Transcript The Six Dimensions of Next Generation Learning Andy Calkins and Nancy Millichap

The Six Dimensions
of Next Generation Learning
Andy Calkins and Nancy Millichap
September 10, 2012
Agenda
Introduce Next Generation Learning Challenges
Present Examples of NGLC Grantee Work
Identify Six Dimensions of Next Generation
Learning
Extend an Invitation to Comment
Read the Paper: Next Generation Learning: The Pathway to Possibility
http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/next-generation-learning-pathwaypossibility
Next Generation Learning Challenges
The Six Dimensions of Next Generation Learning
About NGLC
Next Generation Learning
Challenges accelerates
educational innovation
through applied technology to
dramatically improve college
readiness and completion in
the United States.
NGLC’s Premise
This goal requires a fundamental rethinking of education practices,
policies, and structures, if we are to meet individual and societal
needs in the 21st century.
How It Will Happen
These changes will arise from field-based innovation and achieve
scale through distributed networking within and across
communities of practice.
Erik Van Dusen graphic
NGLC’s Role
NGLC’s role is to accelerate the development of those innovations,
foster that networking and advance the distribution of new
knowledge.
To Date:
• $25 million distributed to 65
grantees representing more
than 300 partner institutions
• 29 postsecondary projects
focused on blended learning,
open core courseware, learning
analytics and deeper learning
• 19 secondary education
projects focused on innovative
technology tools linked to the
Common Core
Projected number of students served by
scaled-up NGLC projects within five
years: 2.5 million
• Nearly 30 new breakthrough
secondary and
postsecondary schools or
programs (by October 2012)
NGLC’s Approach
Invest in Innovation
Multiply Impact
Build an evidence base and create
communities of practice.
Accelerate Adoption
NGLC Partners
NGLC Grantees: Goals
What outcomes are we shooting for?
How do we and our students measure progress towards those outcomes?
NAU Personalized Learning Division
http://tinyurl.com/NAUPersonalizedLearning
U of Massachusetts Math Tutor
http://wayangoutpost.com/
For Students, Problems with Resources
For Instructors, Detailed Dashboard
Goals: Common Themes
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Prepared for career and civic life
Knowledge that cuts across traditional lines
Applying multi-disciplinary knowledge to an issue
Outcomes relevant to students and employers
Deeper learning: critical thinking, conceptual
understanding, transfer of knowledge
Non-cognitive skills: motivation, self-efficacy, learn how to
learn
A range of outcomes, a range of measures
Performance not memorization
Mastery
Assessment is learning
Goals: Building the Framework
 Define
 Content knowledge
 21st century competencies
DEFINE
 Cognitive
 Interpersonal
 Intrapersonal
 Measure
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Assessing for learning
Assessing for attainment
Assessing for system performance
Supporting analytics
Goals: Questions?
DEFINE
NGLC Grantees: Methods
What learning and business models can generate those outcomes affordably
for all students?
What must change in order for these designs to be implemented effectively?
Southern New Hampshire University
Pathways Project
http://www.snhu.edu/15513.asp
New Charter University
http://new.edu/info/
Methods: Common Themes
(from a student’s perspective)
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Personalized to the ways I learn best
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Flexible so that I can try different ways to learn
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Interactive and engaging so that I participate in the learning
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Relevant to the life I’d like to lead
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Organized around my own progress against goals I understand
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Constantly informed by different ways of demonstrating and
measuring my progress
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Collaborative with instructors, peers, and others, unlimited by
proximity
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Agile and supportive when I need extra help
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Challenging but achievable, with opportunities to become expert in
an area of interest
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Available to me as it is to every other student
Methods: Common Themes
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Online and blended learning environments
Pay a flat-rate and progress at your own pace
Disaggregated faculty roles
Deploying resources differently
 Counteracting higher costs of technology with greater
efficiencies and higher rates of student success
Training staff and students for new roles and new
technologies
Recognizing institutional culture while trying to change
how it operates
Feedback and iterative design is baked in
Methods: Building the Framework
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Design
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Learning
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Learner Supports
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Personalized,
Competency-based, variable-paced progression
Active/inquiry-based
Collaborative
Online/blended
IMPLEMENT
Academic, social, personal, technical/career
Inclusivity/accessibility
Implement
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Resource innovation: people, time, money,
curriculum, learning tech
Infrastructure: operations, data, systems tech
Culture: organizational, ecosystem, RDD
process
DESIGN
Methods: Questions?
DEFINE
IMPLEMENT
DESIGN
NGLC Grantees: Environments
What policy and other environmental conditions must be in place for the new
designs to be piloted with fidelity to their founding ideas?
What broader conditions must be in place in order for effective designs to
scale up?
Texas Affordable Baccalaureate
http://tinyurl.com/TexasAffordableBaccalaureate
University of Central Florida
http://blended.online.ucf.edu/
Environments: Common Themes
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State system-level support for public institutions
Connecting to initiatives supported by policymakers, legislators
Communicating with community at the institution and in the local
area
Networks of sharing across institutions
Open educational resources
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more accessible and flexible for students
reduced cost of adoption and configurable to different environments
for institutions
External vendors provide on-going service to users
Guides, resources, and training materials to support adoption
with low-touch but high quality support
Long-term perspectives on internal capacity
Rethinking assumptions about credit hours, recognition of prior
learning, accreditation
Collecting evidence
Environments: Building the Framework
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Enable
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Internal/organizational
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External/public
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Policy and governance
Leadership
Startup funding
Policy and regulation
Access to innovation
Community/public will
Scale
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Evidence-building: processes & outcomes
Investment: public & private
Openness
Change management support
Cost-effectiveness
ENABLE
The Six Dimensions
How do all of these dimensions relate with each other?
What purposes might educators and other innovators find for this framework?
The Six Dimensions of Next Generation
Learning
DEFINE
GOALS
ENVIRONMENTS
ENABLE
IMPLEMENT
DESIGN
METHODS
Invitation to Comment
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Share examples from your own institutions that bring
these dimensions to life
Make suggestions to help us create a stronger, more
inclusive, more descriptive framework
• Email [email protected]
• Comment on the white paper at
http://www.educause.edu/library/
resources/next-generationlearning-pathway-possibility
The Six Dimensions of Next
Generation Learning
nextgenlearning.org
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