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Leveraging ICT for pedagogy individual and
institutional opportunity spaces
Higher Education to 2030 What futures for
quality access in the era of globalisation? Sessio
n New vehicles for enhancing access and
achievement in higher education

• Michelle N. Lamberson
• The University of British Columbia
• Director, Office of Learning Technology

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Strategic importance of ICT Reflect back to
look forward.
During the past year, as heretofore, it has been
the policy of the department to serve, as far as
possible, all sections of the Province,
particularly the more remote urban centres. Since
funds for the work have been limited, an effort
has been made to explore new media for the
equalization of the educational opportunities
offered by the University. In this connection
emphasis has been placed upon the use and
development of the radio and the directed
study-group. In all phases of the work the main
effort has been directed towards providing an
educational programme with a constructive purpose
and with some degree of continuity. Gordon
ShrumUBC Director of University Extension1938
Report to the President of the University
Photo from UBC Archiveshttp//angel.library.ubc.c
a/u?/ubcnew,14166
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Pre-conference questionnaire technology and
education future scenarios

• What?

• How?

• Keep technology and educational purpose tightly
  linked
• Deployment focuses on
• Pedagogy
• Expanding access to high quality learning
  experiences
• Developing ways to capture information that will
  enable us to become even better teachers.

• Invest in technology implementation that supports
  students as knowledge creators analysts and
  mobile lifelong learners
• Improve system usability, streamline data
  exchange, facilitate content mobility
• Build strong and ongoing relationships with our
  students.
• Enable faculty to spend more time supporting
  student learning, not administering courses.

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Two Perspectives

• Individual (instructor, geologist)

• Institutional(University administrator)

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Outline

• ICT Landscape Trends
• Pedagogy Technology Possibilities Challenges
• Overview
• Open Source Web 2.0 tools
• Student generated content changing classroom
  models
• New data sources
• Personal Learning Environment Institutional
  systems
• Closing Thoughts

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ICT Landscape and Trends
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ICT Education Rapidlychanging landscape
Students Faculty
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Characterised by Contrast

• Enable Choice

• Restrict Options

• Enterprise vs. Lightweight applications
• Open/Community Source
• Web 2.0 services
• Open Content
• Mobility

• Privacy Security
• Service Sustainability
• Rapidly changing technologies
• Client Expectations

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OECD 2008 Trends Shaping Education ICT

• Digital Revolution
• Technology improvements (devices smaller, faster,
  cheaper)
• Expanded access to and use of technology
  worldwide
• Expanding World Wide Web
• New knowledge sources
• Communications cheaper
• Concern for digital divide, information overload
• Web 2.0
• User created content (Wikipedia, blogs)
• New business models

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Recommended Reading New Media Consortium Horizon
Project

• Expert panel, multiple languages, Australian
  version
• Highlights key emerging technologies on three
  time horizons (1, 2-3, 4-5)
• Interprets significant trends and critical
  challenges
• Reports wiki linked via http//www.nmc.org/horiz
  on

Elwood (Bryan) Alexander delivers Horizon
Report to 2007 ELI meeting. Photo by Alan
Levine, Flickr (Creative Commons Attribution
License)
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NMC Horizon Project Meta-trends2004 through 2008

• Evolving approaches to communication between
  humans and machines
• Collective sharing and generation of knowledge
• Computing in three dimensions
• Connecting people via the network
• Games as pedagogical platforms
• Shifting of content production to users
• Evolution of a ubiquitous platform

See http//www.nmc.org/horizon
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2008 Horizon Report Critical Challenges

• Trends point to need for innovation and
  leadership at all levels of the academy.
• Higher education service expectations increasing
  especially content delivery to mobile/personal
  devices
• Collaboration pedagogies pushing need for new
  forms of interaction and assessment.
• Need to provide formal instruction in new forms
  of visual, and technological literacy and content
  creation with todays tools.

Excerpted from the 2008 Horizon Report see
http//wp.nmc.org/horizon2008/chapters/critical-ch
allenges/
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ICT as a Vehicle for Access Attainment
Possibilities Challenges

• Individual

• Institutional

• Free Open Source Web 2.0 tools Classroom
  admin policy
• Student generated content/Web 3.0 New
  Assessment Models
• New data sources New mental models tools
• Personal Learning Environment Complex roles
  integration with institutional systems
• Scholarship of Teaching Learning

• Open community source Re-investing in
  re-skilling workforce
• Virtual physical learning spaces Capital
  investment, funding models
• New data sources Culture, privacy policy
• Cloud computing/Service Oriented Architecture
  Evolving standards legacy applications
• New forms of Institutional Research

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Pedagogy Technology
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Teaching Learning PuzzleICT Applications
E-portfolio
Blog
LMS
Clickers
Wiki
Podcasting
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Technology Applications at UBC
myUBC (portal)
LMS
Endeavor Library
StudentService Centre Faculty Service
Centre(SIS)
Human Resources
CTConnect
Finance
Research Databases
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Pedagogy Technology

• Free Open Source Web 2.0 tools Classroom
  admin policy
• Open community source Re-investing in
  re-skilling workforce

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Abundant free tools Web 2.0
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share
Alike 2.0 Generic license, Ludwig Gatzke, image
located athttp//www.flickr.com/photos/stabilo-b
oss/93136022/
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Examples Web 2.0

• Alan Levine 50 Web 2.0 Ways to tell a
  storyhttp//cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50Ways
• Jon Beasley-Murray, UBC use Wikipedia!Students
  develop group projects as entries to Wikipedia.
  Goal achieve Featured statushttp//en.wikipedi
  a.org/wiki/UserJbmurray/Madness
• UBC Global Citizenship Course Leah
  MacFadyenhttp//globalcitizens.pbwiki.com/
• ETEC 510 (Masters of Educational Technology) -
  Design Wikihttp//design.test.olt.ubc.ca/Main_Pa
  ge

