This document discusses how technology can change the way we learn and teach. It explores how technology is impacting skills demand and educational delivery. While technology has been touted as revolutionizing education, evidence on its impact is mixed. The document outlines some promising ways technology could enhance education, such as expanding access to content, supporting new collaborative pedagogies, and providing faster feedback. However, barriers like teachers' and students' limited digital skills and the personal nature of education limit productivity gains from technology. More interactive courseware and social learning tools show potential if developed with strong instructional design.
Presentation shared by author at the 2016 EDEN Annual Conference "Re-Imagining Learning Environments" held on 14-17 June 2016, in Budapest, Hungary.
Find out more on #eden16 here: http://www.eden-online.org/2016_budapest/
Presentation shared by author at the 2018 EDEN Annual Conference "Exploring the Micro, Meso and Macro -
Navigating between dimensions in the digital learning landscape" held on 17-20 June, 2018 in Genova, Italy.
Find out more on #eden18 here: http://www.eden-online.org/2018_genova/
Presentation shared by author at the 2016 EDEN Annual Conference "Re-Imagining Learning Environments" held on 14-17 June 2016, in Budapest, Hungary.
Find out more on #eden16 here: http://www.eden-online.org/2016_budapest/
Presentation shared by author at the 2018 EDEN Annual Conference "Exploring the Micro, Meso and Macro -
Navigating between dimensions in the digital learning landscape" held on 17-20 June, 2018 in Genova, Italy.
Find out more on #eden18 here: http://www.eden-online.org/2018_genova/
Pathways to Learning: Open Collaboration to Support the Online Pivot Robert Farrow
This presentation reports results of a recent open education research collaboration between The African Council for Distance Education and The Open University (UK). Pathways to Learning: new approaches in higher education (OpenLearn, 2020a) hosted two free professional development programmes for university lecturers, instructional designers, professional staff, and managers who share responsibility for providing quality distance and online learning.
• A Teacher Educator programme, Skills for 21st Century Learning and Teaching (OpenLearn, 2020b)
• A Tertiary Educator programme, Take Your Teaching Online (OpenLearn, 2020c)
The courses ran over six weeks between 13th July and 20th August, 2020, and was contextualized by a rapid rollout of online learning during the Coronavirus pandemic. The programmes combined a course of study using OER materials with supplementary activities including a total of 12 webinars and interactive events alongside use of new platforms created by The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology: nQuire (Herodotou et al., 2018) and Our Journey (Coughlan et al., 2019).
Key findings:
• The pandemic led to a substantial shift in teaching across Africa and a requirement to better understand and gain experience of online learning. Change is likely to persist post-pandemic, although infrastructure and cultural barriers are reported.
• The project surveys, interviews and the data generated through interactions that occurred in the programmes explores challenges and opportunities for online and blended learning across the African continent and globally.
• The evaluation data provides evidence that the programmes led to important understanding of course design and confidence in online facilitation for a large majority of those who took part in them.
• There is evidence that the programmes built confidence, particularly through the experiences of these educators themselves learning online with well-designed materials, and engaging with platforms and experts.
• There is evidence that each of the elements and activities were appreciated by some learners. The open courses were seen as most useful alongside some webinars. Community events and forums added substantial value to these.
• The flexibility offered in the programmes led to different behaviours. Many aimed to complete all the available activities despite time pressures and other barriers. Some were unable to attend live events so recordings were appreciated.
• Given the courses were free to join and many educators faced barriers and pressures, retention figures were very positive with around 66% of those who took part in the first week completing the rest of these programmes.
• Assessment, Open Educational Resources (OER), and understanding of technologies that can be used for online learning and learning design were areas that learners reported as being particularly valuable.
Un diálogo por la calidad: de la inspección a la inspiración, por Ingeborg Bo, miembro del Consejo de Dirección de la Fundación Europea para la Calidad en E-learning (EFQUEL).
La conferencia se presentó en el 1er Seminario Internacional sobre Rankings en Educación Superior y E-learning organizado por la UOC.
