Next-generation learners Personalising and customising learning experiences User-generated content as a form of expression and a means of social learning The expectation of seamless, mobile learning opportunities.

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Connectivity, Mobility and
Personalisation: Understanding
the Next Generation of Learners
Informa
The Future of Learning
Park Royal, Darling Harbour, Sydney
February 24-25, 2015
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute
Director, Digital Futures - CRN

2. Overview
n Next-generation
learners
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n Personalising
and customising
learning experiences
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n User-generated
content as a
form of expression and a
means of social learning
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n The
expectation of seamless,
mobile learning opportunities.
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3. Next-Generation
Learners

6. Dynamic Landscape

7. Horizon Report
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10. Interactions
Interactive learning (learner-to-content)
Networked learning (learner-to-learner;
learner-to-teacher)
Student-generated content (learner-asdesigners).
Connected students (knowledge is in the
network)
Learning-oriented assessment
(assessment-as-learning)
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11. Personalising and
Customising Learning
Experiences

12. Characteristics
n Digital
citizenship
n Seamless
learning
n Learner
engagement/
self-regulated learning
n Learning-oriented
assessment
n Lifelong
learning
n Desire
and life-wide
paths
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13. http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

14. Europe - Digital Agenda
Scoreboard 2012
n 73%
of EU households had access to the
internet
n A
lack of skills is the second most important
reason for not having access to the internet
n Only
53% of the labour force - confident that
they had sufficient digital skills to change jobs.
n Age,
gender, and education remain the key
challenges.
n http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/sites/digital!
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agenda/files/scoreboard_digital_skills.pdf
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15. Wheeler Digital Literacies
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Social networking skills
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Transliteracy skills
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Maintaining Privacy
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Managing Identity
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Creating content
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Organising and sharing content
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Reusing/repurposing content
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Filtering and selecting content
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Self broadcasting
http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/what-digital-literacies.html
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16. NG (2012)
Cognitive
Information literacy
Critical literacy
Multi-literacies
Technical
Operational
literacy
Critical literacy
Digital literacy
SocialEmotional
Socio-emotional
literacy
Critical literacy
Can we teach digital natives digital literacy? Computers Education 59 (2012) 1065–1078

17. Digital Literacies
n Literacy
is no longer “the
ability to read and write”
but now “the ability to
understand information
however presented.”
n Can't
assume students
have skills to interact in a
digital age (JISC, 2012)
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19. ADFI Major Projects
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Digital Futures - Collaborative Research Network
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Regional Universities Network (RUN) Maths and
Science Digital Classroom: A Connected Model
for all of Australia
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Aged Care Community, Education, Research
training (ACCERT)
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Network of Australasian Tertiary Associations
(NATA)
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Making the Connection: Improving access to
Higher Education for Low SES Students with ICT
Limitations project
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20. Mindfulness (Rheingold, 2010)

21. What is Digital Identity?
n Safe
and engaged digital
citizenship
n Appropriate
and responsible
technology use
n Digital
wellness
n http://digitalcitizenship.net/
Home_Page.html
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22. What is Digital Identity?
n How
you portray,
represent yourself
online
n Rich
ways of
communication
n Digital
etiquette
n Digital
ethics
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23. Digital Identity Spaces

28. Digital Footprints/
Tattoo

29. I can see a day in the not too
distant future (if it’s not
already here) where your
“digital footprint” will carry
far more weight than
anything you might include in
a resume or CV (Betcher,
2009)
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http://chrisbetcher.com/tag/
digitalfootprint/

30. Lifelong Life-wide
Learning
n Encompasses
both formal
and informal learning,
self-motivated learning..
(Watson, 2003).
n Life-wide
learning
“recognises that an
individual’s life contains
many parallel and
interconnected journeys
and experiences...”
n (Jackson,
2010, p. 492).
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31. E-portfolios
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Space for personal learning
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Populated by the learner
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Supports learning not assessment
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For life-long and life–wide
learning
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Able to present multiple stories of
learning
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Access is controlled by the learner
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http://www.pebblepad.co.uk/
about.asp
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32. Seamless Learning

33. Seamless Learning
Continuity of
learning across a
combination of
locations, times,
technologies or
social settings
(Sharples, et al,
2012).

34. Distributed
Learning Spaces
Physical
Formal
Blended
Informal
Mobile
Virtual
Formal
Personal
Academic
Professional
Practice
Outdoor
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Informal

35. Virtual Learning
Spaces

37. Learning-oriented
Assessment

38. Learning-oriented Assessment
Assessment
tasks as learning
tasks
Forward-looking
feedback
Student
involvement in
assessment
processes

39. Forward-looking Feedback
n Students
need to receive appropriate feedback
which they can use to ‘feed forward’ into
future work.
n Feedback
should be less final and judgemental
(Boud, 1995)
n Feedback
should be more interactive and
forward-looking (Carless, 2002; Keppell 2005)
n Feedback
should be timely and with a potential
to be acted upon (Gibbs Simpson, 2004)
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46. Desire Paths

47. http://daniel.fone.net.nz/blog/2013/05/19/desire-paths-in-web-ui/

48. New Mindsets
n Privileging
mobile learning and
teaching access
n Embedding
digital literacies into
all aspects of curriculum,
learning, teaching and
assessment.
n Privileging
diverse places of
learning as opposed to a
singular place of learning
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49. New Mindsets
n Assisting
teachers and students
to develop their own
personalised learning strategy
n Privileging
user-generated
content
n New
forms of assessment that
are more learning-oriented
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50. Learning begins on the
edge of your comfort zone

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