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New Higher Education for Lifelong Learning
Tom van WeertChair ICT in Higher Education
Hogeschool van Utrecht, The Netherlands
Traditional Higher Education
Education used to be:• Early in life• For life
Application of “knowledge” used to be:• Later in life• For life
New Higher Education
Education is becoming:• Lifelong: Working = Learning = Living• Just in Time, Just Fit, flexible in time and
place
Application of “knowledge” is becoming:• Immediate: Working = Learning = Living• For now (not for life)
New Higher Education
Role of ICT: • Enabling
– Empowerment– Communication
• Integrated• Allows merging of personal, private,
leisure and work time (IFIP SECIII)
Success is in empowerment
Success is in networked communication
New Higher Education
• Why?– Changes in our living environment– New type of professional– New type of organisation– New type of student
• How?– Learning as a professional– Virtual learning organisation
Changes in our living environmentThe Netherlands
• Economical developments• Social developments• Cultural developments• Political developments
Economical DevelopmentsThe Netherlands
Economy Change Flexibility& Technology
OperationalKnowledge
Economical Developments
Economy
Change
Knowledge is like fish:Fresh today,
Of no use tomorrow
Economical DevelopmentsKnowledge worker
Learning at the work place
Business or organisation
ProfessionalProfessional
learning
Business specific
knowledge
Environment
Economical Developments
Business or organisation Customer
ProfessionalProfessional
learning
Business specific
knowledge
Environment
Knowledge worker: ‘Knowledge creation’
Economical Developments
Business or organisation Customer
ProfessionalProfessional
learning
Business specific
knowledge
Customer specific
knowledge
‘Knowledge creation’
Environment
Knowledge worker: ‘Knowledge creation’
Economical Developments
Knowledge worker
Learning at the work place
Knowledge creation at the workplace
Social DevelopmentsThe Netherlands
An ‘enterprising’ society:• ‘Human capital’• ICT empowers in all dimensions of
work• ‘wholeness’ of working life (meaning of
life) • ‘enterprising’ society of dynamic
professionals
Social Developments
‘Enterprising society’
Children have busy lives; who do they copy, you think?
Social DevelopmentsE-readiness
E-Readiness Ranking 2002
‘The Economist’ en ‘IBM’
USANetherlands
United KingdomSwitzerland/SwedenAustraliaDenmarkGermanyCanadaFinland
Singapore/Noorwegen
Social DevelopmentsE-readiness Netherlands
E-Readiness factors Connectivity and technology infrastructure (8)
Business environment (1) Consumer and business
adoption (4) Legal and policy environment
(<10) Social and cultural
infrastructure (6) Supporting e-services (<10)
Cultural Developments
Zap
Culture
Cu See you
Id Idea-Id No idea
W8 Wait
:-)) Great laugh
:-< A bit sad
(\0/) Angel in flight
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Cultural Developments
The Ten Commandments
God: Im No. 1. No pix, plz.Uz my name nicely. Day7=holy.Take care of mum’n’dad.Don’t kill, scrU round, steal or lie.Keep yr hands (&eyz) off wot isnt yrs.
http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Features/frameit.htm?0802/txt_comp3.html
Cultural DevelopmentsVirtual communities and cultures
Cultural DevelopmentsGlobalisation
• Centers of high skill expose attractive novelties• Less-skilled peoples try make these novelties their
own, trying to preserve own customs and institutions
• Separate civilisations have melted together in a new cosmopolitic civilisation, starting 2500 BC in the Middle-East.
• New dimension with improvement of communication world system (Wallerstein)
McNeill: ‘Rise of the West’
Political DevelopmentsEuropean Community
• The Lisbon declaration (200)• Transition to a knowledge intensive
society• New approach to education and
training needed
Http://europa.eu.int/comm/elearning
New Higher Education
• Why?– Changes in our living environment– New type of professional– New type of organisation– New type of student
• How?– Learning as a professional– Virtual learning organisation
New type of professional
Knowledge worker
Learning
at the work place
Knowledge creation at the workplace
New type of professionalKnowledge worker
Learning at the work place
Business or organisation
ProfessionalProfessional
learning
Business specific
knowledge
Environment
New type of professional
Business or organisation Customer
ProfessionalProfessional
learning
Business specific
knowledge
Environment
Knowledge worker: ‘Knowledge creation’
New type of professional
Business or organisation Customer
ProfessionalProfessional
learning
Business specific
knowledge
Customer specific
knowledge
‘Knowledge creation’
Environment
Knowledge worker: ‘Knowledge creation’
New Higher Education
• Why?– Changes in our living environment– New type of professional– New type of organisation– New type of student
• How?– Learning as a professional– Virtual learning organisation
New Organisation
Multi-disciplinaryTeam work‘Soft skills’‘People skills’
organisation
Business or organisation Customer
ProfessionalProfessional
learning
Business specific
knowledge
‘Knowledge creation’
Customer specific
knowledge
‘Knowledge creation’
Environment
Learning
New Organisation
Virtual Learning Organisation
Temporary
Distributed in place
Distributed in time
New Higher Education
• Why?– Changes in our living environment– New type of professional– New type of organisation– New type of student
• How?– Learning as a professional– Virtual learning organisation
New student
New student
New student
New student
New student
Homo Zappiens
Learning should be ‘play’ en ‘fun’
School is a meeting place, not a learning place
New Higher Education
• Why?– Changes in our living environment– New type of professional– New type of organisation– New type of student
• How?– Learning as a professional– Virtual learning organisation
Modern professionals
Working = Knowledge work =
Learning Knowledge creation
Business or organisation Customer
ProfessionalProfessional
learning
Business specific
knowledge
Customer specific
knowledge
‘Knowledge creation’
Environment
Learning as a modern professional
Modern professional
Modern student
Droste Effect
Learning as a professionalKnowledge is a construction
Capability to apply:
Operational
Knowledge
StudentStudent
learning
Institutional knowledge
Environment
Institution of Higher Education
Learning as a professional
StudentStudent
learning
Business specific
knowledge
‘Knowledge creation’
Institutional knowledge
Environment
Business or organisation Institution of Higher Education
Studying = Working
New Higher Education
• Why?– Changes in our living environment– New type of professional– New type of organisation– New type of student
• How?– Learning as a professional– Virtual learning organisation
Virtual learning organisation
Learning = Knowledge creationLearning = Working
Starting Professional
Starting Professional
learning
Business specific
knowledge
Knowledge creation
Institutional knowledge
Knowledge creation
Environment
Business or organisation Institution of Higher Education
Example
New Higher Education
Website: http://www.cetis.hvu.nl/teamleren/
Virtual Environmental
Consultancy Bureau
Virtual learning organisation
Wilfried Ivens Open University of the
Netherlands
Examiners Ombudsman
helpdesk
Management
Competenceadvisors
Project manager
Project worker ConsultantCommunicator
Knowledge manager
InC
omp
any M
il ieuad
vies
Cu
sotmers
stud
ents
staff
Virtual Learning Organisation
Virtual learning organisationLearning = Knowledge creation
student teams
academic institutionscoa
ching
'new'
company knowledge
transfer 'old'
orders
customers
results
input
Virtual learning organisation
Belgium
Germany
Den Haag
Fontys
TwenteOUNL
Maastrichtstudents:
customers
Virtual learning organisation
Virtual learning organisation
Thank you