O Prof. Hugh Davis dinamizará um seminário no Departamento de Educação na próxima quarta-feira, dia 18 de Maio, em sala a anunciar. O seminário terá início às 15:30.
Aqui ficam algumas informações sobre o Seminário e sobre o Prof. Hugh Davis.
The Development of (Institutional) Personal Rich Learning Environments
Hugh Davis - The University of Southampton
Traditionally learning has been seen as a solitary and individualistic task; learning has been represented as committing knowledge to memory and the personal acquisition of skills and literacies. The affordances of
early computer technologies amplified this perspective, and transitions of learning technologies to networked platforms sustained the individualist context within the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). However
constructivist critiques of learning environments have emphasised the value and importance of social interactions and the benefits of working in groups to solve problems as a means to learning and knowledge acquisition. Advances in Web technologies over the last decade (the so called Web 2.0) have paralleled these changes and have enabled us to build tools to support and integrate many kinds of collaboration and learning in networks. Such tools have been retrofitted to existing VLEs.
This presentation argues that the current generation of Virtual Leaning Environments are no longer fit for purpose; they embody educational processes that promulgate ineffective/inappropriate didactic methods, and
do not complement the expectations or approaches to learning taken by Generation Y learners. Nor do they prepare students for using the tools and working methods that will be required in the increasingly virtual
workplace.
At the University of Southampton, as part of a major curriculum innovation project we have been examining the approaches we wish to take to providing the virtual environments for learning, teaching and research that will be fit for the next ten years. The focus of this presentation will be on our reflections on personal (personalised and personalisable) rich learning environments, and the part played in these environments by Web 2.0, linked data and cloud computing.
Speaker Biography
Hugh Davis is Professor of Learning Technology within the School of Electronics and Computer Science, where he leads the Learning Societies Lab (http://www.lsl.ecs.soton.ac.uk), a research team of 50-60 people with a focus on Web Technologies and Technology Enhanced Learning. Hugh has a long history of research in the Hypertext domain going back to before the advent of the Web, and has over 200 publications (http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/hcd/p
In addition to his research, Hugh is the University Director of Education responsible for technology enhanced learning (TEL) strategy, and this combination of activities enables him to take a research informed and
leading edge perspective on the technology that can be delivered at a cross university level.
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