The Student-Inquirer Identity During the Master Thesis in an Online UniversityAngelos Konstantinidis
When students are conducting their research project as part of their studies, they can be better prepared for the societal and professional challenges of the future. This study contributes to the research of the inquirer identity by elaborating a model for the assessment of student-inquirer identity skills in light of the development of a master thesis in an education-related field in an online university. The model presents student-inquirer identity as a dynamic multiplicity of ten skills related to the five phases of the practice of inquiry (search and focus, understand and explore, design and implement, interpret/evaluate and reflect, write and present). Based on the model, a questionnaire that measures students’ inquiry skills during the development of the master thesis was constructed. The questionnaire is comprised of ten sub-scales with 42 Likert-type items in total. 154 students of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya responded to the questionnaire. Findings revealed that, overall, online students develop inquiry skills to a moderate extent while conducting their master thesis.
Inclusiveness has become a strategic question for many higher education institutions across Europe, impacting learning, teaching, research and institutional cultures. This EUA presentation showcases the results of the INVITED project survey including data from 159 higher education institutions in 36 European systems about institutional strategies and measures, success factors, challenges and needs for support. It is of interest to university leaders and managers developing their institutional strategy, staff charged with implementation, researchers and students interested in the topic, as well as policy makers and administrators at European and national levels as they develop new policies for higher education and research.
Vocational Education: A Backbone for the Development of Chile by Gonzalo Varg...EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Gonzalo Vargas of the Council of Accredited Professional Institutes and Technical Education Centers) at the international seminar “Opening higher education: what the future might bring” 8-9 december 2016, in Berlin, Germany, jointly organised by OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and Laureate International Universities (LIU).
RESET education - challenges and lessons learnt in RomaniaGabriela Grosseck
Webinar “The Future of Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era in China and Central Eastern Europe Countries” organized by Smart Learning Institute, Normal Beijing University and UNESCO INRULED.
New book “Comparative Analysis of ICT in Education Between China and Central and Eastern European Countries” (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811568787)
It is not simple to predict, and in particulate predict the future (and hype is always there). After having outlined state of play in ICT enabled pedagogy, using the US as an example, OER is presented as an opportunity for innovation in education - and a learning process facilitating innovation is presented. What is next? Exiting opportunities are knocking on our door: VR, AR, AI and more to come - take care, the learner is in the core.
Presentation shared by author at the 2018 EDEN Annual Conference "Exploring the Micro, Meso and Macro -
Navigating between dimensions in the digital learning landscape" held on 17-20 June, 2018 in Genova, Italy.
Find out more on #eden18 here: http://www.eden-online.org/2018_genova/
Implementing education responses to coronavirus (COVID-19)EduSkills OECD
The coronavirus crisis has seen education systems around the world having to quickly react to the unprecedented situation. We present a toolkit to help countries continue in their efforts to design and implement education system responses during COVID-19. The toolkit can be used by individual policy makers or teams at the local, regional or national level to shape the implementation of their education response strategies.
Global open libraries - GOL A feasibility studyicdeslides
At the 2nd OER World Congress on 19 September, the idea of a network, Global Open Libraries, GOL, was presented, both at a well visited special event and at the plenary session later on the day and even on a satellite event discussing OER in non-English languages..
The presentation in the special session is this one.
You can comment on the report at icde@icde.org at the blog. Your comments can either be added directly to the blog post, or emailed to icde@icde.org by Wednesday 11 October 2017. Then the report will be finalised and the partners will decide if an initiative for GOL will be taken, and if so – the next steps.
The report asks, is this feasible:
“Based on existing quality OER repositories, educational needs, teachers and learners demands, a possible initiative intends to spark the uptake of OER and Open education in Higher Education and Upper Secondary Education, and provide the basis for a future networked global cooperation between quality OER repositories. The main outcome of a possible initiative will be a dynamic global network of OER repositories, well connected to key stakeholders and the user community.”
About the VISCED Poject:
The VISCED project carried out an inventory of innovative ICT-enhanced learning initiatives and major ‘e-mature’ secondary and post-secondary education providers for the 14-21 age group in Europe. This entailed a systematic review at international and national levels including a study into operational examples of fully virtual schools and colleges. The outputs of this work have been analysed and compared to identify relevant parameters and success factors for classifying and comparing these initiatives.
