1. La Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
CINTE17 CONFERENCE - October 2017
Technology and educational innovation – but who is the innovator and what is the innovation?
Don Passey
Professor of Technology Enhanced Learning
Department of Educational Research
Lancaster University
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2. My focus for this presentation
New technologies are enabling a range of innovations in education
Online provision, asynchronous discussion, virtual realities, and game-based learning are all examples that highlight this
Innovation can happen in different ways and in different parts of educational practice
So, who should be considered the innovators, and what is the innovation that is or should happen?
I will discuss these key questions, from an historical, current and future perspective
The important and crucial roles of teachers will be highlighted

3. Innovation is not ‘new to us’

4. Innovation has involved both hardware and software

5. How do we recognise current innovations in education?

6. Four ‘positions’ for innovation
Affordances
Of technologies
Uses
Through pedagogies and activities
Outcomes
From activities, for teachers and for learners
Impact
On learning, for learners
Source: Passey (2013)

7. Where does the innovation happen?
Affordances
Of technologies
Beyond and prior to the classroom
Uses
Through pedagogies and activities
Beyond and prior but also in the classroom
Outcomes
From activities, for teachers and for learners
In the classroom and perhaps beyond
Impact
On learning, for learners
In and beyond the classroom

8. Who is the innovator? Affordances Of technologies Developer(s)
Teacher(s)
Uses
Through pedagogies and activities
Outcomes
From activities, for teachers and for learners
Learner(s)
Impact
On learning, for learners

9. And the role of learners in innovation?
When we try to innovate education, we often leave students out of the equation. We do not innovate in students’ learning, their mind, attitudes, behaviors, character, metacognition, and work ethics enough. Yet, we try everything we can to improve teaching (delivery), while what we actually need is to improve learning.
Source: Serdyukov (2017)

10. And the role of the teachers?
“an effective impact on school could be obtained if and only if technological innovation is developed together with pedagogical innovation … the use of new tools results in little pedagogical gain if novel educational strategies and the activities in which teachers and students are involved are not carefully reconsidered and planned … pedagogical innovation should be based on the opportunities offered by technological advances and on a critical examination of how such advances change substantially, in direct or indirect ways, the needs, the modalities and the content of teaching and learning activities.”
Source: Bottino (2013)

11. How do we gain insight into the potential for innovation?
Affordances
Of technologies
Uses
Through pedagogies and activities
Outcomes
From activities, for teachers and for learners
Impact
On learning, for learners
Qualitative case studies
Quantitative independent control group studies

12. The state-of-play of the four origins of evidence
Affordances
Of technologies
Uses
Through pedagogies and activities
Outcomes
From activities, for teachers and for learners
Impact
On learning, for learners

13. What evidence we tend to lack currently
Impacts on long-term memorisation, social and societal aspects of learning
Uses, outcomes and impacts of project-based activities
Megacognitive and metacognitive outcomes and impacts of online learning support
Outcomes and impacts for specific groups of learners
How lifelong learning is being supported
How intergenerational learning is being supported

14. The future?
Educational technology innovation was initially focused for the learner (in the 1980s) – on affordances and uses
It was then focused more on the teacher (in the 2000s) – on uses and outcomes
It is currently being focused on the institution – on affordances, uses and outcomes
How far will it go beyond to a wider society and community – focusing more on informal learning opportunities perhaps?
Will the interpretation of educational technology innovation ever be truly outside the involvement of teachers?
Will the rule be broken in this context?

15. References
Bottino R.M. (2013). Reflections on Educational Technology, Research and School Innovation. In Lytras M.D., Ruan D., Tennyson R.D., Ordonez De Pablos P., García Peñalvo F.J., Rusu L. (eds) Information Systems, E-learning, and Knowledge Management Research. WSKS Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 278. Springer: Heidelberg, Germany
Passey, D. (2013). Inclusive technology enhanced learning: Overcoming Cognitive, Physical, Emotional and Geographic Challenges. Routledge: New York, NY
Serdyukov, P. (2017). Innovation in education: what works, what doesn’t, and what to do about it? Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning, 10(1), 4-33

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