1. Digital Drivers for
Learning and Teaching
in Higher Education
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute
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2. Overview
Horizon Report
CSIRO Megatrends
University of the future report
Digital literacies
Seamless learning
Personalised learning
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3. CSIRO Megatrends
On the move
Personalisation
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4. University of the Future
 Democratisation
of
knowledge and access
 Contestability of markets
and funding
 Digital technologies
 Global mobility
 Integration with industry
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5. Horizon Reports
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6. Horizon Trends
 People
expect to be able to work, learn, and
study whenever and wherever they want.
 The abundance of resources and
relationships will challenge our educational
identity.
 Students want to use their own technology
for learning.
 Teaching paradigms across all sectors are
shifting to include online learning, hybrid
learning and collaborative models.
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7. Challenges
 Seamless learning – people expect to be able
to work, learn, and study whenever and
wherever they want.
 Digital literacies – capabilities which fit an
individual for living, learning and working in a
digital society (JISC)
 Personalisation - our learning, teaching,
place of learning, technologies will be
individualised
 Digital scholarship will be the norm.
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8. Game Changers
Digitalliteracies
Seamless learning
Personal learning
environments
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9. Digital Literacies
 Literacyis no longer “the ability
to read and write” but now “the
ability to understand
information however
presented.”
 Can't assume students have
skills to interact in a digital age
 Literacies
will allow us to teach
more effectively in a digital age
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10. Developing Literacies
 Employable graduates need to be digitally literate
 Digital literacies are often related to discipline
area
 Learners
need to be supported by staff to develop
academic digital literacies
 Professional development is vital in developing
digital literacies
associations are supporting their
 Professional
members to improve digital literacies
 Engagingstudents supports digital literacy
development i.e. students as change agents (JISC)
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11. Context
of
Digital
Literacies
(JISC)

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13. Seamless Learning
Seamless learning
occurs when a
person experiences a
continuity of
learning across a
combination of
locations, times,
technologies or social
settings.

14. Seamless Learning
Focuses on the
continuity of the
learning journey
Different places
and spaces
Diverse
technologies

15. Distributed
Learning Spaces
Physical Blended Virtual
Formal Informal Formal Informal
Mobile Personal Academic
Professional
Outdoor
Practice
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16. Personal Learning Spaces
‣ Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
integrate formal and informal learning
spaces
‣ Customised by the individual to suit their
needs and allow them to create their own
identities.
‣ A PLE recognises ongoing learning and the
need for tools to support life-long and life-
wide learning.
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17. Connectivism
‣ PLE may also require new ways of
learning as knowledge has changed to
networks and ecologies (Siemens,
2006).
‣ The implications of this change is that
improved lines of communication need to
occur.
‣ “Connectivism is the assertion that learning is
primarily a network-forming process” (p.
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21. Questions?
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