USQ Seminar - Community of Practice - Research Supervisors

Research & Innovation in Digital Futures

Professor Mike KeppellExecutive Director

Australian Digital Futures InstituteDirector, Digital Futures-CRN

Community of Practice Research Supervision

(COP-RS)

1Thursday, 11 July 13

OverviewnPersonal perspectivenStaffnFocussed researchnLandscapenProjectsnVision, mission, valuesnDigital literacies, platformsnDesign-based researchnNew mindsets

2

2Thursday, 11 July 13

Design Educational Technology

Innovation Solving real-world problems

Authentic learning

interactions

Transformation

Leadership

Personal Perspective

3Thursday, 11 July 13

4Thursday, 11 July 13

5Thursday, 11 July 13

Digital Futures

Agriculture &Environment

Resilient Regions

Digital Rural Futures 2013

ACCERT

Digital Rural Futures 2014

Focussed Research

6Thursday, 11 July 13

ADFI

ACCERT

other?

ADFI Landscape

OLT3 projectsPhysical

& virtual umbrella

DF-CRNANU

UNISA64 Researchers

7Thursday, 11 July 13

OLT ProjectsStand Alone Moodle (SAM): From Access to SuccessNetwork of Australasian Tertiary Associations (NATA)

LeadershipNATA

Transformative learningResearch Leadership Development Program

CRN

CRN Project 1: Mobile Learning Evaluation FrameworkCRN Project 3: Decision Support Systems for Sugarcane Farmers with ACSCResearch Leadership Development Program

Health Aged Care Community, Education, Research & training (ACCERT)

Digital LiteraciesDigital Curation (Scoop.it!)

Digital HubsPersonalised learning

Spaces

8Thursday, 11 July 13

OER Commonwealth of LearningOERu

ConferencesDigital Rural Futures 2014

Agricultural Futures-Regional Futures-Digital Futures25-27June 2014 Toowoomba

RUNREGIONAL UNIVERSITIES NETWORK (RUN) MATHS AND SCIENCE DIGITAL CLASSROOM: A CONNECTED MODEL

FOR ALL OF AUSTRALIA

Proposals 10-15 Submitted proposals

BooksOpen Learning and Formal Credentialing in Higher

Education: Curriculum Models and Institutional Policies

Getting to Grips with Contemporary Learning Communities

9Thursday, 11 July 13

Case Project: NATAnNetwork project: five established tertiary

education associations in Australasia (ascilite, ACODE, CADAD, HERDSA, ODLAA)

nWorking across three countries (Australia, New Zealand, Mexico)

nRegular weekly meetings via Skype

nUse of Dropbox and Google docs

10

10Thursday, 11 July 13

Digital Futures-CRN Outcomesn An increase in the number of research active staff

n Increased mentorship activity (RLDP)

n An increase in joint publications

n An increase in joint applications for competitive grants

n An increase in the number of research postgraduate students

n Collaborative research has been influential in policy circles.

11

11Thursday, 11 July 13

12Thursday, 11 July 13

Vision, Mission, Values & Focus

13Thursday, 11 July 13

Horizon Report

14

14Thursday, 11 July 13

CSIRO Megatrends

15

On the movePersonalisationIWorld

15Thursday, 11 July 13

Trends ‣ People expect to be able to work, learn, and

study whenever and wherever they want.

‣ The abundance of resources and

‣ Need for digital literacies

‣ BYOD technology

‣ Mobility is here!

16

16Thursday, 11 July 13

ADFI - Vision

‣ Digital literacies that transform the knowledge & skills of society

17

17Thursday, 11 July 13

Digital Literacies

nLiteracy is no longer “the ability to read and write” but now “the ability to understand information however presented.”

18

18Thursday, 11 July 13

ADFI - Mission‣ To innovate, research & collaborate to explore and influence digital literacies that impact societal change.

19

19Thursday, 11 July 13

ADFI - Values‣ Innovative‣ Transformative‣ Inclusive‣ Collaborative‣ Connected‣ Evidence-based ‣ Impact‣ Open

20

20Thursday, 11 July 13

21Thursday, 11 July 13

Design-based research‣ Design-based research is a core strategy and

approach that considers how our developments benefit the user, group or society and how our developments provide design principles for future practice and research.

‣ Design-based research advances design, research and practice concurrently (Wang and Hannafin, 2005).

‣

22

22Thursday, 11 July 13

Reeves (2000)

23

23Thursday, 11 July 13

Reducing anxiety in children going to hospital

‣ Analysis/problem: How to reduce anxiety of children going to hospital

‣ Development: CD-ROM and booklet for parents and children

‣ Evaluation/Research: pilot of intervention with families

‣ Reflection: Refined product

24

24Thursday, 11 July 13

Reducing anxiety in children going to hospital

‣ Marijke Shanley (2005) - Master of Nursing Thesis entitled: A multimedia approach to preparing children and their families for hospitalisation.

‣ Next step: relevance for other hospitals

25

25Thursday, 11 July 13

26Thursday, 11 July 13

New MindsetsnPrivileging mobile learning and

teaching access

nEmbedding digital literacies into all aspects of learning, teaching and curriculum

nPrivileging diverse places of learning as opposed to a singular place of learning

27

27Thursday, 11 July 13

New MindsetsnAssisting teachers and students

to develop their own personalised learning strategy

nPrivileging user-generated content

nPrivileging learning-oriented assessment

28

28Thursday, 11 July 13

29

Questions?

29Thursday, 11 July 13