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Keynote Speech, EdTech2022, Cork
This document discusses opportunities for digital transformation and new models of higher education. It questions traditional approaches and outlines several innovative models, including: - Higher apprenticeships that combine online study 1-2 days per week with work experience. - Competency-based education that assesses students based on skills and knowledge rather than time spent learning. - Recognition of prior learning through challenge exams and competency assessments to award credit for experience. - Hybrid teaching models that deliver classes locally and remotely simultaneously through technologies like HyFlex. The document advocates for thinking bigger about education delivery and prioritizing access and cost over traditional measures of quality. New models could significantly reduce the cost of higher education.
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- 1. “Think Bigger!” Digital Transformationand New Models of Higher Education Brian Mulligan Head of Online Learning Strategic Projects, ATU, Sligo EdTech 2022
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- 3. Atlantic Technological University “Don’t believe everythingyou read on the Internet!” -Albert Einstein
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- 6. Atlantic Technological University • Does educationhave to be this expensive? • Does Quality Assurance work? • Do we need lectures? • Do students have to go to college? • Can most students learn self-efficacy? • Do we need Labs? • Is 40% really a "pass"? • Should a degree be compressed into 4 years? • Do we need degrees? • Does research activity really help teaching? • Is higher education really just a sorting mechanism for employers? • Do you really need a Leaving Certificate to enter Higher Ed? • Do subsidies stifle innovation?
- 7. Atlantic Technological University Why? Strengths, Weaknesses,Opportunities, Threats 1.Demographics 2. Economics 3. Higher Ed at scale 4. Alternative Credentials
- 8. Atlantic Technological University Does Higher Educationhave to cost so much?
- 9. Quality Access Cost Reasons forusing Learning Technologies
- 10. Atlantic Technological University Quality Access Cost Reasons forusing Learning Technologies
- 11. Atlantic Technological University Quality Access Cost Cost isan Access Issue!
- 12. Atlantic Technological University The world’s mainsource of free learning! Can we exploit this to reduce the cost of HE?
- 13. Atlantic Technological University Does QA work? •Is the evidence really there? • Determinism vs. Continuous Improvement • Measure outputs not inputs • Inhibits innovation and agility • Can we measure our outputs • Validity, Reliability • Is “excellence” really worth it? • Bureaucratic overhead • Lack of trust
- 14. Atlantic Technological University Is 40% reallya pass? • Does it indicate competence? • Which is better: • Knowing some content well • Knowing a little about a lot. • What about differing abilities? • Technology can help • Self-paced • Individualised • Monitored • Do we need “stages” / “years” • Why 4 years? • Do we need lectures? • Can we teach self- efficacy?
- 15. Atlantic Technological University Do kids reallyneed to go to college? • They can learn remotely. • Can they learn better while working? • What does campus really offer? • Can we prove it adds anything? • Can we add this in other ways? •Do they even need degrees? • Alternative credentials • Work-based training
- 16. Atlantic Technological University Digital Transformation Traditional • Classes •Practicals • Assignments • Exams Digitisation • Zoom classes • Recordings • Simulations • Electronic submission • Online Quizzes and exams Digital Transformation • New Models of Learning • Enabled by Tech
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- 18. Atlantic Technological University Higher “Apprenticeships” • Earn whileyou Learn • Online study 1-2 days per week
- 19. Atlantic Technological University Competency Based Education •Defined by: • What you know! • What you can do! • Agnostic on the learning experience • Assessment is crucial • Quizzes for knowledge • Authentic assessment for skills • Unleashes our potential for innovation • Western Governors - $6k per year
- 20. Atlantic Technological University Recognition of PriorLearning •Not easy •Challenge exams? •Competency?
- 21. Atlantic Technological University •Not new. •Automated assessmentis crucial. This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
- 22. Atlantic Technological University Hybrid Teaching • Localand Remote • Simultaneously? • HyFlex • Difficult • Inclusive
- 23. Atlantic Technological University Civil Engineering Charles SturtU (Aus) • Project Based Degree • 18 months on campus • No classes • Online content • Adaptive • Mastery / Competence • 4 years in the workplace • 2 undergraduate • 2 postgraduate • Classes online • Flipped Programme
- 25. Atlantic Technological University Education at Scale •MOOC style (2013) • >11,000 enrolled (2021) • $6,700 • “Robust” Assessment • Competency 15,000 $4,800
- 26. Atlantic Technological University MicroCredentials • Small, ondemand, up to date, cheap • How small? • Stackable? Recognised? • Digital Credential infrastructure crucial • Could we embed MCs from others into our programmes?
- 27. Atlantic Technological University Why I mightbe wrong! •Subsidy stifles innovation. •Industrial Relations •Higher Ed as a sorting Mechanism This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA-NC
- 28. Atlantic Technological University My suggestions • Qualityis not the most important objective! • Think bigger! • Do the right thing! brian.mulligan@gmail.com elearngrump.blogspot.com
Editor's Notes
- #3 I’m not going to say that higher education is wonderful or that you are all wonderful and I’m sure many of you will breath a sigh of relief to hear that as you don’t like being patronised. However, most of us are constrained in what we can do and are trying to do our best. Perhaps there is a lot of wishful thinking in this presentation but I believe that it is worth looking at what we do with a critical eye, questioning many of the assumptions we have about higher education and thinking bigger about what we can achieve and discussing what emerges openly and honestly. So to encapsulate this I had to search for a quote – and of course Albert Einstein seems to have said everything.
- #4 And found this profound one too. Scepticism is at the heart of higher education.
- #5 It seems it was EA Games that said this – no doubt they nicked it from someone else.
- #6 It seems it was EA Games that said this – no doubt they nicked it from someone else.
- #7 Does education have to be this expensive? Are there cheaper ways? Do we have to make compromises? Does Quality Assurance work? Is it worth it? Would Continuous Improvement work better? Would trusting lecturers work better? Is excellence the enemy of the good? - centres of fucking adequacy Do students have to go to college?Do we need lectures? Is 40% really a "pass"? Should we be letting students progress who have not mastered ideas? Can most students learn self-efficacy? Should a degree be compressed into 4 years? Do we need degrees? (MCs - Does Higher Education lead to prosperity or the other way around) Do we need staff training? Just in Time or Just in Case Is Instructional Design worth it? Is teaching really more a craft than a science? Too many variables to be deterministic. Continuous improvement. Are we prone to myths? Particularly "motherhood and apple pie". Does research activity help or hinder teaching? Is subject matter knowledge more important than we realised? Is higher education really just a sorting mechanism for employers? Signalling Do subsidies stifle innovation?
- #8 Tesla, Apple, google, Netflix – do not require degrees – will others follow.
- #14 Innovation Prevention Unit
- #16 Tesla, Apple, google, Netflix – do not require degrees – will others follow.
- #17 Joke – well I wouldn’t start from here anyway.