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European Foundation for Quality in e-Learning UNIQUe Award

Learning Technologist ofthe Year 2009: Team Award

Beyond DistanceRESEARCH ALLIANCE

Learning Futures: A Model for Embedding Student Employability Skills into Futures Research

Dr. Sandra [email protected]

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Here Be Dragons...

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Higher education……

12/9/2010 Salmon & Romenska, HEA Conference 2010

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Listening to learners


The Creating Academic Learning Futures Project (CALF)

AIM

To involve students in creating and exploring a variety of plausible ‘alternative futures’ for learning and teaching in higher education.

To inform teachers, managers and policy-makers of the “student voice” for the future of learning.

http://www.le.ac.uk/beyonddistance/calf/


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Learning Futures Thinking

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Employability Skills

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Finding relevant information quickly.

Evaluation of information

Multi-tasking, time-management and prioritising

Networking and team working

Action-planning, target-setting

Self-presentation and communication

Technology skills that contribute to effective execution of tasks



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Learning Futures for Employability


• STEEPLE:

– Social

– Technological

– Economic

– Environment (natural)

– Political

– Legal

– Ethical15

Scenario Building


Involvement:Actors, stakeholders and agency


Cognitive Mapping


Present

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Finding relevant information quickly.

Evaluation of information

Multi-tasking, time-management and prioritising

Networking and team working

Action-planning, target-setting

Self-presentation and communication

Technology skills that contribute to effective execution of tasks



http://aquskills.com/thecube.html

Take Away from Today

• Incorporate employability

• Demonstrated and demonstrable

• Motivate students

• It is easy


The Learning Technology of the Future

OUTCOMES

Collaboration reduced the time necessary for development of personal employability plans


The outcomes are stored and accessible after the end of the research project.


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Learning Futures Festival Online 2011

Follow the Sun13-15 April 2011

http://tinyurl.com/followthesun

• Handovers between Leicester (UK), Seattle (USA) and Toowoomba(Australia)

• Six shifts, six keynote speakers

• Delivered through Adobe Connect 8, Second Life and Moodle

• Simulcast through all platforms

Three countries, three time zones, a non-stop global online conference

Distance Research Alliance and Australian Digital Futures Institute

Thanks for listening

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