Keynote address to Innovation Showcase for Digital Learning, December 9 2015

1. Digital technologies in education:
an innovation agenda?
LTU Innovation Showcase for Digital Learning 08/12/15
Helen Beetham with La Trobe Library
#LTUinnov8

2. Technology as innovation

3. Beyond Current Horizons
Futurelab for UK Govt 2009

4. Beyond Current Horizons
Futurelab for UK Govt 2009
Education will not be changed simply as a result of a given
invention or discovery, but by the ways in which these
developments are incorporated into social life (changing our
values and goals for education) or into
educational practice
(changing the methods
and tools we have
for education).

5. Education as innovation
‘Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow
belongs to the people who prepare for it today’
The curriculum as a collective story about the future
and what people will need to thrive there

6. What are the real digital innovations
(in our values & goals, methods & tools)?
screen capture from iai.tv/iai.academy

7. Knowledge: new things to know
‣ New (sub)disciplines: web science,
digital media, internet culture,
animation, gaming, GPS,
networks, digital humanities...
‣ New interdisciplinary problems:
digital bodies, globalisation,
ethics, privacy, data security,
digital divide, digital economy...

8. Methods: new ways of coming to know
‣ Data collection, analysis, management:
what can be (done with) data?
‣ Secondary research: what and
where is legitimate knowledge?
‣ Design, making, coding
‣ Collaboration: inc. remotely
‣ Modes of representation:
data visualisation, animation,
virtual worlds, hypermedia,
infographics, digital presentation...

9. Practice: new ways of doing
‣ Customers/clients as data to be managed: diagnostics,
analytics
‣ Continuous recording /
monitoring of creative
or professional practice
‣ Virtual as a space of
real social/economic
activity
‣ ‘All high value work is
now knowledge work’??
‣ Continuous self (brand? identity?) management

10. Theory: new explanations
(including explanations for how we learn)
connectivism | networked learning | rhizomatic learning
systems thinking | educational cybernetics | instructional design
actor-network theory | activity theory

11. 1. How have digital technologies changed
your subject area?
Discuss
Tweet #LTUinnov8

12. 2. How do you share these uncertainties
and excitements with students?
Discuss
Tweet #LTUinnov8

13. Towards a post-digital agenda for
educational innovation?
internationalism | sustainability | access and equity | employability...

14. How are digital technologies defining the
contexts for learning?

15. Contexts: digital universities
‣ Students first experiences
of university are digital
‣ Digital systems define the
time and space of learning,
recognise and credentialise
students, give or deny access,
monitor outcomes...
‣ Digital technologies, media and practices (continue to)
originate and thrive in universities...
‣ ... have created a global market in learning and learners...
‣ ... enable new kinds of university e.g. multiply-located, virtual

16. Contexts: students with digital
technologies and practices to hand
‣ ubiquitous connectivity
‣ near-open access
‣ constant data recording
‣ intimacy, identity
‣ frictionless adoption
‣ simultaneity
‣learning situations are porous
‣learning events leave a persistent trace
‣lowered barriers of access -> emphasis on capable use

17. Contexts: students with digital
technologies and practices to hand
‣ ubiquitous connectivity
‣ near-open access
‣ constant data recording
‣ intimacy, identity
‣ frictionless adoption
‣ simultaneity
‣learning situations are porous
‣learning events leave a persistent trace
‣lowered barriers of access -> emphasis on capable use
GarminForerunner©1996-2015GarminLtd
Nexus4.0CCBY2.5wikimediacommons

18. Contexts: students with digital
technologies and practices to hand
Often do not know how to use their digital practices
for transformational learning

19. 73% under 35s >90% new jobs 7-10 careers
>98% of all
information
43.5% graduates 1.4m ‘micro’ firms
36% UK jobs
(40% US jobs)
2.5% EU jobs 4-20% learners
Contexts: an uncertain future
Pick a number... any number...

20. 3. How do we enable students...
... to be innovators in a time of rapid change?
Discuss
Tweet #LTUinnov8

21. Innovation funding in the UK
1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Com
putersin
Teaching
Initiative
Teaching
&
Learning
TechnologyProg
Networked
Learning
JISC
e-learning
program
m
e
Benchm
arking
e-Learning
Technology-Enhanced
Learning
Developing
DigitalLiteracies
Changing
Learning
Landscapes
Digitalstudent
Past Future
Digitalcapabilities

22. Example: learning analytics
Technological innovation
Learning analytics
Social/educational innovation
Who owns students’ data?
What should it be used for?

23. Example: followthethings
www.followthethings.com

24. Example: BYOD4L
https://byod4learning.wordpress.com/topics/

25. Example: PhonarNation
CC phonarnation 2015

26. Example: authentic research
using open data
UCL’s Connected Curriculum (Fung 2014)

27. 4. What makes innovation possible?
How do (some) teachers deliver
innovative learning opportunities?
What gets in the way?
Discuss
Tweet #LTUinnov8

28. Developing digital literacy
as a creative, critical practice

29. The digitally capable organisation
Beetham/Jisc 2015
Organisational identity & culture
- vision & strategic planning
- leadership
Practices
• teaching, learning, assmt
• research & innovation
• content & information
• external engagement
- staff expertise
- resourcing & support
Infrastructure
- virtual and real estate
- policies
teaching &
learning
research &
innovation
external
engagement
content &
information
Organisational identity & culture
Practices
Infrastructure

30. Radical interventions in learning & teaching
UK National Union of Students 2014
'it is not the technology in itself that is transforming education
and society; it is, rather, the creative ways in which people are
using technology to educate and drive change'

31. Over to you
interventions, suggestions, questions...