The document discusses open education and the teaching profession in 2030. It provides historical context on open education, from correspondence courses to massive open online courses (MOOCs). The document then outlines five scenarios for what the teaching profession could look like in 2030 based on emerging technologies and trends: 1) a centralized European education network, 2) a decentralized social network approach, 3) use of intelligent agents and recommendations, 4) diversified teaching careers using remote presence and analytics, and 5) informal peer learning camps. The final section poses discussion questions about which scenarios are desirable or undesirable and what needs to be done to influence the future of teaching.
Open Education and Teaching Profession Trends to 2030
1. Open Education
and
Teaching Profession in 2030
Riina Vuorikari, Ph.D
Yves Punie, Ph.D
JRC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
ETUCE 2014 Special Conference, Vienna, 26 November 2014
2. European Commission,
Joint Research Centre
Institute for Prospective
Technological Studies (IPTS):
Research institute supporting EU
policy-making on
socio-economic, scientific and/or
technological issues
3.
4. Trends, technologies
& challenges for
European schools
over the next
5 years
Horizon Report Europe 2014 >Schools Edition
Source
NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition
Graph adapted from Horizon 2014 Europe: School Sector
5. Outline
I. Setting the context: back to the future of Open Education
• History of Open Education
• EC Communication "opening up education" in 2013
II. Teaching Profession in 2030
• Tensions forming Open Education
• 5 scenarios for 2030
III. Final questions for discussion
6. I. Setting the context:
Back to the future of Open Education
7.
8. "… bringing the digital revolution into education"
"Open technologies allow individuals to learn
anywhere, anytime, through any device, with the
support of anyone"
9. Open education is a collective term to describe
institutional practices and programmatic initiatives that
broaden access to the learning and training traditionally
offered through formal education systems.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_education
Accessed 14/10/1014
10. Alternative &
Progressive
education
Correspondence
courses, Distance
Universities
Open Universities (OUUK, OUNL, UOC…)
Open
content
(1998)
1st cMOOC
(2008)
1st EU MOOC
platform
Increasing number of Open
Access papers & journals
MOOCs
UK Finch report
1985 1990-2000 2001-2002 2006-2011 2012 2013
OU
OER
OA
History of Open Education
Computer
Assisted
Instruction
(1970)
19th 1960's–1970's
century
Budapest Open
Access Initiative
Non mainstream
education
Digital
learning
resources
Free
Software
/GNU
Creative
Commons
(2002)
Open
Classrooms/
Education
MIT OCW
(2001)
OER Def.
(UNESCO
2002)
OER univeristy
1st Stanford
xMOOC
(2011)
Certification
11. Open Education: Five waves
1. Open Classrooms (Progressive education; 1960's)
2. Open Universities (1960's)
3. Open Content and Open Educational Resources (~2000)
4. Sharing and collaboration of OER with web 2.0 (~2006)
5. Open Educational Practices (now-)
13. Summarising Open Education
• Is not only about Open Educational Resources and MOOCs
• Is not only about ICT and technology integration in education
• It is…
• about widening access to education and learning in general
(not only formal)
• About new ways of learning, teaching, assessing,
recognising, accrediting and delivering 21st century
competences
=> Vast, ambitious, difficult agenda (status quo is not an option)
17. In the future, there will be
significant changes in
where we learn
when we learn
what we learn
how we learn and
with whom with learn.
Thus affecting also the role of teachers
18. Let’s imagine
the teaching profession
in
2030
to
challenge assumptions
and
stimulate thinking
about
the present!
19. Five stories of possible futures
for teaching profession
in 2030
20. Crosscutting issues affecting changes
− The role of Initial Teacher Training and Continuous Professional
Development (CPD)
− Quality of teaching enhanced through networking, intelligent system,
new teaching roles
− Recognition of teacher networks opening up towards new stakeholders
Technology:
− Underlying technological solutions: centralised vs. decentralised
services; remote presence and robotic telepresence; artificial
intelligence
− Ownership, control of data and commercialisation
− Privacy, security, safety, identity
21.
22.
23. 1. European Education Network (eNet)
2. is based on an idea of centralised technology
where various tools and resources are made
available in one place!
Pro’s
− School exchange becomes part of initial teacher training and
recognition of CPD
− Safe, secure environment for teachers, students and parents to interact
− Expansion towards more stakeholders
− Public funding (EU) for independence and sustainability
Con’s
− Centralised governance and structure (big brother?)
