Knowledge21: Co-Create (the Knowledge

Media of) the Future Sjoerd.devries@nhl.nl

Who I Am: Sjoerd de Vries

• Professor Social Media, University of Applied

Sciences, Leeuwarden Netherlands

• Assistant professor media and learning networks

University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

NHL University of Applied Sciences

• We cover Technical and Social Sciences:

Economics and Management, Education and

Communication, Health and Social work, Media

and Technologies

• Together with our neighbour University we

educate the educators in our region

• A strong ambition to educate for the future

The Context

• Open region :)

• SME’s crucial

• Agriculture, tourism, and

health care dominate

• Economic, social and

educational issues

The research to discuss

• Knowledge21 =

• NHL21 +

• Education21 +

• EU projects like ODS and Transit

• How to develop NHL as an open successful

University of Applied Sciences?

Some developments

• Ten primary and secondary schools acted as

living labs in 2010-2012

• Teachers as action researchers working

together with students on local research

questions gave a boost to the development of

the schools

• 2013-2014 we expect to work with 20/40

schools and 40/80 teachers and five NHL

research groups, and our education programs

Knowledge21 objectives

• Further development of our network of regular

and lifelong learners, and applied researchers,

together with regional innovators and

professionals in the field of education

• Contribute to innovative design, access, use,

and validation of digital knowledge media

(education and research resources and

services)

• To realize an open and co-creative education

and research region

Goals for the field of Education

• Development of an open and co-

creative framework for (lifelong)

learning and research in our region

• Schools become 'living labs' with a local

research and development agenda

• NHL functions as a networked living lab

(online, open, pro-active, etcetera) as

part of this framework

Our research questions

• What is an applicable and successful

maturity model for a networked living

lab steered by integrated, open and co-

creative education and research?

• What factors contribute to the

successful development of our

networked lab?

Maturity levels Example

Implementation agenda

• Program for the transformation of primary

schools into living labs for the development of

high quality education (going on)

• Program for action research programs in these

labs (going on)

• Program for the development of our education

bachelor programs into 'open networked

education' (In development)

• Program for the integration of education and

research (In development)

Thoughts about the Future

• Open education needs to become integrated with

R&D; it is about open development?

• We should not waste the energy and capacities of the

youth. Expect changing roles from student to teacher

from junior to senior from master to apprentice, ...

• Learning at the workplace, professionalization in

Universities?

• A university of applied sciences like NHL is just a

living lab, how to develop yourself as a networked

living lab?