Prof Senteni’s bio Professor Alain Senteni is currently the Director of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (HBMSU), in Dubai (UAE), where he was the first appointed Dean of the School of e-Education (SEED) from 2009 to 2014. Previously he had been the Director of the Virtual Centre for Innovative Learning Technologies (VCILT) and the Chairman of the Lifelong Learning Cluster (LLC) of the University of Mauritius from 2001 to 2008. Prof Alain received an Engineering Degree in Computer Science (1969), followed by a PhD (1989), and an HDR (1995) in Artificial Intelligence in Education from the National Polytechnics Institute (INPT) in Toulouse (France). His academic career started in Canada as a professor of Educational Technology at the Faculty of Education, University of Montreal, from 1989 to 1996. Professor Senteni is an active member of the Technical Committee on Education of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). He chaired the Education Commission of the World Information Technology Forum (WITFOR) in Botswana (2005), Ethiopia (2007), Vietnam (2009), and India (2012). He also chaired the e-Learning Excellence in the Middle-East Conference organized in Dubai by HBMSU, every yearfrom 2009 to 2014. Prof Senteni’s work and research interests focus on the integration of ICTs in educational systems of developing countries, and mor eand more on innovation, creativity, and smart entrepreneurship. He was awarded in September 2011 an Honorary Doctorate in Education from the University of Sherbrooke (Canada) for his contribution to international development and education in developing countries.

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In my talk, I will address some of these issues:

motivations for reforming education [WHY ?]

education, from craft to industry [HOW?] new tools to increase access to education for all

new tools to increase learning opportunities

teaching, a profession in mutation

the new horizon of research in education

[WHAT WILL COME NEXT ?]

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WHY?

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an increased access to education is urgently

needed

In 2014, an estimated 8.5 M children still remain excluded from school

[Arab World Learning Barometer, 2014]

demography

Economic pressures and new models of education are bringing unprecedented competition to the traditional models of tertiary education.

The global drive to increase the number of students participating in undergraduate education is placing pressure across the system.

economy

economy

secure broad access increase quality reduce costs

the world is changing !

UAE National Media Council Yearbook 2009 “the challenge is to transform a centralised bureaucratic system into a student centered, decentralised learning environment.”

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creativity? leadership?entrepreuneurship? knowledge emergence ?

employers have new expectations

skills employers are looking for

http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com

19th century transformation jobs

transformational work [workers convert raw materials

into finished goods]

20th century production jobs

21st century interaction jobs

management, sales, teaching, customer service [skilled

professionals whos spend a lot of time interacting with other people]

evolution of the job market from 19th to 21st century

McKinsey Quarterly, 2012 George Siemens, 2013

Increasing diversity of student profiles

In the US, less than half of the students can be considered full time students.

Students who can attend campus five days a week nine-to-five, are now a minority.

(Bates, 2013)

(Siemens, 2013)

Increasing importance of informal learning (Wheeler, 2010)

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Professor G. Martin Bean Vice-Chancellor of The UK Open University

[2009-2015] Vice-Chancellor/President of RMIT University

[2015-]

XXIst century education what kind of business are we talking about?

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h t t p : / / w w w . g r o s s o s . c h / e / c r a f t s m a n s h i p . h t m l

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Access

QualityCost hand made customized high quality & cost reputation limited production

19http://tf4c.skynetblogs.be/archive/2010/01/29/chaine-de-montage.html

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Access Quality

Cost

assembly chain division of labor lower cost mass production specialization quality assurance marketing

to move from a craft activity to a full-fledged industry,

what paradigm shift is needed ?

new tools to increase access

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• closer to international standards • seamless functional integration • digital one stop shop • scalable

the medium is the message Marshall McLuhan(1964) Understanding Media

Connectivism: “The pipe is more important than the content in the pipe.”

