Presentation given at Innovate SA (19th November, 2010)

1. (All that glitters is not gold)
Michael Coghlan
19/11/10

2. THIAGI
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/297337761/

3. WHAT
ABOUT
TONIGHT?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/297337761/

4. CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WITHOUT
ANY CONTENT?

5. CONTENT or PROCESS?

6. DESTINATION or JOURNEY?

7. CAN YOU TEACH A COURSE WHERE YOU
CO-CREATE THE CONTENT AS YOU GO?

9. Gathering Content Involves
• Browsing possible resources
• Deciding which resources to use
• Creating resources
• Deciding where and how to use them
• Assembling resources into a coherent body of
content
THEN
• You work on how they look

10. Gathering Content Involves
• Browsing possible resources
• Deciding which resources to use
• Creating resources
• Deciding where and how to use them
• Assembling resources into a coherent body of
content
THEN
• You work on how they look

11. Gathering Content Involves
• Browsing possible resources
• Deciding which resources to use
• Creating resources
• Deciding where and how to use them
• Assembling resources into a coherent body of
content
THEN
You work on how
it looks

12. INNOVATION involves:
• Challenge
• Change of behaviour
• New
insight/knowledge/skills
TO INCREASE CHANCES
OF SUCCESS IN A
CHANGING WORLD
(21ST century skills)

13. Employability Skills
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Initiative and Enterprise
• Planning and Organising
• Self-management
• Learning
• Technology

14. INNOVATIVE?

15. INNOVATIVE?

16. INNOVATIVE?

17. INNOVATIVE?

18. INNOVATIVE?

19. OLD METHODOLOGY IN NEW
CLOTHING
IS STILL OLD METHODOLOGY

20. kenya
KENYAN VILLAGE DISPLAY

21. THE UBIQUITOUS QUIZ

22. Skills of the VET Teacher/Trainer
Callan and Clayton: E-assessment and the
AQTF: Bridging the divide between practitioners
and auditors
● Many VET staff don't have a proper
understanding of ASSESSMENT, let alone
e-assessment!
● 90% of e-assessment is done via quizzes!!

23. QUIZZES
Cathy Moore:
• Quizzes often test
whether or not you
remember or
understand what you
read in the last 10
minutes

24. QUIZZES

25. Alternative Type Quiz Questions
Might....
..... ask you to get up from the computer to:
• Check an OH and S issue in a workshop and report back
on it
• Take a photo that satisfies set criteria, tag it, and
upload it to a database (identifying plants in
Horticulture)
• Speak to a fellow student about the best way to solve a
problem (Dealing with Difficult Customers; Hospitality)
• Research (Net, library, people) the various ways people
have addressed a similar problem in the past (parents
with dementia; Aged Care)

26. Alternative Type Quiz Questions
might...
... ask you to get up from the computer to:
• Telephone 2 suppliers and evaluate their
products/services and explain why you chose
one supplier over the other (Building,
Plumbing)
Leave the quiz and
• look for suitable YouTube videos that could be
used for instruction; describe, tag, and
bookmark. (any subject)

27. Employability Skills
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Initiative and Enterprise
• Planning and Organising
• Self-management
• Learning
• Technology

28. Lecturer: “I’m amazed at the extent of videos relating directly to the topics I teach in Painting...
it would be easy to use them in the classroom as a lot of our old teaching videos are on
cassette and are now poor quality & outdated. “
And other
user-
generated
content?

29. Creative Commons Licensing
from Jeffrey Beall at http://www.flickr.com/photos/denverjeffrey/301014978/

30. WHAT ARE THE QUESTIONS THAT
NEED ASKING/ANSWERING?

31. SCENARIO
400 gigalitres of water per
year have to be put back
into the Murray River if it
is to be a healthy,
sustainable system. This
will have social and
economic impacts on all
towns along the river.
How do we do this? What
questions does each town
need to address in order
to achieve this goal?

32. “The whole world has
become curricularised.” (Pachler)
Image courtesy of Nancy White

33. YES IT ALL TAKES MORE TIME

34. Courtesy of Greg Whitby

35. Courtesy of Greg Whitby

36. Employability Skills
• Communication
• Teamwork
• Problem Solving
• Initiative and Enterprise
• Planning and Organising
• Self-management
• Learning
• Technology

37. Where are the competent
eLearning Practitioners?
Mitchell and Ward:
● A report on the National Survey of
Vocational Education and Training (VET)
Practitioner (January, 2010)
● Elearning seen as part of an advanced skill
set; less than 10% of VET lecturers see
themselves in this category

38. Michael Coghlan
michaelc@chariot.net.au
THANK YOU
An Innovator’s Point of View
These slides on the web at
http://www.slideshare.net/michaelc/the-relationship-between-content-and-innovation