Short presentation for Cork World Social Media Day 28 June Rubicon Centre CIT about changes to education caused by the Internet and social media eg OERs, creative commons, Uncollege, TEDEd, EdX, Khan Academy, ItunesU. Provided under a creative commons license

1. @imogenber*n
on
Uncollege
&
all
that
Now
that
stuff
is
on
Google
and
Wikipedia,
and
no-­‐one
has
a
job
for
life,
what
is
educa<on
for?

2. Economic
For
personal
independence:
To
shed
our
inherited
development
get
a
job/ prejudices
and
replace
money
them
with
others
we
choose
to
acquire
To
stand
on
To
master
a
the
shoulders
skill
and
be
of
giants
licenced
as
a
professional
To
be
able
to
eg
doctor
successfully
ques<on
the
Intellectual
To
get
out
of
status
quo
curiosity
the
house
To
learn
how
To
know
when
To
meet
a
to
learn…
Google
is
wrong
or
partner
or
biased…
make
friends

3. Pew
trust:
economic
mobility
• ...during
the
fourth
quarter
of
2011,
against
common
no<ons,
unemployed
individuals
with
higher
levels
of
educa*on
were
just
as
likely
to
be
experience
joblessness
for
a
year
or
longer
as
those
with
only
a
high
school
educa<on…
• That’s
America
of
course…
where
5000
janitors
have
PhDs
and
a
first
degree
comes
in
very
handy
for
a
job
in
retail…
• Are
the
old
“deferred
benefit”
arguments
for
educa<on
valid…?
– “You
wasted
$150,000
on
an
educa<on
you
coulda
got
for
a
buck
fiWy
in
late
charges
at
the
public
library.”
Will
Hun<ng

4. Dropouts,
devalua*on
and
diminishing
returns…
In
the
US,
70.1%
of
high
school
grads
go
to
college
compared
to
about
55%
in
Ireland
(in
2004)
–
does
wider
access
devalue
degrees?
“Nearly
two-­‐thirds
enrolling
at
a
community
or
for-­‐profit
college
do
not
earn
a
degree
within
six
years…
about
one-­‐third
of
students
at
public
and
private
four-­‐year
universi<es
do
not
earn
a
degree.”
James
Kvaal,
US
Deputry
UnderSecretary
for
Educa<on,
Sep
2011.
In
Ireland
“ The
average
drop
out
rate
in
the
case
of
the
universi<es
was
found
to
be
15%
while
in
the
case
of
the
ins<tutes
of
technology
it
was
found
to
be
42%.”
Mary
Hanafin
Dail
response
2005
(nb
rates
are
higher
for
mature
students).

5. So
that’s
not
Ireland,
right?
Cost
of
college
educa*on
Country
Educa<on
inc
Median
income
Affordability
USA
$13,856*
$26,990
51.34%
Australia
$7,692
$23,017
33.42%
Canada
$5,974
$26,623
22.44%
England/Wales
$5,288
$24,652
21.45%
Netherlands
$3,125
$28,032
11.15%
Finland
$1,243
$21,010
5.92%
Ireland
$2,917
$22,545
13%
*Private
educa<on
in
the
USA
has
average
tui<on
costs
of
$24,700,
while
public
costs
$7,173.
Irish
costs
would
be
a
lot
higher
if
Irish
students
didn’t
mostly
stay
home/local
for
college…

6. Hands
up!
1.
Put
your
hand
2.
Put
your
hand
up
if
you
think
up
if
you
think
that
In
the
next
that
In
the
next
five
years
the
five
years
the
price
of
oil
and
price
of
college
energy
will
educa*on
will
stabilise
or
go
stabilise
or
go
down?
down?
OK
so…
how
do
we
use
new
technology
and
social
media
to
provide
the
three
basic
func<ons
of
educa<on:
sense-­‐making,
coaching,
and
creden*aling
…
in
a
world
where
we
have
to
constantly
re-­‐skill
to
stay
in
work
too?
Here’s
a
whistlestop
tour
of
what’s
out
there…

7. “Uncollege
is
a
social
movement
designed
to
help
you
hack
your
educa<on.”
hlp://uncollege.org
NOTICE
the
crea*ve
commons
licence…

