Keynote at ECTM 2016: The massification of education at the start of the industrial revolution created an efficient but less effective learning process compared to one-to-one tutoring. The information age has only increased the pressure on the educational system and revealed its shortcomings. However, the same technological advancement can also help the system to be not only more efficient but even more effective than before. During this talk, the impact that applied research in a large array of technological fields (from AI to IoT) could have in understanding and improving the learning process will be discussed.

1. Education as the meta-problem:
Opportunities for Technology
R&D
Xavier Ochoa
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral

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3. Problems… we got’em

4. Solutions… people create them

5. Harder problems?... better people!

6. Education helps us to get
better at solving problems
Understand different aspects of the problem
Use more advanced technology
Collaborate with other disciplines
Manage more complex information
…
Better ourselves

7. But...
Education is (really) hard
Not killing creativity
Deep learning
Learn to learn
Massification
Lifelong learning
Inclusion
…

8. If we can improve education
we help to accelerate
the production of solutions
to all the other problems

9. “Getting better at getting better”
Erik Duval
1965-2016

10. Education
through most of human history

11. Even in galaxy far far away…

12. Education
after the industrial revolution

13. Education
after the digital revolution

14. The current needs of the society has
only accentuated the problem
Critical – thinking
Communication skills
Mastering new knowledge and skills
Horizontal structures

15. Snowflake
people
Cookie-cutter
education

16. We did it because we
needed it
But what was the effect?

17. Bloom, B. (1984). "The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One
Tutoring", Educational Researcher, 13:6(4-16).

19. Imagine your
top 2%
students

20. Now imagine
50% of
your students
with the same
performance

21. That is a hefty price to pay!
Performance vs. Efficiency

22. Technology could help solve
the problem that it created
Applying technology to improve teaching and learning

23. Learning Technologies

24. Learning Technologies

25. Yeah, but we have been
doing it for a while now
What is new?

26. Now we generate an enormous amount of data
from educational interactions

27. Teachers / Students / Administrators are ready

28. Our automatic processing capacity is becoming
more sophisticated everyday

29. Learning Technologies are about
to go through a paradigm shift!

30. This has happened many times before…

31. This revolutions needs a great
amount of R&D in different
technologies
The challenge is out there

32. Some directions and
examples

33. Augmenting the Teacher

34. Plickers

35. Lantern – EPFL (CHILI group)

36. 7Abelardo Pardo. Stepping out of the Box. Analytics outside the LMS
11Abelardo Pardo. Stepping out of the Box. Analytics outside the LMS

37. 11Abelardo Pardo. Stepping out of the Box. Analytics outside the LMS
11Abelardo Pardo. Stepping out of the Box. Analytics outside the LMS

42. Augmenting the Student

46. http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/signals/

47. http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/signals/

49. Augmenting the Content and Tools

50. Ibook Author

51. Easy Multimedia Content Creation

52. TinkerLamp
Dual-T
EPFL

53. Interactive Tabletop
CTI – ESPOL

54. All of these are pieces of a solution

55. Where do we go?
Where will we be in 10 years

56. One laptop per child

57. One laptop tutor per child

58. (More than) One (virtual) tutor per child

59. A glimpse of the future

60. (Cognitive) Intelligent Tutoring Systems

61. (Affective) Intelligent Tutoring Systems

62. (Kinestetic) Intelligent Tutoring System

63. BUT…

65. What will be the use of this
technology?

66. Conclusions

67. We do not have to choose
between efficiency and efficacy
Mass-Personalization
of Education

68. Education provide a large set of
challenges to test the value of
new technologies
How my technology could
improve education

69. Education IS the meta-problem
Let’s get better at
getting better

71. LACLO 2017 – La Plata, Argentina
Octubre

73. Gracias / Thank you
Questions?
Xavier Ochoa
xavier@cti.espol.edu.ec
http://ariadne.cti.espol.edu.ec/xavier
Twitter: @xaoch