lets build our technologies around the needs of digitally CONTEXT: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Are digital Stuart Allan Director of Online Learning technologies To support equality of access, Edinburgh Business School complicit in acts of @OpenPlanStuart exclusion and marginalisation? let’s build our technologies around the needs of digitally CONTEXT: FUTURE SCENARIOS? • Students in 166 countries • ‘Unbundled’ VLEs • 1 in 4 live in Africa • More flexible procurement • 1,132 survey responses: • In-house expertise in UX marginalised students. > 50% have restricted • Collaboration to share internet access resources (and risk) VLEs ’ SHORTCOMINGS: Non-Cognitive Predictors of Student Success: Non-Cognitive Predictors of Student Success: A Predictive Validity Comparison Between Domestic and International Students A Predictive Validity Comparison Between Domestic and International Students • Offline access • Mobile optimisation • Content ‘silos’ RESPONSE: • A custom-built interface Take a picture to integrating multiple tools access the full paper • In-browser offline access • Mobile optimisation • Social newsfeed • Multimodal pathways #betterposter template by @MikeMorrison

Building physical spaces = investment Building digital spaces = cost / risk

Compromises that we couldn’t accept: – Lack of offline – Incomplete mobile optimisation – Content silos

Imagine a future where… – VLEs are ‘unbundled’ – Pick-and-mix procurement – We all have in-house developers – We collaborate to share resources (and risk)

To support equality of access, let’s build our technologies around the needs of digitally marginalised students.

Thank you @OpenPlanStuart openplanlearning.wordpress.com