Mainstreaming the Disruption: Up-skilling for Online Learning

Mainstreaming the Disruption:

Up-skilling for Online Learning

Professor Jeremy Williams

Asia Pacific Management Centre

Griffith Business School

Senior Leadership Conference

The barbarians are at the gate

Disruptive Innovation

Coming to a university near you …

http://goo.gl/WvIJH

1. Unbundle higher education services

2. Integrate digital learning technologies across all curricula

3. Redefine roles and workload

4. Get serious about service quality and who gets value

5. Transition from VLE to PLE

1. Unbundle higher education services

2. Integrate digital learning technologies across the curricula

Are these students learning? …

Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age

Building tinkering learning sharing building

Students do this routinely every day

…using their personal digital tool kit ...

Siemens (2005) http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

Virtual life is real life

From teaching to learning

Old World: Teacher Centric New World: Learner Centric

communication

of content has become less important than the

network of

communication

“Web2.0 blurs the boundaries between the producers and consumers of content”

(Seely Brown, 2008)

e-Learning

… it’s just learning

3. Redefine roles and workload

Old paradigm

Content

Assessment

Learning outcomes

New paradigm

Learning outcomes

Assessment

Content

Up-skilling for onlinelearning requires

new workpractices

Librarian

BlendedLearningAdvisor

CurriculumConsultant

Research Assistant

Junior Faculty Junior

FacultyJunior Faculty

EducationalDesigner

Senior Faculty

An abundance offree curation tools

Content curation alone is not enough

The value-add is the narrative provided by the academic team

participatory

flexible

authentic

Multi-modal in format: catering to different learning styles and different life styles

Learner centric: student as consumer and producer of knowledge

Assessment of learning grounded in reality: outcome driven learning; learning that lasts beyond the test

The outcome:

4. Get serious about service quality

Student servicespersonnel need to be embedded in online

classrooms

Proactive rather than

reactive

5. Transition from VLE to PLE

Mainstream the

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