3. Definition (en.wikipedia.org)
Classical definition
• measurement is the determination or estimation of ratios of quantities
Representational theory
• measurement is defined as "the correlation of numbers with entities that
are not numbers”.
Information theory
• recognises that all data are inexact and statistical in nature. Thus the
definition of measurement is: "A set of observations that reduce
uncertainty where the result is expressed as a quantity."
Note that in this view, all measurements are uncertain, so instead of assigning
one value, a range of values is assigned to a measurement. This also implies
that there is not a clear or neat distinction between estimation and
measurement.
Any measurement can be judged by the following meta-measurement criteria
values: level of measurement, dimensions and uncertainty
4. “Impact” of “ICT” (is measured)
• on business
• on development
• on economic growth
• on education and learning
5. Data
(webometrics, social dynamics, data
mining, web mining, etc.)
DATA matters! – on several
conditions:
1. If you have enough of it
2. If it is correct and up to
date
3. If know what to do with
it
4. If you do proper
conclusions out of it…
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/advancedanalytics/odm/downloads/data-miner-collage-10gr2-126949.jpg
6. Data that matters today
Cluster analysis
Internet representation
Network mapping
en.wikipedia.org
10. Impact measured upon
1. Business (“hidden” marketing + community
development + opinion (influence) +
feedback + information!)
2. Research (data!)
3. Economic development
4. … and
13. MOOCS?
(EUA paper on MOOCs)
• University creates a company – a company creates a university
• Companies invite university teachers
• Business model:
– Competence recognition (certification)
– Examining
– Companies buy student learning results and portfolios
– Companies buy student record data
– Teachers get paid
– Platform is for sale
– Sponsorship
– Study fee
14. VM impact for HE institutions
• Development and exploitation of intercultural studies
• Joint study programs, quality enhancement and expertise
sharing, transparency of professionalism and academic
processes
• Modernisation and internationalisation of curriculum
(transferrable quality standards, modular curriculum based on
learning outcomes, updating pedagogical models)
• Multi-institutional instead of bilateral collaboration
• Improvement of education attractiveness and HE
competitiveness
• Expanded areas of learning for students
• Additional transferrable skills and knowledge areas
• Teacher professional development
• Additional skills and experience for students
16. VM impact for teachers
• Personal professional development:
– Interpersonal communication, online communication,
linguistic skills, ICT competences
– teaching quality improvement, new teaching methods
applied and experimented
– new knowledge, skills and experience in multiple EU HE
institutions
• Professional networking, exchange of good practices
• International, intercultural professional activities
• Transparency and recognition of teaching and professionalism
• Career opportunities
• Research enhancement – especially in teacher VM
19. VM benefits for students
• Upgraded transferrable skills:
– Linguistic, interpersonal communication
– ICT competences
– Additional learning skills (networking, critical thinking,
intercultural knowledge and skills, quality schemes)
• Curriculum and study quality enhancement
• New learning methods suggested by various HE institutions
• Transparency of learning, individual portfolio development
• Enhanced employability
• Intercultural, international experience and expertise
• Enlarged academic areas of studies
• Support for home students and LLL groups, international study
accessibility for physically and socio-economically disadvantaged
20. Responsible and quality-criteria based
integration of ICT within an organization
1.
2.
3.
4.
ICT is recognised by the strategy and management
ICT infrastructure and resources are well ensured
Curriculum and didactics are well developed
Continuous professional skill development is ensured
in application of ICT
5. Support system is available and running
6. Quality assurance system is in place and running
7. Marketing and business model are well supervised
22. Our lives
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1 – 2 mobiles at hand
1 – 2 computers every day
8 – 12 hours online
1 – 2 – 3 e-mail boxes
1 – 2 – 3 social networks (LinkedIn, Google+,
Facebook, other?)
• Anything else forgotten?
23. What if?
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1 – 2 mobiles at hand
1 – 2 computers every day
8 – 12 hours online
1 – 2 – 3 e-mail boxes
1 – 2 – 3 social networks (LinkedIn, Google+,
Facebook, other?)
• Anything else forgotten?
24. Trusted networks
If you are a member of a trusted network:
-you benefit from cases and practices
-you share your way – and get early feedback
-you validate your results and get suggestions for improvements
-- you live among ideas, people and feel a social human being – we need that – and
ICT create these opportunites
25. Hypotheses
1. If I use ICT:
- my social skills become better/ worse?
- my professional performance improves/ goes wrong ?
