Invited speech at the Hearing of the European Parliament on "Promoting online education and research across national borders" in Paris on 5th of Decmber 2022 by Dr. Christian M. Stracke
1. Council of Europe, Parliamentary Assembly
Dr. Christian M. Stracke
Paris, 5th of December 2022
Promoting
online education
and research
across national borders
3. "Your initial presentation should focus in particular on:
1. recent developments and 2. trends regarding online
education in Europe, definitions of 3. distance learning,
4. e-learning, 5. online learning, 6. virtual collaboration,
7.-10. their strengths and 11.-14. weaknesses,
15. opportunities for reforms provided by emergency
situations (pandemic, war) as well as new technologies
and support tools for 16. educational innovation and
17. accessibility." = 17 topics in 10 min., let's try ...
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About me
Coordinator Virtual Collaboration, University of Bonn
Adjunct Professor, Korean National Open University
Advisory Professor, East China Normal University
Founder & Director, European Research Institute eLC
100+ research projects with 55+ Mio. € budgets
150+ scientific publications incl. 87 peer-reviewed / SSCI
Creative design & training for 15,000 teachers & 5,000 schools
Elected Chair of ISO & CEN Standardization Committees
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7. Face-to-Face
Distance Learning
???
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Definitions
E-Learning
B-L 1
B-L 2
B-L X
B-L: Blended Learning – Figure is only indicative and not true to scale
8. Face-to-Face
Distance Learning
???
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Definitions
E-Learning
B-L 1
B-L 2
B-L X
B-L: Blended Learning – Figure is only indicative and not true to scale
9. Face-to-Face
Distance Learning
B-L 1
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Definitions
E-Learning
B-L 2
B-L
3
B-L X
Online Learning
B-L: Blended Learning – Figure is only indicative and not true to scale
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Learning design & objectives
(Digital) Learning
formal, non-formal, informal
≠
(Digital) Education
(non-)formal with learning design
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Virtual collaboration in E-Learning
Four key design & learning aspects:
1. Tasks and assignments
2. Roles and responsibilities
3. Communication
4. Interactions
Formal (designed by educators) or non-formal
within group work, communities and networks
www.vico.uni-bonn.de
13. Face-to-Face
Distance Learning
B-L 1
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Definitions
E-Learning
B-L 2
B-L
3
B-L X
Online Learning
B-L: Blended Learning – Figure is only indicative and not true to scale
Virtual
Collaboration
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Face-to-Face vs. E-Learning
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Interactions in digital learning
Classical interaction types in learning (Moore, 1989):
1. Learner-Facilitator (LF)
2. Learner-Resource (LR)
3. Learner-Learner (LL)
New in digital learning (Stracke et al., 2018):
4. Group-Group (GG)
Stracke, C. M. et al. (2018). Gap between MOOC designers' and MOOC learners' perspectives ... https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00007
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Digital Learning Quality
Learners' experiences vs. Designers' experiences
Stracke & Tan (2018). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3715341; Stracke et al. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00007
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Digital Learning Quality
Learners' experiences vs. Designers' experiences
Stracke & Tan (2018). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3715341; Stracke et al. (2018). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICALT.2018.00007
LF: Interaction between learners and facilitators - LL: Interaction among learners
LR: Interaction between learners and learning resources - GG: Interaction among teams and groups
Learners n R2 M2 p
LF 125 .094 9.382 .000***
LL 130 .101 10.818 .000***
LR 136 .112 12.286 .000***
GG 108 .045 4.131 .026*
Designers n R2 M2 p
LF 49 .003 0.109 .703
LL 50 .043 1.595 .143
LR 48 .046 1.537 .138
GG 43 .001 0.038 .821
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Face-to-Face vs. E-Learning
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Learning design & objectives
(Digital) Learning
formal, non-formal, informal
≠
(Digital) Education
(non-)formal with learning design
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Changes in societies
States &
countries
Private
business
Commons
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Commons for all as start
Commons
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Emergence of states
States &
countries
Commons
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Privatisation
Private
business
States &
countries
Commons
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Commons for balance in societies
States &
countries
Private
business
Commons
… and
education?
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Digitalisation
Photo: https://www.bmas.de/DE/Service/Publikationen/a877-01-werkheft.html
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Digitalisation
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Digitalisation
Photo: https://www.bmas.de/DE/Service/Publikationen/a877-01-werkheft.html
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Digitalisation
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Digitalisation
Photo: https://www.bmas.de/DE/Service/Publikationen/a877-01-werkheft.html
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Digitalisation in education?
Photos: https://www.pixabay.com (345950) https://www.pexels.com (207691)
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Learning cha(lle)nges
to meet
future tasks
and society
Not knowledge but competences:
Stracke (2018). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3956396
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Why digital competences?
https://digital-agenda-data.eu/charts/analyse-one-indicator-and-compare-countries
No digital
natives!
