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How has technology influenced the education sector? Paul Wappett, CEO, Open Universities Australia

Australian Tertiary Education Technology Outlook 2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 • Virtual • Mobile • Electronic • Cloud • Learning Worlds Internet Books Computing Analytics Devices • Cloud-Based • Mobiles • Learning • Mobile Applications • Private Analytics Learning • Augmented Clouds • Geolocation Reality • Mobile Aps • Massively • Open Open Online • Deep • Game-Based • Tablet Content Courses Tagging Computing Computing • Location- • Social Media • Alternative • Visual Data Based Input Analysis Learning Devices

Australian Tertiary Education Technology Outlook 2013 - 2018 Near-Term Horizon: One Year or Less Learning Analytics Mobile Learning Massively Open Online Courses Social Media Mid-Term Horizon: Two to Three years 3D Printing Information Visualization Location-Based Services Open Badges Long-Term Horizon: Four to Five years Flexible Displays The Internet of Things Virtual and Remote Laboratories Wearable Technology

#1 Learning Analytics Trends Impacting Technology Decisions There is a growing interest in using new sources of data for personalising the learning experience and for performance measure Most Significant Challenges The demand for personalised learning is not adequately supported by current technology or practices

Personalised learning Tools •Desktop, Tablet, Mobile •Tele-/Video conferencing •Social media Content I ndividuals •Competencies rather than input •Objectives •Learning •Prior knowledge challenges rather than learning •Competencies objectives •Life and work skills •Learning pathways •Motivation instead of static curriculum Spaces •University •Home (office) •Cafes •Transport

Linear model – static curriculum and single learning path

Dynamic model – personalised and adaptive learning path

PASS - Personalised Adaptive Study Success INDIVIDUAL PERSONALISATION CHARACTERISTICS LEARNING AND ADAPTION Prior knowledge ANALYTICS ENGINE ENGINE Interest Data mining Dashboard Motivation PERSONAL ONLINE Semantic processing Prompting Online skills Comparison LEARNING Visualisation Socio-demographic data Validation ENVIRONMENT Scaffolding Competencies Prediction Feedback Learning path Recommendation Behaviour Gamification Discussion SOCIAL WEB Content Peer influence Performance Peer interaction Evaluation Preferences REPORTING ENGINE Dashboard CURRICULUM Organisation Needs analysis Learning design PHYSICAL DATA Requirements Teacher / tutor Emotional status Learning challenges Student Experiences Sequencing Health Design Location Assessment Evaluation

PASS Study Centre Self- Visual signals assessment Dynamic content Predictive MY STUDY CENTRE recommendation course mastery Highlight social Customise your learning centre by adding and moving tiles interaction PREDICTED COURSE MASTERY RECOMMENDED READING LATEST CONVERSATION Many research studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of How can I identify an appropriate cognitive structures as the building blocks of meaningful learning and research question or topic within the retention of instructional materials. Identifying the learners’ cognitive area of school organisation? structures will help instructors to organize materials, identify knowledge gaps, and relate new materials to existing slots or anchors within the learners’ cognitive structures. The purpose of our empirical Performance Can you operationalise school investigation is to track the development of cognitive structures over organisation? time. Accordingly, we demonstrate how various indicators … level degree of mastery ----------------------------> Recommended TO CONTENT TAKE PRE-TEST GET HELP REPLY activities CLASS PERFORMANCE by Sub-Learning Challenges PEER ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES Learning challenge 1 Introduction to Research Skills Learning challenge 2 Wiki entry research methodologies Learning challenge 3 Personalise Post your research question to forum Learning challenge 4 … environment Assignment qualitative research methods 0 ------------ % correct ---------- 100 … … …

#2 Mobile Learning Trends Impacting Technology Decisions People expect to be able to work, learn and study whenever and wherever they want Most Significant Challenges Too often it is education’s own processes, practices and key individuals that limit broader uptake of new technologies

Mobile learning is evolving Community Apps Social Augmented Access Authentic media Gamification Cloud Location

Acceptance of mobile learning

#3 Social Media Trends Impacting Technology Decisions Social media is changing the way people interact, present ideas and information, and judge the quality of content and contributions Most Significant Challenges Faculty training and attitudes still do not acknowledge the fact that digital media literacy continues its rise in importance as a key skill in every discipline and profession

Social media for building learning communities Learning Community

Social media • Importance of digital media literacy • Training in the supporting skills and techniques is rare or non-existent • Digital media literacy is less about tools and more about thinking

#4 Massive Open Online Courses Trends Impacting Technology Decisions MOOCs are being widely explored as alternatives and supplements to traditional university courses Most Significant Challenges New models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to the traditional models of tertiary education

Massive open online courses Free and open Course does not have specific requirements Course content all over the MOOC web Few hundred to several thousand learners Classroom a hub to social media

Production values Podcast Video Udacity Open2Study Higher production values/ Lower production values/ student engagement student engagement Khan PDF Webcam Coursera Academy

Open2Study – www.open2study.com

Open2Study structure – www.open2study.com Learning A subject… Subject Objectives Consists of 4 Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4 modules (weeks) 10 topic Each module has Learning videos Assessment 1 hour of video Objectives (6 min each) Each topic video Quiz has 1 MC quiz

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What do we learn from the Technology Outlook for Australian Tertiary Education 2013 - 2018? • Focus on recommendations to help the higher education sector prepare for, and harness new and emerging technologies

Implement threshold standards Remove Promote the internal catalytic effect barriers to of learning adoption technologies Higher Education Sector Aggregate learning Develop analytics as badging a sector

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