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New Learning Technologies and Emergent Practices in

Higher Education

A survey of new technologies in the hands of our students

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Cyprien Lomas

• ELI Scholar in Residence• EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

• Director, Learning Centre, Faculty of Land & Food Systems

• University of British Columbia (UBC)

• clomas@educause.edu

• IM: sitegeist@yahoo.com

• Skype: cypri3n

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Setting the context: What is going on at your campus?

• Learning Management Systems

• Blended (hybrid) learning

• ePortfolios

• Buildings and classrooms

• Clickers, wifi, videoconferencing

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How People Learn

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What else is going on?

• Podcasting• Gaming• IM, chat• Social software• Mobile applications• Ubiquitous wireless• Interactivity

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Understand what is happening…

• What can we learn from our students?

• What can we learn from their practices?

• How can we spot a fad?

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Trends

• Self expression

• New ways of organizing information

• Never away from the institution

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Self Expression

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/numa.php

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Blogger.com

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Growth of blogs (graph)

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• Narrow - personal and specialized/niche content production

• Casting - personalized choice / subscription - distribution via RSS 2.0 (enclosures) - RSS fits into the consumer control trend that's sweeping the media world

Narrow - Casting

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History

content transport player

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Screencasting• How to use Audacity

http://www.educause.edu/Screencasts/Audacity/Untitled.html

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Consumption or creation?

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??? Creation

OrchestrationRemix

New Literacies

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Finding and organizing information

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News readers

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Tagging

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Reputation

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Always on

Michael Stephens photohttp://tinyurl.com/8kb4r

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In seminar practices

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cyprien/14330956/

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Back channel

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Google Jockeying

• http://www.langmaker.com/db/eng_googlefu_form.htm

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Mobile PDA based games

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Location is everything…

• Google Maps

• Remix with flickr

• Remix with data

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Conclusions

• Easy to create data, stories, etc.

• Smarter organization of data

• Richer media literacy

• Authentic locations

• New spaces for learning

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Thanks to….

• Nick Noakes, UST Hong Kong

• Ruben Puentedura, Hippasus

• Wayne Brent, U Arizona

• EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

• NMC

• Horizon VCOP

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• clomas@educause.edu

• http:landfood.jot.com/EmergingPractices

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Places to play…