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Misconceptions
Digital natives
21st century skills
Hybrid learning
Flipped classroom
Digital literacy
Competence development
Blended learning
Innovative learning design
(flipped learning & sequencing)
No digital natives!
No 21st century skills!
Hybrid learning?
Flipped classroom?
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Online courses or learning material
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ISOC_CI_AC_I__custom_1921685/bookmark/line?lang=en&bookmarkId=c59e1629-dec0-43e8-a6f1-de1c541f0932
Longitudinal studies on digital education are lacking!
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Online courses or learning material
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ISOC_CI_AC_I__custom_1921685/bookmark/line?lang=en&bookmarkId=c59e1629-dec0-43e8-a6f1-de1c541f0932
2017 2019 2020 2021
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
https://www.unesco.org/en/legal-affairs/recommendation-open-educational-resources-oer
UNESCO OER Recommendation adopted in 2019
https://www.unesco.org/en/legal-affairs/recommendation-open-educational-resources-oer
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Open Education
Stracke (2017). The Quality of MOOCs: How to improve the design of open education and online courses for learners? https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58509-3_23
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Current challenges
https://www.unicef.org/reports/unicef-75-preventing-a-lost-decade
COVID-19 pandemic & lockdowns
War in Ukraine & many countries
Climate change, poverty, hunger
We need innovative and high quality
Open Education for all as human right
New Normal?
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Countability?
https://visible-learning.org
Meta-analyses of evidence-based
studies by Hattie and others
See critics by Eacott (2017), McKnight
& Whitburn (2018), Terhart (2011), &
Wetter, Vogel, & Hetmanek (2017)
Evidences?
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Our Research
Formal education during the
COVID-19 pandemic & lockdowns
Use and benefits of Open Education
40 researchers from 5 continents
with case studies from 13 countries
Open
Edu
Schools & Higher Ed: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031876
Open Education: https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v23i4.6120
46. Grainne Conole
Ramesh Sharma Ebba Ossiannilsson
Jon Mason
Daniel Burgos
Aras Bozkurt
Christian M. Stracke
Chrissi Nerantzi
María Soledad
Ramírez Montoya
Andreia Inamorato
dos Santos
Marian Wan
Cécile Swiatek Jin Gon Shon
Robert Farrow
Özlem Karakaya
Gema Santos-Hermosa
Jane-Frances
Obiageli Agbu
Open
Edu
47. Open
Edu
Grainne Conole
Ramesh Sharma Ebba Ossiannilsson
Jon Mason
Daniel Burgos
Aras Bozkurt
Christian M. Stracke
Chrissi Nerantzi
María Soledad
Ramírez Montoya
Andreia Inamorato
dos Santos
Marian Wan
Cécile Swiatek Jin Gon Shon
Robert Farrow
Özlem Karakaya
Gema Santos-Hermosa
Jane-Frances
Obiageli Agbu
Schools & Higher Ed: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031876
Open Education: https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v23i4.6120
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Quality Dimensions
Stracke, C. M. (2006). Process-oriented Quality Management. Handbook on Quality and Standardisation in E-Learning (pp. 79-96). https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-32788-6_6
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Learning Quality Dimensions
Stracke, C. M. (2019). Quality Frameworks and Learning Design for Open Education. IRRODL, 20(2), 180-203. http://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i2.4213
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Open Quality Education
Stracke, C. M. (2019). Quality Frameworks and Learning Design for Open Education. IRRODL, 20(2), 180-203. http://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i2.4213
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Quality
cannot be defined
... except through adaptation
to your situation and context!
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Quality Reference Framework
QRF freely & openly
available online:
www.MOOC-quality.eu/QRF
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First & unique quality standard for e-Learning
ISO/IEC 40180 for quality
1st ISO standard for
(e-)learning quality
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First & unique quality standard for e-Learning
ISO/IEC 40180 for discussion
Conceptual standard
requires adaptation
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Artificial intelligence
The Best or the Worst:
Who controls it?
GPT-3, DALL-E, Galactica
Always: Human to human
No educational innovation,
only tool for support
Figures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
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Artificial intelligence
Trustworthy and ethical AI:
Planned regulation by
the Council of Europe
for human rights,
democracy & rule of law
(to fight fake news, deep fake etc.)
https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2766/153756
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www.Learn-STEM.org
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Opportunities for reforms
Many opportunities & challenges
Do not start with pandemic & war
but with educational needs
Open Education & OER
as objectives & innovative tools
Inclusive and equitable quality education
for all (pupils & citizens) – SDG 4
Open
Edu
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Recommendations for E-Learning
Required: Digital AND pedagogical competences
First: Learning objectives, target group & context
Second: Definitions, learning design & technologies
Continuing professional development for teachers
Infrastructure for inclusion, equity & human right
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Recommendations for PACE report
Required: Digital AND pedagogical expertise
First: Learning objectives, target group & context
Second: Definitions, learning design & technologies
Open E-Learning not only for pandemic & war but in
general as a tool for future educational innovation
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References
Stracke, C. M., Burgos, D., Santos-Hermosa, G., Bozkurt, A., Sharma, R. C., Swiatek, C., Inamorato dos Santos, A.,
Mason, J., Ossiannilsson, E., Shon, J. G., Wan, M., Agbu, J.-F., Farrow, R., Karakaya, Ö., Nerantzi, C., Ramírez
Montoya, M. S., Conole, G., Cox, G., & Truong, V. (2022).
