Transformative Innovations in European Education

University of Piraeus
Department of Digital Systems
Centre for Research and Technology – Hellas (CE.R.T.H.)
Information Technologies Institute (I.T.I.)
D. Sampson 14 Nov 2014
Advanced Digital Systems and Services for Education and Learning (ASK)
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eTwinning: Opportunities and Challenges for Transformative Educational Innovations through the Technology-Supported European Schools Collaborations
Demetrios G. Sampson
Senior and Golden Core Member IEEE
Professor, Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, GREECE
Founder and Director, Advanced Digital Systems and Services for Education and Learning, EU
Research Fellow, Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology, GREECE
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Athabasca University, CANADA
Co-editor-in-Chief, Educational Technology and Society Journal
Steering Committee Member, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
Past Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology
ICT Advisory Board Member, Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALECSO)
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… about the speaker…
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Professor, Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, GREECE
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Founder and Director, Advanced Digital Systems and Services for Education and Learning, EU
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Research Fellow, Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology, GREECE
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Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Athabasca University, CANADA
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Co-Editor-in-Chief, Educational Technology and Society Journal (Ranked #3 in Educational Technology – Scholar Google)
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Steering Committee Member, IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (Ranked #9 in Educational Technology)
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Past Chair, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Learning Technology (2008-2012)
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Senior and Golden Core Member, IEEE Computer Society
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IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Service Award, July 2012
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Co-author of 340 publications with at list 1515+ citations (h-index:21)
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Received 8 times Best Paper Awards in International Conferences on Learning Technologies
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Guest Editor of 26 Special Issues in International Journals
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Member of Editorial Board, 23 International Journals in Learning Technologies
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Keynote/Invited Speaker on 60 International and/or National Conferences in Learning Technologies
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General and/or Program Committee Chair in 38 International Conferences in Learning Technologies
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Program Committee Member in 370 International and/or National Conferences in Learning Technologies
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Project Director, Principle Investigator and/or Consultant in 65 research projects with external funding 14M Euro (1991-2016)

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Overview
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Why Transformative Innovations in School Education need Digital Technologies ?
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How Technology-Support European School Collaboration can lead to Transformative Innovations in European School Education? Opportunities & Challenges
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Conclusions: Bringing Practice – Research – Policies together

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Why Transformative Innovations in School Education need Digital Technologies ?

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Digital Technologies:
 technology as an enabler for transformations
 use to provide learning experiences that would not possible without the digital technologies

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Digital Technologies as an enabler for
incremental or disruptive transformations
to the way that individuals, groups and organizations
“learn” and the way to “assess” learning in 21st Century
Objectives: From acquiring new “knowledge” to develop new and relevant “competences”
Methods: From “classroom” based teaching to “context-aware” personalized learning
Assessment: From “life-long” degrees and certifications to “on- demand” and “in-context” accreditation of qualifications

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How Technology-Support European School Collaboration can lead to Transformative Innovations in European School Education?

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• Solvable Challenges
 Integrating ICT in Teachers’ Education
 Students Low Digital Competences
• Difficult Challenges
 Creating Authentic Learning Opportunities
 Blending Formal and Informal Learning
• Wicked Challenges
Supporting Complex Thinking and Communication
 Students of Co-Designers of Learning
NMC Horizon Report Europe - Schools Edition, 2014. Available online at: http://cdn.nmc.org/media/2014-nmc- horizon-report-EU-EN.pdf

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• Fast Trends 1-2 Years
 Growing Ubiquity of Social Media
 Rethinking the Role of Teachers
•Mid-range Trends 3-5 Years
Increase focus on Open Educational Resources
 Increase use of Hybrid Learning Design
•Long-term Trends 5 Years and more
 Evolution of Online Learning
 Rise of Data-Driven Learning and Assessment

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• Solvable Challenges
 Integrating ICT in Teachers’ Education
•Fast Trends 1-2 Years
 Rethinking the Role of Teachers

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Millions of Euros / USA $ have been spent all over the world for purchasing and installing technologies in schools – huge investments in infrastructure
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However, limited investments have been planned and implemented in systematically developing and assessing the essential digital competences for school teachers and leaders – limited investments in human resources
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This has led to limited educational added-value and transformative impact at school education …

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Although in principle the systematic development and assessment of appropriate educationally meaningful digital competences for both school teachers and leaders are recognized as a major element for the up- take of technology-supported and technology-enabled school innovations at large scale
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Still, both Initial and Continuing School Teachers and Leaders Education is predominately traditional and uninspiring both in terms of scope, methods and assessment