- I safe time/ I do not have time?
- I reach new/ bigger audience?
- my eyesight becomes poorer and memory/ attention
worse
- I become distracted by piles of files and information
- I get attention deficit
What would not happened without ICT?
26. Personal stories
Why do we use ICT?
Or how professional lives are merged
with social and personal lives
27. Introduction.
Professionalization
Applying ICT since 1996
ICT definitely:
-
opens all opportunities
improves the quality of education
through accessibility, intercultural
studies, transparency and openness
brings my trusted networks easily and
accessibly to me – for expertise, help
and correction of my mistakes
insures variety, creativity and
democracy
educates me (people) and brings them
together (not apart!)
brings all cognitive resources to me,
teaches to validate, select and adapt
ideas to my daily life
creates traces and memory of my life
33. The stories were produced in the framework of
LLP KA3NW project
“European network for knowledge diffusion of Digital
Storytelling”
Editor's Notes
If we google for ICT impact we first of all come across the impact on businesses, development and economic growth.
Measurement for objective data here is for the purpose, clear and very important!
If we forget about ICT, virtual environment – we might find similarties of the phenomenon around us that we know very well. Whom of you are not interested in who your children friends are?Whom of you are not interested with whom your spouse communicates?In non-virtual life, we take it softly, accurately, or we go for evidence and factsThe same happens in virtual world.
I remember the times when we heard that time and information is most expensive things. I also remember that it was not the case in Lithuania. Now, unfortunately, it is.
Look at the iTunes university offer to follow who are the authors of resources
OU…Moocs – second slide
Have you ever thought what would happen if we refuse all this? - ……Seems like holiday but at the same time, you become “local”, not global, not even regional…
We would lose much more than we can measure – we would lose our professional life, as it changed and integrated with social life – that’s true!
Can we be sure about any statement that we see on the screen? – No. Because all these affects depend upon many factors, including getting of age, personal characteristics, health conditions, environmental conditions, activity and sports regime, food and meals, and many others.All these negative/ positive effects would happen in any case – people like complaining, they would find a reason to complain in any case.
I never thought that writing a personal digital story is so difficult…
When I had my first daugther, my professional life required lots of traveling. I would travel every or every second month, sometimes, stayed longer for apprentisage. I suffered a lot and was constantly unhappy about my job. Step by step, internet appeared, e-mails, but she was too small to write them.In 2003, she was 9. I first visited University of Liege for academic reasons, for aprentisage. I lived with my friend in her house, she had three boys, and I had three girls. As I stayed there for 10 days, I badly missed my girls. Luckily, there was the internet connection in her house, and we chatted and communicated in a written form with my oldest one every evening. It might sound strange now, but in those times, 10 years ago, a phone call from Belgium to Lithuania cost a fortune. My friend then told me: in Belgium, we say that you have good luck if you are on your children skype list and if your children skype with you at school or at home. This sounded very strange to me. We would usually talk with my girls in the evening face to face.In two years time, I already took her with me for my longer stays abroad, though my younger ones remained at home. But we never stopped skyping in the evenings.Then the time came, when she became digitalised more than I wish she would be. I kept reaching her via messages even from another room at home. Now she left us for longer time, first – for Christmas to visit her God mother, then – for university to become a programmer. But we do stay together – in e-mails, skype chats and Google talk. And now I understand what my friend told me when I was in Liege in 2003. We are on good terms with my daughter…. Even though I “see” her online every day…Now when I think what would have happened if I continued traveling without ICT solutions, I am sure, I would have either lost my job, or my daugther.OF course, I continue now with the smaller ones. But the best thing out of all of this – these days we are already traveling all together – as take ICT with us and work for home, for work, and for studies.
Because those who need, have computers with them – to work or study for home.
It was Comenius project managed by our local primary school that brought two Finnish girls Henna and Eni to our house. They were from the 5th form, my girls were on the 3, 4 and 11 form. English could be a solution, but It was a second language for all of them, and aparently, they had not sufficient skills. One afternoon I came back from work and found them playing and laughing, soling puzzles! Playing chess, and my girls knew a lot of things about their families. I thought – how?And then I saw a computer on… with the … Google translator! – they were practicing Finnish! – If there was a misunderstanding, natives language speakers were typing in and others reading and listenting to the pronunciation aloud from Google translator!I am amazed and happy. To tell the truth, I did not learn any Finnish at all. Auguste went to Finland in half a year, and she managed to live in a Finnish family of 10 children and spent good time with them.