Reflection on implementing Personalised Learning Environments for #ELLTA2014 @elltaorg

1. Connected Learning
Reflections on implementing Personalised Learning Environments
James Ballard
JamesBallard2
@jameslballard
jameslballard

2. Overview
Personalised Learning Environments
Critique of personalised learning
Implications for future development

3. Education is a human endeavour
Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Love in the Time of Cholera

4. Transforming
Curriculum Delivery
JISC 2008-2010

5. The challenge
Course
Delivery
(narrow
curriculum)
Learner
Experience
(broad
curriculum)
Personalised
Learning
Framework

6. The Approach
Tool Focus Ownership Software
VLE Course Teacher Moodle
PLP Support Shared Vision ULCC ILP
E-Assessment Accreditation Awarding bodies Gradebook,
Assessment
Manager
E-Portfolio Professional and
Social Skills
Learner Mahara

7. Integrated Support
• Learning centres
• Student support
• Student union
• Careers
• Counselling
Cloud Communication
• Gmail
• Google Apps
Learner Portal Interface

8. Development Planning
• Attendance Monitor
• Planning for success (goals)
• Target Setting
• Progress Reviews
• Subject Reports
• Key Skills
• Student Support
• Financial Status
Individual Learning Plan

9. Personal Showcase
• CV builder
• Embedded mixed media
• Presentation options
• Informal learning
Social Networking
• Course groups
• Social groups
• Project groups
E-Portfolio

10. Blended hosting
• Institutional
• Shared services
• Cloud
Simple integration
• LDAP
• SAML
•Web services
• Adodb
Infrastructure

11. Personalised Learning Framework

12. TRANSFORMATION LEARNING OUTCOMES
The instantaneous data access proved ‘the most
popular and motivating tool’
Retention: up from 62% to 92%
Achievement: up from 69% to 73%
Anecdotal evidence that students felt more
supported
Outcomes
VLE
(narrow
curriculum)
Learner
Experience
(broad
curriculum)
Personalised
Learning
Environment

13. Distributed Learning
Environments
JISC 2010-2011

14. The Challenge
New Curriculum
New Pedagogies
Social Media
Integrated
Administration

15. Recognised
Recommended
Arranged
Turnitin Live@EDU
Core
Integrated VLE
Twitter
YouTube SlideShare
Diigo
Facebook
Ning
GoogleDocs
Blogger
Recognised: user’s choice - watch and
learn
Recommended: user’s choice – train and
integrate
Arranged: institutional provision with
training
Core: institutional provision with
compulsory use and consistent access
LRT @ MMU
The Approach

16. Study Areas
• Department
• Programme
• Resources
• Modules
Design
• Simple UI
• Quick links
• Related areas
Integrated VLE

17. Structure
• UNIT4 Student Records
• Scientia Syllabus+
Notifications
• Sharepoint
• Moodle
• Live@EDU
Assessment
• Coursework Receipt System (formal)
• Moodle (informal)
Library
• Equella
• Talis Aspire
Integrated Course

18. Distributed
Resources
• Essential Reading
• Further Reading
• Past Exam Papers
• Podcasts
• Lecture Recordings
• Copyrighted Material
Integrated Library

19. Service Oriented
•Web service brokers
• Independent applications
• Context sensitive calls
Identifiers
• User ID
• Unit spec
• Academic year
• Unit occurrence
Infrastructure

20. PROJECT OUTCOMES
Student satisfaction for course organisation up 1.8%
Student satisfaction for appropriate resource selection up
3.5%
Web service data suggests timetables and mobile app
were regularly used
Connected learner experience rather than exemplified
institutional silos
Guardian University Award for Student Experience 2013
EUNIS Elite Award for Excellence 2014
Outcomes

21. Personalised Learning
Environments
Reflection and critique

22. Evaluating e-Learning: Ownership

23. Education is based on contributing
to the optimal performativity of
the social system.
SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL EDUCATION
Everything must be
accounted for and ranked
on a hierarchy of efficiency
Accountability and
standards have
permanently demoted
some learners to the lower
echelons of performance
Performativity - Lyotard

24. Constant supervision and correction
constrains learners through the need
to achieve conformity
PERSONALISED STANDARDISATION
Self-regulation
Limited
Scope for
action
Individual
isation
Power - Foucault

25. Humanism – Said / Nussbaum
Critical education is restlessly self-clarifying
in search of freedom,
enlightenment, and more agency
RECOGNISING INDIVIDUAL NEEDS
Health Political
Life
Education
Liberty
Participation

26. Democratic Education - Freire
An identity that cannot be
discussed is an identity that
does not exist
EXISTING WITH THE WORLD
Lived
Experience
Problem
Solving
Human
Expression

27. Assessment
Commoditised cognitive skills (e.g. 21st Century Skills)
Standardised/national tests
Content
Over-exaggerated teacher authority (e.g. VLE)
Voiding teacher’s authority (e.g. Facebook)
Reflection
Conditioning self-regulation over self-actualisation
Holding the voice of the learner for judgement
Reflection
PITFALLS OF PERSONALISED LEARNING

28. Implications
3rd Generation e-Learning

29. E-Learning Generations
1st VLE
• Institutionally owned and teacher controlled
• Course centric experience (narrow curriculum)
2nd PLE
• Institutional/cloud blend and mixed ownership
• Distributed experiences (broad curriculum)
3rd CLE
•Physical/digital mix of co-created environments
•Worldly experience (beyond curricula)

30. Developed Developing 21st CENTURY
Jackson and Ward, 2004
The Asian Century

31. 3rd Generation e-Learning
Formative assessment
Epistemological Reflection
Connections: local to global

32. Evaluating e-Learning: Ownership

33. Thank You
Connected Learning
Reflections on the implementation of
personalised learning environments
James Ballard
jameslballard@outlook.com
JamesBallard2
@jameslballard
jameslballard