Keynote at Embracing Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education Event, London, Thursday 18th January 2018

1. The Future of Learning Technology in HE
Sheila MacNeill, Chair ALT
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2. "I never think of the future, it
comes soon enough." (Albert
Einstein)

3. hype v reality
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4. Your favourite predictions
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5. Ghost Stories
narratives of past, present and future
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6. Future past
• Audrey Watters: stories we've
been told (in 2017) about
education technology
• NMC HE Horizon reports
• OU Innovating Pedagogy Report
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8. Future Present
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9. "I have seen the future and it
is very much like the present,
only longer." (Kehlog Albran)

10. Future Present
• Technology integral in HE
• Digital capabilities
• Data
• Demographics
• Time and money
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11. ALT annual member survey

12. Priorities 2016
• VLEs/Content management
system
• Electronic Assessment,
submission and feedback
• Collaborative tools
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15. Enablers
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16. Enablers
• Engagement from
students/learners
• Colleagues knowledge and
expertise
• Colleagues commitment
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17. Increasing enablers
• Dedicated time
• Staff development
opportunities
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18. Professional Recognition

19. The Future?
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20. Tomorrow's World 2018 Predictions
• Science Museum - driverless cars
• Royal Society - genome engineering
• Open University - Interstellar comets
and the end of Project Fear
• Wellcome: Epidemics and fighting
antibiotic resistance
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21. OU Innovating Pedagogy (1)
• spaced learning
• learners making science
• open textbooks
• navigating post truth societies
• intergroup empathy
• immersive learning

22. OU Innovating Pedagogy (2)
• intergroup empathy
• student led analytics
• big data enquiry - thinking with
data
• learning with internal values
• humanistic knowledge building
communities

23. Increasingly important
• Data and analytics
• Bring your own device

24. Other Current Emerging Trends
• Augmented/virtual reality
• Blended learning
• OER
• Learning Spaces
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25. known unknowns
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26. “Education is our passport to
the future, for tomorrow
belongs to the people who
prepare for it today.”
(Malcolm X)

27. Thank you
@sheilmcn
www.alt.ac.uk