Innovating Pedagogy Report Archive

Innovating Pedagogy 2024

Co-authored by academics at the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University, UK, together with researchers from the LIVE Learning Innovation Incubator at Vanderbilt University in the US, the report explains a further set of powerful pedagogies and innovations that hold the promise of transformative change.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2023

Led by academic researchers at the OU's Institute of Educational Technology in collaboration with researchers from University of Cape Town, the eleventh edition of the Innovating Pedagogy report explores artificial intelligence (AI) tools, the role of the Metaverse for education and entrepreneurship in education, among the report's 10 pedagogic innovations to learning, teaching and assessment.

Themes:

• Pedagogies using AI tools: Using AI tools such as ChatGPT to support teaching and learning.
• Metaverse for education: Educational opportunities through fully immersive 3D environments.
• Multimodal pedagogy: Enhancing learning by diversifying communication and representation.
• Seeing yourself in the curriculum: Pedagogies enabling students to see themselves in the curriculum.
• Pedagogy of care in digitally mediated settings: Prioritising the well-being and development of students.
• Podcasts as pedagogy: Embedding podcasts in teaching and learning practices.
• Challenge-based learning: Rising to challenges to benefit individuals and societies.
• Entrepreneurial education: Students as change agents in society.
• Relational pedagogies: Working relationally in and across disciplinary and professional boundaries.
• Entangled pedagogies of learning spaces: Connecting technology, pedagogy and all elements of a learning context.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2022

Led by academic researchers at the OU's Institute of Educational Technology in collaboration with researchers from the Open University of Catalonia, the landmark tenth edition of the Innovating Pedagogy report features hybrid practice, dual-learning scenarios and influencer-led learning among the report's 10 leading pedagogical approaches to learning and teaching.

Themes:

• Hybrid models: Maximising learning flexibility and opportunities.
• Dual learning scenarios: Connecting learning in classrooms and industry workplaces.
• Pedagogies of microcredentials: Accredited short courses to develop workplace skills.
• Pedagogy of autonomy: Building capacity for freedom and independent learning.
• Watch parties: Watching videos together, whatever the time or place.
• Influencer-led education: Learning from education influencers on social media platforms.
• Pedagogies of the home: Understanding the home as a place for cultural learning.
• Pedagogy of discomfort: Emotions as powerful tools for learning and for promoting social justice.
• Wellbeing education: Promoting wellbeing across all aspects of teaching and learning.
• Walk-and-talk: Combining movement and conversation to enhance learning.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2021

This ninth report, produced in collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence and Human Languages Lab/The Institute of Online Education at Beijing Foreign Studies University, proposes another ten innovations in pedagogy that deserve attention in a changing educational landscape.

Themes:

• Best learning moments: Positive mental states for enjoyable and effective learning.
• Enriched realities: Extending learning with augmented and virtual reality.
• Gratitude as a pedagogy: Reflecting on attitude to improve wellbeing and learning.
• Using chatbots in learning: Using educational dialogues to improve learning efficiency.
• Equity-oriented pedagogy: Finding fairer ways to improve learning for all.
• Hip-hop based education: Culturally relevant learning through hip-hop.
• Student co-created teaching and learning: Teachers and students creating materials and curricula.
• Telecollaboration for language learning: Using communication tools for collaborative language learning.
• Evidence-based teaching: Using evidence from research to inform teaching.
• Corpus-based pedagogy: Using authentic language data to support language teaching and learning.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2020

This eighth report, produced in collaboration with the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) in Ireland, describes another ten innovations that have the potential to influence education in the coming years.

Themes

• Artificial intelligence in education: Preparing for life and learning in the age of AI.
• Post-humanist perspectives: Confronting the relationship between humans and technology.
• Learning through open data: Using real-world data for personally relevant learning.
• Engaging with data ethics: Ethical use of data in digital life and learning.
• Social justice pedagogy: Addressing injustices in lives and society.
• Esports: Learning and teaching through competitive virtual gaming.
• Learning from animations: Watching and interacting with short animations.
• Multisensory learning: Using several senses to enhance learning.
• Offline networked learning: Networked learning beyond the Internet.
• Online laboratories: Laboratory access for all.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2019

This seventh Innovating Pedagogy report, produced in collaboration with the Centre for the Science of Learning & Technology (SLATE) in Norway, identifies ten innovations that will influence education internationally over the coming years.

Themes:

• Playful learning: Motivating and engaging learners.
• Learning with robots: Helping teachers free their time for teaching.
• Decolonising learning: Changing perspectives and opening up opportunities.
• Drone-based learning: Enabling and enriching exploration of physical spaces.
• Learning through wonder: Sparking curiosity, investigation, and discovery.
• Action learning: Finding solutions to apply in daily life.
• Virtual studios: Hubs of activity where learners develop creative processes together.
• Place-based learning: Location as a trigger for learning.
• Making thinking visible: Opening windows into student learning.
• Roots of empathy: Social and emotional learning.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2017

This sixth report, produced in collaboration with the Learning In a NetworKed Society (LINKS) Israeli Center of Research Excellence (I-CORE), proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education.