See http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.info/
Online Educa Berlin
28-30 November 2012
Berlin, Germany
Europe’s largest international conference on technology enhanced teaching and learning aimed at the educational and training sectors.
http://www.online-educa.com/
http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.info/news/presentation-visced-online-educa-berlin
Nikos Zygouritsas from Lambrakis Foundation gave a presentation on behalf of VISCED entitled “Virtual Schools as Innovative ICT-Enhanced Learning/Teaching Exemplar Initiatives: What Makes Things Work?”, he also distributed handbooks and brochures and a separate presentation on VISCED was also given by Paul Bacsich from Sero during one of the pre-conference workshops.
Open Distance Education in China: Trends and Developments by Haixia Xu (Chine...EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Haixia Xu of the National Center for Education Development Research - Chinese Ministry of Education at the international seminar “Opening higher education: what the future might bring” 8-9 december 2016, in Berlin, Germany, jointly organised by OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and Laureate International Universities (LIU).
Presentation to DC Higher Education Group on the State of the HumanitiesRobert Townsend
Presentation to the DC Higher Education Group on the state of the humanities, with recent findings from the department survey and Humanities Indicators.
Pathways to Learning: Open Collaboration to Support the Online Pivot Robert Farrow
This presentation reports results of a recent open education research collaboration between The African Council for Distance Education and The Open University (UK). Pathways to Learning: new approaches in higher education (OpenLearn, 2020a) hosted two free professional development programmes for university lecturers, instructional designers, professional staff, and managers who share responsibility for providing quality distance and online learning.
• A Teacher Educator programme, Skills for 21st Century Learning and Teaching (OpenLearn, 2020b)
• A Tertiary Educator programme, Take Your Teaching Online (OpenLearn, 2020c)
The courses ran over six weeks between 13th July and 20th August, 2020, and was contextualized by a rapid rollout of online learning during the Coronavirus pandemic. The programmes combined a course of study using OER materials with supplementary activities including a total of 12 webinars and interactive events alongside use of new platforms created by The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology: nQuire (Herodotou et al., 2018) and Our Journey (Coughlan et al., 2019).
Key findings:
• The pandemic led to a substantial shift in teaching across Africa and a requirement to better understand and gain experience of online learning. Change is likely to persist post-pandemic, although infrastructure and cultural barriers are reported.
• The project surveys, interviews and the data generated through interactions that occurred in the programmes explores challenges and opportunities for online and blended learning across the African continent and globally.
• The evaluation data provides evidence that the programmes led to important understanding of course design and confidence in online facilitation for a large majority of those who took part in them.
• There is evidence that the programmes built confidence, particularly through the experiences of these educators themselves learning online with well-designed materials, and engaging with platforms and experts.
• There is evidence that each of the elements and activities were appreciated by some learners. The open courses were seen as most useful alongside some webinars. Community events and forums added substantial value to these.
• The flexibility offered in the programmes led to different behaviours. Many aimed to complete all the available activities despite time pressures and other barriers. Some were unable to attend live events so recordings were appreciated.
• Given the courses were free to join and many educators faced barriers and pressures, retention figures were very positive with around 66% of those who took part in the first week completing the rest of these programmes.
• Assessment, Open Educational Resources (OER), and understanding of technologies that can be used for online learning and learning design were areas that learners reported as being particularly valuable.
Un diálogo por la calidad: de la inspección a la inspiración, por Ingeborg Bo, miembro del Consejo de Dirección de la Fundación Europea para la Calidad en E-learning (EFQUEL).
La conferencia se presentó en el 1er Seminario Internacional sobre Rankings en Educación Superior y E-learning organizado por la UOC.
The Student-Inquirer Identity During the Master Thesis in an Online UniversityAngelos Konstantinidis
When students are conducting their research project as part of their studies, they can be better prepared for the societal and professional challenges of the future. This study contributes to the research of the inquirer identity by elaborating a model for the assessment of student-inquirer identity skills in light of the development of a master thesis in an education-related field in an online university. The model presents student-inquirer identity as a dynamic multiplicity of ten skills related to the five phases of the practice of inquiry (search and focus, understand and explore, design and implement, interpret/evaluate and reflect, write and present). Based on the model, a questionnaire that measures students’ inquiry skills during the development of the master thesis was constructed. The questionnaire is comprised of ten sub-scales with 42 Likert-type items in total. 154 students of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya responded to the questionnaire. Findings revealed that, overall, online students develop inquiry skills to a moderate extent while conducting their master thesis.
