Future role of teachers

S G DeshmukhABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology &

Management GwaliorFDP on Promoting Quality in Higher Technical Education

18 Jan 2016

Speaking points..

Imperatives

About teaching & teacher

Various trends

– Collaboration

– Open Learn

– Social Media

– Implications

Closing remarks..

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Opening ..

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Information: Facts, comments, opinions,expressed through words, images, sounds...It can be stored, circulated...

Knowledge: The output of the reconstruction of information by a person, according to his/her history and context.It depends on the person.Information can be transmitted,Knowledge must be acquired, constructed and applied.That is where TEACHER comes into picture

Interesting trends ..1..

• World is flat

• Communication is anytime,

anywhere, anyone !

• Sharing and collaboration

• Urge and desire for recognition !

Interesting trends ..2..

Most popular media owner creates no content Facebook

Worlds largest taxi company owns no taxis Uber

Accommodation provider owns no real estate Oyo

Largest phone companies own no telco

infrastructure

Skype

Worlds most valuable retailer has no inventory Alibaba

Worlds largest movie house owns no cinemas NetFlix

Largest software vendors don't write the apps Apple, Google

Source : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/digital-disruption-has-already-

happened-konstantinos-christodoulakis

• You may find the following talk by Salman Khan of Khan Academy interesting :

• http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education?%a0

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Some aspects of boundary

• Discipline Boundary

• Time or Resource Boundary

• Information or Data Boundary

• Contextual boundary

Digital disruption..

• “Today, almost in every field, there is a disruptive digital innovation which has helped collapse the distribution and delivery channel”:examples: Flipkart,/Snapdeal/Amazon, Netflix etc.

– Vinayak Garg (Entrepreneur, at a session Infotsav, IIITMG, Oct 2015)

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Basic assumptions challenged?

• Teacher to student ratio;

• Space?

• Sacrosanct class room teaching, and restricted class room interaction; and

• Emphasis on single medium (such as black board): Today the medium is laced with multi-media based content!!

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Forces responsible for digital disruption

• Social media

• Mobile

• AI & Robotics

• Cloud computing

• Knowledge

• Implication: Teacher to assume digital competency !!

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Is he/she a teacher?

• Fundamental assumptions being challenged

• Are we better than Google?

• If yes, how? If no, why?

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Comment..

• “Everything is connected to everything else “

• Connected world view

– Enabled by intrinsic desire to be “connected”

– Enabled by teaching ?

– Enabled by IT

Roles of a teacher

1. Resource provider

2. Instructional specialist

3. Curriculum specialist

4. Classroom supporter

5. Learning facilitator

6. Mentor

7. Leader

8. Data coach

9. Catalysts for change

10. Learner

• Source http://www.slideshare.net/alexlegara1/ten-roles-for-teacher-leaders

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Two views..

• Classical view

– Teaching in isolation

– Teaching is compartmentalized

– No sharing

– Student need to be taught !

• Contemporary view

– Teacher is connected

– Teaching cannot be done in isolation

– Student as co-producer

– Teaching Vs learning

– Teacher be connected to society?

Connecting with oneself

• Identify your strengths

• Leverage these strengths

• Develop your teaching philosophy

• Develop your glossary

• Develop/use appropriate methodology

• Internalize teaching (one must absorb deeply into the process so that the topic becomes part of his genetic code or DNA )

Future teacher as a Connected Teacher

Various trends..

Trend 1: Collaboration !

• Sharing of information

• Institutional collaboration

• Professional networks

• Social networks

Implications

• Sharing of information/Knowledge made easy

• “Open source” paradigm

• You must collaborate

• Your collaborator may be anywhere in the globe!

• Be comfortable with power & influence of social media !

• “Teaching 2.0 “ ?

Trend 2: OpenLearn

• OpenLearn is funded by the William and Flora Hewlett foundation.

• OpenLearn – supports sites:

- the LearningSpace – a supported open learning site for learners; and

- the LabSpace – a supported community building site for creators

http://www.open.edu/openlearn/

Mooc movment

Connected community

Amar Amik Garg

Bakshi

KVS Rao

Sharad

Tripta

Anandan Prof. Sastry

Venkie

Prof Ajit Verma

Prof. Brahma

Prrof Biswas

Prof. G Kaushik

Dr. A D Garg

Ravi

R S Dalu

Avneet

Vipul

Prof. Vargheese

Ramamoorthy

Murali

Prof. Nirmal

Prof. Prateek

Jyoti

Shankar Prof. Subramanyam

Prof. Veni

Trend 3: Social media• Social media are tools for social interaction using

Web-based and mobile technologies (Wikipedia).

• These technologies, often referred to as Web 2.0 or social software, provide services that support users in generating and publishing their own content.

• The social interactions developed as a result of this activity can support engagement with communities of practice through networking and other co-operative and collaborative practices.

Digital media..

• Formal dialogues : skype, google+

• Informal interactions: google chats, facebook

• Documentation: Dropbox, google drive , Mendeley, Zetero

• Space for reflection: 750words.com, blogs

• Engaging with community: researchgate, academia, LinkedIn

• Keeping informed about conferences/developments : RSS feeds, podcasts, webinar

Example: Blogs

Blogs are a great way to share information

– Test your ideas out with a wide audience

– Learn from others

– Form new relationships

– Build / manage your online personal brand

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Characteristics of CT

• Connected teacher is IT savvy

• Connected teacher spend more time online compared to an average teacher

• Connected teacher responds positively to criticism

• Connected teacher is positively engaged with the topic

• Connected teacher is also a Contended teacher

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• https://www.imsglobal.org/article/what-disruptive-innovation-education

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Insights..• Education is a complex services paradigm in which quality is

difficult to define. Disruption in the education space requires

better service orientation and close contact with customer

• The next phase will be to come out of the current era of

massification into more real world relevant and personalized

educational pathways. , thanks to Mooc and other open

platforms available

• The “disruptive technology” will promote diversity. Diversity in

terms of delivery models and blending of high touch with

personalized self-service. , Flipped class rooms etc. will be in

vogue

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Models for transformation• The integrity model: very similar to original,

as complete as possible, study as the original;

• The essence model: source material cut back, keep essential features, text into shorter blocks;

• The remix model: source material is starting point, redesigned for web delivery.

Lane (2006) ‘From Pillar to Post: …’

http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?documentid=9724

Multiple roles of future teacher..

• As a connected person

• As a facilitator

• As a mentor/coach

• As a co-producer of knowledge

• As a learner

• As a good citizen

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Closing remarks..

• To be effective teacher , one must be able connect research with

• Oneself

• Institute

• Society

• In contemporary world, teacher must also be connected . For this digital disruptive forces offer an interesting scope

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Thank you

deshmukh.sg@gmail.com

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