Seminar about research and innovation in digital futures. The seminar describes the vision, mission, values and focus of the Australian Digital Futures Institute.

1. Research & Innovation
in Digital Futures
Professor Mike Keppell
Executive Director
Australian Digital Futures Institute
Director, Digital Futures-CRN
Community of Practice
Research Supervision
(COP-RS)
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2. Overview
n Personal perspective
n Staff
n Focussed research
n Landscape
n Projects
n Vision, mission, values
n Digital literacies, platforms
n Design-based research
n New mindsets
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3. Design
Educational
Technology
Innovation Solving real-
world problems
Authentic
learning
interactions
Transformation
Leadership
Personal Perspective
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6. Digital
Futures
Agriculture &
Environment
Resilient
Regions
Digital Rural
Futures 2013
ACCERT
Digital Rural
Futures 2014
Focussed Research
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7. ADFI
ACCERT
other?
ADFI Landscape
OLT
3 projects
Physical
& virtual
umbrella
DF-CRN
ANU
UNISA
64 Researchers
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8. OLT Projects
Stand Alone Moodle (SAM): From Access to
Success
Network of Australasian Tertiary Associations
(NATA)
Leadership
NATA
Transformative learning
Research Leadership Development Program
CRN
CRN Project 1: Mobile Learning Evaluation
Framework
CRN Project 3: Decision Support Systems for
Sugarcane Farmers with ACSC
Research Leadership Development Program
Health Aged Care Community, Education, Research &
training (ACCERT)
Digital Literacies
Digital Curation (Scoop.it!)
Digital Hubs
Personalised learning
Spaces
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9. OER
Commonwealth of Learning
OERu
Conferences
Digital Rural Futures 2014
Agricultural Futures-Regional Futures-Digital Futures
25-27June 2014 Toowoomba
RUN
REGIONAL UNIVERSITIES NETWORK (RUN) MATHS AND
SCIENCE DIGITAL CLASSROOM: A CONNECTED MODEL
FOR ALL OF AUSTRALIA
Proposals 10-15 Submitted proposals
Books
Open Learning and Formal Credentialing in Higher
Education: Curriculum Models and Institutional Policies
Getting to Grips with Contemporary Learning Communities
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10. Case Project: NATA
n Network project: five established tertiary
education associations in Australasia (ascilite,
ACODE, CADAD, HERDSA, ODLAA)
n Working across three countries (Australia,
New Zealand, Mexico)
n Regular weekly meetings via Skype
n Use of Dropbox and Google docs
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11. Digital Futures-CRN
Outcomes
n An increase in the number of research active staff
n Increased mentorship activity (RLDP)
n An increase in joint publications
n An increase in joint applications for competitive
grants
n An increase in the number of research postgraduate
students
n Collaborative research has been influential in policy
circles.
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13. Vision, Mission, Values
& Focus
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14. Horizon Report
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15. CSIRO Megatrends
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On the move
Personalisation
IWorld
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16. Trends
‣ People expect to be able to work, learn, and
study whenever and wherever they want.
‣ The abundance of resources and
‣ Need for digital literacies
‣ BYOD technology
‣ Mobility is here!
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17. ADFI - Vision
‣ Digital literacies that transform the
knowledge & skills of society
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18. Digital Literacies
n Literacy is no longer “the ability
to read and write” but now “the
ability to understand
information however
presented.”
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19. ADFI - Mission
‣ To innovate, research & collaborate
to explore and influence digital
literacies that impact societal change.
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20. ADFI - Values
‣ Innovative
‣ Transformative
‣ Inclusive
‣ Collaborative
‣ Connected
‣ Evidence-based
‣ Impact
‣ Open
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22. Design-based research
‣ Design-based research is a core strategy and
approach that considers how our
developments benefit the user, group or
society and how our developments provide
design principles for future practice and
research.
‣ Design-based research advances design,
research and practice concurrently (Wang
and Hannafin, 2005).
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23. Reeves (2000)
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24. Reducing anxiety in
children going to hospital
‣ Analysis/problem: How to reduce anxiety
of children going to hospital
‣ Development: CD-ROM and booklet for
parents and children
‣ Evaluation/Research: pilot of intervention
with families
‣ Reflection: Refined product
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25. Reducing anxiety in
children going to hospital
‣ Marijke Shanley (2005) - Master of Nursing
Thesis entitled: A multimedia approach to
preparing children and their families for
hospitalisation.
‣ Next step: relevance for other hospitals
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27. New Mindsets
n Privileging mobile learning and
teaching access
n Embedding digital literacies into
all aspects of learning, teaching
and curriculum
n Privileging diverse places of
learning as opposed to a
singular place of learning
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28. New Mindsets
n Assisting teachers and students
to develop their own
personalised learning strategy
n Privileging user-generated
content
n Privileging learning-oriented
assessment
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Questions?
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