Global Trends in Open Education: Implications for Africa

Global Trends in Open
Education:
Implications for Africa
Open Educational Consortium
(OEC)
Prof. Dr. Stavros Panagiotis Xanthopoylos
Vice President ABED/Vice Dean FGV-IDE
Nairobi, 3rd July, 2015

www.fgv.br/fgvonline
 About Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV
 The New Learning Scenario
 Educational perspectives and strategies
 FGV’s OEC Experience
 Implications for Africa
 Final Remarks
Topics

FUNDAÇÃO GETULIO VARGAS
MISSION: To generate, transfer and apply
knowledge for Brazil’s economic development

The Internet’s role – new cyberspace
The Internet, the icon of this revolution, is a communication means
that made possible, for the first time in the history of mankind, “the
communication of many among many, at a chosen time, and in
global scale,” besides having constructed and unconstructed a new
notion of time and space, making the world look infinitely smaller
and globally connected, not needing 80 days to go around the
world, as this happens in a matter of seconds... (Castells, 2003).
 New dimension of communication – Cyberspace
 heterogeneous space composed by complex forms of
interaction
 works as an extension of relations established in the real
world

Network Technology
“It is not about getting organized in network
technology, but the organization of human beings
in networks through thje technology. It is not
about of na era of intelligent machines, but of
human beings that, through the networks, can
combine their intelligence.” Don Tapscott
 Society as a Network
 mediated through computers and other ICT’s
 establishes new sociabilities built in a space of
integrated communication

 What do we practice today?
 Continuum
 Face to Face
 Face to Face with ICT’s
 Semi-presential
 Blended
 Tutored Elearning
 Elearning
 Correspondence courses
Blend of Open, Online and Flexible Education
Education Today

• Some new perspectives in the learning environment
• Connectivism, for example
• Knowledge Management perspective
• Offers freedom and flexibility for the adoption of learning
strategies for the individual or, collectively, for groups
Fonte: CTAE/FGV
Impact on Learning

• More involvement by all stakeholders – Teacher
(mentor), Student (researcher) and Peer evaluation
• A market of “ideas” is developed
• Knowledge created in a network environment,
debated and not necessarily consensual
• More time to collaborate
• Call for a new approach – Digital Citizenship
Impact on Education

Perspectives and Challenges
 Educational Model
 Digital Citizenship
 Professors/Teachers – Learning transformation agent
 Students/Learners– Effectiveness in the use of the connectivism
environment – new learning culture
 Learning networks: informal and formal networks to form knowledge
networks – leverage networks of learning that will become networks of
research, consolidating knowledge management;
 Network technology - access to open sources, web 2.0, etc;
 University and school networks: using the networks as supplements,
complements, for online or for blended learning;
 Learning networks and open education – possibility to use networks to
transform learning, research and knowledge from global to universal.

• Communities of Practice and knowledge/research
networks are created and developed
• Update and perpetuate the content – economic and
strategic value
• Digital citizenship is developed
• Personalized access to knowledge
• Redefinied educational model – form, develop, enable
and train
Webs of Knowledge - Outcomes

FGV Online & OEC
 FGV Online is the first Brazilian school to become a member of OEC (2008)
 51 courses are available in different knowledge areas
 5 of them has a version in Spanish
 More than 30 million visits to the main courses page
 Over 7,5 million students registered
 Over 4,6 million students certified since July/2008
 Around 20 million visits to the individual course entry page
 FGV Online was elected as the most Innovative & Avant-garde institution in the
OCW People´s Choice Award 2011 and as the institution that has the Most Engaging
Resources in the OCW Peoples Choice Awards of 2012.
SOURCE: FGV Online - February/2014

FGV Online & OEC Demographic data
Marital Status
Gender
Age
SINGLE
61%
MARRIED
34%
OTHERS – 5%
DIVORCED – 4%
WIDOWER – 1%
15 to 25
30%
25 to 35
43% 35 to 45
18% 45 to 55 - 2%
More than 55 - 2%
WOMEN
58%
MEN
42%
 Most students are single, women and age between 15 and 35

FGV Online & OEC Professional and Academic Data
ANALYST
30%
MANAGER
15%
ENTREPRENEUR – 5,5%
DIRECTOR - 4%
MILITARY - 4%
CHAIRMAN - 1%
PROFESSOR
14%
COORDINATOR
10%
SUPERVISOR
8,5%
CONSULTANT
7%
OTHERS - 1%
GRADUATED
49,5%
HIGH SCHOOL
36%
POST GRATUATED - 11,5%
SPECIALIST - 9%
MASTER – 1,5%
DOCTORATE – 0,5%
POST DOCTORATE – 0,5%
OTHERS – 3%
FREE DOCENCY – 2,9%
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS – 0,1%
 Most students are Analysts, followed by Managers and Professors.
 Almost half of the students are Graduated

