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Innovating e-Learning Closing Remarks

Innovating e-Learning Closing Remarks. Chris Yapp Head of Public Sector Innovation Microsoft. Some thoughts.

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Innovating e-Learning Closing Remarks

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  1. Innovating e-LearningClosing Remarks Chris Yapp Head of Public Sector Innovation Microsoft

  2. Some thoughts These notes were compiled by me as the conference proceeded as my reflections on what is needed to create a flexible scaleable system of learning fit for the 21st century. I hope that the slides are reasonably self explanatory. I hope that these will stimulate a lively closing session

  3. The show so far • There is a lot of activity/innovation going on! • There is a very open community of practitioners • BUT.. • Have we made 10 years progress in the last 10 years? • Should we drop the e?

  4. Approaching a tipping point? • Globalisation of economy? • Availability of ICT capability? • Increased knowledge of pedagogy human brain/learning theories..? • Economics of life long learning? • Analogue institutions in a digital world?

  5. What are we trying to achieve? • Do what we currently do more cost effectively? • Do something different for the same learners? • Widen the access to learning to new learners? • Reform existing institutions/create new ones?

  6. A hypothesis? • Learning always has been and always will be a personalised experience • It is the organisation of education that has been impersonal • The impediment has been economic scaleability • Technology is making personalisation achievable at scale

  7. Learners? • What skills/knowledge/attitudes ought we to expect a learner to have when they leave school for FE/HE or work? ( note not qualifications) • How can we establish an entitlement to these skills? • How does e-learning impact informal serendipitous learning? • Research at undergraduate level?

  8. The “supply side” • What does a world class FE/HE workforce look like in 2020? • OU innovation in 70s around team built curriculum- does e-learning need a similar level of innovation? • Is a model of HE incorporating research and teaching and knowledge transfer into a single institution optimal for 21st century?

  9. Design • Design for or with the learner? • Co-design, co-construction, co-delivery eg RED at Design Council ( Hilary Cottam)

  10. The teachers • Teaching as the last craft discipline? • Individual vs team • What about librarians/researchers and all the learner roles?

  11. Curriculum… • Subject specialisms… • Joint honours… • What new models are needed? • By way of example :How much of a dance degree could be taught by e methods? • Extent of user choice- if I’m paying and want to do Zen, German and flute who says I shouldn’t be allowed to?

  12. Assessment • How do we assess creativity? ( should we?) • What else should we assess and how? • Does peer review diminish importance of interdisciplinary learning? • Academic/vocational education/training ( is this helpful for era of lifelong learning?

  13. Institutions • How big or small do they need to be viable in global environment? • Future of Academic Life? • Ownership of IPR in Knowledge Economy? • Real/blended and e-learning?

  14. The Challenge You have been given £100m to build a new institution. You wish to take the best ideas you’ve learned from the experts on this conference. Could you describe what you’d spend the money on?

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