This document summarizes the keynote presentation "Collaborating for Education and Research: Why Forum IV" given by Thomas Loughran at Forum IV on January 22, 2011 at the University of Notre Dame. It outlines the challenges facing education, highlights opportunities through increased collaboration and advancing research, and proposes NDeRC's strategy of developing an integrated STEM community through craft, community, and culture to help revitalize the Michiana region. Specific initiatives and upcoming sessions at the forum are also listed.
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In this presentation Salima presents the initial results of ISER’s research, and discuss the list of issues that the CESCR released, as well what the political and social impacts. I
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Read about EDEN: http://www.eden-online.org
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Xavier Prats- Monne is Director-General for Education and Culture of the European Commission. See his presentation at the #EDEN15 Annual Conference here. His talk is captured on video and will be published on EDEN's Youtube channel soon. Read about EDEN: http://www.eden-online.org
Applying Human Rights Standards to Privatization of Education in UgandaPERIGlobal
Salima Namusobya works for the Initiative for Economic and Social Rights (ISER), a domestic NGO in Uganda which researches and advocates for the realisation of economic and social rights. ISER has been working on privatisation in education since August 2014.
In Uganda, about 80% of children attend private schools in the capital, Kampala. Across the country, private education is growing fast, including in low-income areas, where ‘low-cost’ private schools are mushrooming.
To better understand the situation, ISER conducted preliminary research in August 2014, involving interviews, a survey, literature review and statistical analysis. The aim of the research was to assess the situation against human rights principles, drawn from international law.
The results of this research have been discussed in workshops and presented in reports the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights and to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR).
In this presentation Salima presents the initial results of ISER’s research, and discuss the list of issues that the CESCR released, as well what the political and social impacts. I
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Presentation at UNESCO / ICDE Visionary Leadership for Digital Transformation: Higher Education for the Sustainable World we want. Paris, 24th May 2017.
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This presentation provides and overview of PERI's Privatisation and Human Rights Project. The project on using human rights to address privatisation in education which PERI is involved in, the approach it is piloting, and the overall framework used.
Albert Sangra is UNESCO Chair and Faculty Member at the eLearn Center at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain. See his presentation at the #EDEN2015 Annual Conference here. His talk is captured on video and will be published on the EDEN Youtube channel.
Read about EDEN: http://www.eden-online.org
A letter of commendation from the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) for my work as Conference Chair of the 8th Annual OLC/MERLOT International Symposium of Emerging Technologies for Online Learning.
Introduction and Updates from the Global RCE Service CentreESD UNU-IAS
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1. Collaborating for Education
and Research:
Why Forum IV
Thomas Loughran
Department of Physics
Forum IV, January 22, 2011
University of Notre Dame
2. Our perplexing situation
We are part of a very rich collaborative network of educators
● good people, good will
● considerable experience
● a history of collaboration
With such a rich network, it's hard to imagine how the news
about education is so bad. Yet it is.
● test scores, graduation rates, international rankings all low
● inadequate funding, short supply of qualified teachers
● accelerating change widens gaps, threatens qualifications
● challenge of 21st C skills: working the wrong problem?
● solutions raise as many new questions as they solve
○ high stakes testing, school choice, state mandates...
3. A remarkable opportunity
Yet our resources are substantial
● research on learning advancing, action research growing
● better recognition and characterization of problems
● best practices, exemplary programs disseminated widely
● backward design produces measurable interventions
● increased collaboration around solutions
● new models of professional engagement emerging
In the face of such remarkable educational need, these
resources present an almost unparalleled opportunity to do a
great deal of good
At a crucial moment, we are in the right place
4. Not too heavy
Michiana can become a bright light in education, a superb
place to live, an economically competitive and socially thriving
region
This task is no harder than other great tasks
● the American revolution
● our response to Sputnik
● many tasks in science
6. A two decade effort, to start with...
1990 first design
proposal
2000 HS physics
teachers help with
design details
2001 HS juniors
manufacture over
500 components
2010 signal from
first collisions traffics across optical decoding units built by
those Michiana students, some now out of graduate school
7. A two decade effort in Michiana?
Human beings can make these kinds of heavy lifts, together
We need that kind of effort to revitalize Michiana
Collaborators are coming together on the right kind of scale
Strategies for transformation are being explored
What good alternative do we have? We can't stay here.
8. NDeRC's strategy:
Integrated STEM Community
Forecast at last year's Forum, linked here.
Three key ideas
● Craft
● Community
● Culture
Community is required to sustain the development of a craft
around common activities--the STEM disciplines. The craft of
education is the effective invitation into that community
As the craft advances, culture deepens and guides
● making what is good, seem good
● two requirements: sustainability and connectivity
9. Sustainability
Communities must endure to advance and transmit crafts
● promising approaches abandoned breed cynicism
Need flexible stability
● a broad spectrum of engagement
● balanced dinner, every night, with different menu items
Stability can be promoted in budgets: "hard money"
● a stabilizing step: ND's Director of Community Engagement
● k12hub.nd.edu
Stability can be promoted through flexibility
● Forum III : $24K :: Forum IV : $4K
10. Connectivity
Cultures supporting crafts do their
work through contact
Contact is expensive
Expense threatens sustainability
● "lab space" at a premium
● "e" in NDeRC: extended = greater surface area = efficiency
Efficient contact can be achieved through online connectivity
● asynchronous contact requires less expensive time
● subscribe once, make contact in least expensive times
● blogs: threads knitting together the fabric of a community
Click to say yes: autosubscription to NDeRC Community Blog
12. Sessions and Tables
Research Experiences for Teachers (RET@ND)
NDeRC Institutes
● BioEYES, NANO, ASTRO, GENO, ENVIRO,
● Particle Physics Masterclass
● NDeRC Fellows
Family and Neighborhood initiatives
● No Parent Left Behind, Parent University
● Home Management Resources
● College Board and other projects
NISMEC - ISTEM initiatives
13. NISMEC and ISTEM
Joe Bellina will bring people up to speed on the current state of the Indiana
Science Initiative for the adoption of inquiry based instructional materials K-8.
Gordon Berry will discuss (1) the State's goals for introducing the "Modeling
technque" into high school physics, chemistry and biology classes, and (2) the
specific workshops that are being planned by NISMEC and others for the
summer of 2011. Other NISMEC teacher and student programs will also be
discussed.
Through her collaborations with the College Board, Karen Morris has
been involved in programs that span middle-to-high school. Today, she is
presenting some of the information being developed about how to engage
middle school students to become successful in high school - and ultimately in
college.
Amanda Serenevy, Riverbend Community Mathematics Center
14. Indiana Recertification of Teachers
Joyce Johnstone, Ph.D.
● Ryan Director of Educational Outreach in the Institute for
Educational Initiatives (IEI)
● Named Professor of the Year by the Indiana Council for
Exceptional Children (INCEC)
15. Family and Neighborhood
No Parent Left Behind
● Stuart Greene and Joyce Long
Home Management Resources
● Gwen DeLee, Founder
● Juanita Townsell, graduate, counselor
Karen Morris
● Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry Outreach Coordinator
Congressman Joe Donnelly, Indiana 2nd District
16. On to lunch
Lunch for everyone
Groups set up for elective lunchtime discussion groups
Collaboration Opportunities Fair
Schmitt Fellows