- Starship Phoenix - learning technology exploratory space
- Pleiades - equitable mobile delivery of digital course materials
- Encke - virtual university collaboration
- Volans - gamified clinical simulations for nursing students
- Dromaius - virtual worlds as restorative environments
- Gemini - Second Life AI bots to orient students
- Pegasus - digital communities of practice
Missions
ADFI has 3 missions: Mobility, Openness and Digital Communities (see below)
Current projects
- Starship Phoenix - learning technology exploratory space
- Pleiades - equitable mobile delivery of digital course materials
- Encke - virtual university collaboration
- Volans - gamified clinical simulations for nursing students
- Dromaius - virtual worlds as restorative environments
- Gemini - Second Life AI bots to orient students
- Pegasus - digital communities of practice
Mobility
No longer do we need to physically travel in order to learn. The world is moving toward ubiquitous and wireless connections which can be used in three main ways for knowledge construction, creative expression and formal and informal learning:
- flexibility to work and learn at the most productive and appropriate time and place
- situated, contextualised ‘learning locations’ – in the workplace, in the field, in the hospital, in the community, at the client’s location etc. Less dependency on fixed tethered computers. Future technologies more embedded, connected and interactive in multiple locations.
- learners on the move through multi-media-e.g. e book readers and podcasting for learning .
Our futures mobility mission is to prototype all 3 types of mobility in the service of creating more productive mobile learning futures.
Openness
We believe the internet offers us an openness revolution for knowledge and learning comparable to the first introduction of print books some 500 years ago. We believe concepts of openness are key to achieving the very high aspirations of higher education over the next decade including new ways of extending reach and achieving knowledge contributions. The Web is not complete – it’s not over yet - and we seek to understand and trial new approaches to knowledge sharing.
This mission will seek new forms of openness and contribution for learners and staff, for access and resources.
Digital Communities
Communities are based on shared values, common interests and collective learning. We believe that the use of communication technologies has provided significant opportunities for relationships to form and grow and with the ease of linking dispersed individuals and groups using these technologies, opportunities for interaction and collaboration are extensive. Digital and virtual communities offer unprecedented opportunities for strong learning collaborations and resources to enable contribution and dialogue, the like of which the world has never seen until very recently....This is especially true in universities.
This mission explores strategies for developing shared meaning, practising critical reflection, and conducting discourse in digital communities in order to enter future realms of inquiry, experimentation and the growth and synergy of knowledge