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Reconstructing Higher Education: Approaches to New Education for Social Transformation
Presentation By
Ram TakwaleFormer Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU, YCMOU and Pune University; President, I-CONSENT
Prof Ram Reddy Memorial Lecture: IGNOU 02 July 2013
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Lecture Overview
1. Global Connectedness and Outcomes
2. Education systems: formal and open
3. New Education paradigm for Transformation
4. Consortium for New Education and Development, and
5. Concluding Remarks
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A3 Connected Society
• Internet, networking, and access devices have created global connectedness.
• New processes generated are digitization, virtualization, mass-personalization and self-organisation; and empowered every one.
• One can play many roles by combining cyber and real spaces. This is a great harm or help to a person and society.
• In India 100 crore are connected- Great techno-social empowerment of the Indian society and civilization
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A3 connected people created• Open Resource Movement: Expression of
social generosity and sacrifice • Social Networking Movements: Search for
like-minded people for common action • People come together for common concern
of regional and global issues. Offers organizational power without ‘organisation’.
• Transient at present; but could form Interest based communities of practices.
• Higher processing power creating big data and analytics for socio-economic studies.
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Universal Nature of Education• A3-scenario offers cyber spaces to every one
and groups/communities. • Techno-society: Education and development
processes – independent of technologies• Education should be based on natural and
humanly accessible processes.• Use of technology is inevitable: in deployment
and in getting results
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New Education for A3 SocietyRequirements: • Global –Local System• Personalized and social/ mass nature.• Universal and basic nature of processes of
learning and development. • Creation of education and development resources
and social support processes• Creation of social value /wealth for sharing freely
with all.
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Existing Education Systems• British or Western Education system: teacher
centric, top-down hierarchy; and donor-receiver model; teacher teaches, student learn; Created professional educational institution governed by delegated powers of the Government.
• Open distance education (ODE): introduced innovations and flexibilities; Basic nature of teacher centricity and hierarchy is the same!
• Criticized: Sir Ken Robinson- linear, conformist and class creating; and kills creativity
• Mahatma Gandhi criticized: Self-seeking and contradictory to Indian culture and civilization.
• Fragmented view of human being and society
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Nai Talim: Innovation Education
• Learning by working in life and work situations.• Samavaya: learning for development, and learning
from development; Links education to social knowledge problems.
• Wholesome work: Integration of routine, rest, progress and pleasure; Holistic approach- avoids becoming a ‘cog-in-the-machine’
• Work outcomse lead to creation of wealth, social value and livelihood.
• Nai Talim sidetracked: Since Indian goal was to enter into modern industrial society and achieve progress.
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New Education Process Links
Issues in NOW SituationsSOCIETY + ECONOMY
New Education
LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
(LAD)
Self /Social Development
CREATING FUTURES
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New Education: Basis of the System
• Experience of e-Education:o MKCL -1.8 Million students / year.o I-CONSENT- e- B Ed : Obtained form –function of education.o Shikshan Pandhari: Pilot to mass –personalized education
• Globally successful mechanisms:o Wikipedia, YouTube: Coop & collaborative learning and working o OER and Social Networking movements.o MOOCs leading to Mass Higerh Education.
• Nai Talim with: o J P Naik’s Role Based Learning to become change maker.o Scenario-situation based constructivism for role playing o Life & work centric situated development with global resources
.
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Objectives of learning Goals: Human & Society centric: Short Term
o Achieve self & social developmento Play multiple roles and become a Change Maker. o Find OWN role and UNIQUE functionso Create a career path
Goals: Long Termo Find L3, Development and Career Pathso Rise in Culture & Creative Development.
Process: Learn by doing activities to buildo Capacity : Activities for Knowledge, Skills and Use of Tools of technologieso Capability: Situated Assignments: for solving problems, changes in
attitude and social behavior.o Co-creativity: Small / Big group learning and working for creation and
innovation. o Tool for presentation & evaluation: Personal /group portfolio.
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Work Centric Education in A3
Connected Society
Learning
Working
Use of Technology Tools
Wholesome Work:
SUPW Wholesome Work has integrated Routine, Rest, Progress and Pleasure.
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New Education is based on
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Create A3 Connected L-
Communities• Networks, Internet (Broadband), Access
devices (Tablet pc)• Activity based Learning in sitations of life &
work.• Global-Local Approach:
o Global OER, Cyber Infrastructure with L-Support Services, Interest based Provider Communities.
o Local OER, Local Consortium for Social Learning and Development (LAD), MKOs for situated development.
• Constructivist Learning: o Extend to Life and work centric places, o Samavaya between L and Do Create Wholesome Work for Social /Personal Value and Wealth.