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Pedagogy Technology

• Student generated content/Web 3.0 New
  Assessment Models
• Virtual physical learning spaces Capital
  investment, funding models

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Examples Student Generated Content

• (Previous examples)
• Virtual Worlds UBC Ancient Spaces
  (http//ancient.arts.ubc.ca/)
• LEAP Project student success(http//www.leap.uc
  .ca)
• UBC Student-directed seminars
• Info http//leap.ubc.ca/get_ahead/student_directe
  d_seminars/
• Course Examples http//leap.ubc.ca/get_ahead/stu
  dent_directed_seminars/courses/

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Pedagogy Technology

• New data sources New mental models tools
• New data sources Culture, privacy policy

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New Data Sources

• Research data
• Institutional national repositories (funding
  agencies)
• Real time data
• Learning Management Systems
• Activity data
• Social Networking Analysis
• Vendor Space - use of external services

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Tools in Blackboard Vista(Most of these found in
typical LMS)
Administration
Assessment
Student bookmarks
Notes
Assessments
File manager
Tracking
Assignments
Calendar
IMPORTANT POINT Grouping the various tools
according to educational purpose helps make
sense of activity within those tools.
Folder
Announcements
Discussions
Content
Engagement
My Grades
Chat
Mail
Printable view
File
Syllabus
Search
Weblinks
Whos online
OECD- Paris, December 2008
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UBC Tools Total Interactions
Percentage of total interactions
27 Aug 2007
06 Jan 2008
Slide courtesy of Shane Dawson, University of
Wollongong (Contact shane.dawson_at_ubc.ca) From
Evaluation of teaching practice through
monitoring and analysis of e-metrics, ISSOTL 2008
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Students
Slide courtesy of Shane Dawson, University of
Wollongong (Contact shane.dawson_at_ubc.ca) From
Evaluation of teaching practice through
monitoring and analysis of e-metrics, ISSOTL 2008
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Social networking analysis in Blackboard Vista
Script Perform SNA
Slide courtesy of Shane Dawson, University of
Wollongong (Contact shane.dawson_at_ubc.ca) From
Evaluation of teaching practice through
monitoring and analysis of e-metrics, ISSOTL 2008
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Social Networking Logistics Discussion, EOSC 311
Slide adapted from ISSOTL 2008 talk by Dawson,
Lamberson Poole Evaluation of teaching
practice through monitoring and analysis of
e-metrics
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Social Networking Lifetime List Discussion, EOSC
311
Slide adapted from ISSOTL 2008 talk by Dawson,
Lamberson Poole Evaluation of teaching
practice through monitoring and analysis of
e-metrics
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Applications for Data

• Instructor Detection of student progress
• Student Understanding learning
• Predictor of success?
• Institutional
• New ways to indicate/demonstrate student
  engagement
• Understanding institutional IT needs

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Pedagogy Technology

• Personal Learning Environment Complex roles
  integration with institutional systems
• Cloud computing/Service Oriented Architecture
  Evolving standards legacy applications

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Applications
Wikis
myUBC (portal)
CoursEval
Weblogs/RSS
LMS
Clickers
StudentService Centre Faculty Service
Centre(SIS)
Endeavor Library
Human Resources
Institutional Repository
CTConnect
Finance
Podcasting
3D Immersive Env.
ePortfolios
CMS Research Data
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Personal Learning Environments, 1 Future
Virtual Learning Environment Scott Wilson (2005)
PLE
See http//zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/scott/blogvie
w?entry20050125170206 and http//zope.cetis.ac.
uk/members/scott/blogview?entry20050117150356
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Personal Learning Environments, 2 PLEs and the
institution Scott Wilson (2007). the set of
connections between what an institution offers
and what individuals manage
Modified from http//zope.cetis.ac.uk/members/sc
ott/blogview?entry20071113120959
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Closing Thoughts
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ICT as a Vehicle for Access Attainment
Possibilities Challenges

• Individual

• Institutional

• Free Open Source Web 2.0 tools Classroom
  admin policy
• Student generated content/Web 3.0 New
  Assessment Models
• New data sources New mental models tools
• Personal Learning Environment Complex roles
  integration with institutional systems
• Scholarship of Teaching Learning

• Open community source Re-investing in
  re-skilling workforce
• Virtual physical learning spaces Capital
  investment, funding models
• New data sources Culture, privacy policy
• Cloud computing/Service Oriented Architecture
  Evolving standards legacy applications
• New forms of Institutional Research

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Closing thoughts Making IT Work

• Listen.
• Faculty/peer acceptance ( curriculum fit)
• Institutional support structures have to evolve
• Changes in technology needed (finer grained
  separation of identity from application data)
• New forms of scholarship evolving
• Students as partners
• Vendors(?) as partners

Ecoute (Listen) by Henri de MillerÉglise
Saint-Eustache, ParisPhoto by M.N. Lamberson
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Challenge for higher education

• The best teachers and researchers should be
  thinking about how to design courses in which
  technology enriches teaching rather than
  substitutes for it. And equally important,
  faculties need to concern themselves with the
  need to give their students the tools with which
  they can explore deeply as well as widely, with
  which they can discriminate, analyze, and create
  rather than simply accumulate.
• The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates
  in the Research University
• REINVENTING UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION A Blueprint
  for America's Research Universities
• 1998

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Thank you for listening!

• Michelle Lamberson
• University of British Columbiamichelle.lamberson_at_
  ubc.ca