Invited keynote presentation at Let's Get Phygital Conference, 14th September, 2021, Glasgow College, Glasgow.

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Professor Mark Brown
Dublin City University
14th September 2021

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1. Back to the future
2. Designing new learning ecologies
3. Time to bend, buckle and even break
Outline….

6. Virtual-mind-tool…

7. What single word best
describes the current state
of blended learning in your
institution?

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11. The Rhetoric Reality Gap

12. “With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”
(Uzanne, 1994; cited
in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).

13. (Uzanne, 1894; cited
in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).
“With the coming of the New Media, the need for
print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will
soon arrive when the world’s literature will be
available from The Automatic Library at the
mere pressing of a button”

14. “I believe that the motion picture is destined to
revolutionize our educational system and that
in a few years it will supplant largely, if not
entirely, the use of textbooks,”
(Thomas Edison, 1922)

15. “We will undoubtedly have lectures of every
conceivable kind presented to us right in our
homes, when practical television arrives,
possibly a year or two off.”
Short Wave Craft,
1935
Blackboard

16. Project
Plato 1960s

17. Project
Plato 1960s

18. 2021

19. Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash
More things change, the more they stay the same!

20. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL
THINKING

22. Need to challenge old
pump, pump, DUMP
models of technology-enhanced learning

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Press Pause

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30. What do we mean?

31. 26 different definitions!

32. Off-Campus
in Class
Off-Campus
Out of Class
Formal
Informal
On-Campus
out of Class
Physical Virtual
On-Campus
in Class
Digital
Leakage
Digital
Learning
Ecology

33. Hybrid

34. 2021

35. “Active learning is the opposite of passive
listening. It focuses on what our learners are
actually doing in our classes; what activities
people are taking part in during our workshops;
and how students are interacting with peers
and resources outside class time.”
(Barrett, 2020)
http://inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2020/07/active-learning-in-the-digital-world/

36. Hybrid Active
Learning Spaces

37. 2012

38. History Repeats!

39. Learning by sharing
(Connectivist)
“Learning by listening”
(Instructionist)
Learning by doing
(Constructivist)
Learning by making
(Constructionist)
Pedagogical
Compass

40. “Because no two students have the same needs and no
two teachers arrive at their best performance in the same
way, theoretical exclusivity and didactic single-
mindedness can be trusted to make even the best
educational ideas fail”.
(Sfard, 1998, p.11)

41. ABC Learning Design Framework
https://abc-ld.org

43. Transformative mindsets are crucial to
Let Learning Flourish!

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Press Pause

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47. Useful

51. https://blendedlearning.bangkok.unesco.org/instructions/

52. https://www.col.org

53. https://eua.eu/resources/publications

54. Taming or Reimagining?

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Bliss or Blight?

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A conclusion is the place
where you ran out of ideas or time!

60. [ Blended | On-line | Digital ]
B O L D
What one new thing can you personally do to
“Let Learning Flourish” in your institution?

61. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you

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Over to you…