How do we embrace digital learning for generations to come?

An invited presentation and talk as part of Kortext LIve:

The digital learning landscape has advanced significantly in the last three years. What are the challenges and opportunities afforded by digitally enhanced learning? How will artificial intelligence impact pedagogy and assessment? What does the future hold for digital content provision and what are the challenges for the university library in resourcing change? How do we move towards a more sustainable digital future?

Talk hosted by
Prof. Simon Thomson, Director of Flexible Learning, University of Manchester
Libby Homer, Director of Student and Library Services, Anglia Ruskin University

https://live.kortext.com/agenda/

Transcript

1. The problem with ‘digital’ is that we gave it a spotlight! Kortext Live – digital education: the future, now! Simon Thomson Director of Flexible Learning @digisim
2. “Within the time horizon of our 20-year perspective, it will be possible for all information - whether currently in the form of newspapers, magazines, books, music, radio, films, or television - to become available in digital form. We believe that developments in communications and information technologies, and particularly the storage and transmission of information in digital form, will prove eventually to be as revolutionary an innovation as the printing press. The trend in software technology will be towards greater user- friendliness. Alternative means for people to interact with machines, such as voice recognition, speech synthesis and handwriting recognition are likely to become widely available.”
3. “Within the time horizon of our 20-year perspective, it will be possible for all information - whether currently in the form of newspapers, magazines, books, music, radio, films, or television - to become available in digital form. We believe that developments in communications and information technologies, and particularly the storage and transmission of information in digital form, will prove eventually to be as revolutionary an innovation as the printing press. The trend in software technology will be towards greater user- friendliness. Alternative means for people to interact with machines, such as voice recognition, speech synthesis and handwriting recognition are likely to become widely available.” Dearing Report (1997)
4. https://talis.com/2016/05/03/engaging-academics-in-digital-discourse-simon-thomson-talis-insight-europe-2016/ Back to the future?
7. open.ai DALL·E 2
8. Jisc Framework for digital transformation in higher education
9. Modes of Shopping In Person Online
10. Modes of Teaching & Learning In Person Synchronous In Person On Campus Online Off Campus Online Asynchronous
11. spam.digisim.uk Reproduced by permission of the publisher, © 2012 by tpack.org SPaM Framework © 2022 by Simon Thomson is licensed under CC BY 4.0
12. digital education: the future, now!
13. digital education: mainstream digital, now!