendriksen
Credits
Environmental Scan Consultant & ConnectLearn21 DevelopmentJay Collier, Executive Director, The Compass LLC
Environmental Scan ResearcherElena Kuznetsova
Case Studies:Boone Gorges, CUNY Academic CommonsGary Kern, Director of Instruction, West Vancouver School DistrictScott Leslie, Equella Implementation, BC CampusTerry Korte, Tech Integration Planning Team Coordinator, Edmonton Public School District
Learn more and join the conversation at:http://connectlearn21.net/
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