This document discusses the future of online learning. It notes that more change will occur in education in the next decade than the past century. Education is shifting from centralized instruction to establishing oneself as a node in a distributed network of creativity. NUI Galway offers both blended and fully online programmes across various fields like medical device science, international business, nursing, and software engineering. The document questions what the future holds for students and encourages continuing the conversation around online learning and lighting the fire of education.
1. Online Learning
for the Future:
a conversation
in Galway
with Catherine Cronin
@catherinecronin
Volvo Ocean Race Galway 2012: Volvo Global Village, NUI Galway pavilion, 3rd & 4th July 2012
CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 rumblefish
8. “I don’t think
education is about
centralized instruction
anymore; rather,
it is the process [of]
establishing oneself
as a node in a broad
network of distributed
creativity.”
– Joichi Ito (2011)
Image: CC BY-NC-SA
11. Medical Device Science
International Business
Social Care
Italian
Biomedical Science
Health Sciences
Software Engineering
Nursing
Early Childhood
Innovation Management Irish Studies
Gaeilge Fheidhmeach
12. Medical Device Science
International Business
Social Care
Italian
Biomedical Science
Health Sciences
http://www.nuigalway.ie
Software Engineering
http://www.nuigalway.ie/courses
Nursing
adult-and-continuing-education-courses/
Early Childhood
Innovation Management Irish Studies
Gaeilge Fheidhmeach
23. Thank You
let’s continue the conversation...
Catherine.Cronin@nuigalway.ie
@catherinecronin
www.nuigalway.ie
24. REFERENCES:
Slide 17: Constructing a lipid bilayer
Dr. Andrew Flaus
Department of Biochemistry, NUI Galway
andrew.flaus@nuigalway.ie
Slide 18 CT231 Student Showcase
Catherine Cronin
Department of Information Technology, NUI Galway
catherine.cronin@nuigalway.ie
Slide 20 New Ways of Learning: #edchatie video
edchatie.pbworks.com
Fred Boss: @fboss
Hinweis der Redaktion
In addition to many, many universities which make open educational materials available, there is now a multitude of providers – universities and others, e.g. individually produced resources like the phenomenally popular Khan Academy videos and crowd-sourced resources like Wikipedia Merlot – a repository of peer-reviewed open educational resourcesSo, how do we assess courseware which is provided online?Our students, of course, have access to all of these, but require judgement in order to assess the provenance and quality of material which they find online. This is part of a growing appreciation of “Digital literacy”...
For the past 600 years, universities and libraries have been repositories of books, and of knowledge.
Stephen Heppell quote
Growing importance of digital/open practices
But with the growth of the internet/telecomms (particularly wireless & mobile) access to knowledge has been universalized.The major DISRUPTION occurs with thetransition from Closed Access to Open Access. There has been a huge growth in open education, and the wave of innovation is set to continue.This will change the role of universities.
Not connected/limited by geography, space, time... but connected by our own ideas, passion, commitment via social media.
For example, in the IT Online programmes offered by NUI Galway (in conjunction with Regis University) since 2004…
For example, in the IT Online programmes offered by NUI Galway (in conjunction with Regis University) since 2004…