FGV Online & OEC Professional and Academic Data
Areas
Salary
BUSINESS
ADMINISTRATION
27%
EDUCATION
9%
IT
7%
LAW
7%
COMMUNICATION
& MARKETING
5%
OTHERS
34%
ENGINEERING
4%
FINANCE
3%
HEALTH
& SCIENCE
3%
TOURISM
2%
up to U$ 1,000
from U$ 1,001 to U$ 1,500
from U$ 1,501 to U$ 2,000
from U$ 2,001 to U$ 3,500
more than U$ 3,500
 Business Administration is the area with the highest number of students doing open courses followed by Education, IT
& Law.
 The majority of the students perceive a monthly income of up to US$ 1,000 – 78% and 88% that access perceive up to
US$1,500 monthly
78%
10%
5%
5%
2%
88%

FGV Online & OEC Satisfaction Survey
 48% of the students did the course to upgrade their education and 27% to get a quick
review on the subject, while 25% expect to create new professional possibilities
 46% knew about the open courses by searching on the internet and 45% knew about it
through friends/other students, the rest by other means
 43% of the students would like to do a regular on-line course
 61% of the students had never studied on-line before
 99% of the students had their expectations met after finishing a free course
 All students would recommend an online course and would take another

High School Content and ENEM (National Entry) Type Questions Bank
 Motivation – Enhance quality of students through quality content
 qualify teachers
 train students
 Lessons Learned through OEC
 Project consists of today
 670 hours of online courses
 Over 10,000 ENEM type questions published (goal 50,000 in 2 years)
 Launched end of October/2012
 Elected as the best High School Content Portal by Segmento Publisher 2013
 Over 1 million registered users to date
SOURCE: FGV Online - April/2013

Implications for Africa
• Educational gaps and continental size justifies the
implementation of integrated online, open and flexible
educational models to reduce costs and increase reach to
education and learning, use and combine existing resources to
gain scale
• Take advantage of the ICT educational solutions and tools to
manage and implement new pedagogical models integrated to
ICT, neuroscience and necessarily be sustainable –
Technopedagogical Approach
• Equity and Access – Social Impact
• Expand beyond degrees – Employability
• Surveys and Research to align local contexts and special needs

Implications for Africa - Challenges
• Infrastructure – Internet and Cloud Computing/Network
• Train teachers, this puts them into the student’s position
• Include a technology statement in the institution’s vision
and mission
• Prepare leadership for the new educational scenario
• Convince governance of the importance for legal or public
policy frameworks for ICT in education
• Support and value teachers to work online
• Demand for formal research on how different groups of
learners study online
• Pre-qualification courses to improve access
• Do not lower standards and guarantee quality
• Develop curricula that serve society

Final Remarks
• One the greatest democratic movements in the world –
in our day to day life, in education and in the
organizations;
• No way back – New dimension of communication
• New Value Chains in education
• A never ending process …

A Quote to enpower us to take leadership
Source: funcrisp.com

Prof. Dr. Stavros Panagiotis Xanthopoylos
Vice Dean – FGV-IDE
stavros@fgv.br
Education and Knowledge at everyone’s reach, the distance, you define!
Thank You
Photo Source: DAYWALLPAPER
Asante-sana

Asociação Brasileira de Educação a Distância – ABED
2011 – 2015

Facts about ABED
Scientific Association for the development of
Open, Flexible and Distance Education
Free principle for association, through mission
identification by the potential associate
Private not for profit legal organization
Founded in 1995 – 20th Anniversary in 2015

ABED
• Mission:
Contribute for the development of concepts,
methods and skills to promote open, flexible and
distance education to improve education as a whole
in Brazil
• Goal:
ABED’s main goal includes the discussion and
deepening the knowledge of distance education by
institutions, enterprises, universities and individuals
interested in doing so.

Internacional Memberships
ICDE – International Council for Open and Distance
Education
OEC – Open Educational Consortium

ABEC: Brazilian Associaton off Scientific Publishers
SBPC – Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science
Internacional Memberships

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Open and Distance Learning
Both, online and paper
edition. Published in
Portuguese, English and
Spanish. Covers all levels of
educational level, both
formal and informal.
Articles are selected
according to ABED’s
editorial’s objectives,
defined by the editorial
committe and specific
editorial directives.

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by ABED to honour
personilities of the
DE Community in
Brazil as well as the
pioneers in the
modality

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• Reference base
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• A vast collection of scientific papers
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