4 March 2010 (Thursday) | 09:00 - 12:30 | HKU | http://citers2010.cite.hku.hk/abstract/3 | Dr. David KENNEDY, Director and Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning Centre, Lingnan University

1. Strategies for learning with and via technology Teaching and Learning Centre Lingnan University David M. Kennedy, PhD 甘明德 博士 Associate Professor, CDS Director, TLC

2. Outline Lingnan Context Issues around evidence Opportunities Some observations Closing 2 Albert Einstein We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

3. 21st Century graduates Imaginative Problem Solving Liberal Arts @ Lingnan University Effective Reasoning Independent Critical Thinking Intercultural Maturity Community and Service Desire for Lifelong Learning Sound Planning Skills Leadership Capabilities Tolerance Integrity, Civility Strong Sense of Personal Responsibility Strong Analytic Skills

4. Policy driven by evidence Creation of an eLearning strategy current activity Research into student uses of technology recent report just completed (later) Trialing alternative(s) to WebCT Moodle and Mahara Development of a workshop programme Developing an Assessment strategy

5. Results of recent study Teaching spaces more flexible rooms required Increase bandwidth (particularly Hostels) Better adoption of blended learning Classroom polling devices Use SMS more widely Integrate Blogs and Wikis collaborative work in particular Lecture capture

6. Opportunities Google apps. collaboration and tracking (history) Social networking tools communication and lasting relationships Second life Lingnan now has an SL island Google Earth – campus map see http://tlcserver.ln.edu.hk/gmap/ reducing student stress – 1st Yr

7. What areLingU students doing? Emerging technologies Blogs (reading 80%, commenting – 74%, maintaining – 68%) File-sharing (music – 82%, photos – 72%) Social networking (86%) VOIP telephony (56%) Web-conferencing (62%) IM/ MSN (91%) The evidence is students read – just not in traditional ways!

9. BUT: Blogging is not seen as useful!

10. The teachers – (using WebCT) TOO TIME CONSUMING LACK OF SPECIFIC KNOWLDEGE USE OTHER TOOLS

11. TLC services Workshops and consultations for blended learning Supporting Teaching Development Grants e.g., courseware development, pedagogy, OBA course design, grant applications Trialing technologies Moodle, Mahara, Video services, Mobile learning (languages) Supporting OBA-focus for next 2 years

12. TLC services Course evaluations (Online Course Evaluation of Teaching and Learning - oCTLE) Evaluation of Core Curriculum courses students (focus groups and surveys) staff (interviews) Graduate Exit survey Committee work (Academic quality, IT resources etc) Visiting scholars programme (OBATL)

13. Learning design Careful design of the learning environment to achieve curriculum alignment Integration of traditional approaches and resources with technology affordances Use the MOSTappropriate technology (discipline-specific) Collecting evidenceof impact on studentlearning 13

14. Learning design in the near future Use of ICTs Web 2.0 technologies in particular Blogs – for reflective writing Wikis – for collaborative writing Social networking – forcommunities of practice ePortfolios for moreflexible assessmentartifacts Evaluation of outcomes 14 http://www.ethics.org.au/resources/img/general-content/articles/0148b-hammer-cartoon.gif

15. Contact details David M. Kennedy, PhD Director, Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) Associate Professor, Department of Computing and Decision Sciences TLC Office: Rm GE 201/1 B. Y. Lam Building Lingnan University, Hong Kong 8 Castle Peak Road, TuenMun