This document discusses trends and developments in higher education from the perspective of the Dean of the Faculty of Digital Media & Creative Industries at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. It summarizes key trends impacting higher education, including the rise of AI and ICT, globalization, changing job markets, and budget cuts. It also outlines developments in higher education, such as increasing flexibility, blended learning, collaboration and partnerships. The document poses questions about the future of higher education and potential alternatives, including peer-to-peer learning, makerspaces, citizen science, and virtual/augmented reality.

1. The Future of Education
Frank Kresin
Dean Faculty of Digital Media & Creative Industries, AUAS
Trends, alternatives and dilemma’s

2. • 46.000 students, 4.000 employees
• 90+ bachelors & masters, 60+
research groups
• Pillars: Student, Knowledge
Institute, Collaboration, Amsterdam
• Focus: Diversity & Inclusion,
Sustainability, Digital
Transformation
• Central Value: Emancipation
Amsterdam University
of Applied Sciences

3. Research Programmes
• Applied AI
• Cross Media
• Digital Life
• Fashion Research & Technology
• Institute of Network Cultures
• Play & Civic Media
• Responsible IT
• Quantum Computing
• Urban Analytics
• Visual Methodologies
Faculty of Digital Media & Creative Industries
Educational Programmes
• Amsterdam Fashion Institute
• Communication
• Communication & Multimedia Design
• Creative Business
• CyberSecurity
• Digital Design
• Digital Society School
• HBO-ICT
• Make IT Work

4. That will impact us greatly
• Society 5.0
• Doughnut Economy
• Responsible Design
• Empowerment
• Transdisciplinarity
• Critical Making
• The commons & p2p production
Trends on the horizon

6. • Rise of AI & ICT
• The world is flat / globalisation
• Changing job market / precarity
• Demographics
• Complex challenges (eg sustainability)
• Student debts
• Rise of private education providers
• Budget Cuts around the corner
Trends that influence
Higher Education

7. • Increasing Flexibility
(content & pace)
• Blended & Hybrid Learning
• Continuous Education
• Community Service Learning
• Centers of Expertise
• Collaboration & Partnerships
• PI-Shaped Professionals
• Blended Learning
Developments in
Higher Education

10. Gert Biesta: https://educationmuseum.wordpress.com/2012/03/22/
gert-biesta-qualification-socialization-subjectification/
Qualification
Providing people with knowledge, skills and understandings
and often also with the dispositions and forms of judgment that
allow them to “do something”- which can range from the very
specific (eg. training for a particular job or profession, or the
training of a particular skill or technique) to the much more
general (eg. an introduction to modern culture, or the teaching
of life skills, etcetera).
Socialisation
Has to do with the many ways in which through education, we
become part of particular social, cultural and political “orders.”
Subjectification
It is not about the insertion of “newcomers” into existing
orders, but about ways of being that hint at independence from
such orders, ways of being in which the individual is not simply
a “specimen” of a more encompassing order.
So: Why do we educate?

11. New tools
..and this is just the beginning
• Knowledge (WikiPedia, Coursera, edX, ..)
• Communication (Insta, FaceBook, WhatsApp, SnapChat, Zoom, Tinder..)
• Digital Fabrication (3D printers, Laser Cutters, Arduino’s, Lillypads, ..)
• Ownership & sharing (CC, Open Source, Open Design, Open Access, ..)
• Decision Making (Loomio, LiquidDemocracy, Ethelo, ..)
• On-line brainstorming (Miro, Mural, ..)
• Services (Uber, AirBnB, CouchSurfing, Google, ..)

12. Could we do “education”
somehow differently?

13. Peer 2 Peer Learning

14. Fab Labs, Maker Spaces
Hacker Spaces

15. Citizen Science

16. Virtual & Augmented Reality

17. MOOCS

18. JUST-IN-TIME
ON THE JOB

19. Open Educational Badges

20. CAMPUS AMSTERDAM

22. In Higher Education
• On-line vs Offline?
• On Campus vs in situ (eg. Amsterdam)
• Personal vs Public Investment?
• Public Service vs Private Market
• National vs Global
• Individual tracks vs Cohorts
• Generic Skills vs Specific Skills
• Emancipation vs Excellence
Dilemma’s

23. Questions?