exploiting emerging technologies to enable quality of life
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Exploiting emerging technologies to enable employability quality of life
George SiemensJuly 8, 2015
HERDSA2015Melbourne
The ‘new’ workPerpetual learningMindsets of individualsEmerging technologiesThe changing higher education landscape
The ‘new’ workPerpetual learningMindsets of individualsEmerging technologiesThe changing higher education landscape
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Largest industries by state, 1990–2013 http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20140728.htm .
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Largest industries by state, 1990–2013 http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2014/ted_20140728.htm .
“If the ladder of educational opportunity rises high at the doors of some youth and scarcely rises at the doors of others, while at the same time formal education is made a prerequisite to occupational and social advance, then education may become the means, not of eliminating race and class distinctions, but of deepening and solidifying them.”
President Truman, 1947
Technological change is the engine of economic growth. Yet, it also has a potentially dark side. We do not mean pollution, crowding, and other disamenities. Rather we mean that technological change creates winners and losers and can sometimes have adverse distributional consequences that may foment social tension
“The contingent faculty trend appears to mirror trends in the general labor market toward a flexible, ‘just-in-time’ workforce, with lower compensation and unpredictable schedules for what were once considered middle-class jobs”
(House Committee on Education and the Workforce US House of Representatives 2014)
40.4% of US workforce are now in non-traditional “contingent” jobs
US Government Accountability Office Contingent Workforce: Size, Characteristics, Earnings, and Benefits (2015)
US Government Accountability Office Contingent Workforce: Size, Characteristics, Earnings, and Benefits (2015)
“35% of existing UK jobs at high risk of replacement in next twenty years, 30% in London
40% of UK jobs are low or no risk, 51% in London
Lower-paid jobs over five times more likely to be replaced than higher-paid, almost eight times as likely in London”
Deloitte 2014
No correlation between automation and job loss in manufacturing sector. Indications are that use of robots increases wages and demand of skilled workers, while crowding out unskilled.
Graetz & Michaels
“First, as technology substitutes for labour, there is a destruction effect, requiring workers to reallocate their labour supply; and second, there is the capitalisation effect, as more companies enter industries where productivity is relatively high, leading employment in those industries to expand.”
Frey & Osborne (2013)
The ‘new’ workPerpetual learningMindsets of individualsEmerging technologiesThe changing higher education landscape
The ‘new’ workPerpetual learningMindsets of individualsEmerging technologiesThe changing higher education landscape
Mindsets
Focus MindfulnessComplexity & ambiguityBeing humanAdvances in art, quality of lifeComputational/mathematic/data thinkingEntrepreneurialExperimental
Harvard General Education
Prepares students for civic engagement.
Teaches students to understand themselves as products of—and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values.
Prepares students to respond critically and constructively to change.
Develops students’ understanding of the ethical dimensions of what they say and do.
Report of the Task Force on General Education: Harvard University (2007)
The ‘new’ workPerpetual learningMindsets of individualsEmerging technologiesThe changing higher education landscape
The ‘new’ workPerpetual learningMindsets of individualsEmerging technologiesThe changing higher education landscape
Complexification of higher education
Learning needs are complex, ongoing
Simple singular narrative won’t suffice going forward
The idea of the university (and learning) is expanding and diversifying
Personalized learning models
Keller Plan (Personalized System of Instruction)Static learner profile (old school)Objective based (adaptivecourseware)Intelligent tutors (CMU OLI, cognitive tutor, ALEKS)Personalized (outer-loop, i.e. Knewton)Smart Sparrow (teacher at center)