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And yet, it is assumed that all teachers are able to design and implement technology-supported and technology-enabled school innovations using a wide range of digital technologies for teaching and assessing their students within the national curricula with limited additional professional development
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Even more, it is also assumed that all schools share more or less the same level of educationally relevant digital competences (commonly referred as “e-maturity”) at organizational level to adopt technology-supported educational innovation, just because they have installed the same technological infrastructure

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[The Opportunity]
eTwinning can support [Development – Recognition] of Digital Competences for [Teachers –School Leaders – Schools]
[The Challenge]
Adopt European/International Standards that will make this process transparent and interoperable

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Teachers’ ICT Competence Profiles
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UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (2011) [http://tinyurl.com/ocaxgqk]
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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Teachers (2008)
[http://tinyurl.com/myft7rn]
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eTQF Teacher ICT Competency Framework (2010)
[http://tinyurl.com/kdlshup]
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Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) (2006)
[http://www.tpack.org/]

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School Leaders’ ICT Competence Profiles
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Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards on Educational Leadership (2008)
[http://tinyurl.com/q69cogt]
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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards for Administrators (2009)
[http://tinyurl.com/nmbcurv]

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Schools’ ICT Competence Profiles (eMaturity)
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NAACE ICT-MARK (2014)
[http://www.naace.co.uk/ictmark/srf]
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eLearning RoadMap – Ireland (2012)
[http://tinyurl.com/naroatv]
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Australasian Council on Open Distance and e-Learning Benchmarks (2014)
[http://tinyurl.com/noh3tvr]
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eLearning Maturity Model (2007)
[http://tinyurl.com/q6majjk]

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•Mid-range Trends 3-5 Years
Increase focus on Open Educational Resources
 Increase use of Hybrid Learning Design

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web-based systems that
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organize, classify, store and share OERs (or Learning Objects – LOs) and their associated metadata
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national – thematic
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include limited explicit information about the learning and educational context of use of their hosted OER
OER or LOs Repositories

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OER Repositories Examples
Learning Resource Exchange, EU
Open Education Europa, EU
Photodentro, GR
MERLOT, USA
Open Discovery Space, EU
OER Commons, USA

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From OERs to Open Educational Practices (OEPs) and OEP Repositories
LO #1
LO #2
LO #N
…..
Learning Object Repository
Learning Design Repository Open LD #1
…..
Move to…

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PBS Learning Media, USA
OEP Repositories
LAMS Repository, Australia
COSMOS LD Repository, EU
OSR LD Repository, EU

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[The Opportunity]
eTwinning can support the creation a rich pool of [Educational Resources – Learning Designs / Educational Practices – Educational Data] that can be share and re-used across European Schools facilitating educationally informed decisions
[The Challenge]
How these [Resources – Practices – Data] are represented and stored in a way that can make them findable and re-usable

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•Difficult Challenges
 Creating Authentic Learning Opportunities
 Blending Formal and Informal Learning
•Long-term Trends 5 Years and more
 Evolution of Online Learning
 Rise of Data-Driven Learning and Assessment

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[The Opportunity]
eTwinning through Schools Collaboration across EU Member States can offer opportunities for Opening Up Local School Classrooms to other European School Classrooms
[The Challenge]
How European School Classrooms will Open Up to the Outside School Boundaries World combining and orchestrating formal in-school with informal out-of-school learning and assessment creating authentic learning experiences for the students

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connect
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sharing
Within
Classroom-based activities
Outside
Classroom-based activities
Within
School
Outside
School
via Cloud Technologies
People
Resources
Practices
Tools/Services
Educationally Meaningful Interaction Data

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Methods and Tools
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Orchestrate Educational Activities (teaching – collaboration - scaffolding - feedback – assessment)
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Collect and Analyze Educationally Meaningful Data from all these activities
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In a Smart Learning Environments which integrate Physical Learning Spaces and the Digital Cloud
Smart integration of Physical Learning Spaces and the Digital Cloud

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Conclusions
eTwinning is a unique platform for promoting and facilitating transformative innovations at European School Education through Schools’ Collaboration [The Opportunity]
HOWEVER
This requires to foster a dialogue between Practice – Research – Policies to turn this opportunity into an enabler for reflective transformations in European School Education [The Challenge]

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The Future is Unwritten ! It is Your Right to Go and Write It with your Students.

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