Dr. George Veletsianos Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning & Technology Associate Professor School of Education and Technology Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC eLearn Center– Open University of Catalonia, September 30, 2013 The significant opportunities and challenges that learners, educators, researchers, and learning institutions are facing in the age of "open" and "connected"
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The significant opportunities and challenges that learners, educators, researchers, and learning institutions are facing in the age of open and connected
Today's institutions of higher learning bear little resemblance to the institutions that preceded them, as technological, economic, political, and socio-cultural factors transform societies and the institutions that exist within them. In this talk, I will explore the significant opportunities and challenges facing today's higher institutions of learning. I will discuss my research findings on social media, open online learning, and networked participation, and examine emerging models for learning, teaching, and scholarship. Through this discussion, we will reflect on the values and ideals of educational and knowledge systems and the congruency of these ideals with the systems that are currently being created.
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Dr. George Veletsianos Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning & Technology
Associate Professor School of Education and Technology Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC
eLearn Center– Open University of Catalonia, September 30, 2013
The significant opportunities and challenges that learners,
educators, researchers, and learning institutions are facing in the
age of "open" and "connected"
Gràcies per la seva hospitalitat i per la
invitació a passar temps amb eLearn
Center
School of Education and Technology http://tinyurl.com/RRUMALAT
The MOOC phenomenon
• MOOCs & rise of “edtech”
– A symptom or a solution?
Contemporary universities are facing numerous powerful forces that may
• To be involved in the design of future educational systems. How?
– Advocacy – Partnerships – Design & Development – Research
Higher Education in 2012-2013:
Sense of urgency. And tension.
Techno-enthusiasm & techno-determinism* dominate
e.g., Technology will ____________
Narratives of disruption & revolution
(*skeptics != naysayers)
Disaggregation & Unbundling
“Whether the practice is called
outsourcing, contracting out, or
privatizing, the impact is the
same. Food services, health
care, the bookstore…endless
array of activities that
universities used to manage…”
Kirp, .L (2003). Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bo3om Line: The Marke9ng of Higher Educa9on.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
“Online program management services”
The role of the faculty member
The roles of instructional designers, tutors, instructors
“academic freedom, shared governance, a livable wage, greater job security for non-tenure-track faculty teaching and scholarship cannot be fully unbundled…”
• To prepare learning designers for a new era of educational technology
Efficiency. Automation. And robots.
Open Practices
Open Education Open Scholarship
Networked Participatory Scholarship: “scholars’ use of participatory technologies and online social networks to share, reflect upon, critique, improve, validate, and further their scholarship” (Veletsianos& Kimmons, 2012)
“I made it [Facebook] this hybrid space ... and sometimes it's really annoying. … I keep thinking I should be writing or looking at data, and I'm doing this! … I created the conundrum that I live in now.”
“My position [as a professor] is building a community of teachers that I talk to ... where you can share, and so [participation in these spaces] makes total sense.”
“All the [expletive] is not really worth it. … I think that it's okay for students to not know everything about their professor. … [These practices] add to the complexity of those who struggle with the home-work balance and the ... technology pull. … I don't have time for you. “
Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2013
Designing for Learner Experiences
What is it like to participate in open online learning?
Veletsianos, G. (2013). Learner Experiences with MOOCs and Open Online Learning. Hybrid Pedagogy. Retrieved on Sept 29, 2013 from http://learnerexperiences.hybridpedagogy.com.
Key takeaways
• We should be asking students to do a discipline, not just read about it.
• In the frenzy surrounding the rise of “edtech” and MOOCs, it seems that student voices and experiences are rarely considered.
• To gain a holistic understanding of learner experiences researchers need to use multiple methodologies.