The presentation discusses the challenges of 21st-century education and the need for blended learning to prepare students for an uncertain future. It highlights the importance of teaching skills that foster creativity, communication, and lifelong learning while recognizing the limitations of traditional teaching methods. The call to action emphasizes the need for collaboration, innovation, and sharing of resources to enhance the educational experience.

1. Challenges for
21st century education
and blended learning
Prof. dr. Frederik Questier
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Masterclass professionele ontwerpteams
Associatie KU Leuven – 12/02/15

2. This presentation can be found at
http://questier.com
http://www.slideshare.net/Frederik_Questier

3. Perspectives
➢ Society
➢ Students
➢ Teachers
➢ Technologies

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How can we educate
our students for
the unknown future?

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I ask my students:
What is the biggest change
you expect in your (professional) life?
Most of them are clueless...

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The only constant in life is change

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The best way
to predict the future
is to invent it.
(Alan Kay, 1971)

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William Gibson

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Information Society ?

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Knowledge Society

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Evolution of organizations
Source: Jessica Lipnack and Jeffrey Stamps, Virtual Teams
http://www.netage.com/pub/books/VirtualTeams%202/CHAPTERS%20PDF/chapter02.pdf

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Network society

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Network society
Motivate your students to participate
in existing authentic (online) networks!

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“On the Internet,
nobody
knows
you're a dog”
Peter Steiner
New Yorker
2000

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In China:
“On the Internet,
everybody
knows
you're a dog”
This vision
might be closer
to today's Internet
reality!

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Transparency versus Privacy

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"The most fundamental way
of helping other people,
is to teach people
how to do things better
or how to better their lives.
For people
who use computers,
this means sharing
the recipes
you use on your computer,
in other words
the programs you run."

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1980's: Stallman defined
“Free Software”
The freedom to
➢ use
➢ study
➢ distribute
➢ improve
the program
Free Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)

20. The FLOSS concepts of sharing and
collaborating are touching everything

22. Good teachers know how
to create learning materials
Great teachers know how
to mix and reuse

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They will have to
compete with
amateurs!
An enthusiastic amateur beats
a bored professional
“Karl Marx was perhaps
the original prophet of the
Professional Amateurs
economy:
labour
– forced, unspontaneous
and waged work –
would be superseded
by self-activity”

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They will have to
compete with
free!

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3D printing

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2045 Technological Singularity?

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Start of transhumanism?

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“Schools we have today
were designed around commonsense assumptions
that had never been scientifically tested”
R. Keith Sawyer

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Innovation?
Politics Education Science
1km/h 10km/h 100km/h

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Resistance
Teachers teach as they are taught...

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information scarcity → information abundance !
Total information is now doubling every year !

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Surveys
How much of the knowledge
you need for your job
is in your own head?
>75% | 75-50% | 50-25% | 25-10%

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Surveys
How much of the knowledge
you need for your job
is in your own head?
1986 75% → 2010 10%

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The longer one studies,
the more one comes to realize
how much one does not know

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% tested genius in Divergent Thinking
(used to generate creative ideas by exploring many possible solutions)
Source: Breakpoint and Beyond by George Land and Beth Jaman

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Dilemma of schools:
the skills that are easiest to teach and tests are also
the ones that are easiest to digitize, automate and outsource
(Levy and Murnane)

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Demand for new skills?
➢ Social skills
➢ communicating, networking, teamwork
➢ international, intercultural
➢ Creativity
➢ Entrepeneurship
➢ Information technology skills
➢ Handle information overload
➢ ...
➢
➢ Learning to learn → Life Long Learning!

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Knowledge -> Skills ->
Competences
Competences
are the ability to use
➢ knowledge
➢ skills
➢ attitudes
in new, complex, authentic situations

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?

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“ The digital native and digital immigrant may
be useful slogans for provoking debate but the
distinction does not stand up to inspection…
the profound changes taking place need to be
situated in diversity rather than dichotomy ”
Brown, M. E. (2005). The next generation: Looking to the future. Computers in New Zealand Schools, 17 (2), 3-7. July Editorial.

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How can we improve
teaching and learning with ICT?
Don't apply traditional teaching methods
in new technologies!
Substitution?
(dropping your coursebook online)
Transformation!

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Seek the synergy!
Theories about learning
and technologies
have evolved
towards very similar concepts

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CC by Wlonline

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Model Jonassen for
(constructive) learning environments

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Find the right blend!

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Not all students will like it...

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Foster a community feeling!

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Learning Analytics
Gephi export,
learning interactions,
R. Carlos, F. Questier, C. Zhu

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Learn from
Learning Analytics!
➢ The Learning Analytics Cycle, by Doug Clow,
http://dougclow.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-learning-analytics-cycle/

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Tin Cap API

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http://www.knewton.com/blended-learning/

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➢ An individual teacher typically does not have
➢ the competences
➢ the time
➢ the budget
to create one of the most advanced blended
courses

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The way to do it
Design teams with mixed competences
Extra muros collaboration
Reuse and share
Student centred
Activitating
Motivating

71. Dank u! Vragen?
Questier.com
Frederik AT Questier.com
www.linkedin.com/in/fquestie
www.diigo.com/user/frederikquestier
www.slideshare.net/Frederik_Questier

72. Copyright acknowledgements
➢ Screenshot http://www.chamilo.org/
➢ Figure study CC-by-nc-sa by Tony2 (NOT IN USE!)
➢ Question! CC-by by Stefan Baudy
➢ http://users4.jabry.com/vortex/misc/DivergentThinking.gif
➢ Edupunk: http://blogs.pstcc.edu/drbrown/files/2009/11/Picture-4.png
➢ Flipped-Classroom-CC-BY-NC-SA-2-by-ransomtech
➢ http://cogdogblog.com/2012/07/17/mooc-hysertia/
➢ http://www.onlinecollege.org/2012/08/21/25-tips-make-most-mooc/
➢ Paul Schatzkin, http://www.cohesionarts.com/tag/distractions/

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DARE
TO SHARE

74. This presentation was made
with 100% Free Software
No animals were harmed