− Less favorable in terms of openness, flexibility and interoperabilty with
other networks and spheres of life.
24.
25. 2. MyNetwork
is based on decentralised technologies and user-centred
social networking approach
Pro’s
− Decentralisation and federation across networks
− Flexible, serving a diverse needs and profiles
− Wide variety and choice - Personalised approach
Con’s
− Market fragmentation and individual approaches
− Favours technology proficient users – others may stay behind
− Difficult to engage parents and other stakeholders
− Formal recognition as CPD unclear
26.
27. 3. Intelligent Agents
is based on emerging technologies like
recommendations in Amazon.com
Pro’s
− Almost like Amazon.com or a music recommender for teaching
− Avatar does the repetitive activities – reduction of workload
− Dealing with information overload and complexity
− Open Educational Resources
Con’s
− Technology dependence: reliability, dependability, automated
suggestions and decision-making
− Trust, security, privacy,
− Private market solutions only
28. New roles as a teacher
Scenario 4: Diversified Teaching Careers
29. 4. Diversified Teacher Careers
is based on “remote presence from robotics” and
personalised learning analytics
Pro’s
− Autonomous learners through personalisation and taking responsibility
− Different teaching professions: teaching in class, teaching virtually,
student monitoring
Con’s
− Highly dependent on use of digital technologies for organisation and
administration of learning
− Significant investment in teacher training
30.
31. 5. Informal peer camps: Off-line peer learning
Pro’s
− The face-to-face time is valued
− Collaboration is embedded in innovating with teaching
− Open technologies allow new case specific innovaiton
Con’s
− Current technologies failed teachers and didn't understand their needs
− Digital divide between teachers who engage in CDP on technology and
those who don't
− Lack of institutional support leaves teachers without formal recognition
of their efforts
34. For ETUCE:
Which scenario, or a combination of them, is desirable?
Which scenario, or a combination of them, is undesirable?
(Should you make your own scenario
that would be more desirable?)
What do you have to do today to make that scenario
take place, or prevent it to take place, in 2030?
35. Thank you for your attention!
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Hinweis der Redaktion
Horizon Report Europe 2014 >Schools Edition
From 1840 there was the introduction of uniform postage rates across England. The first distance education course in the modern sense was provided by Sir Isaac Pitman in the 1840s, who taught a system of shorthand by mailing texts transcribed into shorthand on postcards and receiving transcriptions from his students in return for correction - the element of student feedback was a crucial innovation of Pitman's system.[5] Wikipedia "distance education".
the long tradition of Progressive education (e.g. John Dewey 1859-1952 and Jean Piaget); away from mainstream traditional education. Other alternative education approaches employing non-traditional curricula and/or methods are, for example, Montessori and Waldorf schools which were already established in the 19th century.
In Great Britain in the 1960's, an educational movement building upon started emerging. It then grew to the United States and became known as Open Education. Open classrooms, a single multi-age and multi-grade classroom where students were typically divided into different groups for each subject according to their skill level, are the best known implementation of Open Education.
For the question regarding the learning goals, we have two opposites that are presented on the y-axis; the learning goals can be either externally set in a form of a curriculum, for example, stating what are the goals (competences) that learners need to acquire. Alternatively, the learning goals can be learner's personal goals only to satisfy individual's own learning needs (i.e. learner's decision). These two opposites can also be illustrated by a difference between a journey vs. discovery. When thinking of a journey, the destination is already set (e.g. from Seville to Vienna) even if there can be different ways to achieve the destination (e.g. plane, car, train); different pace, etc. When thinking of a discovery, on the other hand, one not just have to decide where to take a trip but how they will go, when they will leave and how long they will stay. Usually, one does not even know from the outset what s/he will eventually discover.
The x-axis, on the other hand, illustrates the setup of the learning context. The learning context includes an element of whether learning takes place in an institutionalised setting with guidance (i.e. externally set) or on the other hand, it's upon the learner's own decision.
…guidance: Open Education allows learners to design and conduct their learning autonomously, in a self-guided way, choosing and combining learning opportunities as they see fit. However, for some learners and for certain learning needs, a guided learning context may be more appropriate. It offers support for learning processes and may make it more efficient and effective for each individual learner.
…learning goals: Learner can fully take the initiative and lead for their learning goals. However, knowledge and skills needs are also shaped by economic and social values