This document discusses trends in learning platforms and the future of higher education. It notes that universities face pressures to adapt and provide value as student loan debt rises. While learning management systems (LMS) have been widely adopted, they have not changed much since the late 1990s. However, teaching practices are beginning to evolve with a renewed focus on outcomes, experimentation, and agile approaches. Looking ahead, LMS may integrate more tools and analytics to support personalized learning. Institutions will also focus on rethinking learning spaces and designing education collaboratively to cultivate growth mindsets for navigating ongoing changes in higher education.

1. Learning Platforms
Common Threads & Future Directions

2. Universities are under enormous pressures to adapt to rapidly changing
circumstances and expectations. The core question they are called to
answer is, What is the value of higher education?

3. Our graduates face an uncertain future. Average loan debt for
class of 2012 was nearly $30,000. According to the Federal
Reserve Bank of NY, there is ~ $1.6T outstanding student loan
debt.

4. This has led to calls for greater transparency, affordability, & access.

5. And all of this is happening while w are also witnessing the “unbundling of
education.”

7. There is a renewed focus on teaching, learning, and outcomes.
Experimentation in teaching methods, sharing among faculty, and
new research to inform us is a good thing.

8. There is much discussion about an emerging trend across the
higher ed landscape: Agile approaches to institutional change.

9. The chameleon is an ancient species that can adapt to changing
environments. Most importantly, each eye can operate independently,
allowing the it to observe two different objects simultaneously. We
need to keep one eye on our traditions, values and what makes
universities special, and one eye on the changes happening around us.

10. Institutions successful at managing
change are able to correctly identify
passing trends versus those that truly
impact the mission.

11. LMS

13. www.educause.edu/visuals/shared/er/extras/2014/ReclaimingInnovation/default.html

14. https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Hate-Blackboard/460744400323

15. Not just despised in higher ed, but also workforce training….
vimeo.com/100428761

16. I don’t subscribe to that point
of view. We have unlimited
creativity when it comes to
ways to use technology for
good. I predict you will inspire
me today…

17. 1997 1999 2005
2008 20122010 2011
2013 2014
Plenty of change since 1997, right?

18. Still no one industry leader. LMS is big business.

19. Global LMS revenue was estimated at more than $2B
in 2013 with projected growth to almost $8B by 2018.

20. 2014
17,000 faculty from 151 institutions
75,000 students from 213 institutions
https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers1414.pdf

21. 99% of institutions have an LMS in place

22. The average age of an LMS is 8 years.
15% of institutions report they expect to replace within 3 years.

23. Basic features Collaboration
User satisfaction is highest for basic features;
lowest for collaboration and engagement.

24. While LMS have evolved over time, they generally
have the same capabilities that they had back in the
late 1990s. They’re a good place to store content in
such a way that only enrolled students have access.
They offer convenient ways to deliver quizzes,
facilitate assignments, and publish grades. Different
ways to facilitate classroom communication are built
in. They help meet FERPA, copyright compliance, and
archival needs.
edutechnica.com/2014/01/07/a-model-for-lms-evolution/

25. LMS have not changed
much since the late ‘90s.
Why?

26. 1994
If you were teaching in 1994, how were you teaching? Posting
grades on a sheet of paper on your door? Were your class
communications all face to face? Students turning in typed papers?"
"
Think about how your shopping, banking, and entertainment may
have changed since then. Juxtapose that with your teaching…

27. Here’s the university web site in late 1996.

28. LMSs haven’t changed because higher ed teaching practices haven’t
changed much. We’ve adapted in ways necessary. Tools developed fit
the need. Our work in the classroom has remained relatively stable.
Perhaps until recently…

29. Experimentation, sharing, clickers, active learning are all relatively
new & mainstream. How can we experiment using the LMS in ways
that are informed by research?

30. T & L"
Research

31. Recommended Reading
2010 20142014 2014
All of these books emphasize the notion of making connections.
Knowledge must be stored in memory so that it can be used and
connected to new ideas and situations.

32. Learning Principles
1. Prior knowledge
2. Organization of knowledge
3. Spaced practice
4. Metacognition

33. Prior knowledge
All new learning requires a foundation of prior knowledge. Good teachers
help make students’ prior knowledge explicit, address misconceptions, &
help students connect new knowledge to prior knowledge.

34. Organization
of knowledge
As experts, you have more dense, richly interconnected networks of
knowledge structures than novices do. What is obvious to you may be
completely hidden to students. Good teachers use techniques that make
organization explicit and help learners recognize meaningful patterns.

35. Spaced practice
… is about helping students recall and remember new knowledge over
spaced intervals of time so that they can continue to build effective
knowledge structures and make new connections. Recall should
involve cognitive effort, and when paired with feedback, spaced
practice strengthens retention more than testing alone does.

36. Metacognition
…is thinking about our thinking to correctly assess what we know
and what we can do to improve. "
1. Recognize competence when we see it in others."
2. Become better judges about what we know and don’t know."
3. Adopt learning strategies that get results."
4. Find objective ways to track our progress.

37. How could we use
the LMS or other
edtechs in support of
the principle provided?
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38. Your Ideas
Prior knowledge"
- Pre-class session quizzes
(online, scantron) with
immediate feedback.
- Teach only what was missed.
Knowledge organization"
- Post slides before class
- Use graphic organizers
- Create interactive syllabus
- Give Topics meaningful titles
Spaced practice"
- Pop quizzes & student-
created quizzes
- Student-created study guides
- Provide access to previous
course sites
Metacognition"
- Use wiki for ongoing
discussion
- Have students reflect upon
and annotate own writing
- Ask students to connect new
learning to earlier content

39. You inspired me! Great ideas
& discussion. Let’s look at
where we are headed with
the LMS…

40. Trends

41. LMS Plug-ins
(also called LTI tools)

42. Continuous"
updates
Cloud-hosted LMS

43. Personalization,"
analytics
Data ownership questions…

44. Rethinking
learning spaces

45. Rethinking"
Libraries

46. Learning design"
as a team"
effort

47. Growth mindset
“Agile institutions” are made up of people. How agile are we?

48. There is much love for Moodle!

49. kimeke@upenn.edu"
twitter.com/kimeke"
linkedin.com/in/kimeke
Thank you

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