Design for learning: K12 curriculum material design and production across the states and territories

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Design for learning K-12 curriculum material
design and production across the states and
territories

• Ricky Utting
• Chair National Materials Development Network
• Manager of Media Services, TCS
• August 2004

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Publishing
Aspect 1
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We are in the midst of the biggest revolution in
publishing since the printing press

• Guttenburg made printed material available to
  the masses
• Tim Berners-Lee made publishing available to the
  masses
• 15 minutes of fame, a legend in your own spare
  time
• Any punk with a handicam can make reality TV
• Any one with a word processing package is a
  publisher
• Anyone with web access is a potential
  publisher/broadcaster/musician/media mogul
• Education publishing is available to teachers

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Australia and New Zealand
Janison Toolbox
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Australia and New Zealand
Web CT
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Australia and New Zealand
Blackboard
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Australia and New Zealand
Centra
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Audience ParticipationRate the change -
Publishing

• In the last five years rate the change in digital
  publishing in your state
• On a scale of zero to ten (ten being maximum,
  zero being nothing perceptible)
• State wide
• Organisation

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Media
Aspect 2
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The medium is the massage

• The medium is ubiquitous
• Increase in information
• Increase in noise
• What are assured resources?

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The medium is the massage

• What will become of video tape, audio tape, audio
  graphics (CD, DVD, or your favourite learning
  management system) and other media whos time has
  past
• Keeping abreast of format change
• Re using content across changing output channels,
  formats and devices
• Standards

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Marshall McLuhan

• obsolescence is the moment of superabundance

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Australia and New Zealand
Separation of content and format
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Audience ParticipationRate the change - media

• In the last five years what are the changes in
  media you work with
• On a scale of zero to ten (ten being maximum,
  zero being nothing perceptible)
• State wide
• Organisation

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Demographics
Aspect 3
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The demographics are a changin

• The definition of distance has changed
• Rise in indigenous students
• Rise in urban at-risk
• engagement becomes more important than ever
• DE students are more likely to be found in urban
  areas than rural
• Aging workforce - skills shortage

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Australia and New Zealand
Rise in students in indigenous communities
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Example

• Link to example
• NT VET Music
• http//www.ntoec.nt.edu.au/site/objects/vet/vet20
  music/MBS_2004/Modules/Music20Business/wai.html

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Audience ParticipationRate the change -
demographics

• In the last five years has there been a
  perceptable change in demographics?
• On a scale of zero to ten (ten being maximum,
  zero being nothing perceptible)
• State wide
• Organisation

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Politics and choices
Aspect 4
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Choices that States and organisations make
influence resources

• Pedagogy
• Curricula
• Essential learnings
• Technologies
• Choice in technologies shape what and how
  materials are developed
• Structures
• Stand alone, integrated, DE only, sector wide
• Audiences (students)
• Adults, pre-school, TAFE
• Instructional design approaches
• Rigidity, flexibility

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Teacher centric/resource centric/student centric
Learner
Teacher
Supervisor
Resource
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Resource is supplementary
Learner
Teacher
Supervisor
Resource
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Teaching is contained in resource
Learner
Teacher
Supervisor
Resource
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Curricula

• Impact of essential learning
• Skills for 21st century life and work
• Beyond subject specific

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Australia and New Zealand
Essential learning
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Audience ParticipationRate the change - curricula

• In the last five years has there been any major
  curriculum change implemented
• On a scale of zero to ten (ten being maximum,
  zero being nothing perceptible)
• State wide
• Organisation

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Organisational structures

• Different states, different approaches
• Government owned, stand alone development unit
• Development by teachers within school
• Development unit associated with school
• Unit developing materials for compulsory
  schooling and TAFE sector
• Providing materials for F2F schools as well as
  distance ed
• Revenue generation is expected

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Australia and New Zealand
Org structures
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• NSW Centre for Learning Innovation
• QLD AccessED
• NT Northern Territory Open Education Ctre
• WA WestOne
• SA Access Media (Open Access College)
• VIC Distance Education Centre Victoria
• TAS Distance Ed Tasmania
• NZ The Correspondence School
• Also schools on languages in VIC and QLD

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Audience ParticipationRate the change -
organisation

• In the last five years has there been changes in
  the structure of the resource development
  organisations?
• On a scale of zero to ten (ten being maximum,
  zero being nothing perceptible)
• State wide
• Organisation

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Responsiveness to change
Aspect 5
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Theres a lag in the system

• Are our teachers keeping pace with the changes in
  the world and in the learners?
• The future has already happened. Its just not
  evenly distributed Adrian Slywotsky
• Are the teachers on top of the curriculum
  essential learnings?
• You cant teach an old dogma new tricks Dorothy
  Parker
• Can the system respond fast enough to change?

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Another from McLuhan

• We look at the present through a rear-view
  mirror. We march backwards into the future

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US perspective

• Our education system is a second rate,
  factory-style organization pumping out obsolete
  information in obsolete ways. The schools are
  simply not connected to the future of the kids
  theyre responsible for
• Alvin Toffler

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Audience participationrate the change, keep up
with it

• In the last five years has the level of change in
  teacher education kept up with need. Have the
  learners outpaced teachers?
• On a scale of zero to ten (ten being maximum,
  zero being nothing perceptible)
• State wide
• Organisation

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Impacts on materials development
Summary
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Responding to change (and its not going away)
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Publishing
Media
Demographics
Curricula
Responsiveness to change
Organisations
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A thought for AADES

• Yes, there are Great Teachers and Great
  Principals. But they fail to have much sustained
  impact on the entire system. Therein lies the
  problem. It isnt so in the private sector.
  When a revolutionary comes along a Dell, a
  Schwab, a WalMart the rest of the world stands
  up and takes notice or gets beaned. In the
  school system, its the revolutionary who gets
  beaned.
• Tom Peters (Re-Imagine)

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