Inclusiveness has become a strategic question for many higher education institutions across Europe, impacting learning, teaching, research and institutional cultures. This EUA presentation showcases the results of the INVITED project survey including data from 159 higher education institutions in 36 European systems about institutional strategies and measures, success factors, challenges and needs for support. It is of interest to university leaders and managers developing their institutional strategy, staff charged with implementation, researchers and students interested in the topic, as well as policy makers and administrators at European and national levels as they develop new policies for higher education and research.
Vocational Education: A Backbone for the Development of Chile by Gonzalo Varg...EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Gonzalo Vargas of the Council of Accredited Professional Institutes and Technical Education Centers) at the international seminar “Opening higher education: what the future might bring” 8-9 december 2016, in Berlin, Germany, jointly organised by OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and Laureate International Universities (LIU).
RESET education - challenges and lessons learnt in RomaniaGabriela Grosseck
Webinar “The Future of Education in the Post-COVID-19 Era in China and Central Eastern Europe Countries” organized by Smart Learning Institute, Normal Beijing University and UNESCO INRULED.
New book “Comparative Analysis of ICT in Education Between China and Central and Eastern European Countries” (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811568787)
It is not simple to predict, and in particulate predict the future (and hype is always there). After having outlined state of play in ICT enabled pedagogy, using the US as an example, OER is presented as an opportunity for innovation in education - and a learning process facilitating innovation is presented. What is next? Exiting opportunities are knocking on our door: VR, AR, AI and more to come - take care, the learner is in the core.
Presentation shared by author at the 2018 EDEN Annual Conference "Exploring the Micro, Meso and Macro -
Navigating between dimensions in the digital learning landscape" held on 17-20 June, 2018 in Genova, Italy.
Find out more on #eden18 here: http://www.eden-online.org/2018_genova/
Implementing education responses to coronavirus (COVID-19)EduSkills OECD
The coronavirus crisis has seen education systems around the world having to quickly react to the unprecedented situation. We present a toolkit to help countries continue in their efforts to design and implement education system responses during COVID-19. The toolkit can be used by individual policy makers or teams at the local, regional or national level to shape the implementation of their education response strategies.
Global open libraries - GOL A feasibility studyicdeslides
At the 2nd OER World Congress on 19 September, the idea of a network, Global Open Libraries, GOL, was presented, both at a well visited special event and at the plenary session later on the day and even on a satellite event discussing OER in non-English languages..
The presentation in the special session is this one.
You can comment on the report at icde@icde.org at the blog. Your comments can either be added directly to the blog post, or emailed to icde@icde.org by Wednesday 11 October 2017. Then the report will be finalised and the partners will decide if an initiative for GOL will be taken, and if so – the next steps.
The report asks, is this feasible:
“Based on existing quality OER repositories, educational needs, teachers and learners demands, a possible initiative intends to spark the uptake of OER and Open education in Higher Education and Upper Secondary Education, and provide the basis for a future networked global cooperation between quality OER repositories. The main outcome of a possible initiative will be a dynamic global network of OER repositories, well connected to key stakeholders and the user community.”
About the VISCED Poject:
The VISCED project carried out an inventory of innovative ICT-enhanced learning initiatives and major ‘e-mature’ secondary and post-secondary education providers for the 14-21 age group in Europe. This entailed a systematic review at international and national levels including a study into operational examples of fully virtual schools and colleges. The outputs of this work have been analysed and compared to identify relevant parameters and success factors for classifying and comparing these initiatives.
See http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.info/
Online Educa Berlin
28-30 November 2012
Berlin, Germany
Europe’s largest international conference on technology enhanced teaching and learning aimed at the educational and training sectors.
http://www.online-educa.com/
http://www.virtualschoolsandcolleges.info/news/presentation-visced-online-educa-berlin
Nikos Zygouritsas from Lambrakis Foundation gave a presentation on behalf of VISCED entitled “Virtual Schools as Innovative ICT-Enhanced Learning/Teaching Exemplar Initiatives: What Makes Things Work?”, he also distributed handbooks and brochures and a separate presentation on VISCED was also given by Paul Bacsich from Sero during one of the pre-conference workshops.
