Reflecting on our Achievements: What’s Next for Technology-enhanced Learning and Teaching?

1. Reflecting on our Achievements: What’s Next for Technology-enhanced Learning and Teaching?

2. Inspire a Digital Generation: Thinking Differently About Our Achievements Professor Mark Brown International Blended Learning Conference

6. Dirty little secret... The light comes through the cracks… “The unexamined life is not worth living” (Socrates) “I am nothing if not critical” (William Shakespeare)

7. About Mark… • Director, National Centre for Teaching and Learning • Director, Distance Education and Learning Futures Alliance • Major leadership role in digitalisation at Massey University • Previous Coordinator of the Doctor of Education (EdD) • On several executive committees (ACiLiTE, DEANZ, DEHub) • Convener of the 2012 ascilite conference in Wellington • Recipient of National Award for Sustained Excellence in Tertiary Teaching • First New Zealand Apple Distinguished Educator m.e.brown@massey.ac.nz Twitter @mbrownz

8. Think differently… Please raise your left arm…

9. Think differently…

10. Outline… 1. False promises 2. Serious challenges 3. Re-visioning the blend

11. A Story of Hype and Hope… Central thesis… Blended learning can help to create a vibrant digital learning culture. However, it can also be used to entrench many of today’s wicked problems using tomorrow’s digital technology.

12. Big question… • What are the big issues or wicked problems facing our age? Fold and pass to someone else…

13. 1. False promises

14. 1. False promises Blended learning is… “. . . an opportunity to fundamentally redesign how we approach teaching and learning in ways that higher education institutions may benefit from increased effectiveness, convenience and efficiency” (Vaughan, 2012).

15. 1. False promises Most technology-enhanced learning initiatives reinforce traditional pedagogy and educational outcomes…

16. 1. False promises Most technology-enhanced learning initiatives reinforce traditional pedagogy and educational outcomes… … and blended learning is part of the problem.

17. 1. False promises Most technology-enhanced learning initiatives reinforce traditional pedagogy and educational outcomes… … and blended learning is part of the problem. Arguably the concept of ‘blended learning’ does little to disrupt the old normal and the hidden curriculum infused in the current language of the future.

18. Big question… • What is the hidden curriculum of our technology-induced future? Fold and pass to someone else…

19. 1. False promises Technology Expectation Cycle (Cuban, 1986) Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers’ College Press.

20. 1. False promises High expectations Technology Expectation Cycle (Cuban, 1986) Rebukes and blame Growing support Subsided enthusiasm Cuban, L. (1986). Teachers and machines: The classroom use of technology since 1920. New York: Teachers’ College Press.

21. 1. False promises “Education is primed for a revolution — and blended learning might just be it” http://www.knewton.com/blended-learning/

22. 1. False promises Technology-enhanced learning involves an ongoing cycle of hype, hopeand disappointment(Gouseti, 2010).

23. 1. False promises Technology-enhanced learning involves an ongoing cycle of hype, hopeand disappointment (Gouseti, 2010). Gartner Hype Cycle

24. 1. False promises “… fundamental elements of contemporary learning and teaching have remained largely untouched by the waves of digital technologies that have been introduced inside and outside of the classroom over the last three decades” (Selywn, 2011, p. 714).

25. 1. False promises How do we ‘design for learning’ in ways that exploit the potential of new digital technology…

26. 1. False promises How do we ‘design for learning’ in ways that exploit the potential of new digital technology… …on a scalable and sustainable basis with acritical twist that breaks free of the current paradigm?

27. 1. False promises How do we ‘design for learning’ in ways that exploit the potential of new digital technology… …on a scalable and sustainable basis with acritical twist that breaks free of the current paradigm? … or are we going to continue to play the sameold game(with new tools) resulting in the same outcomes?

28. Big question… • What are the educational outcomes we seek from blended learning? Fold and pass to someone else…

29. 2. Serious challenges

30. 2. Serious challenges Why a new game plan… • Gap between formal and informal learning • Emergence of new business models • Lack of skill and will

31. 2. Serious challenges Gap between formal and informal learning According to legend, who founded the concept of the Olympic Games? When was the first Olympic Games?

32. 2. Serious challenges Gap between formal and informal learning According to legend, who founded the concept of the Olympic Games? When was the first Olympic Games? Hercules – son of Zeus 776 BC

33. 2. Serious challenges Gap between formal and informal learning There are over 2.9 billion searches performed on Google each month

34. 2. Serious challenges Gap between formal and informal learning To whom were these questions addressed B.G.?

35. 2. Serious challenges Gap between formal and informal learning To whom were these questions addressed B.G.? … before Google

36. 2. Serious challenges Gap between formal and informal learning

37. 2. Serious challenges Gap between formal and informal learning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SuNx0UrnEo&feature=youtu.be

38. 2. Serious challenges Gap between formal and informal learning

39. 2. Serious challenges Gap between formal and informal learning What does all this mean? A completely new type of globally connected learneris expecting a new type of education for new times

40. 2. Serious challenges Emergence of new business models The economics of abundance New Models of Production New Models of Distribution New Models of Trade & Exchange

41. 2. Serious challenges Emergence of new business models

42. 2. Serious challenges Emergence of new business models

43. 2. Serious challenges Emergence of new business models

44. 2. Serious challenges Emergence of new business models

45. 2. Serious challenges Emergence of new business models

46. 2. Serious challenges Emergence of new business models

47. 2. Serious challenges Emergence of new business models What does all this mean? The traditionaluniversityis being chiseled away by powerful global forces and new business models as a multitude of new providers emerge.

48. Big question… • How will new and emerging models of higher education help us to realise the educational outcomes we seek? Fold and pass to someone else…

49. 2. Where is eLearning heading? 2. Serious challenges Lack of skill and will Even blended learning does not address… • New demands on staff • Increased expectations placed on learners • Lack of time to devote to pedagogy and professional development

50. 2. Where is eLearning heading? 2. Serious challenges Lack of skill and will Potential increases in academic workload… More with less!