2. The Future?
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Rethinking the role of teachers?
Rethinking how school works?
Creating authentic learning opportunities?
Keeping formal education relevant?
3. Barriers To Change –
Prof. Diana Laurillard
The drivers of the education system
– assessment, curriculum, inspection/quality
requirements, funding flows, promotion
criteria
– have not changed in recognition of what
technology offers, so nothing within it can
change.
7. What is FELTAG?
Further Education Learning Technology Action Group
Mission statement
“FELTAG will aim to best support the agile evolution of
the FE sector in anticipation of disruptive technology, for
the benefit of learners, employers & the UK economy as a
whole.”
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8. Outcomes and key principles
Maximising impact for learners
Creating the conditions for the agile evolution of the
FE system
Supporting employers and driving economic growth
Technology is not the end goal in itself
Government cannot, and should not, provide all the
answers
Ownership by the FE sector of FELTAG outcomes is
key
FELTAG should embrace the concept of a whole life
learning journey
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13. John Abbott
• Enable the development of a range of delivery
modalities such as Online Learning, Blended Learning and
‘Flipped’ Classroom. These tools include Learner Management
Systems, Virtual Learning Environments and Lesson Capture
• Support social or collaborative learning and include
the use of social media, PLNs (Personal learning Networks), online
forums and other collaborative technologies
• Enable the development of Mobile learning including
BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
• Support low cost access to books through Open
Educational Resources such as e-books supported by dynamic data
• Provide flexible assessment through online e-
portfolios and badges to accredit learning
• Support free access to online education courses
through MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
• Provide scope for individualised learning
programmes through the use of Learning Analytics
and Assistive Technologies
Technology as a tool
Some activities you might like to
try…..
•Virtual learning day
•Mobile devices
•Active learning zones
•Flipped learning
•Digital leaders
•VLE development of generic
learning content
•E-portfolios
•Learning Apps
15. It’s not about the technology ….
… it’s about new thinking.
16. The ewords framework
Swap
traditional
practices with
ICT
Exchange
Engage
learners by
using a richer
mix of media
Enrich
Deepen
learning
through the
use of ICT
Enhance
Change the
content,
process and
location of
learning
Extend
Enable
learners to
take control of
their own
learning
Empower
shallowdeep
Martin Blows
the ewords framework
17. Policy or Practice?
"The reality is that the
circumstances, rationale and
representations for learning
have changed....lets confront
it”
"Richard Noss #altc2012
18. Ongoing Developments
ALT ocTEL
UfI VOOC
Education training foundation
EdTech Assessment Tool
Education and Training
Foundation Technology
Support Programme
JISC Innovation projects
JISC RSCs
LKL Learning Designer and
CRAM
19. Implementing FELTAG
and ETAG is as much
about changing mindset
and behaviours as using
technology…
This requires a whole
organisational approach …
20. Thank you
Howard Browes
Create Learning Partnership
Howardcreatelearning@gmail.com
@hanbrowes
www.createlearningpartnership.co.uk
Hinweis der Redaktion
The results of our survey reveal that 80% of FE tutors believe that technology has the power to positively impact teaching and learning (four out of five) and two thirds (66%) think technology improves it. However, it also finds that professionals are being held back from making the most of new resources due to a lack of investment, uncertainty about the technology and limited opportunities for access and experimentation. This research also shows support from the top in colleges across the UK: 71% of tutors say their leadership team encourages the use of new technology. However enthusiasm for what the digital future can offer among tutors and managers is not yet being matched by uptake in the classroom. More than a third (38%) of those surveyed say they lack confidence in learning to use new technologies, and fewer than one in seven (29%) use all the technology available to them. Tutors are clear that in order to embrace the digital future they need better support and more investment in new resources
Why is education so resistant to change? Over the next decade will it undergo as radical a transformation as the music industry? If so, it will have to face some of the same issues, such as preserving copyright and maintaining quality, and also some unique ones such as assessing learning in the field and bridging the gap between formal and non-formal education. We urgently need to address these issues if learning is to meet the challenges and opportunities of the mobile age.