Siemens, George. (2005). Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 2(1), 3-10. doi: http://www.ingedewaard.net/papers/connectivism/2005_siemens_ALearningTheoryForTheDigitalAge.pdf

scalability ubiquity

connected anywhere any t ime

D r. L a r r y J o h n s o n , C E O , N e w M e d i a C o n s o r t i u m :

“ d e v i c e s a re b e c o m i n g m o re m o b i l e , m o re c o n n e c t e d , s m a l l e r, f a s t e r a n d m o re c a p a b l e , s o e a s y t o u s e [ . . . ] n a t u r a l u s e r i n t e r f a c e s [ . . . ]  c h i l d re n c a n u s e b e f o re t h e y c a n  e v e n  s p e a k . ”

emerging trends (Siemens, 2013)

Participatory culture - Social/technical connectivity (Rise of the Individual)

Transparency and surveillance culture (Rise of Data and Analytics)

new tools to increase learning opportunities

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Smart Campus

HBMSU one stop shop for learners

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Data Visualisation Tools

heat map

http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/data-visualisation-tools/heat-map/education-input-indicators

http://thelearningcurve.pearson.com/data-visualisation-tools/time-series-trend-analysis-tool

Data Visualisation Tools time series trend analysis tool

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territory size shows the proportion of people enrolled in tertiary education who live there www.worldmapper.org

Data Visualisation Tools

worldmapper

then, what should we teach?

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Learning Analytics

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learning analytics is about collecting traces that learners leave behind and

using those traces to improve learning

http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval

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Learning analytics provide big data to test measure learning activity continuously,

at run time, not a posteriori.

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what kind of data? effort: time spent, ... resource use: oer, url, ... level \ type of communication... system feedback: error messages, ... quality: comment, rating, ...

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http://www.slideshare.net/erik.duval

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XXIst century educator what kind of job are we talking about?

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X X I s t c e n t u r y

e d u ca t o r

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learners prefer to work with the world

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w h a t d o e s t h i s m e a n ?

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socioconstructivism (Lev Vygotski)

constructivism (Jean Piaget)

situated cognition (J. Lave, E. Wenger)

Real World

Tasks

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w e n e e d t o ( r e ) - d e s i g n t h e l e a r n i n g s p a c e !

create explicit links between pedagogy and technology

http://www.unity.net.au/allansportfolio/edublog/?p=324

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Like other design professionals teachers have to work out creative and evidence-based ways of improving what they do. Every day, teachers design and test new ways of teaching, using learning technology to help their students. By representing and communicating their best ideas as structured pedagogical patterns, teachers could develop this vital professional knowledge collectively. From this unique perspective on the nature of teaching, Diana Laurillard argues that a twenty-first century education system needs teachers who work collaboratively to design effective and innovative teaching.

Laurillard, D. (2012) Teaching as a Design Science: Building Pedagogical Patterns for Learning and Technology - New York/London: Routledge, 258 pp

teaching is becoming a design science

Diana Laurillard, Sept 2012 cc: by-nc-sa

innovative professional communities of teachers

Acknowledge teaching as ‘a design science’: Teachers building on the designs of others (collaboration) Articulating their pedagogy Adopting, adapting, testing, improving learning designs Co-creating and sharing learning designs A computational representation of pedagogic design

Diana Laurillard, Sept 2012 cc: by-nc-sa

pedagogy is expressed as design plans and learning patterns

Timings

Short description

Learning outcome Colour-coded

content

Categorised teaching-learning

activities

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a new horizon of research in education

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Design-based research is based on synergetic relations between researching, designing, and engineering. Design-based research actively involves the researchers through scientific processes of discovery, exploration, confirmation, and dissemination.

Kelly, A. E. (2003). Research as design. Educational Researcher, 32(1), 3-4. Feng Wang, Hannafin, M.J.(2005) Design-Based Research and Technology-Enhanced Learning Environments, ETR&D, Vol. 53, No. 4, pp. 5-23

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BYOD OER

MOOC

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http://sidecap.wetpaint.com/

ACP-EU Cooperation Programme in Higher Education (EDULINK) 2007-2010.

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Massive Open Online Course

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc

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MOOCs business model ?

accreditation / certification ? retention completion rates ?

student authentication ?

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thank you for your kind attention