Images of Education Futures: Looking at the Bigger Picture
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Keynote presentation at Open Classroom International Conference: Open Professional Collaboration for Open Classroom, Kaunas, Lithuania, 9th November 2017
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Images of Education Futures: Looking at the Bigger Picture
- 1. Professor Mark Brown Director, National Institute for Digital Learning Images of Education Futures: Looking at the Bigger Picture Kaunas, Lithuania 9th November 2017
- 7. Liverpool Hut, Mt Aspiring New Zealand
- 8. Different interest groups and stakeholders are borrowing the same ‘languages of persuasion’ to legitimize very different agenda In the era of fake news… Openness is Problematic
- 9. “It is theory that decides what we can observe…”
- 10. TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • Openness is Problematic
- 11. Knowledge Economy TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • Mark Brown, 2016 Openness is Problematic
- 12. “Frankly, all the computers and software and Internet connections in the world won’t do much good if young people don’t understand that access to new technology means… access to the new economy” (President Bill Clinton; cited in Cuban, 2001, p.18).
- 13. Knowledge Economy Learning Society TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • Mark Brown, 2016 Openness is Problematic
- 14. “Higher education has a crucial role to play in laying the foundations of a society that is more inclusive, participatory and equal...” The President said “…the role of the university in enabling citizens to develop the tools to address the great challenges of our time – global poverty, climate change and sustainability – was vital.
- 15. Knowledge Economy Learning Society TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • Mark Brown, 2016 Openness is Problematic
- 16. Knowledge Economy Learning Society TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • • Sifting agent • Human capital • Cultural heritage • Education as commodity Reproducing Mark Brown, 2016 Openness is Problematic
- 19. Knowledge Economy Learning Society TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • • Sifting agent • Human capital • Cultural heritage • Education as commodity • Entrepreneurship • 21st Century skills • Market competition • Education in change ReschoolingReproducing Mark Brown, 2016 Openness is Problematic
- 20. In 1976… 89% market share
- 27. Knowledge Economy Learning Society TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • • Democratic • Opening access • Micro credentials • Personalized learning • Sifting agent • Human capital • Cultural heritage • Education as commodity ReschoolingReproducing Deschooling • Entrepreneurship • 21st Century skills • Market competition • Education in change Mark Brown, 2016 Openness is Problematic
- 32. “And we’ve got to bring on the competition — open the schoolhouse doors and let parents choose the best school for their children. Education reformers call this school choice, charter schools, vouchers, even opportunity scholarships. I call it competition — the American way.” Donald Trump, in his book “The America We Deserve”
- 33. Whose Image of Openness?
- 35. Knowledge Economy Learning Society TWO MAJOR PERSPECTIVES • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • • Public Good • Lifelong learning • Equitable society • Education for change • Democratic • Opening access • Micro credentials • Personalized learning • Sifting agent • Human capital • Cultural heritage • Education as commodity ReschoolingReproducing ReconceptualizingDeschooling • Entrepreneurship • 21st Century skills • Market competition • Education in change Mark Brown, 2016 Openness is Problematic
- 37. Critical Consumers Critical Citizens RECONCEPTUALIST FRAMEWORK FOR OPENNESS (Delors Report, 1972) LEARNING TO BE LEARNING TO KNOW LEARNING TO DO LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER Critical Thinkers
- 38. Conclusion…
- 39. Conclusion…
- 40. JRC (2016). Opening up education in Europe: A support framework for higher education institutions
- 41. “Openness should be in the service of big ideas, not as a big idea in itself” (adapted from Barnett, 2011)
- 43. MICRO MACRO MESO
- 46. “A prudent question is one-half of wisdom” Francis Bacon
Editor's Notes
- Dunluce Castle
- Imagine two people are standing on opposing hilltops looking into the valley below. One sees sunshine; the other, shadow. Both are right. Accordingly this talk invites you to think about the light and DARK sides of the unbundling debate.
- Extending the metaphor by looking more deeply through the lens of a telescope we can better understand the grand narratives and some of the competing and co-existing discourses of persuasion surrounding the MOOC movement and online learning more generally.
- Dunluce Castle
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- Borrowing the words of President Michael Higgins, from this perspective higher education has a role in promoting more inclusive, participatory, equitable and sustainable futures for all.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- Put simply, the traditional degree is higher education's version of the bundle. As Ryan Craig (2015) points out bundling has been central to the higher education business model for centuries. Institutions combine content and a wide range of products and services into a single package, which generates revenue. However, this is a simplistic view as unbundling has many different faces. In this brief presentation, I will touch on six of these that have particular relevance to Irish higher education.
- The ideas in this video are potentially scary! As Professor George Siemens, a widely respected thought leader, tweets… The question is how do Irish educators get around the table in an emerging unbundled world in order to shape our own future?
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.