Themes:

• Spaced learning: Building long-term memories in minutes.
• Learners making science: volunteering to make science and act as a scientist.
• Open textbooks: Adapting openly licensed textbooks.
• Navigating post-truth societies: Epistemic education for the 21st century.
• Intergroup empathy: Understanding the perspectives of others.
• Immersive learning: Intensifying learning by experiencing new situations.
• Student-led analytics: Using data to help learners set and achieve their own goals.
• Big-data inquiry: thinking with data: Understanding the world by working with large sets of data.
• Learning with internal values: Using students’ interests to inspire learning.
• Humanistic knowledge-building communities: Helping learners to develop knowledge.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2016

This fifth report, produced in collaboration with the Learning Sciences Lab at the National Institute of Education, Singapore, proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education.

Themes:

• Learning through social media: Using social media to offer long-term learning opportunities.
• Productive failure: Drawing on experience to gain deeper understanding.
• Teachback: Learning by explaining what we have been taught.
• Design thinking: Applying design methods in order to solve problems.
• Learning from the crowd: Using the public as a source of knowledge and opinion.
• Learning through video games: Making learning fun, interactive and stimulating.
• Formative analytics: Developing analytics that help learners to reflect and improve.
• Learning for the future: Preparing students for work and life in an unpredictable future.
• Translanguaging: Enriching learning through the use of multiple languages.
• Blockchain for learning: Storing, validating and trading educational reputation.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2015

This fourth report, produced in collaboration with the SRI (formerly Stanford Research Institute) Centre for Technology and Learning, proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education including: learning through argumentation, context-based learning, and adaptive teaching.

Themes:

• Crossover learning: Connecting formal and informal learning.
• Learning through argumentation: Developing skills of scientific argumentation.
• Incidental learning: Harnessing unplanned or unintentional learning.
• Context-based learning: How context shapes and is shaped by the process of learning.
• Computational thinking: Solving problems using techniques from computing.
• Learning by doing science with remote labs: Guided experiments on authentic scientific equipment.
• Embodied learning: Making mind and body work together to support learning.
• Adaptive teaching: Adapting computer-based teaching to the learner’s knowledge and action.
• Analytics of emotions: Responding to the emotional states of students.
• Stealth assessment: Unobtrusive assessment of learning processes.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2014

This third report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education including: learning design informed by analytics, dynamic assessment and threshold concepts.

Themes:

• Massive open social learning: Free online courses based on social learning.
• Learning design informed by analytics: A productive cycle linking design and analysis of effective learning.
• Flipped classroom: Blending learning inside and outside the classroom.
• Bring your own devices: Learners use their personal tools to enhance learning in the classroom.
• Learning to learn: Learning how to become an effective learner.
• Dynamic assessment: Giving the learner personalized assessment to support learning.
• Event-based learning: Time-bounded learning events.
• Learning through storytelling: Creating narratives of memories and events.
• Threshold concepts: Troublesome concepts and tricky topics for learning.
• Bricolage: Creative tinkering with resources.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2013

This second report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education including: badges to accredit learning, crowd learning and geo-learning.

Themes:

• MOOCs: Massive open online courses.
• Badges to accredit learning: Open framework for gaining recognition of skills and achievements.
• Learning analytics: Data-driven analysis of learning activities and environments.
• Seamless learning: Connecting learning across settings, technologies and activities.
• Crowd learning: Harnessing the local knowledge of many people.
• Digital scholarship: Scholarly practice through networked technologies.
• Geo-learning: Learning in and about locations.
• Learning from gaming: Exploiting the power of digital games for learning.
• Maker culture: Learning by making.
• Citizen inquiry: Fusing inquiry-based learning and citizen activism.

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Innovating Pedagogy 2012

This first innovating pedagogy report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education including: publisher-led short courses, assessment for learning and personal inquiry learning.

Themes:

• New pedagogy for e-books: Innovative ways of teaching and learning with next-generation e-books.
• Publisher-led short courses: Publishers producing commercial short courses for leisure and professional development.
• Assessment for learning: Assessment that supports the learning process through diagnostic feedback.
• Badges to accredit learning: Open framework for gaining recognition of skills and achievements.
• MOOCs: Massive open online courses.
• Rebirth of academic publishing: New forms of open scholarly publishing.
• Seamless learning: Connecting learning across settings, technologies and activities.
• Learning analytics: Data-driven analysis of learning activities and environments.
• Personal Inquiry learning: Learning through collaborative inquiry and active investigation.
• Rhizomatic learning: Knowledge constructed by self-aware communities adapting to environmental conditions.

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