Open Distance Education in China: Trends and Developments by Haixia Xu (Chine...EduSkills OECD
This presentation was given by Haixia Xu of the National Center for Education Development Research - Chinese Ministry of Education at the international seminar “Opening higher education: what the future might bring” 8-9 december 2016, in Berlin, Germany, jointly organised by OECD Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) and Laureate International Universities (LIU).
Presentation to DC Higher Education Group on the State of the HumanitiesRobert Townsend
Presentation to the DC Higher Education Group on the state of the humanities, with recent findings from the department survey and Humanities Indicators.
Teresa Mangum - The Future of the Academic and Public Humanities: The Changin...Realsmartmedia
Slides from a lecture in the University College Dublin Humanities Institute by Professor Teresa Mangum, Director of the Obermann Centre for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa. Professor Mangum gave a lecture on: The Future of the Academic and Public Humanities: The Changing Academic Environment in the U.S.
Education and skills policies to alleviate inequalitydvndamme
How is social inequality affecting education and skills, how are education and skills impacting on social inequality and what are the education and skills policies to alleviate inequality. My presentation at the NAEC Seminar in Johannesburg, 16 July 2015
Dirk Van Damme, az OECD CERI (Oktatáskutatási és Oktatásinnovációs Központ) igazgatójának prezentációja az I. Digitális Oktatási Konferencia és Kiállításon.
A presentation delivered at the Higher Education Leaders Asia Forum 2017 held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on February 28, 2017. Event was organized by IQPC and Higher Ed-iQ.
Presentation of Grainne Conole, Dublin City University, Ireland, for the Open Education Week's third day webinar on "Ongoing initiatives for Open Education in Europe" - 6 March 2019
Recordings of the discussion are available: https://eden-online.adobeconnect.com/pcpo9gbaq1t1/
This document is supportive for students, teachers and other educators. It has developed based on the basic concept of Open and e-learning as well as ICT using technique.
Open educational resources sharing content and knowledge differently is a dri...EduSkills OECD
Why have ICT and the internet – which profoundly changed production and distribution in so many sectors and improved productivity – not had the same impact on education so far?
• Open Educational Resources (OER) can be seen as a social innovation (not a technological one) with the potential of reforming (not revolutionising) education if they are linking to what we know about learning and to what teachers need
Integrating ICT in TVET for Effective Technology Enabled LearningGreig Krull
Integrating ICT in TVET for Effective Technology Enabled Learning Presentation at the ICT and FET Partnership Conference, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, 18-19 March 2013.
Role of Technology in influencing teaching and learning in K-12 spaceAmina Charania
Technology inclusion in schools often go as a welcome of resources. Are the teachers and administrators equipped to ask the right questions, choose and participate in what technology is used in their classrooms? This presentation highlights some of the frameworks as guidelines to educators, teachers and administrators in making technology integration decisions for their schools and classrooms.
The science of learning. can it make learning more resilient against the risk...dvndamme
Education research is growing, but has not enough impact to tackle the systemic risks of education systems (quality, productivity, equity, innovation). Why? Do we work with outdated theories? And can the science of learning help to do better? Keynote at ECER2019.
Innovating learning, social progress and humanity’s future gelp ile, durban...dvndamme
Keynote presentation at the OECD/CERI and GELP conference 'Building Future Learning Systems. From exceptional innovations to systemic transformation', in Durban, South Africa, 20 April 2015.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
The French Revolution, which began in 1789, was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France. It marked the decline of absolute monarchies, the rise of secular and democratic republics, and the eventual rise of Napoleon Bonaparte. This revolutionary period is crucial in understanding the transition from feudalism to modernity in Europe.
