From a presentation made at the University of Pennsylvania about trends shaping higher education and technology.

1. Engaging Students
Through Technology
Symposium 2014
Kimberly Eke
kimeke@upenn.edu

2. Trends
from 2014 NMC Horizon Report

3. Long-range
5+ years

4. Evolution of online learning

5. Evolution of online learning
Nearly every day, some new platform, technology, or tool is
announced that brings us closer to the kinds of highly
interactive, socially-engaging, and academically-rich
online environments that support learning.
!
While it’s a slow moving trend, the implication is that the
online learning will continue to improve, and may be
realized in a form quite different from ways we think of it
today. We need to prepare for that eventuality.

6. Agile approaches to institutional change

7. Agile approaches to institutional change
A natural tension arises between the rapid evolution of
technologies, and universities’ time-honored tradition
of shared governance in decision-making.
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If technology is a key driver of change, how can
institutions adapt to quickly changing
circumstances, business models, and
pedagogies?

8. Mid-range
3 - 5 years

9. Rise of data-driven learning & assessment

10. Rise of data-driven learning & assessment
With hundreds or thousands, or hundreds of thousands of
learners engaged in educational activities online, what can
be gleaned that might inform our teaching
practices, or help us understand learning outcomes in
ways we’ve not been able to achieve before due to scale
and/or technology?

11. Students as creators

12. Students as creators
Increasingly, students can collaborate, learn,
and create through phones, tablets, computers
and the internet. How can we, as educators,
take advantage of new digital affordances that
enable students to construct and demonstrate
their learning in new and authentic ways?

13. Fast-moving
1 - 2 years

14. Ubiquity of social media

15. Ubiquity of social media
Social media is changing the way
we interact. Whether it is sharing news
and resources, crowd-sourcing projects, or
participating in new forms of scholarly
communication, social media is exerting
forces that directly impact education.
!
If learning is socially-situated, how
can we leverage social media to
engage students yet also respect
their privacy?

16. Integration of online, hybrid & collaborative learning

17. In the very near term, we will see the distinctions
between online, hybrid, and collaborative learning fall
away — and what will remain is simply learning.
!
As educators contemplate designing effective learning
experiences and environments, they have a much
wider universe of options from which to draw.
!
This includes people and networks, technologies and
tools, and content (licensed, open, and that generated
in the course).
More choices can be both liberating and overwhelming.

18. To say our
current context
may be
confusing,
is an
understatement.

19. Fast-moving Mid-range Long-range
Integration of online,
hybrid & collaborative
learning
Students as creators
Evolution of online
learning
Ubiquity of social
media
Data-driven learning
assessment
Agile approaches to
institutional change

20. Take Fast-heart, moving Penn community!
Mid-range Long-range
!
Faculty, students and staff are already wrestling with
these tough questions, and some issues will be
addressed by our presenters today.
!
While our collective awareness of on-campus
innovations may not be evenly distributed yet, it’s
events like these, and people like you, whose
curiosity and willingness to share ideas helps
advance the discussion at Penn.
Integration of online,
hybrid & collaborative
learning
Students as creators
Evolution of online
learning
Ubiquity of social
media
Data-driven learning
assessment
Agile approaches to
institutional change

21. Meet with colleagues and students who share your
interest in teaching and learning. Talk with them
and offer your experiences.
!
Also, note that there is a small army of support
staff from across schools and centers.
!
Whether it is consulting on in-class strategies for
active learning, using Canvas effectively, or
supporting your students in creating innovative
media projects, we are here to help you.

22. kimeke@upenn.edu
twitter.com/kimeke
linkedin.com/in/kimeke
slideshare.net/kimeke
Thank you

23. CC-licensed photo credits
https://www.flickr.com/photos/7849372@N04/3582297307/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48734005@N03/14281294788/