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The Future of Educatio n - Frank Rennie Why bother with teachers?

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Public Lecture about the trend towards using online education and its implications for how and why we learn

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The Future of Education - Online

Frank Rennie

Why bother with teachers?

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Valerie Everett - Flikr

No magic answers

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SummaryWhat is available nowSample some trendsSuggest some possibilities

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerardgat/4315438950/

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Known attributes Greater speed of technology change Commercialisation of technology Greater affordability of devices Speedier access to information Greater mobility in learning options Extended geography of social links

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Pedagogic Styles

Distributed Learning

Blended Learning

Distance Education

elearning

f2f Open Education

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What are the Drivers? Extending educational opportunities Flexibility and convenience The pressures of 'real life' Career elitism (CPD) Disaggregation of knowledge New technologies available (iPod etc) Intellectual stimulation

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The Connecticon

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Multiple connections Metcalfe's Law x= n2

Reed's Law

Network Connections can be

powerul nodes of interaction

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Online libraries

Geographical data

E-book repositories

YouTube

Open Courses

Wikipedia

Certification

Social networking

Twitter

Journals

Images

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Symbiotic LearningThree forms of symbosis:

MutualisticCommensalParasitic

http://flickr.com/photos/mosilager/3497757186

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Apparent Trends Technology assisted learning is

increasing Convergent devices are becoming

prevalent Ubiquitous internet access Increasing openness of resources (?) Opportunities for personalisation of

learning

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Some possibilities Open science opportunities expand Next generation internet ? Copyright changes – (add-on services) Collective branding of OER Research, Teaching, and Assessment will

diverge Institutions will select and manage contents

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The essence of OER 1) Open access for users 2) Freely available 3) Shareable 4) Relatively discrete 'chunks' 5) Saves needing to 'reinvent the wheel' 6) Needs to be contextualised 7) You can add to the OER pool

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Some Examples

Presentations from another perspective

Difficult or dangerous experiments http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9z5-mJ8NZk

Specialist or rare publications

Specific photographs and illustrations http://picasaweb.google.com/frankrennie

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Issues of Personalised Learning Localisation

Flexibility/ convenience / cost / relevance Ethical issues

Digital profiles held by companies Sharing of information (+ plagiarism) Ethical travel (in an age of anthropogenic climate

change) Students as part of the community “Virtual” is not the same as “online”

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Paradigm Shift

From TeddY on Flickr

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OER Template

Learning Resources

OER

OER

OER OEROER

OER

Certification

Award

Assessment

TMA

Exam

Tutorials

email

LMS

Peer-to-peer

Dboard

skype

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I cannot teach anyone anything, I can only make them think - Socrates

http://www.flickr.com/photos/croweb/2836991287/

Books

Video

Dialogue

Images

Audio

Experiments

Tests

Articles

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Inherent Dangers Not every resource is of equal

value This is no different from non digital Ease of access may be deceptive e.g.

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

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Self Study

Face to Face

Online Tuition

Act

ive

Lear

ning

Instructional Learning

Educational Technology

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Self Study

Face to Face

Online Tuition

Act

ive

Lear

ning

Instructional Learning

Educational Technology

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Online Tuition

Face to Face

Self Study

Cost Benefit

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Some things to watch

The Attention Economy Self-organisation of learners Integration of platforms BIG OER meets small OER Course components will be owned Dominance of Third Places Institutions will provide student support

http://www.flickr.com/photos/desireedelgado/3273760287/

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The process begins....

This presentation is already on slideshare at

www.slideshare.net/frankrennie

It will also be with audio and video on the UHI website

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rsdio/3642119413/