Autonomous Leadership-pafos-2012-eu-pdede http://www.eadtu.eu/activities/conference2012.html EADTU 25th ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE 2012 ’The role of open and flexible education in European higher education systems for 2020: new models, new markets, new media’’ The Open University of Cyprus will be hosting EADTU's Annual Conference in Paphos, on 27-28 th September 2012, under the EU Presidency of Cyprus.

1. Autonomous Leadership
Best Practice on a Regional Level
to tackle Higher Education Students’
Future Competencies for the Private Sector
European Projects Team
Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary
Education in Western Greece, PDEDE
Niki Lambropoulos, Charikleia Pitsou, Giorgos Panagiotopoulos,
Andreas Rizopoulos, Sofia Christopoulou, Theodoros Baris, Effimia
Psychogiou, Sindy Tasoula

2. Agenda
• Introduction
• Project-Based Methodology for European Projects
• Developing Future Citizens for Local Community
Innovation
• Autonomous Leadership Best Practice
on a Regional Level
• Preparing Future Higher Education
Students and Citizens
• Conclusions

3. Introduction: EU-PDEDE
1. 3rd biggest directorate in Greece
2. 3 Prefectures; Achaia,
Etoloakarnania & Ilia
3. 1,300 schools of both levels of
education -primary and secondary-
4. 12,000 appointed teachers of all
disciplines
5. Head of the Directorate since
January 2010 is Dr. George
Panagiotopoulos

5. Autonomous Leadership
• 90 percent of problems are process, not employee problems (Coate, 1990)
• Leadership and educational policy: relationship of the higher education to
the future markets.
• Transformational leadership (Papadimitriou, 2011)
• efficiency (ability to perform)
• effectiveness (ability to fulfill political objectives)
• accountability (ability to legitimize the results)
• Evaluation of Greek higher education focus on
• existing structure of secondary education
• infrastructural inadequacies of tertiary education
• problematic system of entrance
• powerful social pressures
• contribute to the development of excessive central regulation and
student emigration

6. European Qualifications Framework
(EQF: knowledge, skills, competencies - expert)

7. EQF @EU-PDEDE
a) Project-based method for
authentic learning
b) Direct implementation
• of related EQF knowledge,
skills and abilities
• in authentic creative
learning environments
a) Community Innovation
• engagement of the local and
regional authorities
• social and community
innovation
• project results
sustainability

9. Project-Based Methodology:
Authentic Problem Solving

10. 6 core PBL characteristics are (Barrows, 1996)
1. Student-centred learning
2. Small groups
3. Teachers as facilitators or
guides
4. A problem forms the basis for
organized focus & stimulus for
learning
5. Problems stimulate
• CoCreativity
• Problem solving skills
6. Self-directed learning

11. Project-based Computer Supported Collaborative
eLearning (CSCeL)
• Team-based activities promote the innovation cycle in practice
• Students’ coCreativity: idea generation and implementation in actual
project proposals for real funding opportunities
• Objectives, daily activities and tasks are macro- and micro- scripted to
promote students’ improvisation
• Teachers orchestrate the learning activities
• The transactive time and cost is reduced to minimum
• Interface support of scripting
• Student evaluation example
– Critical thinking levels (15%, 3 marks)
• 4 Participation Levels: Null, Low, Medium, High (15%, 3 marks)
– Real life team project (30%, 6 marks)
– Online individual questionnaire (40%, 8 marks)16

12. User/Learner Generated Context/Content

13. Activities &
Collaborative
Learning Convergence

14. Developing Future Citizens for
Local Community Innovation
Part of the social competence is
the ability to
• communicate constructively
in different environments,
• show tolerance, express and
understand different
viewpoints
• negotiate with ability to
create confidence
• feel empathy (EU, 2006)

15. The Future Greek Citizen
1. Sense opened citizen
2. Knowledge based citizen
3. Active citizen
4. Communicative citizen
5. Productive citizen
6. Creative citizen
7. Reflective citizen

16. Interconnected Dimensions (Grossman, 2001)
1. Personal: a personal capacity for and commitment to a civic
ethic characterized by responsible habits of mind, heart, and
action
2. Social: capacity to live and work together for civic purposes
3. Spatial: capacity to see oneself as a member of several
overlapping communities − local, regional, national &
multinational
4. Temporal: capacity to locate present challenges in the
context of both past and future in order to focus on long-term
solutions to difficult challenges

17. Cooperation with Local Organisations and
Companies – Innovative School Projects

18. Autonomous Leadership Best Practice on a
Regional Level
• Match cultural and regional
educational needs
• Culture the learned beliefs, values,
rules, norms, symbols, and
traditions that are common in
Western Greece
• Way of life, customs, and regional
narrative (Gudykunst & Ting-
Toomey, 1988)
Leadership is related to culture

19. Autonomous Leadership–Preparing future citizens
• New Hierarchical Structure
• EU-PDEDE initiative
 Employed several methods and
techniques to develop students’
new competencies so to bridge
the gap between higher
education requirements and the
future market
 Project-based methodology
 Innovation Management

20. EU-PDEDE via European Projects
Facilitates, supports and directs their implementation
• Disseminates the results and best practices
 impacting the teachers’ views, attitudes,
perspectives, ideas and everyday educational practices

21. Preparing Future Higher Education Students / Citizens
International Capacity, Skills & Knowledge

22. Conclusions
Universities, National Ministries of Education, Regional Educational
Institutions and local schools explore their relations
Students need to
• be competent in leadership, knowledge and
skills, even, in demanding situations
• enable themselves to promote educational,
economic and social progress and international
engagement in their societies and communities
• unfold their talents
• pursue their own individual goals ad dreams

23. Future Greek Students..
Need to be qualified
to meet the
radically altered
external
educational
environment
which impacts
citizens’ future in
Western Greece

24. Thank you for your attention!!
Dr. Niki Lambropoulos
EU-PDEDE Project / Team Manager

26. Thank you!!
European Projects Team
Regional Directorate of Primary and Secondary
Education in Western Greece, PDEDE
Address:
Dimaion Coast 25Α, P.C. 26222, Patras, Greece
Phone: +30 2610 362407
Website: http://blogs.sch.gr/eu-pdede/