Invited keynote presentation at The Third International Conference Innovative Education in an Era of Change, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain, 29th November 2022.

1. What might the next future look like?

2. What might the next future look like?

3. Quick thrill
Commercialization
Disappointment
Out
of the
box!

6. The Rhetoric vs. Reality Gap

8. 1. What’s really in the box?
2. What’s coming in the box?
3. What’s sitting outside of the box?
Outline….
Photo by Luku Muffin on Unsplash

9. “Digital transformation
should be in the service of
big ideas,
not as a big idea
in itself”
(adapted from Barnett, 2011)

10. Photo by Luku Muffin on Unsplash
Digital transformation…

11. Photo by Bankim Desai on Unsplash

12. Photo by David Clode on Unsplash
“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a
caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but…

13. “…when done wrong, all you have is a
really fast caterpillar”
Photo by Andrew Claypool on Unsplash
(Westerman; cited in Bozkurt & Sharma, 2022, p. ii).

14. Photo by Will Porada on Unsplash
Digital transformation is more like the cross-
pollinating flight of a butterfly rather than the
direct path of a bullet.
(adapted from Cuban 2018).

16. Photo by Mike Tsitas on Unsplash
BIG ‘T’ and little ‘t’ transformation...

17. 2021

19. Photo by Charles Deluvio on Unsplash
More things change, the more they stay the same!

20. History Repeats!

21. https://5636spring13.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/can-robots-replace-teachers/

22. We need to
challenge the old
pump, pump, DUMP
model of technology-enhanced teaching

23. Taming or Transforming?

25. Transformative mindsets are crucial!

26. Photo by Luku Muffin on Unsplash
Future trends…
Convergence
Personalization
Augmentation
Immersion
Unbundling

27. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/10/the-landscape-of-merging-modalities
2.1 Convergence

29. 2.2 Personalization

31. Photo by Maarten van den Heuvel on Unsplash

32. 2.3 Augmentation

33. https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0927/1325695-students-ai-algorithm-essays-technology/

35. Mark

36. 2.4 Immersion

37. https://www.letsgolearn.com/math-curriculum/education-in-the-metaverse/

38. https://olc.worldbank.org/about-olc/education-meets-the-metaverse-reimagining-the-future-of-learning

39. https://olc.worldbank.org/about-olc/education-meets-the-metaverse-reimagining-the-future-of-learning
1993
Teachers College Record

40. 2.5 Unbundling

45. ‘You can’t just unbox something
and expect the latest shiny new
thing will transform learning
because it looks good’

46. Photo by Luku Muffin on Unsplash
Closed
Open
Taming
Rewilding
Inherent tensions…

47. https://www.holoniq.com/notes/opm-meet-opx-new-models-driving-the-global-online-higher-education-market
The OPX market is
expected to reach $7.8B
by 2025
Closed…

48. Open…

49. Photo by Pavel Togobitskiy on Unsplash
Taming…

50. Photo by Tom Pottiger on Unsplash
Rewilding…

51. What type of
education futures
do we want new
digital technology
to serve?

54. Photo by Luku Muffin on Unsplash

55. “How does one become a butterfly… you must
want to fly so much that you are willing to give
up being a caterpillar”.
Photo by Sonika Agarwal on Unsplash
(Trina Paulus, adapted from A. A. Milne, 1922).

56. Mark Brown

57. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you

58. Photo by Hadija Saidi on Unsplash