1. Transformation through new
e-pedagogies – the future of learning
Gráinne Conole, University of Leicester
MOOC 2012
6th – 9th
2012

2. Outline
• The evolving landscape of e-learning
• Affordances of new technologies
• From Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
• Learner experience
• New pedagogies and implications
• Open practices
• Teacher practice and paradoxes
• Strategies for change
– Intervention framework: linking
research to policy and practice
– The LMS as a Trojan horse
– New approaches to design

3. Research questions
• What:
– Is the learner experience and teacher practice?
– Are the emergent technologies and their affordances?
– Resources, OER and Pedagogical Patterns are there and
how are they been used?
– E-Pedagogies are there and how do they facilitate
different forms of learning?
– New learning design approaches can be used to
promote and support e-learning?
– Strategies are in place to promote and support e-
learning?
– Theories and methodologies are been used?

4. Evolving e-learning landscape
Emergent technologies
and affordances
Theory and methodology
E-pedagogies, strategies
and learning design
Resources, OER and
Pedagogical Patterns
Evaluations Interventions

5. Technological trends
• Mobiles and e-books
• Gesture and augmented
learning
• Learning analytics
• Personalised learning
• Cloud computing
• Ubiquitous learning
• BYOD (Bring your own device)
• Digital content
• The flipped classroom
http://learn231.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/trend-report-1/

6. Social & participatory media
Media sharing Blogging
Mash ups Messaging
Collaborative Recommender
editing systems
Virtual worlds
Social
and games
networking
Social Syndication
bookmarking
http://magicineducation.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/web-2-0-world-map/
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Conole and Alevizou, 2010

7. Peer Open
critiquing
User
Collective
generated
aggregation
content
Networked Personalised
Social media revolution
The machine is us/ing us

8. Gutenberg to Zuckerberg
• Take the long view
• The web is not the net
• Disruption is a feature
• Ecologies not economics
• Complexity is the new reality
• The network is now the computer
• The web is evolving
• Copyright or copywrong
• Orwell (fear) or Huxley (pleasure)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/2617472088/
http://memex.naughtons.org/

9. Disruptive technologies
• The web has transformed
practice
• No central ownership
• Ecology of abundance
• Examples
– Napster
– Malware

10. Learner experience
• Technology immersed
• Learning approaches: task-
orientated, experiential,
just in time, cumulative,
social
• Personalised digital
learning environment
• Mix of institutional systems
and cloud-based tools and
services
• Use of course materials
with free resources
10 Sharpe, Beetham and De Freitas, 2010

11. EDUCAUSE study
• Students drawn
to new
technologies but
rely on more
traditional ones
• Consider
technologies
offer major
educational
benefits
• Mixed views of
VLEs
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12. The essence of learning
Reflection Dialogue
Collaboration Application

13. A pedagogy framework
Social
Information
Informal Formal
Experience
Individual

14. Mapping e-Pedagogies to technologies
Pedagogies Technologies
• Problem-Based Learning (PBL) • Virtual Worlds (VW)
• Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) • Google
• Didactic (Did) • E-Books
• Reflection (Ref) • Blogs, e-Portfolios
• Dialogic Learning (Dial) • Discussion Forums (DF)
• Collaboration (Collab) • Wikis
• Assessment (Ass) • MCQs
• Communities of Practice (CoP) • Google+
• IBL – social • Twitter
• User-Generated Content (UGC) • Youtube

15. Social
Information
Informal Formal
Experience
Individual

16. IBL/Twitter Social PBL/VW
CoP/Google+ Dial/forum
Dial/Skype Collab/Wiki
Informal Formal
Ref/Blog Ref/e-Portfolio
IBL/Google Did/e-Book
UGC/YouTube Individual Ass/MCQs

17. Social
Information
Informal Formal
Experience
Individual

18. Ref/Blog Experience PBL/VW
CoP/Google+ Ref/e-Portfolio
Dial/Skype Dial/Forum
Informal Formal
IBL/Twitter Coll/Wiki
IBL/Google Did/e-Book
UGC/YouTube Information Ass/MCQs

