Learning Platforms: Common Threads & Future Directions

Learning PlatformsCommon Threads & Future Directions

Universities are under enormous pressures to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances and expectations. The core question they are called to answer is, What is the value of higher education?

Our graduates face an uncertain future. Average loan debt for class of 2012 was nearly $30,000. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, there is ~ $1.6T outstanding student loan debt.

This has led to calls for greater transparency, affordability, & access.

And all of this is happening while w are also witnessing the “unbundling of education.”

There is a renewed focus on teaching, learning, and outcomes. Experimentation in teaching methods, sharing among faculty, and new research to inform us is a good thing.

There is much discussion about an emerging trend across the higher ed landscape: Agile approaches to institutional change.

The chameleon is an ancient species that can adapt to changing environments. Most importantly, each eye can operate independently, allowing the it to observe two different objects simultaneously. We need to keep one eye on our traditions, values and what makes universities special, and one eye on the changes happening around us.

Institutions successful at managing change are able to correctly identify

passing trends versus those that truly

impact the mission.

LMS

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Not just despised in higher ed, but also workforce training….

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I don’t subscribe to that point of view. We have unlimited creativity when it comes to ways to use technology for good. I predict you will inspire me today…

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2008 20122010 2011

2013 2014Plenty of change since 1997, right?

Still no one industry leader. LMS is big business.

Global LMS revenue was estimated at more than $2B in 2013 with projected growth to almost $8B by 2018.

2014

17,000 faculty from 151 institutions

75,000 students from 213 institutions

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99% of institutions have an LMS in place

The average age of an LMS is 8 years.

15% of institutions report they expect to replace within 3 years.

Basic features Collaboration

User satisfaction is highest for basic features; lowest for collaboration and engagement.

While LMS have evolved over time, they generally have the same capabilities that they had back in the late 1990s. They’re a good place to store content in such a way that only enrolled students have access. They offer convenient ways to deliver quizzes, facilitate assignments, and publish grades. Different ways to facilitate classroom communication are built in. They help meet FERPA, copyright compliance, and archival needs.

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LMS have not changed much since the late ‘90s.

Why?

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If you were teaching in 1994, how were you teaching? Posting grades on a sheet of paper on your door? Were your class communications all face to face? Students turning in typed papers?""Think about how your shopping, banking, and entertainment may have changed since then. Juxtapose that with your teaching…

Here’s the university web site in late 1996.

LMSs haven’t changed because higher ed teaching practices haven’t changed much. We’ve adapted in ways necessary. Tools developed fit the need. Our work in the classroom has remained relatively stable. Perhaps until recently…

Experimentation, sharing, clickers, active learning are all relatively new & mainstream. How can we experiment using the LMS in ways that are informed by research?

T & L"Research

Recommended Reading

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All of these books emphasize the notion of making connections. Knowledge must be stored in memory so that it can be used and connected to new ideas and situations.

Learning Principles

1. Prior knowledge

2. Organization of knowledge

3. Spaced practice

4. Metacognition

Prior knowledge

All new learning requires a foundation of prior knowledge. Good teachers help make students’ prior knowledge explicit, address misconceptions, & help students connect new knowledge to prior knowledge.

Organization of knowledge

As experts, you have more dense, richly interconnected networks of knowledge structures than novices do. What is obvious to you may be completely hidden to students. Good teachers use techniques that make organization explicit and help learners recognize meaningful patterns.

Spaced practice

… is about helping students recall and remember new knowledge over spaced intervals of time so that they can continue to build effective knowledge structures and make new connections. Recall should involve cognitive effort, and when paired with feedback, spaced practice strengthens retention more than testing alone does.

Metacognition

…is thinking about our thinking to correctly assess what we know and what we can do to improve. "

1. Recognize competence when we see it in others."

2. Become better judges about what we know and don’t know."

3. Adopt learning strategies that get results."

4. Find objective ways to track our progress.

How could we use the LMS or other

edtechs in support of the principle provided?

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Your IdeasPrior knowledge"- Pre-class session quizzes

(online, scantron) with immediate feedback.

- Teach only what was missed.

Knowledge organization"- Post slides before class - Use graphic organizers - Create interactive syllabus - Give Topics meaningful titles

Spaced practice"- Pop quizzes & student-

created quizzes - Student-created study guides - Provide access to previous

course sites

Metacognition"- Use wiki for ongoing

discussion - Have students reflect upon

and annotate own writing - Ask students to connect new

learning to earlier content

You inspired me! Great ideas & discussion. Let’s look at where we are headed with the LMS…

Trends

LMS Plug-ins(also called LTI tools)

Continuous"updates

Cloud-hosted LMS

Personalization,"analytics

Data ownership questions…

Rethinking "learning spaces

Rethinking"Libraries

Learning design"as a team"effort

Growth mindset

“Agile institutions” are made up of people. How agile are we?

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