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Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
7. The quality of schools’ educational resources
improved in most countries over the last decade
Change between 2003 and 2012 in the index of quality of schools' educational resources
(e.g. textbooks, computers, laboratory materials)
-0.4
-0.2
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
1.4
1.6
Turkey
Poland
Japan
Canada
SlovakRepublic
Portugal
Norway
Ireland
CzechRepublic
Greece
Spain
Belgium
Hungary
Australia
Sweden
OECDaverage
Switzerland
Germany
Italy
NewZealand
Denmark
Finland
Austria
UnitedStates
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Mexico
Iceland
Korea
Variationintheindex
Source: PISA 2012
9. Teachers mainly use ICT to prepare teaching activities,
but the creation and evaluation of digital resources is rare
Source: European Schoolnet (2013), Survey of Schools: ICT in Education.
EU schools; secondary level (Grade 8), 2012
Frequency of teachers’ ICT based activities with the class
12. • Expand access to content – e.g. specialised
materials well beyond textbooks, in multiple formats,
with little time and space constraints
• Support new pedagogies with learners as active
participants – e.g. as tools for inquiry-based
pedagogies and collaborative workspaces
• Collaboration for knowledge creation – e.g.
collaboration platforms for teachers to share and
enrich teaching materials
• Feedback – make it faster and more granular
• Automatize data-intensive processes – visualisation
How can digital learning environments
enhance education?
13. • Experiential learning (e.g. remote and virtual labs,
project-based and enquiry-based pedagogies)
• Hands-on pedagogies (e.g. game development)
• Cooperative learning (e.g. local and global
collaboration)
• Interactive and metacognitive pedagogies (e.g. real-
time assessment)
ICT can foster good pedagogic models
14. Some technology-enhanced pedagogic models
• Based on HP Catalyst Initiative
• 5 models:
Virtual and remote laboratories
Educational games
Cooperative learning
Real-time formative assessment
Skills-based assessment
• These models support
Experiential learning (e.g. project-based and enquiry-based pedagogies)
Hands-on pedagogies (e.g. game development)
Interactive and metacognitive pedagogies (e.g. real-time assessment)
15. International collaborative student learning
Chinese and US schools analyse together
the challenge of water quality
Technology is used to track and analyse
water (pH, salinity, dissolved oxygen, etc.)
With the help of scientists, discuss and
understand water challenges through
remote discussions
Fosters skills in science, deeper
understanding, multicultural
communication, and awareness of global
environmental challenges
16. Teacher collaboration for curriculum design and
implementation
Teachers as curators -picking up on new technology, pedagogies, and content, and
seeing how they can be put to use in a new context
Technology is identified as an integral means for leveraging the potential of
networked professional knowledge
Scootle Community
A professional digital community for Australian teachers to discuss and share ideas about
the national Curriculum and its implementation
Enables on-line collaboration
Teachers helping one another respond to problems of practice
Access digital lesson plans, curriculum resources and research
Collaborate on solutions
Using data mining and analytics to derive insights for curriculum design from web
navigation and conversations in on-line discussion platforms (blogs and social media)
17. Fig II.3.3
Teachers' needs for professional development
0 10 20 30 40
Knowledge of the curriculum
Knowledge of the subject field(s)
School management and administration
Pedagogical competencies
Developing competencies for future work
Teaching cross-curricular skills
Student evaluation and assessment practice
Student career guidance and counselling
Approaches to individualised learning
Teaching in a multicultural or multilingual setting
Student behaviour and classroom management
New technologies in the workplace
ICT skills for teaching
Teaching students with special needs
France Average
Percentage of lower secondary teachers indicating they have a high
level of need for professional development in the following areas
Barriers: teachers need high professional skills
TALIS 2013
18. 41.738.99
100 80 60 40 20 0 20 40 60 80 100
Poland
Ireland
Slovak Republic
Estonia
Korea
United States
Austria
Czech Republic
Average
Flanders (Belgium)
Japan
England/N. Ireland (UK)
Germany
Canada
Australia
Denmark
Norway
Netherlands
Finland
Sweden
Level 2 Level 3
Young adults (16-24 year-olds) All adults (16-65 year-olds)
18
Barriers: general low proficiency in problem
solving in technology-rich environments
%
Adults at Level 3 can
• Complete tasks involving multiple
applications, a large number of steps,
impasses, and the discovery and use of
ad hoc commands in a novel
environment.
• Establish a plan to arrive at a solution
and monitor its implementation as they
deal with unexpected outcomes and
impasses.
Adults at Level 2 can complete
problems that have explicit
criteria for success, a small
number of applications, and
several steps and operators.
