6/12/2014

HOW ICT IS CHANGING

EDUCATION
Nicoletta Di Blas

How to name it

eLearning: electronic learning

CAI: Computer-Assisted Instruction
CAL: Computer-Assisted Learning
CBT: Computer-Based Training
CSCL: Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning
TBDL: Technology-Based Distributed Learning
TEL: Technology-Enhanced Learning
WBT: Web Based Teaching
Educational Technology

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What is eLearning?

eLearning

1. the use of ICT in teaching/learning

2. the use of the INTERNET in teaching/learning
(mainly remotely)
3. teaching/learning transformed by ICT

Ken Robinson/1

Most people have a narrow view of intelligence, tending to think of

them in terms of academic ability. This is why so many people who
are smart in other ways end up thinking they are not smart at all.
This way of thinking about intelligence has a long history in western
culture [] its most recent flowering was in the period known as the
Enlightenment. [] one of the pillars of this new movement was a
firm belief in the importance of logic and critical reasoning. [] the
other pillar was a growing belief in the importance of evidence in
support of scientific ideas.
So it is that we came to think of real intelligence in terms of logical
analysis: believing that rationalist forms of thinking were superior to
feeling and emotions.

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Ken Robinson/2

ICT is transforming education

We need to re-think what we take for granted
Ken Robinson asks:

What is intelligence?
Why is there a hierarchy of subjects?

E.g. why dont we teach anyone how to code? www.code.org

Why mind matters more?

Why logic matters more?
Video 1: does school kill creativity? (TED talk)
Video 2: changing educational paradigm

Learning objects

Khan Academy

With a library of over 4,100 videos on everything from arithmetic to

physics, finance, and history, we're on a mission to help you learn
what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

Brain Pop

Founded in 1999, BrainPOP creates animated, curricular content. It

hosts over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12.

ISSUES
The flipped classroom model
Why should teachers teach?
Students can be proactive!

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More interaction

Classroom Response
Systems (CRS) - a
technological way to
assess students
Audience Response
Systems
Student Response
System
Video

Virtual school

Florida Virtual School

Florida Virtual School (FLVS) is an established leader

in developing and providing virtual K-12 education
solutions to students all over Florida, the U.S. and the
world. A nationally recognized e-Learning model and
recipient of numerous awards, FLVS was founded in
1997 and was the country's first, state-wide Internetbased public high school. Today, FLVS serves
students in grades K-12 and provides a variety of
custom solutions for schools and districts to meet
student needs.

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Open courses/1

MOOC
A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online
course aiming at large-scale interactive
participation and open access via the web. In
addition to traditional course materials such as
videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs
provide interactive user forums that help build a
community for the students, professors, and TAs.
MOOCs are a recent development in distance
education (Wikipedia)

Open courses/2

MIT Open Course Ware

MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of

virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to
the world and is a permanent MIT activity. From 2003
In 1999, MIT Faculty considered how to use the Internet in
pursuit of MIT's missionto advance knowledge and educate
studentsand in 2000 proposed OCW. MIT published the first
proof-of-concept site in 2002, containing 50 courses. By
November 2007, MIT completed the initial publication of
virtually the entire curriculum, over 1,800 courses in 33
academic disciplines. Going forward, the OCW team is updating
existing courses and adding new content and services to the
site.

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Open courses/3

edX

Coursera

EdX is a not-for-profit enterprise of its founding partners

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology that features learning designed specifically for
interactive study via the web.
Coursera is an education company that partners with the
top universities and organizations in the world to offer
courses online for anyone to take, for free.

Glubal: making higher education individual, flexible

and customized

Open courses/4
ISSUES:
The world universities get at hand
More virtual (and real) travelling for students
Accreditation?
Life-long learning

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Badges

Badges are digital

indicators of skills
learned inside or
outside the
classroom

The future/1

Increase in technological mediation, for:

Access to content
Asynchronous interaction between students and teachers
Synchronous remote interaction between students and teachers (video conf.)
Interaction in presence
Evaluation

Content fragmentation

More than one author

Open books/works
Playlists of content (not eBooks)
Open content

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The future/2

End of the traditional class

No need for being all in the same space at the same time
In presence meeting: the added value is INTERACTION
Personalized time of learning

New kind of teacher

No more lectures
The teacher takes strategic pedagogical decisions
New professional figures: the tutors

The future/3

New kind of students

More proactive
They propose content
They decide timing
The institution acknowledges/certifies

FORMAL EDUCATION, INFORMAL EDUCATION,

LEARNING BY EXPERIENCE get blended

Accreditation is about all three (badges)

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