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Where is e-Pedagogy?
Is technology a tool, a driver or a constructor of learning in the University of Aberdeen?
Flexible Delivery SymposiumMay 2009
Do Coyle
Notice Board
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o
The traditional skill of content creation is redundant in the
information-rich environment
Guide on the side or
sage on the stage?
Contemporary learners do not need to
be supplied with more information, they need
to know how to select and use the vast amount
of information available online. They need to
acquire new literacies: digital literacy, media
literacy and information literacy….
Harness the power of the crowd
“Memorisation is valueless when students are one click away from Google and Wikipedia”
“Problem solving is really done through memorisation”
Articulating pedagogies
Frameworks
UnderpinningSchema
Fitting together pieces of the jigsaw?
Perspectives on Learning
Universities must change from being one dimensional to multi-dimensional
Making connections
Distributed cognition
Learning as knowledge creation
Collaborative
meaning-making
Net Geners’ & Millenials’ perspectives on Learning?
Active, authentic learning
Task-oriented
Just-in-time learning
Search not memorise
Google first port of call
Digital forces
• Use Web• Active learning• Authentic tasks• Goal oriented• Search• Google• Collaborate
• Use books• Passive learning• Contrived tasks• Process oriented• Memorise• Library• Compete
20th century approaches 21st century approaches
New types of knowledge?
“Knowledge consists of accurate inter-relationships among facts, based on unbiased research that produces compelling evidence about systematic causes… in the classical view there is only one correct answer”
“Collective agreement about a description that may combine facts with other dimensions of human experience. The validity of knowledge in Web 2.0 media is peer review from people seen, by the community of contributors, as having unbiased perspectives”
Classical knowledge Web 2.0 knowledge
A connectivist perspective
• Learning is a network forming process• Capacity to know more is more critical
than what is known• Learning rests in aggregating diverse,
often opposing, views• Content is often the by-product of the
learning process, not the starting point• Connections, not content, are the
beginning point of the learning process• Decision making is in itself a learning
Pedagogy ~ Pedagogies~ ePedagogy
‘Learning is a process people do, not a process that is done to people’
Conventional pedagogical practices focus on the means and ends of delivery, with the emphasis on content management and information transmission.
Connectivism may not be the answer…but itdoes add something to our thinking about teaching and learning in the 21st century.
All four traditionalpedagogies can becomplimentary –even evolutionary
A comprehensive e-pedagogy would embrace online assessment
E-Pedagogues
Today’s teachers have to learn to communicate in the language and
style of their students… going faster,
less step-by-step, more in parallel,
with more random accessPrensky 2001
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
Oliver’s 2004 call for blended pedagogies
An e-pedagogue is a teacher at heart, has a passion for learning,knowledge of learning theories and effective pedagogy, and understands the functionality of e-technology Mehanna, 2004 ALT-J
Conflict~ Confrontation ~Comfort zone
memory v application
Knowledge transmissionv knowledge creation
F2f lectures vvod-casts
Do new technologies provide tools for learning OR do they shape learning?
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Rewiring education
‘Instructional paradigms will have to shift’ (McClure, Cornell) – yes, but how??
Our challenge is to incorporate affordances of ICTwithin a new pedagogy for e-learning. This will involve new learning on the part of teachers, together with recognition, on their part, of the dynamic pedagogyin which a process of continual change must be Accommodated. J. Cuthell
ICT enhances learning opportunities independent of the content
Participatory pedagogy
Where is e-Pedagogy?
Is technology a tool, a driver or a constructor of learning in the University of Aberdeen?
Lived pedagogies lie at the intersection of the tutor-student
interpretation of theinterrelationship between
knowledge & learning
Participatory pedagogy
Pedagogies for effective course delivery and design
• No givens, uncertainty, pedagogies• Communication/quality interaction at the core• Student experience is the starting point• Personalised pathways and learner involvement in
course design-delivery• Flexible, multimodal course content – one size does
not fit all , baby and bathwater syndrome• Equip students with the means to find and use their
pathways, networks, experiences
• As university teachers we are learners. We need to network, share ideas, learn from each other and our students – the definitive answer does not exist ……..