World Engineering Education Forum 2012 “Engineering Education for Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion”

1. World Engineering Education Forum 2012 “Engineering Education for Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion” New Challenges in Engineering Education Michael E. Auer DaniloGarbiZutin

2. Agenda of my Talk • The New Challenges with Respect to Learning • Theses about the Future of Learning • The New Aspects in Engineering Education

3. The New Challenges • The New Challenges with Respect to Learning • Theses about the Future of Learning • The New Aspects in Engineering Education

4. Peter F. Drucker The most important and indeed the truly unique contribution of management in the 20th Century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st Century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and of the KNOWLEDGE WORKER. Peter F. Drucker “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”

5. Peter F. Drucker The most important and indeed the truly unique contribution of management in the 20th Century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing. The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st Century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and of the KNOWLEDGE WORKER. Peter F. Drucker “Management Challenges for the 21st Century” EDUCATION TEACHER

6. Shift happens We are living in exponetial times!

7. Agenda of my Talk • The New Challenges with Respect to Learning • Theses about the Future of Learning • The New Aspects in Engineering Education

8. Thesis 1 • The Future of Learning requires the enforcement of a new learning model. • We need more to focus on 21st century competencies and expertise such as • critical thinking, • complex problem solving, • collaboration, • multimedia communication • and much more • New concepts: • Open Educational Resources • Educational MashUps • Learning Ecosystems • Online Laboratories • Living Labs • MicroLearning • … • The DULP Vision: • Design inspired learning, • Ubiquitous learning, • Liquid learning places (liquid society), and • Person in place centered design,

9. Thesis 2 • The Future of Learning will be a balanced approach between: • E-Learning and Face-to-face Learning • Formal and informal learning "Synergy from Classic and Future Engineering Education"

10. Thesis 3 The Future of Learning will revolve more around context than content: • Information Age. • Knowledge Society • Data, Information, Knowledge • Easy to access 7/24 InstructionConstruction

11. Learning in Transition Learning in transition means: IMS Global Learning Consortium

12. Thesis 4 The future in learning will be characterized by: • Open content • Open technology • Open knowledge • For all !!! “By making the educational assets free, open and accessible, the open education movement is beginning to radically change the ecology and economics of education”. (Toru Iiyoshi & M.S. Vijay Kumar, MIT)

13. Open Content Initiatives • MIT's Open CourseWare initiative (http://ocw.mit.edu) • Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative (http://www.cmu.edu/oli), • Rice University's Connexions project (http://cnx.org/) and the • UK Open University's OpenLearn endeavor (http://openlearn.open.ac.uk). • MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (http://www.merlot.org/) Web-based materials offered freely and openly for use and reuse in teaching, learning and research including any tool, material or technique used to support access to knowledge. (OER Definition by UNESCO)

14. Thesis 5 The Future of Learning is a global one. • Global expertise: • Global markets for content, skills and competences • Expertise can be exported anywhere wherever it is in demand • Experts can be also recruited from anywhere

15. Massive Open Online Courses(MOOCs) MITx’s prototype course, “Circuits and Electronics.” has more than 120,000 enrollees. New Business Models necessary ! ELIG(in its white paper 2011) Open Education: A wake up-call for the learning industry?

16. Thesis 6 • The Future of Learning will be characterized by: • Mobile learning • Learning on the job • Embedded learning • Ubiquitous learning Pervasive Learning

17. Thesis 7 The Future of Learning is inseparable connected with ICT and especially with Web 3.0 technologies. From Web 2.0 to 3.0: • from receiver to producer of information, • from static to dynamic contents, • from control of the few to the wisdom of the crowds. • Main characteristics of Web 3.0 are the use of: • Cloud Computing and Cloud Environments • Semantic Technologies, • Social Web Services, and • 3D Interactive Technologies

18. Agenda of my Talk • The New Challenges with Respect to Learning • Theses about the Future of Learning • The New Aspects in Engineering Education

19. Definitions of Engineering Engineering represents creative thought and skilled actions associated with the use or adaption of natural materials and natural phenomena in the conceptualization, planning, designing, and disposing of devices. Harms/Baetz/Volti: Engineering in Time Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize a solution to the needs of society. Wikipedia Short definition of engineering: exploiting basic principles of science to develop useful tools and objects for the society. Link between the Sciences and the Society

20. New Engineering Disciplines • Software Engineering • Information Engineering • Data Engineering • Requirements Engineering • Medical Engineering • Neuro Engineering • Gen Engineering • Social Requirement Engineering (!) • … • Systems Engineering as integrating discipline ! New tasks within traditional engineering: • Online Engineering • Remote Engineering • Virtual Engineering • Re-Engineering • Reverse Engineering

21. Decreasing Innovation Cycles • How many years does it take to reach a market audience of 50 Million? • Radio 38 years • TV 13 years • Internet 4 years • iPod 3 years • Facebook 2 years • Tablet PC 1 year

22. Exponential Times From Carlos Delgado Kloos

23. Greatest Engineering Achievements and Challenges Greatest Achievements in the last century Electrification Automobile Airplane Water Supply Electronics Radio and Television Agricultural Mechanization Computers Telephone Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Highways Spacecraft Internet Imaging Challenges for the 21st Century Prevent Nuclear Terror Secure Cyberspace Manage Nitrogen cycle Access to Clean Water Carbon Sequestration Advanced Health Informatics Better Medicines Better Understanding of the Human Brain Cheaper Solar Energy Energy from Fusion Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure and Transportation Personalized Learning 2011 Study by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

24. Technology Outlook 2012 Horizon Report

25. New Aspects (1) • Social Position of Learning • 80% of all learning on the job

26. New Aspects (2) • Engineers’ Interaction with Others • 60% interaction activities (meetings, supervision, writing reports etc) • 40% technical engineering activity 5-point scale, where 1=Not important; 2=Not very important; 3=Somewhat important; 4=Very important; and 5=Extremely important  Source: Job Outlook 2012, National Association of Colleges and Employers

27. New Aspects (3) • New Organizational Aspects in Engineering Education • Engineering issues become • very complicated • cross disciplinary • internationalized in a global economy Example: Boeing Development and Production Chain

28. New Aspects (4) • Improvement of the Agility of Engineering Education • Creation of virtual educational units

29. New Pedagogic Questions • What learning approaches have to be used to effectively response to these changes? • What are the pedagogies that provide the most effective learning experiences for engineering students of the 21st Century? • What learning skills in engineering education need to be developed and how can engineering teachers succeed in guiding their students to achieve them? • What pedagogical approaches have been found to support the different phases of the present life-long learning continuum, or is there more research necessary? • What are the approaches that enable competence in leadership skills in a multi-cultural working environment, and what is the best way for these competencies to be delivered? • Ambient technology is becoming a reality. What does ambient learning in Engineering Education look like? How can it be designed, delivered and assessed?

30. Thank you! Michael E. Auer DaniloGarbiZutin Villach, Austria