Imagining Open Education 2030

Riina VuorikariYves Punie

Christine Redecker

Jonatan Castaño Muñoz

"Openness, Innovation and Inclusion: European Policies and Programmes in ICT for Learning", Berlin, December 4 2013

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

European Commission's in-house science service

Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS)

Research institute supporting EU policy-making on socio-economic, scientific and/or technological issues

ICT for Learning and Skills

– Research on "educational transformation in a digital world"

– Themes:– Opening up Education, support and follow-up– Mainstreaming and scaling-up ICT-enabled innovation

for learning– Digital Competence for Education and Employability

Structure

I. Introduction

II. Defining the "Openness" in Open Education: How did we get here?

III. IPTS foresight on Open Education 2030

• Key tensions

• Examples of scenarios

IV. Final remarks

What does “open” mean for most of us?

A shift

towards "openness"

The range of "Opens"

Structure

I. Introduction

II. Defining the "Openness" in Open Education: How did we get here?

III. IPTS foresight on Open Education 2030

• Key tensions

• Examples of scenarios

Open Education: Five waves

1. Open Classrooms (Progressive education; 1960's)

2. Open Universities (1960's)

3. Open Content and Open Educational Resources (~2000)

4. Sharing and collaboration of OER with web 2.0 (~2006)

5. Open Educational Practices (now-)

Correspondence courses, Distance

Universities

open content (1998)

1st cMOOC (2008)

Open Universities (OUUK, OUNL, UOC…)

Increasing number of Open Access papers & journals

UK Finch report

1st EU MOOC platform

1985 1990-2000 2001-2002 2006-2011 2012 2013

OU

OER

OA

MOOCs

History of Open Education

1960's–1970's19th century

Alternative & Progressive education

Computer Assisted

Instruction (1970)

Budapest Open Access Initiative

Non mainstreameducation

Digital learning

resources

FreeSoftware

/GNU

Creative Commons

(2002)

Open Classrooms/Education

MIT OCW (2001)

OER Def. (UNESCO

2002)

OER

un

iveri

sty

1st Stanford xMOOC (2011)

Cert

ifica

tion

When

How What

Where

Defining Open Education

Open classroom:multi-age/grade, own pace

Open classroom: self-directedness of learning goals

Open Universities:access, anywhere

Open content: instruments, learning strategies

Structure

I. Introduction

II. Defining the "Openness" in Open Education: How did we get here?

III. IPTS foresight on Open Education 2030

• Key tensions

• Example scenarios

Thinking about the future…

• Children starting school this year will graduate in 2025.

• Newborns of today will be 17 years old in 2030.

Do we expect the world to be somehow different by then…

Time/Qualcomm Invention poll (2013):

http://www.qualcomm.com/sites/default/files/uploads/time-invention-poll-in-cooperation-with-qualcomm-full-survey-data.pdf

IPTS foresight Key tensions

Guided discovery

Self-guided

discovery

Guided journey

Self-guided journey

Learner initiated

Externally set

Self-guidedGuided

Learn

ing

goals

Learning context

When

How What

Where

goals

Learn

ing

When

How What

Where

When

How What

WhereWhen

How What

Where

Fixed

Scenario differences Open Education 2030

Learner initiated

Externally set

Self-guidedGuided

Selection

Assessment

Research

Content

Research

Content

Guidance

Assessment

Certification

Sele

ctio

n

2013

2030

Certification

Guidance

Unbundling educationE.g R. McGreal, Shirkey.com; Barber et all 2013

Learner initiated

Externallyset

Learning context Self-guided

goals

Learn

ing

Different scenarios of Open Education 2030

Guided

IV. Final remarks Open Education 2030

OE 2030 scenarios are not mutually exclusive

• Fluidity allows for moving between the scenarios

• Preference for a scenario depends on needs and interest of both individuals and the society

• OE 2030 still requires guidance and certain restrictions: openness has different manifestations depending on the sector

[Draft – Work in progress – more final version early 2014]

[Paper: "OE 20130: Planning the future of Adult Learning in Europe", Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning]

Open Education 2030

Challenge: Creating the world in 2030 starts today

“Logic will get you from A to B.

Imagination will take you everywhere.”

Albert Einstein

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