The Digital Divide - Philip Butler

#FOTE10

Philip Butler, ULCC

Personalisation & the Digital Divide

ILT Champs List

What do you see coming over the horizon?

IT and ILT strategy = In 5 years

• How do we see the terrain?

• Will VLEs have withered away?

• Will online resources mean the end of traditional library provision?

• Will ILT be taken-for-granted aspect of teaching?

Mapping the Landscape

What did you see in 2000?

• Lots of ... ‘We don’t do Technology!’

• E-Learning was not really part of the lexicon (unless distant/remote learning?)

• “Will VLEs take off?”

• ILT = support pracititioners in the classroom

Twitter stories please? #FOTE10

Mapping the Landscape

What did you see in 2005?

• Lots of ... ‘We don’t do Technology!’

• Still some confusion over E-Learning?

• Will VLEs take off?

• Rumours of ‘Personalisation’

(Growth of Open Source, & ULCC e-Learning!)

Twitter stories please? #FOTE10

Personalisation?

‘In simple terms, personalised learning is the route to raise quality and equity in our education system.’

David Milliband, 2005

London Moodle User Group 2005

Where are you now?

Question Grade

1 How does your VLE contribute to helping your learners to achieve? 3

2 How effective is your VLE as a tool to support teaching, training and learning? 3

3 Is your VLE providing a valuable resource in your institution? 3

4 How is your VLE being used for assessment and monitoring of learners' progress?

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5 How well does your VLE meet the needs and interests of learners? 2

6 How well are learners guided and supported through your VLE? 2

7 Leadership and management for your VLE in your institution? 3

Outstanding - Grade 1 Good - Grade 2

Satisfactory - Grade 3 Unsatisfactory - Grade 4

Weak - Grade 5

Student Portal

Oliver TwistLewisham eME portal Today!

Future of Tech in Education

What do you see coming over the horizon?

• Champs list will be run by C%$^&a; it will lose your messages and charge you to post.

• Students will have hand-held devices that staff will never get to see or play with!

• Education will be outsourced to Murdoch and delivered through the Sky Network!

The Digital Divide

What are the Challenges?

1. How do we identify the 21st Century Learner?

2. How do we, as learning providers, transform our organisations to facilitate them?

The new Digital Divide?

Why are Lewisham exemplar?

1. Strategically Driven

– Focus on solutions, not the technology

– Learner-centric, not developer-centric

2. Embedded throughout organisation

– Works for everyone

– Not the endpoint, but the start...

http://moodle.ulcc.ac.uk

p.butler@ ulcc.ac.uk

Personalisation & the Digital Divide