Responding to the initial challenge of COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of international responses and impact
in school and higher education.
Sustainability, 14(3), 1876. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031876 [SSCI, Open Access]
Stracke, C. M., Sharma, R. C., Bozkurt, A., Burgos, D., Swiatek, C., Inamorato dos Santos, A., Mason, J.,
Ossiannilsson, E., Santos-Hermosa, G., Shon, J. G., Wan, M., Agbu, J.-F., Farrow, R., Karakaya, Ö., Nerantzi,
C., Ramírez Montoya, M. S., Conole, G., Cox, G., & Truong, V. (2022).
Impact of COVID-19 on formal education: An international review on practices and potentials of Open
Education at a distance.
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 23(4), 1-18.
https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v23i4.6120 [SSCI, Open Access]
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References
Stracke, C. M., Sharma, R. C., Swiatek, C., Burgos, D., Bozkurt, A., Karakaya, Ö., Ossiannilsson, E., Mason, J.,
Nerantzi, C., Agbu, J.-F., Ramírez Montoya, M. S., Shon, J. G., Inamorato dos Santos, A., Farrow, R., Wan,
M., Santos-Hermosa, G., & Conole, G. (2021). How COVID-19 has an impact on formal education:
A collective international evaluation of open education in distance learning. Proceedings of the 14th
Annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI) (pp. 4270-4275).
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5764585
Truong, V., Denison, T., & Stracke, C. M. (2021). Developing institutional Open Educational Resource
repositories in Vietnam: Opportunities and challenges. The International Review of Research in Open and
Distributed Learning, 22(4), 109-124. https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v23i1.5582 [SSCI, Open Access]
Stracke, C. M., & Skuballa, I. (2021). Using, analysing and evaluating eye-tracking at different educational levels:
Towards an evaluation framework for impact assessment. TEM JOURNAL - Technology, Education,
Management, Informatics, 10(2), 483-487. https://doi.org/10.18421/TEM102-01 [ESCI, Open Access]
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References
Stracke, C. M., & Trisolini, G. (2021). A Systematic Literature Review on the Quality of MOOCs.
Sustainability, 13(11), 5817. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13115817 [SSCI, Open Access]
Holubinka, K., Stracke, C. M., Forsman, P., & Juutinen, S. (2021). Virtual Internationalization in Higher Education:
Design Reflections and Lessons Learned. Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung (ZfHE), 16(2), 43-56.
https://doi.org/10.3217/zfhe-16-02/03 [Open Access]
Stracke, C. M., van Dijk, G., Fasen, J., Lisdat, F., & Simoens, W. (2020). A Holistic Pedagogical Model for STEM
learning and education inside and outside the classroom. In P. Zaphiris & A. Ioannou (Eds.): Learning and
Collaboration Technologies. Designing, Developing and Deploying Learning Experiences. LCT 2020, Part I,
HCII 2020, LNCS 12205 (pp. 568–581). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50513-4_41
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References
Stracke, C. M. (2020). Open Science and Radical Solutions for Diversity, Equity and Quality in Research:
A Literature Review of Different Research Schools, Philosophies and Frameworks and Their Potential
Impact on Science and Education. In D. Burgos (Ed.), Radical Solutions and Open Science. An Open
Approach to Boost Higher Education. Lecture Notes in Educational Technology (pp. 17-37). Springer:
Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4276-3_2 [Open Access]
Stracke, C. M., Downes, S., Conole, G., Burgos, D., & Nascimbeni, F. (2019). Are MOOCs Open Educational
Resources? A literature review on history, definitions and typologies of OER and MOOCs.
Open Praxis, 11(4), 331-341. https://doi.org/10.5944/openpraxis.11.4.1010 [ESCI, Open Access]
Stracke, C. M. (2019). Quality Frameworks and Learning Design for Open Education.
The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 20(2), 180-203.
https://doi.org/10.19173/irrodl.v20i2.4213 [SSCI, Open Access]
and many more, all are openly and freely available at: http://www.opening-up.education
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Figures and photos
Slide 1: Council of Europe, https://www.coe.int/en/web/about-us/logo-
associations#portlet_56_INSTANCE_CZH3yKdrglmM
Last Slide: Copyright: Sabine Dertinger (with permission), http://sabinedertinger.de
All other figures and photos are bought with open and free license or referenced or own figures and photos
with Creative Commons-Lizenz CC-BY-NC-SA (see slide 2)
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Let us cooperate!
stracke@uni-bonn.de
@ChrMStracke
www.opening-up.education