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Next Generation Technology

Next Generation Technology. An incomplete theme summary Terry Anderson Athabasca University Canada. “Canada is a great country, much too cold for common sense, inhabited by compassionate and intelligent people with bad haircuts”. Yann Martel , Life of Pi, 2002.

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Next Generation Technology

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  1. Next Generation Technology An incomplete theme summary Terry Anderson Athabasca University Canada

  2. “Canada is a great country, much too cold for common sense, inhabited by compassionate and intelligent people with bad haircuts”. • Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2002.

  3. The Community Filtering for each other • QALT Overcoming information overload • The gadgets and gizmo example • Need to extend this filtering beyond 3 days a year • RSS and your blog • “The text becomes the community” • Chris Sessuns • Edublogs • Stephen Downes’ OLDaily

  4. Change Agent - Age 56

  5. Adoption Issues • How to select and support best mix of technologies amongst majority users? Geoffry Moore – Crossing the Chasm

  6. Change Agent Tactics • Use the Tech • Preach about and demonstrate the Scholarship of Teaching • Involve yourself with Strategic Users and Pilots • Constant assessment and reflection – individually and in community

  7. Lone Ranger debate Expectations? Multiple skill sets Handholding and support Next generation teacher Death and retirement solution?

  8. Next Generation Production Values? • Is ‘teacher created’ good enough? • The 1.5” talking head – a horseless carriage? • How much does an educational game or simulation cost to produce? • Oblinger “Do it yourself” era • Do it yourself With objects

  9. WebTeach Innovation (Chris Hughes) • Adding small group technique to asynch messaging • The seductive song of quantitative transcript analysis • The necessity of getting such tools in the Open Source and moving in to VLE’s/PLEs

  10. Inclusiveness • Disability Pyramid • Use of the tech to empower and teach all of us • Need to make available in machine readable and searchable format producing alternative representations of content

  11. Learning Objects and Repositories • UK is a world leader • Moving beyond object to the culture, economics, the processes, the rewards and actual re-use • Syndication

  12. Is ELearning 2.0 a Cargo Cult? • “a characteristic feature of Cargo Cults is the belief that spiritual agents will at some future time give much valuable cargo and desirable manufactured products to the cult members.” Wikipedia

  13. Blogs • A square page in an institutional round hole? • Individual or group? • Control, trust, identity and ownership • Forced, induced or voluntary ? • How to support ? • Internal or external ? • What is their relative advantage over threaded discussion lists ? • Best use for identification/learning beyond the course

  14. Podcasts • Average Canadian spends 56 minutes a day commuting to work or school. • Do they really want to listen to a boring lecture twice? • What are the affordances of auditory learning?

  15. Next Generation AccessMobile Computing • When “e-mail is too slow”! • What is the killer educational app for mobile learning? • Challenges of bringing the ubiquitous tech to the controlled school (exams?) • Just in time learning • Lifelong learning potential

  16. Evaluation • Views by Traxler and Kukulska-Hulme regarding evaluation of mobile learning could be applied to all interventions • In some fields 15-20% or more is applied to the evaluation • Need much more rigour, sharing of instruments and theoretical underpinnings • Kirkpatrick’s levels • Perceptions • Learning • Effect on performance • Effect on life • Cost effectiveness

  17. Evaluation • The problem of ethics release • Next year Alt-C requires 2 of 3 • Practice • Theory • Evaluation • Are we knowledgeable enough, equipped, trained and empowered to properly evaluate?

  18. Next Generation Identity • Learner models – necessary for holy grail of mass customization • Who creates learner models that identity us, the context/culture, teachers, machines or users? • How many identities should we have

  19. Access Issues • TechDis Accessibility Pyramid- conceptualizing cost/benefit of adaptation • Using mobile technology to teach adaptive techniques • Speech recognition • Will it always be just around the corner? • Lecturers • Longitudinal studies • Social acceptability • Effect on writing style, volume, quality

  20. Time and Community • Until we invent virtual time, we need to better use our communities • Good examples throughout like the gizmo and gadgets – there has to be more efficient ways to learn value of new tech without surmounting learning curves

  21. Next Generation ALT • How are next generation technologies harnessed to ALT needs? • Why is Alt-J not available to everyone?

  22. A Tale of 3 books Open Access 78,000 downloads plus indiv. chapters 400 hardcopies sold @ $50.00 Free at cde.athabascau.ca/online_book Commercial publisher 934 copies sold at $52.00 Buy at Amazon!! E-Learning for the 21st Century Commercial Pub. 1200 sold @ $135.00 2,000 copies in Arabic Translation @ $8.

  23. One Measure of Article Impact From Google Scholar stats May 2006 Anderson (2006)

  24. Funding • Picking up the pieces from military and health research • Very disproportionate funding for education research • Must we follow natural science or medicine research models?

  25. Beyond the LMS to Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) My social Life My work My media My calendar My school(s) My hobbies My profile My files, my podcasts My publications E-portfolios My conversations

  26. Conceptualizing the PLE – an ALT-C Product Personal Learning Space (PLE) Storage Multi-Media Creation tools Reflection tools Specialized tools Collaboration tools Scheduling and Planning Communication Tools

  27. Content Colleagues Tutoring & Mentoring Personal Learning Space (PLE) Storage Multi-Media Creation tools Reflection tools Specialized tools Collaboration tools Scheduling and Planning Communication Tools Expertise Assessment and Credentialing

  28. Tutoring & Mentoring Colleagues Content Personal Learning Space (PLE) Agents / Protocols Personal Learning Space (PLE) Storage Multi-Media Creation tools Reflection tools Specialized tools (Stats, GPS etc) Collaboration tools Scheduling and Planning tools Ubiquitous Connectivity Communication Tools Identity Expertise Assessment and Credentialing

  29. Missing • Discussion of Next Generation ALT • Scholarship of teaching • Standards implementation: • Open ID, SSE, • IMS, IEEE LOMasertertertert • Social profiling, privacy • Ubiquitous wireless

  30. Conclude My Summary • Following Tim Shea’s lead: • Who invented Higher Education?

  31. Your Turn • What was the one best idea you are taking home? • What is the one next generation technology issue that must be discussed next year? • What is really missing in this summary?

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