Uaf I Design

Slide 1: The Big Picture: Future of Education UAF CDE: iDesign George Siemens April 23, 2008

Slide 2: “...forward-thinking approaches in education as “woefully under-developed”” Former SwedishEducation Minister Ylva Johansson

Slide 3: 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

Slide 4: 1. Reality: Pace and Growth 2. Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners 3. Where are We Now? 4. The Need for Change? 5. Models of Change 6. Moving Forward 7. Innovation

Slide 5: Growth of information and tools to create/access information

Slide 6: “Information is the new black” Fncll

Slide 7: “...in the 21st century, the education and skills of the workforce will end up being the dominant competitive weapon” Lester Thurow

Slide 8: % of population (25+) with 4 or more years of college Signal Hill 2007 Post Secondary Fact Book

Slide 9: By 2015: 70+% of all new jobs will require PSE Canadian Council for Learning, 2007

Slide 10: “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

Slide 11: 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)

Slide 12: Online Nation (Allen & Seaman, 2007)

Slide 13: ECAR, 2007 Undergraduate Students and IT

Slide 14: Most Valuable Benefit from IT in Courses ECAR, 2007 Undergraduate Students and IT

Slide 15: The stepchild is welcomed into the family?

Slide 17: Millennial Learners? Oblinger (2005), Dede (2005)

Slide 18: Do different experiences impact our neural structure? Richard Davidson, 2002 Kelly, Grinband, Hirsch, 2007

Slide 19: The rise of everyone

Slide 20: Information

Slide 21: Interaction

Slide 22: Community/Network

Slide 23: A word of caution

Slide 24: Preference for IT Use in Courses ECAR, 2007 Undergraduate Students and IT

Slide 25: Oxford Internet Institute: Internet in Britain 2007

Slide 27: Signal Hill 2007 Post Secondary Fact Book

Slide 28: Market shift “Life long” (had to say that) • Non-sequential learners • Learners with non-degree needs • Learners with flexible degree needs •

Slide 30: 3.3 Billion Mobile accounts Informa, 2007

Slide 33: “Prototypical US industry in 10 years, if all goes well” National Center on Education and the Economy: Tough Choices or Tough Times

Slide 36: “...we have to change ourselves in changing environments, and we have to empower ourselves to change these environments as well” Theo Hug

Slide 37: New skills • ALA: information literacy (2000) • Jenkins: New media skills (2006, p. 5) • 21st Century Skills • Digital Literacy – Gilster 1997, Jones-Kavalier & Flannigan, 2006

Slide 38: Harvard (2007): Core Curriculum 1. Civic Engagement 3. Students to understand themselves as products of— and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values 5. Respond critically and constructively to change 7. Students’ understanding of ethical dimensions of what they say and do

Slide 39: 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

Slide 40: New views of education? • Process? • Content? • Chris Lott’s Information Fluency: Knowledge/discipline...Participation... Metacognition/critical thinking

Slide 41: Chris Lott, 2007

Slide 42: Literacy with identity

Slide 43: Our structures of presenting information and fostering knowledge development cannot keep pace with growth!

Slide 47: Cook, Holley & Andrew British Journal of Educational Technology 38 (5), 784-794.

Slide 49: What will education look like?

Slide 50: OECD: Schooling for tomorrow • Bureaucratic • Re-schooling – Focused learning organizations – Core social centres • De-schooling – Extended market – Learning in networks • Crisis

Slide 51: Mixed signals in times of transition

Slide 52: Threats For-profit providers • Global schools • Relationship to University • Funding • Re-skilling faculty •

Slide 53: Opportunities Global market • Partnerships with other institutions • Collaboration with global partners • Adopt combined resource-models • Innovate method and structure •

Slide 55: http://dltj.org/2006/12/disruptive-innovation-card

Slide 56: Innovating Education Distance Education and Extension departments uniquely suited to the task

Slide 57: 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

Slide 58: Teaching and Learning Reconsider full spectrum of activity

Slide 59: Courses

Slide 60: Classrooms

Slide 61: Teacher/educator

Slide 62: Books

Slide 63: IP/Copyright

Slide 64: How do we begin to innovate?

Slide 65: small steps many directions

Slide 66: Seed Select Amplify (Meyer & Davis, 2003)

Slide 67: Exploration/Conceptualization Experimentation Implementation

Slide 68: Websites and Newsletters www.elearnspace.org www.knowingknowledge.com www.connectivism.ca http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/

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