Uncollege and all that...

@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?

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

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

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).

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…

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…

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

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?

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…

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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…

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?

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.

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