1. Online Educa 2005 The Future of Research on Technology Enhanced Learning Professor Barbara Wasson InterMedia & Dept of Information Science and Media Studies University of Bergen, Norway & Network of Excellence

2. Online Educa 2005 Rapid technological advancements Understandings of learning Knowledge as a cultural artefact Pervasiveness of technology Technologically fluent youth Learning Economy Ambient Intelligent Society Globalisation Digital Divide Participatory Society Mobility Technological literacy The Changing World Knowledge Society

3. The Changing World Rapid technological advancements Understandings of learning Knowledge as a cultural artefact Pervasiveness of technology Knowledge Society Technologically fluent youth Learning Economy Ambient Intelligent Society Globalisation Digital Divide Participatory Society Mobility Technological literacy

4. Online Educa 2005 Fundamental Challenge Rethink learning, teaching and education in the knowledge society exceptional complexity of the institutional, social, political and economical nature of learning To produce knowledge about the design, implementation and use of TEL

5. Online Educa 2005 Background 20+ years of experience AIEd, networked learning, CSCL, socio-cultural issues InterMedia, University of Bergen www.intermedia.uib.no Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence www.noe-kaleidoscope.org

6. Online Educa 2005 Technology Trends Faster Smaller More intelligent Embedded Internet expansion

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8. Technology Trends Faster Smaller More intelligent Embedded Internet expansion 6 months is an eternity!!

9. Online Educa 2005 Research Strands Population Diversity Productive Learning Design of TEL Environments Conceptual Framework

10. Online Educa 2005 Population Diversity

11. Online Educa 2005 Population Diversity Understanding the various individual, group and cultural differences related to the use of emerging technologies Learning related attitudes and behaviour Complex interplay of factors including age, gender, disability, psychology, ethnic origin, socioeconomic status

12. Online Educa 2005 Psychological and Behavioural Divergence Why can some individuals and groups successfully integrate learning with technology? Identity

13. Online Educa 2005 Biological and Physical Divergence What is the technology related impact of the perceptual and mental differences associated with gender, maturation & aging populations? Digital literacy and fluency Power Users of Technology

14. Online Educa 2005 Social and Cultural Divergence How can technology be used to promote equity of educational opportunity regardless of gender, age, disability, ethnic origin, religion, and socioeconomic status? Digital divide Stellenbosch Declaration

15. Online Educa 2005 Productive Learning

16. Online Educa 2005 Productive Learning Learning issues and Educational Practice –ties into a cluster of concepts around activity and transformation –bridges the gap between learning processes and learning outcomes –new understandings of the learning processes by exploring links between human learning, cognition, social context and technologies –deep understanding, knowledge production

17. Online Educa 2005 Productive Learning Means different things in different contexts Individual and Collective Competence –how people develop deeper insights but also to understand how such insights can be shared and used to develop collective competence Productive Learning Environments will show great variation

18. Online Educa 2005 Productive Learning For example the ability to use knowledge and skills in new contexts the connection between a learning community and its learning resources engagement in rich interaction creation of new knowledge …

19. Online Educa 2005 Productive Learning How can we raise learners’ active engagement and participation in meaningful activities designed to combine f2f and online collaboration? How do digital technologies change writing as a knowledge-producing practice?

20. Online Educa 2005 Design of TEL Environments

21. Online Educa 2005 Design of TEL Environments How to design TEL environments –exploring the functional potentials of emerging technologies (affordances) –ensuring pedagogical and organisational issues are as important

22. Online Educa 2005 Design of TEL Environments emerging technologies and applications such as learning grid, ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, semantic and social web, collaboration technologies, educational gaming, web logs, agent technology

23. Online Educa 2005 Design of TEL Environments issues related to open source, open content, international standards (e.g., SCORM, IMS-LD), interoperability, reuseability

24. Online Educa 2005 Design of TEL Environments pedagogical approaches such as problem oriented project pedagogy, case-based learning, progressive inquiry learning, collaborative learning, experiential learning, problem-based learning methods for the design of learning environments, such as design research methods and rapid prototyping methods

25. Online Educa 2005 Design of TEL Environments organisational issues, e.g., school curriculum, infrastructure, personnel privacy and security of learners and their learning space lab experiments, field trials, design experiments, ethnographic studies

26. Online Educa 2005 Conceptual Framework

27. Online Educa 2005 Conceptual Framework Over 40 years of experience within disciplines such as Human Factors, Computer Science, Educational Psychology, Educational Technology, TEL Numerous theoretical frameworks (biological, cognitive, sociocultural) Diverse set of evaluation methods

28. Online Educa 2005 Conceptual Framework Levels of analysis (micro, mezzo, macro) Units of analysis (e.g., trajectories over time) Conceptual models for using and assigning meaning to results

29. Online Educa 2005 Conceptual Framework Systemic Approaches –generate models of how ’technology’ influences collaboration, discourse and learning Interpretative Approachs –investigate how the meanings and functions of discourse, tools and reasoning are constituted in human practices

30. Online Educa 2005 Conceptual Framework Systematically and critically evaluate the existing methodologies and their theoretical underpinnings in a way that permits the development of a new understanding of how digital technologies impact human user populations

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33. Interesting Trends

34. Online Educa 2005 Email “must-have must-use” technology in organisations (www.det.act.gov.au) “old fashioned, formal, mamma & pappa send email”

35. Online Educa 2005 Participatory Society

36. Online Educa 2005 Informal & Formal Learning 14% of time in schools How People Learn, NRC 2000 “emerging technological fluencies give access to informal learning opportunites” LIFE Centre

37. Online Educa 2005 New Creativity technology saavy youth constrained in formal learning / work situations Tsumani / Katrina & Pakistan / Danish company

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39. Distributed Cognition MASTOR

40. Online Educa 2005 High Expectations ICT can revolutionize education unrealistic  pessimist How can we create a more balanced relationship between unrealistic expectations and the actual developments?

41. Online Educa 2005 Summary TEL Research is complex Difficult to predict the future New generation of technological natives who will be teachers, workers, researchers

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