Achieving flexibility? The rhetoric and reality of the role of learning technologies in UK higher education University of York, UK Richard Walker ascilite2014.

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Achieving flexibility? The rhetoric and reality of the role of learning technologies in UK higher education University of York, UK Richard Walker ascilite2014 November Coventry University, UK Martin Jenkins Imperial College London, UK Julie Voce

Flexibility The drive toward greater flexibility is influenced by: –the marketisation of higher education; –the emergence of students-as-consumers, exerting wishes for new kinds of educational provision; –the potential of new digital technologies; and –the apparent potential (that new educational environments are opening) for widening higher education at reduced unit costs. [our emphasis] Barnett (2014: 8)

Barnett’s interpretation of flexibility  Sector flexibility: –enabling flexible entry points for students to higher education study programmes  Institutional flexibility: –having institutional responsiveness to student expectations and needs  Pedagogical flexibility: –having flexibility within teaching and learning processes, including allowing academic staff control over teaching methods and the latitude to respond to different circumstances  Learner flexibility: –student choice within their learning experience

What does the data say?  The Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) has surveyed UK higher education institutions on the use of learning technology tools since

Institutional flexibility  Investment has focused on: –E-assessment tools –Plagiarism detection –VLE/LMS platforms –Lecture capture systems  Infrastructure development  Management & control of learning (mainstreaming)

Pedagogical flexibility Still an emphasis, though slowly reducing, on transmissive teaching methods Category A – web supplemented Category Bi – web dependent, content Category Bii – web dependent, communication Category Biii – web dependent, content and communication Category E – fully online (categories adapted from Bell et al., 2002)

Learner flexibility  Student experience –Service oriented provision –Expectations focused on connectivity and access to resources (Jisc, 2014) –Instant and on-demand access to learning (Bone, 2013)

Achieving flexibility?  Institutional clarity in use of technology- enhanced learning –But potential conflicts in flexibility  Beware of disempowering academic staff –broadening the range of technologies but with enterprise-wide goals in mind - not necessarily encouraging pedagogic flexibility?

Case study: Coventry  Institutional priorities –Student experience –Digital literacy  Investment in TEL –E-assessment –Plagiarism detection  Lack of awareness of TEL  Recognised need for pedagogic innovation  Disruptive Media Learning Lab

Case study: York  Institutional priorities -Enhancement of student learning experience and delivery of services  Investment in TEL -Investment in electronic management of assessment; lecture capture; BYOD provision  Challenges –short-term pressures (National Student Survey) & quick fixes: assessment and feedback –longer-term embedding of e-learning vision within curriculum review and academic practice (staff development and digital literacies)

Sector challenges  Consumerism and the mainstreaming of student services through learning technologies –speed of change / diversity of systems and focus of change in TEL development  Can this be compatible with pedagogic flexibility and the academic freedom to experiment and ‘freedom to fail’? (Price, 2013)

Questions? University of York, UK Richard Walker Coventry University, UK Martin Jenkins Imperial College London, UK Julie Voce

References Barnett, R. (2014). Conditions of flexibility: securing a more responsive higher education system, The Higher Education Academy: York. Bell, M., Bush, D., Nicholson, P, O’Brien, D., & Tran, T. (2002). Universities online: A survey of online education and services in Australia. Canberra: Department of Education, Science and Training. Bone, E. (2013). Improving learning experiences: Student attitudes towards the use of technology. NUS research study sponsored by Desire2Learn. Insights Roadshow, 16 December Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.

References Jisc (2014). Digital student project: Price, D. (2013). Open: how we'll work, live and learn in the future. Crux Publishing