New learning behaviours that start with ‘u : )’

New learning behaviours that start with ‘u : )’

Brian HipkinVice Chair AMOSSHE

Dean of Students Regent’s College

Social Media as a way of life

A perfect stormTECHNOLOGY DRIVERS

A perfect stormTECHNOLOGY MEETS INTUITION

A perfect stormCULTURE OF ‘ALWAYS ON’

Using Social MediaHow to place yourself and others

• Unconsciously incompetent ?• Consciously incompetent ?• Consciously competent ?• Unconsciously competent ?

Learning and Teaching Methodologies

Universities were designed, organised and conceived for a different age.

If this is so then perhaps what students often experience is the disjuncture between the learning tools provided in HE and other ways of working made possible in today’s society by social media.

• Learning Tools

Learning Tools or Social Media Portals?

To make ‘Bring Your Own Device’ the Future

• Be pro-active• Remember most students will not

see a mobile device as a learning tool.• Find Champions• ‘Cold Turkey’?

When does information become learning ?

Key ‘takeaways’

Focus on the use not the tech

In the middle of a ‘perfect storm’

Device defined learning

‘Bring Your Own Device’- Your choice or theirs?

New learning behaviours that start with ‘u : )’

Any Questions?