8. Open
Educa*onal
Resources
(OERs)
• By
using
new
forms
of
licensing
and
distribu<on
like
crea<ve
commons,
the
cost
of
textbooks
can
be
slashed.
– This
requires
teachers
and
ins<tu<ons
to
be
prepared
to
share
their
intellectual
capital…
• Now
books
can
be
distributed
instantly
and
cheaply
online…
– But
annota<ng
text
for
study
can
be
hard
on
a
tablet.
Textbooks
are
not
read
“serially”,
like
novels
and
many
s<ll
prefer
to
read
on
paper
• Our
college
libraries
pay
vast
sums
to
subscribe
to
academic
journals
publishing
the
results
of
research
that
we,
the
taxpayers,
have
funded.
– But
if
you
have
“open
source”
academic
publishing,
how
do
you
guarantee
the
quality?

9. iTunesU
–
just
do
it!
• The
brightest
and
best
lecturers
in
the
world
from
top
universi<es
are
available
as
video
and
audio
free
of
charge
on
iTunesU
• Even
if
you
never
listen
to
music
or
do
not
have
an
iOS
device
(iPod
Touch,
iPhone,
iPad),
you
need
iTunes
for
iTunesU
–
TRY
IT
TOMORROW.
Seriously.
There
is
iTunes
for
Windows!
3
x
as
many
people
download
audio
lectures
as
video…
• …but
talking-­‐head
lectures
can
be
boring
and
hard
to
find
<me
for.
They
don’t
necessarily
“teach”
you
anything.
For
that
you
need
collabora<on,
knowledge
construc<on,
assessment,
coaching,
feedback…

10. Khan
Academy:
flip
the
classroom
• Salman
Khan
started
Khan
Academy
in
his
garage
to
provide
video
tutorials
in
maths
for
his
younger
rela<ves
– Online
learning
isn’t
as
easy
as
video
lectures.
Dropout
rates
are
high
(50%)
for
pure
e-­‐learning
because
you
miss
out
on
peer
learning
and
discussions.
Khan’s
videos
are
short
and
use
web
analy<cs
to
provide
tutorial
help
when
learners
get
stuck...
Before
they
give
up...
• 3,200
free
micro-­‐lectures:
from
biology
to
art
history.
– Funded
by
dona<ons,
par<cularly
the
Gates
Founda<on
• By
crea<ng
repeatable,
recorded
morsels
of
knowledge
Khan
“flipped”
the
classroom
– Students
learn
the
“stuff”
before
the
class
and
then
use
face
to
face
or
discussion
<me
for
points
of
difficulty
and
construc<ve
groupwork
or
problem
solving.

11. MOOCs
and
Open
Badges
• Massively
Online
Open
Courses
=
MOOCs
–
mostly
FREE!
– Offered
by
top-­‐rank
colleges
like
Stanford
and
Harvard
• Not
just
boring
talking
head
videos…
webinars…
–
virtual
office
hours
and
online
discussion,
embedded
quizzes
• Class
sizes
of
many
thousands
– 160,000
students
in
190
countries
enrolled
in
an
Ar<ficial
Intelligence
course
at
Stanford.
• High
drop-­‐out
rate
– 23,000
completed
of
whom
248
achieved
scores
of
100%.
• How
can
they
be
made
sustainable?
– Charging
for
comple<on
cer<ficates?
Selling
leads
to
recruiters?
• Will
employers
value
them?
-­‐>
Open
Badges
movement

12. TEDEd
and
edX
–
access
to
the
best…
• TED
–
Technology,
Educa<on
and
Design
video
talks
– Inspira<onal!
“Ideas
worth
spreading.”
Mostly
<
10
mins.
If
you
take
one
thing
from
today,
go
and
watch
some
TED
videos…
eg
Sal
Khan
“Let’s
use
video
to
reinvent
educa<on”
– TEDEd
“Lessons
worth
sharing”.
Use
videos
from
TED
or
YouTube
with
anima<ons
and
quizzes
to
create
customized
lessons…
with
addi<onal
resources.
TEDEd
shows
you
how…hlp://ed.ted.com/tour
and
lets
teachers
customise
however
they
like…and
monitor
student
progress
• Need
more
structure?
Try
EdX…
– MIT
and
Harvard’s
contribu<on:
“teaching
designed
specifically
for
the
Web…
self-­‐paced
learning,
online
discussion
groups,
wiki-­‐based
collabora<ve
learning,
assessment
of
learning
as
a
student
progresses
through
a
course,
and
online
laboratories”
-­‐
they
plan
to
franchise
to
other
colleges.

