Invited keynote presentation at E-Learning Forum: The Future Aspirations and the Development Opportunities, Ministry of Education and the Ministry Agency for University Education, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 11 April, 2021.

1. Higher Education 4.0:
The New Digital Learning Ecology
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Professor Mark Brown
Dublin City University
Saudi Arabia
11 April 2021

2. @mbrownz

5. https://www.futurelearn.com/info/thefutureoflearning

7. • Why?
• What?
• How?
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Higher Education 4.0

8. https://eua.eu/resources/publications

9. • Why?
• What?
• How?
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Higher Education 4.0

10. https://www.litify.com/future-law-ai-revolutionizing-legal-industry/4th-industrial-revolution/

16. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL
THINKING

18. High Road Transfer
Low Road Transfer
Academic
World
Authentic
World
Learning
Transfer to
Highly Similar
Academic Tasks
(Brown, 2021)
Transfer to
Highly Dissimilar
Academic Tasks

19. High Road Transfer
Low Road Transfer
Academic
World
Authentic
World
Learning
Transfer to
Highly Similar
Academic Tasks
Transfer to
Highly Similar
Authentic Tasks
(Brown, 2021)
Transfer to
Highly Dissimilar
Academic Tasks
Transfer to
Highly Dissimilar
Authentic Tasks

22. • 1 new university each day
• 7 new universities per week
• 365 new universities per year
• 10,950 new universities over 30 years
= 30K students
= 210K students
= 11M students
= 329M students

25. • Why?
• What?
• How?
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Higher Education 4.0

26. Salmon, G. (2019). May the fourth be with you: Creating Education 4.0. Journal of Learning Development, 6 (2), 95-115.
1.0 Transmission
2.0 Social
3.0 Digital Lives
4.0 ?

28. 2018

29. On-Campus
in Class
Formal
Informal
Physical Virtual
Digital
Leakage
Brown 2013
Digital
Learning
Ecology

30. Off-Campus
in Class
Off-Campus
Out of Class
On-Campus
in Class
Formal
Informal
On-Campus
out of Class
Physical Virtual
Digital
Leakage
Brown 2013
Digital
Learning
Ecology

31. Hybrid

32. “The Edge Effect”

34. https://www.classcentral.com/report/mooc-stats-pandemic/

35. 1,200+ 30/11/2020

38. Credit Bearing
Non Credit Bearing
Bundled Unbundled
Macro-credentials
Formal Accredited
Degrees
Brown 2020
New
Credential
Ecology
Recognition
of Learning

39. Credit Bearing
Non Credit Bearing
Bundled Unbundled
Recognition
of Learning
Macro-credentials
Formal Accredited
Degrees
Micro-credentials
Formal & Semi Formal Courses
Accredited & Stackable
Short Courses
Non-Formal & Semi-Formal
Non-Accredited Certificates
Nano-credentials
Informal & Non-Formal
Non-Accredited Badges
Brown 2020
New
Credential
Ecology

43. Around the table…

44. • Why?
• What?
• How?
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Higher Education 4.0

45. Beyond Substitution…

46. DCU Futures…

50. LEARNING TO BE
LEARNING
TO KNOW
LEARNING
TO DO
LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER
Learning to
Challenge and
TRANSFORM
Beyond Now
Beyond Norm
Beyond Place Beyond Space

51. 2021
Report launch in January…

52. https://www.dcu.ie/nidl
https://www.dcu.ie/nidl

54. "Using new digital technology to improve
education is not rocket science...
it is much, much harder than that”
(Diana Laurillard, 2009).

55. Final remark…

56. You must have
the courage to be
future makers
willing to explore new
digital frontiers to
reimagine today’s world
for a better tomorrow!

57. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you