They can monitor progress
towards a solution and handle
unexpected outcomes or
impasses.
20. A specific case: Open Educational Resources
(OER)
• OER = teaching, learning and research materials
that make use of appropriate tools, such as open
licensing, to permit their free re-use, continuous
improvement and re-purposing by others
– Any type or form
– Mostly, though not exclusively, in digital format
– Allowing for re-use, revise, re-mix and re-distribute
(the ‘four Rs’ of OER)
• OER are not a technological innovation, but they are
a force of social and educational innovation made
possible by technology
23. • Education is a heavily personalised service, so
productivity gains through technology are limited,
especially in the teaching & learning process
• Impact of technology on educational delivery remains
sub-optimal
– Over-estimation of digital skills among teachers AND students
– Naïve policy and implementation strategies
– Resistance of teachers AND students
– Lack of understanding of pedagogy and instructional design
– Low quality of educational software and courseware
Some conclusions
24. • Some new developments seem to be more promising:
– Highly interactive, non-linear courseware, based on state-
of-the-art instructional design
– Sophisticated software for experimentation, simulation
– Social media to support learning communities and
communities of practice among teachers
– Use of gaming in instruction
• Dialogue with ‘education industry’:
– Global Education Industry Summit, organised by OECD,
European Commission and Finland, in Helsinki on 19-20
October 2015
Some conclusions
An increasingly digitalised environment in education
Computer and digital resources are increasingly present in schools
The quality of these resources is an important input for teaching and learning processes
On average across OECD countries, about three quarters of students attend schools with adequate Internet connectivity and computer equipment to support student learning, according to school principals’ reports.
At the school level, in 32 countries and economies, principals’ perceptions about the adequacy of the educational
resources in their school are positively related to the school’s average performance (Table IV.3.16, which is discussed in
Chapter 3). However, schools with more adequate educational resources are also those that have other characteristics
closely related to higher performance.
But, even after accounting for the socio-economic status and demographic profile
of students and schools and various other school characteristics, in Qatar, Romania and Costa Rica schools with more
adequate resources tend to perform better. This suggests that much of the impact of socio-economic
status on performance is mediated by the resources invested in schools.
Index includes 6 components of school resources: computers, connectivity, educational software, instructional materials (e.g. textbooks) , science lab equipment, library materials.
In 29 of the 38 countries and economies with comparable data, there is an increase in the index of quality of schools’ educational resources.
The overall trend among OECD countries, that a lack of educational resources hinders the school’s capacity to provide instruction to a lower extent in 2012 than in 2003, was observed across
all school types (advantaged and disadvantaged students, advantaged and disadvantaged schools, private and public schools, lower and upper secondary programmes, and urban and rural schools).
Largest improvements observed in Turkey, Poland, Uruguay and the Russian Federation.
In Turkey, for example, students are more than 40 percentage points less likely to attend schools whose principal reported that a lack of instructional
materials (e.g. textbooks) or computer software for instruction hinders the school’s capacity to provide instruction.
Across the EU, around 75% of students at all grades are taught by experienced teachers with more than four years of using ICT at school.
The most frequent ICT-based activities at EU level are related to the preparation of teaching activities: around 30-45% (depending the specific activity concerned) of students are taught by teachers declaring they do this every or almost every day, or at least once a week.
Creating digital resources and using the school website or virtual learning environment also happens every or almost every day, or at least once a week, for teachers of respectively around 30% and 20% of students.
The low use of digital resources and tools is a concern. Digital textbooks and multimedia tools are the resources most frequently used. However, only 30% of students use them once a week or almost every day, but more than 50% of students at all grades never or almost never use such resources.
Teachers as designers is one vision articulated in the statements - acting as ‘curators’ ‘picking up on new trends, research, pedagogies, technology, content and seeing how they can be put to use in a new context.’
Cooperation, collaboration and the creation of communities of practice is essential. Drawing on evidence from international research is also widely seen as a necessary means to inform change.
In their different systems, teachers are engaged in learning experiences that are co-created, connected, personalised, and integrated, while representing large scale professional learning, intervention and diffusion.
Technology is identified as an integral means for such collaboration and professional learning to work.