This report has been written by a small group of academics in the Institute of Educational Technology and the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology at The Open University. They want to explore new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. You can download the 2013 report here.
From the executive summary:
This series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, in order to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. This second report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education. To produce it, a group of academics at The Open University compiled a long list of new educational terms, theories, and practices. We then pared these down to ten that have the potential to provoke major shifts in educational practice, particularly in post-school education. Lastly, we drew on published and unpublished writings to compile ten sketches of new pedagogies that might transform education. These are summarized below, starting with four updates from last year’s report, followed by six new entries, in an approximate order of immediacy and timescale to widespread implementation.
What are the ten innovations?
- MOOCs , massive open online courses
- Badges to accredit learning, open framework for gaining recognition of skills and achievements
- Learning analytics, data-driven analysis of learning activities and environments
- Seamless learning, connecting learning across settings, technologies and activities
- Crowd learning, harnessing the local knowledge of many people
- Digital scholarship, scholarly practice through networked technologies
- Geo-learning, learning in and about locations
- Learning from gaming, exploiting the power of digital games for learning
- Maker culture, learning by making
- Citizen inquiry, fusing inquiry-based learning and citizen activism