19. Mobile learning
E-books
Study calendars
Learning resources
Online modules
Annotation tools
Podcasting
19 Communication mechanisms

20. Inquiry-based learning
My community
The Personal Inquiry project
Inquiry-based learning across
formal and informal settings
Sharples, Scanlon et al.
http://www.pi-project.ac.uk/

21. Virtual genetics lab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMfHZUNpZY&feature=youtu.be
The SWIFT project

22. Open practices
Open resources Open courses
Pandora’s box
Open scholarship Open research
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23. Open resources

24. Open courses: MOOC
Massive
Open
Online
Course
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc
http://mooc.ca/

25. Open scholarship
• Exploiting the digital network
• New forms of dissemination
and communication
• Promoting reflective practice
• Embracing the affordances of
new technologies
Weller: http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/

26. Open research

27. Citation indicators

28. Open accreditation
Peer to Peer University OER University
www.p2pu.org/en/ wikieducator.org/OER_university/

29. Teacher practices: paradoxes
• Technologiesnot extensively
used (Molenda)
• Lack of uptake of OER
(McAndrew et al.)
• Little use beyond early
adopters (Rogers)
• Despite rhetoric and funding Pandora’s box
little evidence of
transformation (Cuban,
Ehlers)
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30. Intervention framework: linking
research to policy and practice
OER
Horizon scanning
Learning design
Virtual worlds
Research
Learner experience Web 2.0
Blackboard rollout Design practice
Policy Teacher practice
OER/iTunes
Use of technologies
Learning spaces
Cloud computing
Learner practice
Use of technologies Diversity/culture

31. The LMS as a Trojan horse
• LMS as a safe nursery slope
• Shift from content to
activities
• Promote reflection and
collaboration
• Mobile LMS
• Integration with cloud
computing

32. Blackboard audit
• Data
– Online survey (260 returns)
– Departmental visits
• Key findings
– Used as content repository
and administration
– Pockets of innovation
– More support needed on
effective design strategies
– Tension between teaching
and research
– Usability issue

33. Blackboard+ at Leicester
BB plus Google+
Maths video-lets
Prof-casts
History conundrum Voicethread

34. Learning Design
Shift frombelief-based, implicit
approaches todesign-
based,explicit approaches
Learning Design
A design-based approach to
creation and support of
courses
Encouragesreflective,scholarly
practices
Promotessharing and discussion

35. Conceptualise
What do we want to design, who for
and why?
Carpe Diem:
7Cs of learning Design
Consolidate
Evaluate and embed your design
http://beyonddistance.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/carpe-diem-the-7cs-of-design-and-delivery/

36. Course views
Learning outcomes
Course map
Pedagogy profile
Course dimensions
Task swimlane

37. Collaboration
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38. MSc in Learning Innovation
Dissertation
Case Studies of Innovation
Research Design and Methods
Learning Design
Technology-Enhanced Learning

39. The future of e-learning
Continuing emerging
technologies and pedagogies
New business Co-evolution of
models tools & users
Maturing theory & More sophisticated
methodology mechanisms re: uptake

40. New metaphors
Ecologies
Spaces
Memes Rhizomes
http://e4innovation.com/?p=489

41. Final thoughts
• Participatory and social media enable new forms of
communication and collaboration
• Communities in these spaces are complex and
distributed
• Learners and teachers need to develop new digital
literacy skills to harness their potential
• We need to rethinkhow we design, support and assess
learning
• Open, participatory and social media can provide
mechanisms for us to share and discuss teaching and
research ideas in new ways
• We are seeing a blurring of boundaries:
teachers/learners, teaching/research, real/virtual
spaces, formal/informal modes of communication and

42. Events
Open Education
Week Webinars
6 – 9th March 2012
28 – 30th March 2012

43. Conole, G. (forthcoming), Designing for learning in an open world, New York: Springer
Chapters available on dropbox
grainne.conole@le.ac.uk