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VRE-PLE-SN-CoP General Overview 2008

Russell Butson

Higher Education Development Centre

Position: Lecturer in Higher Education

Education: – Masters (Educ), – Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Edu), – Bachelor of Arts (Psyc), – Diploma of Teaching

Educational Experience: – PreSchool, Primary– Secondary,– Higher Education – – Both Private & Public environments

ICT Experience: – Computer Networks - Internal Affairs late1980’s– Computers in Schools – late 80’s– Heavily involved in the WWW since 1993

Research Interests– Personalised Learning Environments– Collaborative Research Environments– Student Experience in Higher Education

Background

Theoretical Framework

Emerging Paradigm - Education

Instructional ParadigmTraditional

Self-Directed ParadigmEmerging

Knowledge Transfer from faculty to students Jointly constructed by students and faculty

StudentsPassive vessel to be filled by

faculty’s knowledgeActive constructor, discoverer, transformer of own knowledge

Faculty Purpose Classify and sort students Develop students competencies and talents

RelationshipsImpersonal relationships among

students and between faculty and students

Personal transactions among students and between faculty and students

Context Competitive and individualisticCollaborative learning involving

teams and faculty

Assumptions Any expert can teachTeaching is complex and requires

considerable training

In higher education the focus has been on content and the delivery of this

content to the student. Adopting this new paradigm would see us

harnessing the collective intelligence of our students to continually

improve the student experience through a more intensive interaction in

the educational process. This represents a far more complex environment

than is presently in place. Students would be viewed not as receptacles

for information but as an integral element of the educational process. In

fact, to adopt this approach is to make students an essential part of the

educational process in ways that blur the boundaries between our

traditional conceptions of teaching and learning.

The Potential of the Emerging Model

The SituationUndergraduates

The default process we found being employedThe Process

The default process we found being employedWhat they did

The default process we found being employedWhat we were hoping to find...

International Attempts

Open Networks

The Deployment of Web2 Technologies

Instructional to Self-Directed

Social Software

Social Software – Web2.0 Services / Tools

bookmarks

Networked Environment

Wikis

Blogs

Web2.0Tools

Services

Creating new

practices

bookmarks

Networked Environment

Wikis

Blogs

Web2.0Tools

Services

Creating new

practices

bookmarks

Networked Environment

Wikis

Blogs

Web2.0Tools

Services

Creating new

practices

bookmarks

Networked Environment

Wikis

Blogs

Web2.0Tools

Services

Creating new

practices

The Solution

Communities of PracticeNetworks with a purpose

Private Communities

Open Networks

Activities...Process

Workflow

Activities...Process

Workflow

Plans...AchievementsProgression

Plans...AchievementsProgression

KnowledgeManageme

nt

KnowledgeManageme

ntIdentityIdentity

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FAILED

Mash-up•Direct•Links•Embedded•Feeds

Design-Based Research – The Intervention