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Technical Curriculum Challenges and Solutions

in the Digital Agein Qatar

by Derrick C. Hann

Contemporary Issues Conference EDU8719


Background

Today’s students

Stakeholder needs

Credentialling

Today’s workplace

Cultural and linguistic contexts

Background


Background

Qatar and Canada joint venture

ten year contract

workplace training – focus on oil and gas sector

Business, Engineering Technology, Health Sciences and Information Technology

1st technical college in Qatar


Cultural and linguistic contexts


English language levels generally low

Students unprepared for post-secondary study in an English medium

College required to restructure and create School of Language Studies and Academics

Different cultural, educational, geographic and religious background


Canadian Curriculum for the Gulf Region


Canadian Curriculum for the Gulf Region

“The College’s perennial challenge lies in

maintaining the academic integrity and rigor

of a Canadian curriculum while revising the

content of the curriculum itself to align with a

different social, cultural, educational and

academic context.”


Student English Language Levels


Today’s students


Web 2.0

reliance on platform over applicationharnessing collective intelligence of web usersbloggingcooperation and collaboration among users

O’Reilly (2005)

“crowdsourcing” O’Reilly and Battelle, 2009, p. 2


Today’s students

Utilizing existing literacies and tapping into the current literaciesor skills that students have or are exposed to could make curriculum more relevant and interesting for students of today’s technologically proficient society.


Today’s students


Today’s students

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Web 2.0 technologies draw on the students’ natural tendency to utilize new technologies in their personal lives and personal communication which can be applied to their programs.

“the five C’s of participation: community, collaboration, creativity, conversation and control”

Hicks and Graber, 2010, p. 627


Today’s students

Industrial Age

Digital

Age


Today’s students

Industrial Age

Digital

Age

McElvaney and Berge, 2009Contemporary Issues Conference EDU 8719

Today’s students

Stakeholder needs


Accreditation and

Certification Bodies

Industry and Government

College Headquarters

Students and Faculty


Stakeholder needs

Credentialing



Credentialling

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Today’s workplace


horizontal relations of teamwork as opposed to hierarchical structure“multiskilling” – employees with ever increasing skills sets of various typesrounded and flexible worker communication strategies Cope & Kalantzis, 2009


Today’s workplace

Web 2.0 and Today’s Workplace


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Multiliteracies

Students will require:ability to shift between both open and closed modes of course deliverysocial bookmarkingblogosphere social networking the utilization of Web 2.0 microcontentnavigating within an online course management

system as part of their coursework.

Alexander (2008)


Literacies

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Digital Literacies

Siemens (2005) has defined an innovative theory of learning called connectivism. He suggests that the channels for learning are much more important than the content itself.

In the new connectivist pedagogy, “Learning is building networks of information, contacts and resources that are applied to real problems”

Anderson, 2010, p. 33


Traditional Literacies

Associated with the industrial age

script literacy skills only one way to access and manipulate information or data

alphabetical focus in a single mode (print)

may not be enough for the knowledge economy

page vs. pixel – fundamental unit of the literacy


Conclusion


Changing perspectives

Reconceptualization

Each institution unique

Identifying technologies

Based on proposed paperDigital Literacies and Multiliteracies: Solutions for College Curriculum Challengesby Derrick C. Hann


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Education

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existing college curriculum

delivery of curriculum

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canadian policies

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course objectives