Harnessing Transmedia Learning: How to Optimize Your Productivity with Learning Science, Media, and Technology
(Room S320GH)
26 Nov 18
2:30 PM
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4:00 PM
A long-time goal of educators, developers, researchers, and policy-makers alike is that ecosystems of learning applications will someday provide adaptive, personalized learning that is facilitated by data shared among technologies. However, until the technical promise is fully realized, learners are still largely on their own to make sense of increasing amounts of information from disparate, unconnected sources. Learners generally lack the strategic support to learn across devices and engage in connected learning anytime, anywhere, with anyone. We can disrupt this cycle when we use learning science strategies, tailored media choices, and our favorite technologies to incentivize rich, connected transmedia learning experiences.
Applying learning science strategies for self-paced, transmedia learning “in the wild” can augment professional courses. Using several use cases as examples, this tutorial will demonstrate how learners can develop their own personalized transmedia learning frameworks (TLF) for self-directed learning when engaging with massively open online courses (MOOC), podcasts, social media, videos, and more. A walk-through of example transmedia learning frameworks for application in M&S skill development will be provided. Participants of this tutorial will take away practical strategies, resources, and tools that can be applied toward learning more productively in general, and with examples from Python, Git, and cybersecurity. Participants will learn how to make their own TLFs available to others for reuse. The tutorial begins with the motivation for developing personal strategies for learning “in the wild” and through descriptions and definitions, shows how TLFs can be used to augment self-paced learning for M&S professional development.