1. Research-informed strategies to address educational challenges in a
digitally networked world.
TWG 1: Towards new systems of schooling in the digital age
EDUsummIT 2013
October 1-2
Washington D.C., United States of America

2. Aims of the TWG 1 of EDUsummIT 2013
 Developing a research update and an update of new practices of
using digital technology for schooling
 Formulating future issues, questions, and concerns regarding the
use of new forms of schooling in the digital age
 Understanding digital age as a huge field of challenges and
potentials to meet individualized learning and 21st century skills
worldwide

3. New forms of schooling - two essential questions as the
shared base for the TGW1
 Two essential questions as the shared base for the TGW1
 To what extent and how does recent developments of education and
digital technologies challenge and change systems of schooling?
 How can research inform us about the potential of new forms of
schooling with digital technologies?
 Different perspectives for a proper analysis
 Institutions
 Actors
 Practices

4. Needs and unresolved issues/concerns
discussed in the TWG1
 Remarks
 Consider risk groups / very divers students
 School is a running system not ‚new‘ system  how to change a running
system
 Needs
 Unresolved issues

5. Needs discussed in the TWG1
 Making education more open, flexible, personalized,…
 to change school systems, schooling, classrooms, attitudes of
teachers, parents, school leaders and students,…
 making research on impact of the use of IT in education more
accessible (to teachers)
 public funding/incentives with more focus on sustainable solutions
not so many `short term projects´

6. Unresolved Issues discussed in the TWG1
 development of open education resources has to consider various
traditions/languages in different countries
 policy makers should consider both economic and educational
needs
 how to adapt curricula / assessment /… to personalized learning
 planing the physical and social environment allowing students to
work individually using IT
 who defines the purpose of education?

7. Needs discussed in the TWG1 part 2
 research on impact of the use of IT in education
 public funding/incentive with more focus on sustainable solutions
not so many `pilot projects´
 how do we engage students in learning
 how do we get governments to financially support IT in education
 how do we get teachers to recognize their own limited possibilities
in IT
 Who is driving education?

8. Needs discussed in the TWG1
 Making education more open (closed vs. open settings /classrooms,
closed curriculum, closed school systems,… ) more possibilities for
decisions to students
 changing teachers , parents, school leaders
 recognize the influence of formal learning on informal learning and vice
versa
 not enough teachers with competencies in using IT
 gap in available technical infrastructure
 change the structure of schools, distance learning,…
 life long learners – teachers get more money if the learn more

9. Needs discussed in the TWG1 part 3
 how to get better results from all the equipment we have got –
sharing knowledge in and between schools
 setting common set of rules - concering IT-Use – in schools
 solutions of the infrastucture BYOD ()
 concepts of personalized learning
 teacher training and further education

10. Unresolved Issues discussed in the TWG1
 development of open education resources has to consider typical
tradition in the different countries
 policy makers shouln‘t emphazize so much on how to save money
but how to improve learnig outcome
 how to adapt curricula / assessment /… to personalized learning
 planing the physical environment allowing students to work
individually
 what is education really?

11. Unresolved Issues discussed in the TWG1
 growing interest in 21th century competencies
 What does the change from teacher centered to students centered
learning really mean?
 What are the needs to change the public school system?
 Why do we new new types of schooling? What are the aims? What
has to be changed?
 Identify needs and aims for the new kind learning

12. Unresolved Issues discussed in the TWG1
 How do you provide money for IT infrastructure for students in poor
areas / ‚mileus‘
 How to impact ???
 How to change a running system?
 Revolution oder evolution?
 Data security, licences
 language problems for non-english speaking countries