UPEI

Amplifying the University: Integrating Learning, Knowledge, and Technology
George Siemens
Technology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute
Athabasca University
May 19, 2010
Presented to:

Current State and Developing Trends
The Changing Role of Higher Education
How is Society/University Responding?
The Role of Technology
Integrating Technology, Knowledge, and Learning

“all countries, whatever their level of development, have been obliged to review and reorganize their capacities for accessing and benefiting from the high-level knowledge which shapes social change.”
UNESCO, Higher Education: Research and Innovation, 2009

Global Education Digest, 2009, UNESCO, Institute for Statistics

“For institutions, finding new sources of revenue which are not based on equities and are not under the control of governments will be of key importance.”
Educational Policy Institute, 2009

Foreign Students in Tertiary Education by Country of Destination, OECD, 2009

Martin Prosperity Institute, 2009

Adapted from: UNESCO, Trends in Global Higher Education, 2009

Role of universities is shifting from producing“better citizens” to “a better economy”

Current university model is not sustainable

Triple Helix: university, government, industry
Etzkowitz, 2003

Partnerships (“globalized university”)
Alliances (private sector, international)
Consortia
Distributed Research Labs
For-profit
Online - U of California: http://chronicle.com/article/In-Crisis-U-of-California/65445/

Excellence Research Chairs
http://www.cerc.gc.ca/cpch-pctc-eng.shtml
“If you read the British press you will see they are screaming bloody murder that we’re taking the best from Britain and bringing them to Canada. Well, precisely. That was the name of the game”
Derek Burney

Ontario Online Institute

It’s just a tool

Silly humans. Technology is for transformation

Technology as cross-discipline

New affordances of technology

What has technology invalidated?

“…profound changes whose revolutionary nature is better revealed by their eventual breadth and depth of the clusters of innovation that emerge than by the pace at which they achieve their influence”
Paul A. David (2000)

Learning & knowledge
Netherlands: “knowledge infrastructure”
TEKRI, Athabasca University: AB economy
King Abdullah University of Science Technology
Ecosystems for innovation

Integrated learning structures, strategy execution
MIT
Queensland: CEIT
South Korea: KERIS

Critical challenge facing schools/universities/colleges
Strategic integration of learning & knowledge in relation to technology, generating capacity for innovation

Grassroots gives way to systemic change

Policy and strategy: to integrate faculty, learners, technology, knowledge

Analytics
Data collection now, predictive resources later
Better analytics=increased learning success?

Higher education as driver of economic development
Rockefeller Institute

Stats Canada Higher Education Data Sources (disjointed, incomplete)
Access and Support to Education and Training Survey (ASETS)
Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC)
National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS)
National Graduate Survey (NGS)
Program for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)
Post-secondary Student Information System (PSIS)
Registered Apprenticeship Information System (RAIS)
Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED)
University and College Academic StaffSurvey (UCASS)
Workplace Employee Survey (WES)
Youth in transition survey (YITS— Statistics Canada)
MEASURING WHAT CANADIANS VALUEA Pan-Canadian Data Strategy for Post-secondary Education, CCL, 2007

UPEI & economic development
Regional service (from campus to country)
Startups, incubators, triple helix model

How does technology use evolve in universities?
Lone radical model
Tweaking playing, running your own servers

Canada: lack of national elearning strategy hampering development of sector
State of elearning in Canada, CCL, 2009

“The good news is that strong foundational technology is enabling much richer and more diverse knowledge flows. The bad news is that mind-sets and practices tend to hamper the generation of and participation in those flows.”
Deloitte, Center for the Edge

Weekly newsletter: www.elearnspace.org
Social Networks & Learning (June 21-25, 2010)
https://tekri.athabascau.ca/dr_seminar/
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