Uaf I Design

The Big Picture: Future of Education UAF CDE: iDesign George Siemens April 23, 2008

“ ...forward-thinking approaches in education as “woefully under-developed””
Former SwedishEducation Minister Ylva Johansson

Why the lack of development?
Possibly because:
The system works – it serves many stakeholders well
Change pressures are not system-wide
Lack of vision
Lack of understanding of trends

Reality: Pace and Growth
Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners
Where are We Now?
The Need for Change?
Models of Change
Moving Forward
Innovation

Growth of information and tools to create/access information

“ Information is the new black”
Fncll

“ ...in the 21st century, the education and skills of the workforce will end up being the dominant competitive weapon”
Lester Thurow

% of population (25+) with 4 or more years of college Signal Hill 2007 Post Secondary Fact Book

By 2015: 70+% of all new jobs will require PSE
Canadian Council for Learning, 2007

“ The United States must find ways to nurture a broader and more diverse talent pool to be successful in the knowledge-based economy”
Council of Graduate Schools Report.
Graduate Education: The Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation

Trends in Online Education
2/3 plus of all HE institutions offer online learning
3.5 million students taking online course (in fall 2006)
20%+ percent annual growth rate since 2003
Online Nation (Allen & Seaman, 2007)

Online Nation (Allen & Seaman, 2007)

ECAR, 2007 Undergraduate Students and IT

Most Valuable Benefit from IT in Courses

The stepchild is welcomed into the family?

Where are We Now?
Models of Change
Moving Forward
Innovation

Millennial Learners? Oblinger (2005), Dede (2005)

Do different experiences impact our neural structure? Richard Davidson, 2002 Kelly, Grinband, Hirsch, 2007

The rise of everyone

Information

Interaction

Community/Network

A word of caution

Preference for IT Use in Courses

Oxford Internet Institute: Internet in Britain 2007

Where are We Now?
Models of Change
Moving Forward
Innovation

Signal Hill 2007 Post Secondary Fact Book

Market shift
“ Life long” (had to say that)
Non-sequential learners
Learners with non-degree needs
Learners with flexible degree needs

3.3 Billion Mobile accounts
Informa, 2007

“ Prototypical US industry in 10 years, if all goes well” National Center on Education and the Economy: Tough Choices or Tough Times

Where are We Now?
Models of Change
Moving Forward
Innovation

“ ...we have to change ourselves in changing environments, and we have to empower ourselves to change these environments as well”
Theo Hug

New skills
ALA: information literacy (2000)
Jenkins: New media skills (2006, p. 5)
21 st Century Skills
Digital Literacy
Gilster 1997, Jones-Kavalier & Flannigan, 2006

Harvard (2007): Core Curriculum
Civic Engagement
Students to understand themselves as products of—and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values
Respond critically and constructively to change
Students’ understanding of ethical dimensions of what they say and do

New Skills
Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World
Intellectual and Practical Skills
Personal and Social Responsibility
Integrative Learning
AAC&U, 2007: College Learning for the New Global Century

New views of education?
Process?
Content?
Chris Lott’s Information Fluency: Knowledge/discipline...Participation... Metacognition/critical thinking

Chris Lott, 2007

Literacy with identity

Our structures of presenting information and fostering knowledge development cannot keep pace with growth!

Where are We Now?
Models of Change
Moving Forward
Innovation

Cook, Holley & Andrew British Journal of Educational Technology 38 (5), 784-794.

Where are We Now?
Models of Change
Moving Forward
Innovation

What will education look like?

OECD: Schooling for tomorrow
Bureaucratic
Re-schooling
Focused learning organizations
Core social centres
De-schooling
Extended market
Learning in networks
Crisis

Mixed signals in times of transition

Threats
For-profit providers
Global schools
Relationship to University
Funding
Re-skilling faculty

Opportunities
Global market
Partnerships with other institutions
Collaboration with global partners
Adopt combined resource-models
Innovate method and structure

Where are We Now?
Models of Change
Moving Forward
Innovation

http://dltj.org/2006/12/disruptive-innovation-card

Innovating Education
Distance Education and Extension departments uniquely suited to the task

What are core tasks in DE/Extension?
Administration
Management, policy
Technological
Infrastructure, security
Research
New markets, future opportunities
On act and process of teaching
Marketing
Teaching and Learning

Teaching and Learning
Reconsider full spectrum of activity

Courses

Classrooms

Teacher/educator

IP/Copyright

How do we begin to innovate?

small steps
many directions

Seed
Select
Amplify
(Meyer & Davis, 2003)

Exploration/Conceptualization
Experimentation
Implementation

Websites and Newsletters
www.elearnspace.org
www.knowingknowledge.com
www.connectivism.ca
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/

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