Eden Porto 2012 - Fellows Meeting
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E-Learning: possible futures, certain change….
Alan BruceULS IrelandEDEN Porto June 2012
1. Contribution and impact in societal transformation
Defining - and agreeing - scale of social challenge occurring around us
Understanding the extent of change In a transformed world all institutions
are transformed E-learning as symptom and solution Unlocking e-learning’s Pandora’s
box: Tahrir Square to Occupy to los
Indignados
Fragments of a globalized future…
Planetary urbanization Struggles over ownership, control
and resources Equality, access and inclusion – the
mirage of human rights Acceleration of contradictions Understanding crisis – living with
crisis Tsunamis of globalization:
obliteration of borders… but creation of connectivity
2. Trends
Ubiquity and access Innovation – the failed imperative Schools, Teachers, Families, Communities Continuing debate over quality and
assessment Replacement or supplement: masks
institutional crisis of European educational systems
Freedom, openness and creativity in the digital economy
Imagined futures
Continuing impact of debate on privatization Critical reflection vs. commodification of knowledge:
where does e-learning position itself? Peer-to-peer learning economy Free speech and autonomous expression Openness as global logic based on free and open-
source software Battles over digital rights management and IPR Links between open content, open science and open
collaboration make collaborative creativity sustainable
Move from Information Age to Conceptual Age (Daniel Pink 2005)
3. Challenges and opportunities
Possible solution: not panacea Digitization transforms all aspects of
cultural production and consumption New digital logics alter traditional
organization of knowledge, education and culture
Engaging with obsolete structures – the issue of Power
New grammar of digital culture is being created (Michael Peters 2012)
Summary
Learning as issue of identity and creativity: eLearning as eMeaning
Processes of creativity no longer controlled by traditional knowledge institutions
Creativity now facilitated by platforms and infrastructures that encourage large-scale production and challenge old hierarchies
Process of profound institutional re-structuring comparable to European 16th century
Centrality of access, equality and diversity Learning not learning unless: Radical,
Transformative, Empowering