to test narration ....

1. Technology-enabled learning:
state of the art
Dr. Eric Kluijfhout

2. Generations in ‘distance’ learning
• First generation: Correspondence courses
• Second generation: Broadcasting
• Third generation: Multi-media
• Fourth generation: Computer- and web-based
learning
• Fifth generation: Personalised, ubiquitous life-
long learning & professional development

3. Drivers
1. Correspondence Accessibility & a-synchronous
communication
2. Broadcasting Open access
3. Multi-media Enrichment
4. E-learning Synchronous and a-synchro-
nous communication
5. Networked learning Continuous professional
development

4. Trends
• Learning as a life-long process
• Formal (higher) education = initial education
• Employability: individual responsible for CPD
• The web as a source of:
– up-to-date information
– access to fellow-professionals
– professional services

5. What is actually happening in HE?

6. Typical TEL implementations
• To substitute (part of) traditional teaching and
learning: substitution
• To improve (part of) traditional teaching and
learning: innovation
• To radically change the institution’s core
business: transformation

7. Relation to ‘traditional’ teaching
• TEL in addition and parallel to traditional
means of teaching and learning: extended
classroom
• TEL to replace part of the traditional
curriculum and teaching setting: blended
learning
• TEL to facilitate learning independent of place,
time and pace: distributed learning

8. Effort
transformation
innovation
substitution
Time

9. Implications for HEIs
• Role of libraries
• Role of teachers
• Infrastructure
– Institutional
– Sector-level
• ‘Networked organization’

10. What about Ethiopian HEIs?
• Role of libraries
• Role of teachers
• ‘Networked organization’
– Learning resources (OERs)
– Educational offerings (courses, programmes)
– Teachers, researchers and subject experts
– Learners and professionals (alumni)
• ICT infrastructure requirements
– Institutional
– Sector-, national- and international

11. Your update please
.....
during the discussion
Now:
ODL in a technology-challenged
environment

12. Eric Kluijfhout – Competence Solutions
eric@competence-solutions.com
eric.kluijfhout
http://nl.linkedin.com/in/erickluijfhout
http://www.slideshare.net/eric.kluijfhout
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17. National and regional connectivity
• WoredaNet
• Ethiopian Higher Education and Research Net (EtHERNet)
• National ICTs in Higher Education Initiative
• Ethiopian ICT Development Agency
http://www.ubuntunet.net/sites/ubuntunet.net/files/Intra-Africa_Fibre_Map_v6.pdf
http://www.intac.net/telecom-reach-in-africa-whos-connected/