1. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning The benefits for ICT teachers in joining a MOOC Dr. Patricia Charlton Professor Christina Preston Dr. Sarah Younie

2. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning The age of the smart machine “vision came together for me that morning I realized that the people I had been interviewing were on the edge of a historical transformation of immense proportions, as important as that which had been experienced by the eighteenth and nineteenth century workers. I saw that a world of sensibilities and expectations was being irretrievably displaced by a new world, one I did not yet understand ” (pg xiii)) (Zuboff,(1984) )

3. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning What is a MOOC? Massive (It is all relative) Online 24/7 Open (some more than others) Course (Redefined)

4. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Why might they be interesting to us? MOOCs did not travel alone!

5. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Big Data

6. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning “Learning” Analytics “The amount of data stored in educational institutions is gargantuan, and the new term for data collection is Big Data. According to McKinsey Global Institute, the education sector ranks as one of the economy’s top ten in terms of the amount of data stored.” https://onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com

7. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning What does this mean for ICT? Educational data sciences Become a unicorn? Or perhap reflect on Zuboff’s Age of the Smart Machine? Become a unicorn? Or perhap reflect on Zuboff’s Age of the Smart Machine?

8. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - for professionals?

9. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning So where do we start? Building community knowledge together for teachers by teachers; Knowledge is global - International reach; Collaborative Professional Learning Experience; Diversity – from never used technology in the classroom to experienced online learning designers Designing it together – The Move-It-Online Challenge

10. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning A MOOC for collaborative professional development http://www.coursesites.com/s/_LDC

11. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning What was the design behind our Move-it Online Challenge? TEL (technology enhanced learning) as a starting point. Open to all Authentic learning experience for professionals: – Based on their challenges – Focus on designing learning experience for the learners – Thinking about the challenges of moving teaching online – Peer review activities

12. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Can MOOC platforms support collaborative learning? RequirementsWhat technology can offer 1. A shared task goal– for the teacher to specify ✓ 2. ResourcesWeblinks, digital libraries, OER repositories ✓ 3. The means to discussOnline discussion forums ✓ 4. Guidance on the processStudy guide: Roles, scripts, worksheets, teacher role -- 5. The means to construct and revise Applications for visual representation design, user-generated content X 6. The means to share outputsDesign environment, file exchange, file management X 7. The means to test ideas and solutions to meet the task goal A modelling environment that gives intrinsic feedback on the learner’s solution X (Laurillard 2012)

13. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Sharing our learning goals

14. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Sharing learning designs and reviews “My issue is the space between the technology champions and the C.A.V.Es (Colleagues Against Virtually Everything) and how you boil down the essence and heurology to something that enables those who feel overwhelmed with technology and support that will engage them, and therefore engage their students” learningdesigner.org

15. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Change the name of the design by adding “Review of” at the beginning To leave feedback overall, Add a new TLA, make its title ‘Review by [your name]’ You can select ‘Discuss’ for the activity, and then type in your feedback to note: 1 Test? - is there a ‘Produce’ activity, or some way the teacher can use to test whether outcomes are met? 2 Aligned? - are outcome, activities, and produce activity aligned? 3 Feedback? – is there feedback from the teacher, other students, or the technology? 4 Technology? - is there good use of technology? 5 Other? As you read through each TLA you can comment in the Notes section at the bottom. How to review a learning design

16. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning What are the costs and benefits of going online? What is CRAM? A tool to analyse the learning benefits and teaching costs of transferring traditional teaching models online Why do we need CRAM? Because costing in higher education can be a ‘very murky business’ (Bishop cited in Koenig, 2011). Widespread misconceptions that online must be cheaper than face- to-face teaching (Koenig, 2011) Yet costing studies show that digital technologies cost more than traditional methods (Laurillard, 2006) What happens to the learning experience when courses go online? How can we illuminate the relationship between learning experience and costs … to the learner and to the institution?

17. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Direct learning from others Vicarious learning E.g. Learner posts questions and gets answers Learner is aware of learning activity of others (e.g. notes) Shared knowledge building Learner develops knowledge with others through dialogue and interaction SOCIAL LEARNING Knowledge sharing Learners pass on ideas and information to others Implicit learning Learner engages with others to develop shared representations. Zone of proximal development Learner learns through interaction and conversation with a more knowledgeable other Orchestrated collaboration Mentor guides a group towards exploration of difference or shared understanding Conversational learning Learner engages in sustained dialogue with others (Adapted from Russell Beale Future Learn 2014)

18. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Initial findings from the Move-it- Online Challenge Collaboration and explore with your professional community; Technology evolves at a speed, solutions come and go - is your problem and solution tied to a particular environment; Understanding the advantages and disadvantages of the approach being used; What kind of data or models exist about the problem space? What solutions have been tried in the past and why do they not work? Know the landscape What to do when you know you are on the right path but few agree? Solutions rarely, if ever, sit in isolation

19. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning The global demand for education requires investment in pedagogic innovation for MOOCs to deliver TEL-based pedagogic innovation must support students at a better than 1:25 staff-student ratio Teachers need the tools to design, test, gather the evidence of what works, and model benefits and costs Teachers are the engine of innovation – designing, testing, The global demand for education requires investment in pedagogic innovation for MOOCs to deliver TEL-based pedagogic innovation must support students at a better than 1:25 staff-student ratio Teachers need the tools to design, test, gather the evidence of what works, and model benefits and costs Teachers are the engine of innovation – designing, testing, sharing their best pedagogic ideas Conclusions

20. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Conclusion Designing learning experiences that use the advantages of technology for learning is challenging so resilience and robustness are a must! Be prepared to throw a solution away and start again. Failure is a prerequisite to success! Know what you are designing and why! The big data and learning analytics challenge: Context is everything but you need the right context!

21. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Resources and tools Learning Designer Tool: learningdesigner.org CRAM: http://web.lkldev.ioe.ac.uk/cram/index.htmlhttp://web.lkldev.ioe.ac.uk/cram/index.html Building Community Knowledge https://buildingcommunityknowledge.wordpress.com What the Research Says: Designing a MOOC https://effectivemethods.wordpress.com Coursesites for Move-it-Online resources and materials: http://www.coursesites.com/s/_LDChttp://www.coursesites.com/s/_LDC

22. www.mirandanet.ac.uk Thought leaders in Digital Learning Move-it-Online Challenge http://creativedigitalsolutions.org Building Community Knowledge