George Veletsianos discussed emerging technologies and approaches for teaching and learning. He explained that emerging technologies go through "hype cycles" where their potential is not yet fully understood or researched. Emerging technologies today include learning analytics, social media, and artificial intelligence, while emerging approaches include openness, competency-based education, and data-driven learning. Veletsianos noted that emerging trends differ by context, such as between higher education and K-12. He provided examples of emerging approaches at Royal Roads University that engage students in knowledge production, capitalize on web technologies, and are diverse, social, and open, such as creating digital artifacts, using contemporary web tools, and offering an open course.

1. FSAS Teaching Talks Series, Victoria, BC, April 2014
Emerging Technologies
for Teaching and Learning
George Veletsianos, PhD
Canada Research Chair
Associate Professor
School of Education and Technology

2. 19th & 20th Century instructional charts

3. 19th & 20th Century instructional charts

4. Why are instructional charts significant?
Historical insight on how
• technology impacts and does not impact education
• newer technologies replace old technologies
• educators adopt and creatively repurpose worthwhile
technologies and pedagogies/approaches

5. Instructional charts
• Solutions to problems
• Aesthetic appeal
• Tools of scholarship (not just instruction)
• Technology allowed mass reproduction at low cost
• Created by industry, but also by individuals

6. Today’s “Emerging Technologies?”

7. The Horizon Reports present one
perspective

8. The 2014 HE Horizon Report

9. 2004-2012 Horizon Reports

10. My perspective

11. Technologies or “approaches”
• May or may not be new technologies
• Evolving, “coming into being”
• Go through “hype cycles”
• Not yet fully understood
• Not yet fully researched
• Potentially disruptive (but potential is unfulfilled)
(Veletsianos, 2010)
Emerging Technologies

12. Technologies
• Learning Analytics
• Social Media
• Artificial Intelligence
technologies
• Technologies to
capture, categorize,
decipher data trails
Examples of Emerging…
Approaches
• Openness
• Competency-based edu
• Outsourcing
• Learning in Networks
• Micro-credentialing
• Data-driven, where “data”
are quantitative/logs
The MOOC phenomenon

13. What’s emerging in Higher Ed, might not
be in K-12 (e.g., whiteboards)
What’s emerging in one country might
not be emerging in another (e.g., cell
phones as learning devices)
Context matters

14. What are some of the “emerging”
approaches at the RRU School of Education?
Approaches that
• engage students in knowledge-production
• capitalize on contemporary web technologies
• are diverse, social, and open

15. Examples

16. Approaches that engage students
in knowledge-production
• Creation of worthwhile digital artifacts
– E.g., E-books and online textbooks

17. Approaches that engage students
in knowledge-production
Veletsianos, G. (2013). Learner Experiences with MOOCs and Open Online Learning. Hybrid
Pedagogy: Madison, WI. Retrieved from http://learnerexperiences.hybridpedagogy.com

18. Approaches that capitalize on
contemporary web technologies

19. Approaches that capitalize on
contemporary web technologies

20. Approaches that are diverse
Student introductions.
What is your standard practice?

21. Approaches that are diverse
One of my favorites: Superhero Students
“In this activity you are to create a drawing of yourself to
share with the rest of the class. Your drawing should portray
you as a superhero and include your superhero name. You
don't need any artistic abilities for this task, as I won't be
evaluating you on your drawing abilities. The goal is to use
your creativity to create a representation of yourself so that
we learn more about each other. You can use pen/pencils/
crayons and paper, or a graphics program to do this.”
Adapted from Dunlap & Lowenthal: http://bit.ly/1nHE6w2

22. Approaches that are diverse
• This is me.
• Why?

23. Approaches that are social

24. Approaches that are open
Open as an ethos
Open as an approach to teaching, research,
knowledge creation, dissemination, participation

25. Approaches that are open
School of Education and Technology to offer RRU’s
first Open Course
• Open to anyone at RRU
• Free to anyone and everyone
• Why?
• To share our knowledge and expertise
• To prepare future students and faculty
• To develop resources reusable in & beneficial to
RRU courses

26. Approaches that are open
Course: Digital, Networked, Open, and other
Emergent Forms of Scholarship
Audience: Graduate Students, Faculty members,
Community Groups
Openly licensed content which can be used within
RRU research courses & Intro to Research Methods
courses worldwide.

27. Thank
you
www.veletsianos.com
@veletsianos on Twitter
veletsianos at gmail.com
This presentation: www.slideshare.com/veletsianos