13. M-­‐learning
and
tablets
• Learn
on
your
smartphone
at
your
own
pace
– Shor<ng
readings
and
videos
– Treasure/scavenger
hunts
where
you
sign
in
using
your
phone…
– Quizzes
– Pocket
e-­‐library
(NB
Cork
City
Library
now
has
e-­‐loans)
– Video
link
to
an
expert
or
tutor
from
your
phone
– Record
audio,
video,
pictures
(eg
medical
students)
• Problems…
– Hard
to
read
for
more
than
short
period
– Difficult
to
type
or
select
op<ons
• Tablets,
especially
the
iPad,
beler
suited
to
educa<on?
– Countless
new
educa<onal
apps
being
developed
– Ability
to
include
gaming
targets
and
levels
within
apps
– New
iOS6
guided
access
restricts
students
to
the
“test”
at
hand

14. Learn
social
• You
learn
as
much
from
other
students
as
you
do
from
the
teacher…
– Course
mul<-­‐user
blogs
– Facebook
closed
groups
for
classes
– Twiler
class
hashtags
to
share
info
– Quizlet.com
shared
study
cards
for
revision
– Pinterest
curated
image
or
infograhic
collec<ons
– Distribute
presenta<ons
from
Slideshare.net
or
Prezi
– Use
Dropbox
for
groupwork
documents
– Share
website
bookmarks
on
Pinboard
or
Delicious
• But…
what
about
the
non-­‐techies
or
those
concerned
about
privacy
or
those
who
cannot
afford
technology?
– Are
we
now
at
the
stage
where
digital
literacy
is
as
important
as
reading
and
wri<ng?

15. See
my
blog
hlp://www.ctc.ie
for
a
list
of
short
videos
about
these
changes
to
educa<on…
If
you
only
watch
one,
I
recommend
Sir
Ken
Robinson…

16. E-­‐porfolios
• Need
to
demonstrate
your
skills
eg
for
employers?
• Record
your
progress
as
you
learn
and
keep
re-­‐assessing
what
you
need
to
learn
next…
– Widely
used
in
health
professions
to
track
con<nuing
professional
development,
oWen
as
a
condi<on
of
professional
registra<on
• A
sort
of
“digital
shoe-­‐box”
of
documents,
videos,
bookmarks…
– But
problems
with
how
you
maintain
it
or
take
it
with
you
aWer
you
leave
a
course…
– And
expensive
for
teachers
to
assess…
– And
does
anyone
really
read
them
as
opposed
to
checking
your
LinkedIn
profile?

17. References
• Image
page
1:
hlp://www.indiansinkuwait.com/ShowAr<cle.aspx?
ID=4057&SECTION=17
• Reference
page
3:
hlp://www.pewstates.org/research/analysis/ingrid-­‐schroeder-­‐
and-­‐erin-­‐currier-­‐the-­‐american-­‐dream-­‐85899379744
• Reference
page
4:
hlp://www.businessinsider.com/these-­‐two-­‐charts-­‐prove-­‐a-­‐
college-­‐educa<on-­‐just-­‐isnt-­‐worth-­‐the-­‐money-­‐anymore-­‐2012-­‐6
• Reference
page
5:
hlp://www.businessinsider.com/tui<on-­‐costs-­‐by-­‐country-­‐
college-­‐higher-­‐educa<on-­‐2012-­‐6#
with
guess<mate
by
Imogen
for
Ireland.
Methodology
for
anyone
who
would
like
to
improve
the
guess<mate
here
–
I
just
ran
out
of
<me
to
complete
the
calcula<on...
hlp://www.ireg-­‐observatory.org/
pdf/HESA_Global_Higher_Educa<onRankings2010.pdf
• Image
page
8:
hlp://degreedirectory.org/ar<cles/
10_Places_to_Buy_Digital_Textbooks_Online.html
• Image
page
10:
hlps://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges
• Image
page
14:
hlps://www.facebook.com/NoHopeForTheHumanRace
• Image
page
15:
hlp://www.alanbloomproduc<ons.com/ShoeBoxScan.html
• Disclaimer:
all
views
expressed
are
my
own
and
not
those
of
my
employers
University
College
Cork
and
Apple
Distribu<on
Interna<onal.