Lifelong Learning and the Digital Facilitator

This week’s topics

Lifelong Learning and the Digital Facilitator

1. Self-directed online learning
2. Evolving role from instructor to learning facilitator
3. Micro-credentials and MOOCs
4. Scaffolding learner autonomy
5. MOOCs and Digital Learning: Opening the HKS Classroom to the World
6. When teacher education becomes a lifelong return | Academia et al
7. Online Learning Experience - The teacher's perspective

What you will be able to do

• 1.2 Analyse the concept of life-long learning using technology.
• 1.3 Describe changes to the role of facilitator due to technology.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse the concept of life-long learning using technology.

Study materials

Videos

• MOOCs and Digital Learning: Opening the HKS Classroom to the World · YouTube · Harvard Kennedy School · 59 min · for registered students
• When teacher education becomes a lifelong return | Academia et al · YouTube · UCL Institute of Education · 23 min · for registered students
• Online Learning Experience - The teacher's perspective · YouTube · TU Delft · 5 min · for registered students
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the Workplace (2016 #1) · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 46 min · for registered students

Further resources

• Educational Psychology (Seifert & Sutton), ch. 1: The changing teaching profession and you · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 8–19 · for registered students
• Technology-mediated self-assessment in higher education: a critical review · PDF · ERIC, article · for registered students
• A Review of Self-regulated Learning: Six Models and Four Directions for Research · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students