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A World Leader in applications of ICT

A World Leader in applications of ICT. Computers in Education: Dreams, Disappointment and Disruption Sir John Daniel, KNOU Fellow. PLAN The Dream: Computers in Education. PLAN The Dream: Computers in Education Disappointment: Schools. PLAN The Dream: Computers in Education

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A World Leader in applications of ICT

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  1. A World Leader in applications of ICT

  2. Computers in Education: Dreams, Disappointment and Disruption Sir John Daniel, KNOU Fellow

  3. PLAN • The Dream: Computers in Education

  4. PLAN • The Dream: Computers in Education • Disappointment: Schools

  5. PLAN • The Dream: Computers in Education • Disappoinment: Schools • Disruption: Higher Education

  6. PLAN • The Dream: Computers in Education • Disappointment: Schools • Disruption: Higher Education • Achieving the Dream

  7. WHY do ICT inspire dreams of transforming education???

  8. Teaching and Learning = Manipulation of symbols(Words, Numbers, Formulae, Images…)

  9. The Practice of Education “the Internet is an extraordinary vehicle for the wide distribution of information, knowledge and educational material at low cost.”

  10. A World Leader in applications of ICT

  11. PLAN • The Dream: Computers in Education • Disappointment: Schools

  12. The OLPC XO-1 laptop One Laptop Per Child

  13. “he wanted children in the developing world to ‘learn learning’ through a methodology called constructivism”

  14. The OLPC XO-1 laptop A FAILURE?

  15. 4 PROBLEMS • No clear aims • Little educational software • No Teacher Training • Poor logistics

  16. HOLE IN THE WALL

  17. The Slumdog Professor Sugata Mitra

  18. Findings: • Learning happens in groups

  19. Minimally invasive education

  20. Findings: • Learning occurs in groups • Getting started a challenge

  21. Findings: • Group membership changes constantly • Everyone an expert

  22. Findings: • Develops intellectual maturity • Does not help rote learning • Parents & communities like it

  23. CONCLUSIONS • OLPC in classroom but no teacher training • HITW in playgrounds

  24. CONCLUSIONS • OLPC in classroom but no teacher training • HITW in playgrounds • Therefore: • Embed programmes in school systems

  25. What about Secondary?

  26. Surging to Secondary 200 to 400 million youth

  27. Develop and expand OPEN SCHOOLING and INTEGRATE IT with other approaches

  28. ‘there are no technology shortcuts to good education. For primary and secondary schools that are underperforming… efforts to improve education should focus… on better teachers and stronger administrations. Technology has a huge opportunity cost (compared to) more effective non-technology interventions.’ Toyama (2011)

  29. What about Higher?

  30. WCHE New Dynamics • Rising demand (massification) • Diversification (providers & methods) • Private provision • Distance education • Cross-border education • Quality assurance • Teacher education

  31. United States Enrolments in eLearning courses increased by 21% between 2009 and 2010compared to 2% for campus enrolments.

  32. United States 2014 80% of students online 2009 44% of students online

  33. United States the for-profit sector has a much higher proportion of the total online market (32%) compared to its share of the overall higher education market (7%).

  34. BUT… • goals for eLearning are unambitious • costs are rising • no evidence of better learning outcomes • failure to meet quality standards

  35. Better to work in teams!

  36. Higher Education: a Great Divide? Teaching Research

  37. Higher Education: a Great Divide? Teaching Research Private Public

  38. Open Educational Resources ‘educational resources that are freely available for use by educators and learners, without an accompanying need to pay royalties or license fees’

  39. 450,000 downloads of the UKOU’s materialsper week account for 10% of all iTunesU traffic

  40. “the task of universities today is to provide paths from their informal cloud of learning towards formal study for those who wish to take them” Martin BeanVice-ChancellorOpen University

  41. JamesTaylor The OER university concept. Adapted from Taylor (2007)

  42. Defining Technology Technology is the application of scientific and other organized knowledge to practical tasks by organizations consisting of people and machines…

  43. Principles of Technology • Division of labour • Specialisation • Economies of scale • Machines and ICTs Adam Smith1723-1790

  44. The Central Challenge • ACCESS (wider) • QUALITY (higher) • COST (lower)

  45. ACCESS QUALITY COST

  46. The Iron Triangle ACCESS QUALITY COST

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