next big ideas and developing competiencies
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Rebecca FergusonInstitute of Educational Technology
26 January 2018
Next big ideasand developing competencies for the 21st century
Why look for the
next big ideas?
Preparing for the futurehttp://careers2030.cst.org/jobs/
12 years of change
2012: ‘Year of the MOOC’
2007: Launch of the iphone
2006: First tweets
How do we look for the
next big ideas?
Provocations
The first phase of the Policy Delphi
drew on the expertise of consortium
members to develop visions of learning
analytics in 2025 in the form of short
scenarios… The second phase
involved an online survey of designated
experts, and volunteers… In the third
phase, the scenarios with their
desirability and feasibility ratings were
shared with stakeholders, who added
their responses.
Policy Delphi
Expert workshops
Visions of the
learning analytics
future
Full report
bit.ly/28X5tq7
We proposed a long list of new
educational terms, theories, and
practices. We then pared these down to
ten that have the potential to provoke
major shifts in educational practice,
particularly in secondary and tertiary
education. Lastly, we drew on published
and unpublished writings to compile the
ten sketches of new pedagogies that
might transform education.
Innovating Pedagogy
Innovating Pedagogy Reports
What are the
next big ideas?
The innovations described in this
report are not technologies
looking for an application in
formal education. They are new
ways of teaching, learning and
assessment. If they are to
succeed, they need to
complement formal education,
rather than trying to replace it.
2012: MOOCs
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/6185054720/
Key issues to be
resolved will be in
accrediting the outputs
of MOOCs, and in
making them financially
sustrainable for
institutions.
2014: Flipped classroom
Image from Flipped Learning Network
The classroom
becomes a space for
dynamic, interactive
learning where the
teacher guides students
to apply concepts they
have learned online
2017: Spaced learning
Session 1 (20 minutes)
Rapid presentation
Break (10 minutes)
Physical activity
Session 2 (20 minutes)
Recall key concepts
Break (10 minutes)
Physical activity
Session 3 (20 minutes)
Apply the knowledge
through problem exercises
2017: Immersive learning
Immersive learning allows people to
experience a situation as if they
were there, using their knowledge
and resources to solve a problem or
practise a skill. The learning is
intensified by bringing in vision,
sound, movement, spatial
awareness, and touch. Participation
in immersive learning is likely to be
stimulating and memorable.
What competencies do we
need in the 21st century?
What is education for?
Motivations for education
Training people for employment
Moving them from learner to earner
Developing citizens
Learning throughout the lifespan
Socialising the community
Building the group, society or nation
Developing individuals
Transforming understanding of
ourselves
Educating people to become proficient learners
2017: Avoiding fake news
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• Develop learners’ awareness that
knowledge is complex, diverse,
developing, constructed within
particular perspectives, and
informed by particular sources of
evidence.
• Foster an appreciation that
alternative explanations or
arguments are not equally right or
valid, that some ways of knowing
are better than others, and that
knowledge can be reasonably
critiqued and evaluated.
2017: Intergroup empathy
2017: Thinking with data
People need to become
active data explorers who
can plan for, acquire,
manage, analyse, and infer
from data. The goal is to use
data to describe the world
and answer puzzling
questions with the help of
data analysis tools and
visualisations.
Today, most of the procedures in data
analysis are handled by software. This
enables learners to concentrate on
planning an investigation, creating and
interpreting data representations,
building models, and making decisions
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