Achieving lasting education in the new digital learning world

Abstract

In this special issue of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, we take a step back from the events of the last 2 years and the changes that we have seen in the education arena, to remember that which has remained constant – how students learn best. Developing teaching and learning pedagogy based on lasting education theory and practice makes the past of education relevant to the present and future and creates a context where innovation can be scaled and taken further, from a single instance of impact to many. In this editorial, we present an argument for going back to our roots and present examples of the effective use of established theories of learning that continue to advance online education practice. We discuss the scaling of educational best practice to more students and more institutions, and we provide recommendations for creating sustainable and lasting future practice.

Peopling Technologies educational model

“…Peopling Technologies as a model pivoted on creating balance between contextual digital design that supports belonging, and a practice pedagogy that can be used in more than one context to support participation in increasingly diverse tertiary settings. Garivaldis et al (2022) argue that high quality digital learning privileges balancing the content, the innovation and the approach with the needs of the student. Peopling Technologies, similarly, positions "high quality teaching and learning opportunities as an act of design" (Garivaldis et al, 2022) that balances the learning objectives, the materials and medium with the students and their contexts at the centre of the design.…”

“…Garivaldis et al (2022) argue that high quality digital learning privileges balancing the content, the innovation and the approach with the needs of the student. Peopling Technologies, similarly, positions "high quality teaching and learning opportunities as an act of design" (Garivaldis et al, 2022) that balances the learning objectives, the materials and medium with the students and their contexts at the centre of the design.…”

DHM-Ocr

“…The advantage of DHM makes it possible to merge several neural building blocks to complement one another and form a more efficient hybrid model. Garivaldis et al [10], presented how existing learning theories might improve online education. In recent years huge surveys done and published papers on recommendation systems (RS), for instance, Adomavicius et al [11] presented a comparative survey on content-based, collaborative filtering, and hybrid recommendation models.…”