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Results of the 3rd VISIR Consultation
“What may promote or discourage changes
towards innovation friendly learning systems
recognising grassroot innovations?”
András Szűcs
Livia Turzó
European Distance and E-Learning Network
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http://www.risc-project.eu
http://www.visir-network.eu
Consultations completed
Consultation No. 1:
What are the most relevant factors of change
and how do they affect LLL?
„LLL in the XXI Century: dimensions of change"
June –July 2012
Consultation No. 2:
What concretely should change and what is the role of ICT?
“Reacting to change and transforming European LLL:
the contribution of ICT "
March - April 2013
Consultation no. 3:
What may influence the change in the desired direction?
“ What may promote or discourage changes towards
innovation friendly learning systems recognising grassroot
innovations?”
December 2013 - January 2014
See reports: http://visir-network.eu/
Consultations run in five languages (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT)
Votes and participants
Participants
1st 2nd 3rd
EN 160 154 242
DE 20 23 19
IT 10 23 29
ES 15 10 25
FR 7 19 11
SUM
212 229 326
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Participants
EN 242
DE 19
IT 29
ES 25
FR 11
SUM 326
Who are you?
0% 20% 40% 60% 80%
Teacher/trainer
Manager/Decision
Maker
Researcher
Student
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Where do you work? In which education sector are you mostly active?
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
School Vocational
education
and training
Higher
Education
Other post-
secondary
education
Continuing
professional
education
and training
Adult
learning
Non-formal
education
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Do you consider yourself
as innovator in education?
Do you consider yourself an innovator
in education?
Yes
87%
No
13%
177 comments (50%+)received !
• The consultation reached a community with good
understanding, effective practice, experience
and strong commitment
• Attitude and personal motivation is amongst the most
significant reasons to become innovative actors
• Service oriented culture in the institutions
• Combination of grassroot work with scientific activity
• Innovation is often understood as a process:
• Not only using new methods but also do research
• analyzing results of non-conventional teaching :
experimenting – implementing – evaluating
• Innovation is important to motivate the students, develop
their full potential, enhance learning experience
• Sharing, promoting innovation, practices in social media
• „no‟ answers: lack of time, no influence on processes in
the institution, valuing traditional methods
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In your experience, what are the main barriers to (ICT-
fostered) innovation in learning?
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Lack of understanding by parents (in schools)
Privacy and security -related issues
Copyright, IPR
Innovation is considered as something “dangerous” or “risky”
Lack of supporting network infrastructure
Still low rates of ICT penetration across EU
Rigidity of curriculum
Lack of funds for content development
Lack of time by teachers/trainers
Lack of methodological support
Lack of teachers’/trainers’ competences
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Institutional governance, organisational culture:
• natural conservatism, resistance to change and to new technologies by management, to
enhance institutional policy frameworks
• unwillingness to take risks as there is a 'blame culture‘ – risk avoidance
•lack of timely ICT support – teachers always lagging behind students
• added values by teaching excellence, professional development not recognised in career,
• insufficient education-specialized ICT support personnel
• incorporation of pseudo-professionals for training and so wasting of time of the teachers and
wasting of funds
Lack of evidence:
• for the usefulness of ICT
• lack of understanding of how technology can support learning, impact of ICT on curriculum.
• lack of convincing cases for innovative practices
Lack of funds:
• motivation: no rewards for doing something different
• IT development, maintenance,
• instructional design, tutoring, coordination
What are the main barriers to (ICT-fostered) innovation
in learning? - Remarks
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What could be in your view the main enablers to (ICT-
fostered) innovation in education?
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Higher investments on mobile devices/PCs to learners
Support grassroot innovation
Support to the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend
Higher investments on ICT infrastructure
Allocation of funds to support grassroot innovation
Training on support of innovation for decision makers
More flexible curricula and timetables
More evidence of effectiveness on ICT in education
More funds for piloting innovative projects
Training on recognition and implementation of innovation
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Main enablers to (ICT-fostered) innovation in education
- remarks
Training:
• training of decision-makers on selection of professionals for teacher training and development
• better quality of teacher training (both in- and pre-service)
Management, leadership:
• a solid pedagogical vision needed
• more organised flexibility in the educational institutions (The Positive Quality Spiral)
• opening up regulations to allow more competition in educational provision
• open-minded managers and teachers
Recognition, motivation:
• innovation/creativity as criterion for professional development and recognition of faculty
• Recognition of importance of teaching in higher education
• only when teachers see the value, they use ICT in teaching
Research and sharing of results:
• sound and rigorous academic research on the effectiveness of ICT
• more structural information efforts towards parents
• Creating community currencies for co-creative learning
Funding:
• piloting and maintaining the 'innovation' phase
• support to Information society skills and digital literacy
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What are in your experience good examples of concrete
incentives to (ICT-fostered) innovation in learning?
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Awards recognising the innovation performance of
institutions or individuals
Public/private partnerships for exchange of knowledge
Public/private partnership to allow more investments on
innovation in learning
Paying respect to innovation performance during
assessment of institutions
Career advancements for innovators
Support networking among innovators
More development resources for innovative
teachers/trainers
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Attitude, culture, motivation, recognition:
• workload balance and time provision to learn, apply, evaluate and disseminate innovative practices
• recognition and value of innovation in learning when in a tenure-track position
• rewarding successful innovation to become common practice
• allow poorly functioning institutions to fail - promote competition
Sharing and networking:
• innovators should have enough resources for networking
• Public - Commons partnerships, or Public-Common-Private partnerships.
• sharing of concrete practices, find innovation accelerators
Management:
• funding practice-based research
• ICT enhancement should be part of educational institutions' strategies
• everything depends on the management
Training:
• support digital literacy training for users
• compulsory use of e-learning & new media in classrooms & Initial Teacher Training Institutes
Good examples of concrete incentives to (ICT-fostered) innovation
in learning - remarks
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Highlights from the consultation
Develop teachers competences, enhance their training, provide
methodological support
Research needed to provide more evidence on the value of ICTs
innovation
Support the networking of innovators
Inform, develop and encourage institutional management:
pedagogical vision, openness, ICTs in the strategy
Innovation as a process: combination of grassroot teaching work
with scientific activity
Help innovations in their pilote phase
Allow competition in educational provision
Educational IT specialists, timely ICT support needed
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Results of the 3rd VISIR Consultation