Dr. Brad SmithPresident

brads@bgu.edu

Session Title:

Survey of Core Innovations in Higher Education to Encourage New Ideas and Higher Standards.

Bakke Graduate University strengthens leaders who steward resources with and for vulnerable people and places, by means of contextual, Christian-based education innovatively delivered throughout the urban world.

Innovation has limits:

There exists both traditional legalists and revolutionary legalists. Both have lost the point.

Innovations can be found:

• With or without new technologies• In online or residential programs• With traditional or non-traditional

programs

“The teacher is out. Learning is in.”

Internet has changed education, not just the delivery means of education:

• Finding information vs. memorizing it• Navigating massive amounts of

information• Discerning between competing

cultural viewpoints - worldview• Meaning “screens” – trusted sources,

engagement without reductionism, meta-narrative awareness, etc.

Session Disclaimer!

I am sharing trends, forecasts, and innovations. I am not smart enough, experienced enough, or prophetic enough to know which trends are improvements and which trends are regressions.

I will learn as much as you will from the dialogue I hope we have at the end.

Session Disclaimer!

I am using segments of the controversial and dramatic video by Bill Sams, (Ohio University) to stir up the conversation.

The full presentations can be found atwww.epic2020.org

Bill Sams (eCampus News – Sept 2012)“It is not my sole objective to be right or wrong here, but to get people talking about things that need to be discussed. All of us are trapped in the paradigm of how things have been, the system we’ve existed in all of our lives … “

Key Concepts:

Open online courses – free courses offered online for certificate credits:www.coursera.com - 43 courses with 680,000 enrolled students from 190 countries- 100 courses projected to be available by January 2013

Open Online Courses:

www.coursera.com - courses contributed by Stanford, Princeton, Michigan, UPenn, Caltech, Duke, George Tech, Illinois, Johns Hopkins, Rice, UC San Francisco, Virginia, Washington, Univ of Toronto, Univ of Edinburgh (Scotland) and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (Switzerland)

Open Online Courses:

www.edX.orgFounded by Harvard & MITJoined by UC Berkeleywww.KhanAcademy.org3500 videos with www.Udacity.com

Open Online Courses:

mitx.mit.edued.ted.comapple.com/education/itunes-u/uopeople.orgskilledup.comopenculture.com/freeonlinecourseseducation-portal.com/article_directory/Free_Online_Courses_and_Education.html

Key Concepts:

Assessment-based / Competency-based Learning Students are assessed for what competencies they have in the subject BEFORE taking the course and are only taught in the areas they lack.

Key Concepts:

Assessment-based / Competency-based Learning Target competencies are developed with potential employers of graduates. Assessments AFTER the course serve as guarantees that the student has met the potential employers standards.

Key Concepts:

Assessment-based / Competency-based Learning Models include:Western Governors UniversityExcelsior CollegeUniversity of Wisconsin

Key Concepts:

Mentor-based online learningContent is provided by open online sources. Professors serve as mentors and coaches to guide the student through the process.

Key Concepts:

Do It Yourself (DIY) Learning:Student carry their personal “transcript” with them as they pick and choose among courses in a variety of schools to compile a customized degree.

Key Concepts:

Badges vs. Degrees:Verification of SkillsPractical expertise and experience

“badges” either augment or replace degrees.

Just-in-time learning vs. conceptual framework

Pragmatic vs. well-rounded

Key Concepts:

Personal Middleware:Software connected to the individual that connects to a wide variety of other softwares & technologies.

Work Family

Friends

Social Networks

Education

ChurchPhone/Texts

Computer/Email

NewsSports

& Entertainment

Passcodes?

Calendar?

Schedules?Deadlines? Events?

Goals?

Networking?

Information?

Quotas?

Numbers?

Learning?

Work Family

Friends

Social Networks

Education

ChurchPhone/Texts

Computer/Email

NewsSports

& Entertainment

Passcodes?

Calendar?

Schedules?Deadlines? Events?

Goals?

Networking?

Information?

Quotas?

Numbers?

Learning?

Key Concepts:

Personal Middleware:Progression of “personal middle-ware” to artificial intelligence based “EPIC*” which serves as a “second personal brain” *Evolving Personal Interface Construct

Education is both training the human mind and the personal technology ‘mind’.

Trends in Universities:

1. Brick & Mortar – Research and Teaching2. Brick & Mortar – Teaching emphasis3. Brick & Mortar – Teaching + Satellite Rented

Campuses4. Brick & Mortar- Teaching – Satellites + Online5. Online only6. Online only with Mentors & Cohorts 7. Compiled Education – compiled by Institution

(Western Gov)8. Compiled Education – compiled by User (DIY or

middle-ware)

Changing Role of Professors and Universities:

• Information -> Connections• Content provider -> Facilitator/mentor• Dispense Knowledge -> Credential

experience and knowledge• Tuition income -> Certificate & job

placement income

Session Title:

Survey of Core Innovations in Higher Education to Encourage New Ideas and Higher Standards.

Discussion

Christian Response:

Two Commission Thinking:Gen. 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Two Commission Thinking:

Matt. 28:18-20  And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

Two Commission Thinking:(Romans 8:18-24 ESV For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved.

Session Title:

Survey of Core Innovations in Higher Education to Encourage New Ideas and Higher Standards.