Poland has seen significant improvements in its education system over recent decades, as evidenced by rising test scores and shifting demographics. However, integrating mobile technologies fully into schools remains a work in progress, with challenges that include teacher training, high production costs, and ensuring access when EU funding expires. Opportunities lie in partnerships across sectors and testing new approaches to engage digital generations. Vistula University has launched its own mobile studies program with growing enrollment. Overall, cooperation will be key to shaping a future education system not left behind by disruption.

1. Mobile Studies
in Poland
challenges and opportunities

2. QUICK FACTS ABOUT POLAND
Year Students K-12 University students
1990 5 MM 2 MM
2010 2 MM 0,5 MM
Poland is 9th in the PISA reading ranking
Poland is the only country to move from
being below the OECD average in PISA
to above average.
EU MONEY!
Demographic
tsunami!

5. Poland's education
reforms have produced a
large overall
improvement in
educational performance,
as measured by results on
the OECD Program for
International Student
Assessment (PISA) test.
World Bank
WHY POLAND IS BETTER THAN FINLAND?

6. Generation X
(1961-1980)
Fall at Berlin Wall
Reagan/Gorbachev/
Thatcherlsm
Live Aid
Early mobile technology
Divorce rate rises
Generation Y
(1981-1995)
9/11 terrorists
attacks
Social medla
Invasion of Iraq
Reality TV
Google Earth
Generation Z
(Born after 1995)
Economic downturn
Global warming
Mobile devices
Cloud computing
Wiki-leaks
„Portfolio” careers – loyal to
prolesslon, not to employer
Digital entrepreneurs –
work „with” organizations
Multitaskers – will move seamlessly
between organisations and
“pop-up” businesses
Personal computer
Tablet
Smartphone
Google glass
3-D printing
Email and text message Text or social media Hand-held communication devices
GENERATIONS X, Y AND Z

8. END OF DESKTOP ERA – TIME FOR MOBILE!

9. MOBILE
SCHOOL
Devices
Resources Training
Digital
access

10. o m-teacher: preparing teachers for using ICT
in daily classroom work;
o m-textbook: digital educational resources, ensuring access
to mobile resources
o m-university: providing universities with the necessary
infrastructure, especially modern didactic tools and WiFi.
o m-student: providing students, especially those at risk of
digital exclusion, with access to modern didactic tools.
MOBILE SCHOOL

11. CHALLENGES?
o Teachers don’t use m-textbooks
o 5-10% of classrooms still need
better equipment
o Difficult to train teachers
o Cost of mobile learning production
o EU money may finish after 2023

12. CHALLENGES?
o High cost of production
o Repetitive production of similar
material
o Lack of experience in the right
methodology

13. o Positive buzz
o Better results of education
o Mobile Teachers Group – bottom-up
approach
o Students are passionate about new
methods
OPPORTUNITIES?

14. OPPORTUNITIES?
o Integration with commercial
products
o New disruption
o Involvement of non traditional
players can bring new approaches
o Better methods of teaching to reach
millennials

15. To make these happen:
o We should have multi-sectoral,
holistic approaches
o And lots of trials until we find the
right method and maxim
Therefore we need to cooperate!

16. FUTURE?
In order not to be a victim of
disruption:
It is time to shape the future together!

17. MOBILE STUDIES AT VISTULA UNIVERSITY
o BA studies in Economics, Finance
and Management (PL)
o MA studies in Management (PL, EN)
o ePhD studies in Economics (EN)
o Working on MOOCs (planned
release date: 2016)

18. MOBILE STUDIES AT VISTULA UNIVERSITY
2014
180
78
4,2
13
First run: September 2014
Present number of students: 180
(year 2014: 33 students)
Number of courses: 78
Average evaluation: 4,2 (5 is the highest note)
Number of cooperating universities: 13

19. Mehmet Eskici
President of Vistula Group of Universities
m.eskici@vistula.edu.pl