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New Education Constructivism:
Holistic approach of constructivism when applied to Life & Work centric Activities lead to
o Personal and group learningo Wholesome worko Situated developmento Learning group /community
organisationo LAD System improvement
• Learner has freedom and ownership to choose and do activities for self & social goals.
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Constructivist Learning and Development leads to
• Freedom and autonomy in learning and self and social development and value-wealth creation.
• Formation of Transformative Value Chain:o Education/training Social development
Monetary and non-monetary value creation Self and social transformation.
• Integration of Academic, Skill and Professional /technology education.
• Unified picture of human being and society.
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• Cyber Space Infrastructure to create virtual infrastructure connecting all students, teachers and managements.
• Central Consortium for providing Course /Role based learning services: Organizes LAD Provider Community
• Local Consortium for Quality School Education at the Nodal Agency (SVERI) and covers 20 km radius region linked by NKN connectivity at Pandharpur.
• Partnership Organisation of providers and consumers of education and development. Promote PPC-Partnership.
Partnerships will be non-exploitative. Empowered communities should have enough power to take their own share with win-win approach.
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New Education Uses
Ram Takwale:RR Memorial Lect 21Local Cillage Circle (LCC) of Villages
Course Team
Global / Central: e-PASS
Course Delivery
Open Education Resources
Distributed Classroom
Local
School College University
College Team
Students
Teachers
School Team
Students
Teachers
University Team
Students
Teachers
Cyber Space
CONCEPT OF META UNIVERSITY-META SCHOOL
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Meta /Param
University
Faculty of Education and Social Development
School for Developmental Learning (SDL)
Param School:
Partnership with
Stakeholders
Apps in Industry,
Services and Social Work
Other Faculties:IT, e-Media, Social Sciences,..
Courses related to Education/ Development
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Consortium for Meta University Program based
Operations• Central Resources are free for all, service fees charges
at local study centers for self-supporting nature of programs. Approach ‘Content is free, services are charged’
• Best expertise and experience for all centrally; others work for local students in their LAD. Approach ‘Know globally, act locally.
• Consortium is not a legal entity: Each one brings their own identity and form Program based consortium for Program Development and deployment. Knowledge created has community/ social ownership.
• All operations and outcome sharing is accountable and transparent.
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Integrative & Creative role of New Education and Meta
University
• Vertical integration in learning and horizontal integration in development. Development levels rise as we rise in learning and technology levels.
• Establishes process in o Learning Process: Approach, Deployment, learning and
Internalization- ADLI in Baldrige model for performance excellence. o Development Process: Education, Organisation, Creation and
Preservation (Models by NGOs and Sarvodaya )o Value Chain for Holistic Transformation Education
Development Social Value Transformation
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Shikshan Pandhari Project in
Maharashtra• Pilot to establish New Educational Model:
o Central –Local System of A3-Connected Communities
• Partnership at National & State Levels: o National: NKN, IIT- Mumbai, TIFR- HBCSE, BARC, TIFR -HBCSEo State: RGSTC, MKCL –MKF, State Universities, I-CONSENT, Many Education
Experts,
• Local Engineering College form local node: o 5 Schools(proposed 10) participating in rural area- Pandharpur, Sholapur dist.o Local School Consortium for Quality Schools and Developmental linkages.
• TWO Programs:o School Education (Links with University, school system and locality) o School Teacher Education (Links with the University)
• Goal to create Replicable Model: o Central resources /content free for all; o Local content / services are to have economic/social business model.
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21th Century Scenario & Society
• Third Industrial Revolution (Jeremy Rifkin) creates decentralized green and clean energy production and its internet- local/regional and global
• Nai Talim / New Education with 21st century decentralized industry production with full autonomy to the individual and groups are similar models.
• Integration of knowledge and energy internet proposed can take care of production and its marketing in a customized way, and is likely to create new era society with new education.
• Learning and social education follows socio-economic change /transformation in society.
• Who influences whom? Education has to come to the center-stage; shape local /central developmental policies based on the value system in the Indian Constitution.
•
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New Education poses some Fundamental Issues
• New Education shapes Self and Social Development. How to balance between self and social?o Samavaya in Learning and Development.(Adwaita in Dwaita)
• My personal existence has social dependence. I am because we are! How do I learn it and make myself cultured and creative to exist socially and progress?
• What is the goal of my learning and development in A3 society? My Learning, Development and Career Paths?
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Concluding Remarks• New Education is a form of Nai Talim in 21
Century A3-society.• Education = Yoga + Sahayoga + Udyoga• Life-long learning = Learning for life,
Learning from life, Learning throughout life. • Education with adherences to the values in
the Preamble of the Indian Constitution can play center stage role.
• Possible only when it is a mass education with development centricity.
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Thank you all
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