Mega Trends on the Horizon: From AI/Blockchain/Alternative Credentials To What The Future Will Hold
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Invited presentation at Research and Innovation for a Digital Society: International Conference on Distance Learning, Bangkok, 2-3rd August 2019.
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- 6. A Teaching Assistant named Jill Watson
- 9. @mbrownz
- 11. 1. False promises 2. Competing futures 3. Venturing beyond the tracks
- 14. @mbrownz
- 17. “With the coming of the New Media, the need for print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will soon arrive when the world’s literature will be available from The Automatic Library at the mere pressing of a button” (Uzanne, 1994; cited in McFarlane, 1997, p.173).
- 18. (Uzanne, 1894; cited in McFarlane, 1997, p.173). “With the coming of the New Media, the need for print on paper will rapidly diminish. The day will soon arrive when the world’s literature will be available from The Automatic Library at the mere pressing of a button”
- 19. “I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks,” (Thomas Edison, 1922)
- 24. Off-Campus in Class Off-Campus Out of Class On-Campus in Class Formal Informal On-Campus out of Class Physical VirtualLeakage
- 26. “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Amara’s Law
- 27. 2. Competing digital futures
- 29. 2018
- 31. 2018
- 32. 2018 https://www.icde.org/models-for-online-open-flexible-and-technology-enhanced-higher-education
- 35. Different interest groups and stakeholders are borrowing the same ‘languages of persuasion’ to legitimize very different agenda
- 36. Knowledge Economy • Threat • Unbundling • Re-imagination Crisis • Disruption • Democratization • MAJOR WORLDVIEWS Knowledge Society COMPETING DIGITAL FUTURES • Democratic • Opening access • Micro credentials • Personalized learning • Competencies • Entrepreneurship • Technology as progress • Increased market competition • Just society • Lifelong learning • Pillars of learning • Education for citizenry • Sifting agent • Human capital • Social cohension • Cultural heritage ReconceptualizingDeschooling ReschoolingReproducing
- 41. 3. Venturing beyond the tracks
- 45. Three waves… 1. MOOCs for marketing 2. MOOCs for lifelong learning 3. MOOCs for credit and CPD pathways
- 50. • Mini modules • Study mobility • Credit pathways • Joint degree programs • International scholarships • Cost • Access • Quality • Flexibility • Innovation
- 54. “If you continue to take the same journey, then don’t expect to discover exciting new destinations”
- 56. (adapted from Barnett, 2011)
- 57. Critical Consumers Critical Citizens RECONCEPTUALIST FRAMEWORK (Delors Report, 1972) LEARNING TO BE LEARNING TO KNOW LEARNING TO DO LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER Critical Thinkers
- 58. Go raibh maith agaibh! Thank you
Editor's Notes
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- MB: The concept of digital literacy was first introduced back in 1997 and as this seminal book illustrates there are many and varied interpretations of this concept.
- This framework illustrates that there are two overarching perspectives influencing the debate: the tradition of the Learning Society and the influence of the Knowledge Economy. It is fair to say that a strong Knowledge Economy discourse is imbued in the languages of persuasion surrounding the unbundling movement.
- Around the Table