Interesting Work and Open Education - Alan Tait

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Interesting work and Open
Education
Alan Tait
Professor of Distance Education and
Development
The Open University UK
EDEN ...

Employment, unemployment and
Open Education: from labour to work
Summary
• Challenges of work in life
• Threat from unempl...

Unemployment Europe 2013
Eurostat 2013
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Unemployment_statis...

Unemployment Europe 2013
• Country average E28, 11%
• Country range 5-27%
• 26.8 million people unemployed
• More than ent...

Youth unemployment Europe 2010-2012
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Unemployment_statistic...

Youth unemployment Europe 2010-
2012
• Country average 23%
• Range of countries 8-58%
• 5.5 million young people unemploye...

Unemployment Europe by
educational level 2012
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Unemployment...

Educational attainment and
unemployment
Unemployed with
• Primary and lower secondary 4%-42%
• Upper secondary 3%-28%
• Te...

Threat and promise of machine
intelligence revolution
• ‘Much routine brain-work will be computerised,
as happened to cler...

Impact of unemployment
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Bad health habits (e.g. smoking, alcohol and
other substance abuse)
• Low ...

Miserable experience in the workplace
• 40% of employees are ‘not engaged in the
workplace’
• Impact on happiness and well...

Top and bottom occupations
Top have
• Authority
• Role supporting people
• Income level
• Skill
• Stability
Bottom have
• ...

The Precariat: the working poor
• Low security
• Low wages
• Job not career
• ‘Flexible’ in negative
senses
• ‘disposable’...

Employment and unemployment in
Europe: NOT business as usual
Health: long term damage Social conflict: anomie
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What is to be done?
Increase routes to
livelihood
How must open education contribute?
Change nature of work
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Increased routes to livelihood
• Europe as sustainable for employment in
world economy
• Skills and knowledge to create ‘w...

In work: instrumental and
developmental attitudes
• Adam Smith: work as toil. Rest as desirable
state
• John Ruskin and Wi...

From labour to work: can we change?
Worker as object
• Labour
• Job
• Operative
• Low skill
• Routine
• Wage
• Short term ...

The transition to the digital world:
what help can it give?
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A new landscape: from Distance and e-
learning to Open Education
• Scale
• Flexibility
• From informal to formal learning
...

Open Education: the new landscape of
innovation
• Values led
• Anti commodity
• ‘free’
• Inclusion
• Radical disruptive po...

MOOCs and OER’s: new models
for learning
Passion and demand for learning is huge
Current model of Higher Education is unsu...

Skills and Open Education: advantages
not disadvantages
• Learning , not apart from but in life and work
• Investigation
•...

Open education: radical potential
• Compelling attraction of learning
• Scale: only Open Education has capacity
• Learner ...

The vision for interesting work and
open education
• Would include
• Education for All: not privileged minority
• not just...

What can we do?
• Will EC projects make enough impact?
• Need national interventions
• Go to senior management within our
...

Interesting work and Open Education
• Educational
innovation for the
crisis in Europe
• Your vision!
• Your actions!
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