Transcript e - Learning A Global Revolution

e-Learning
A Global Revolution
Adnan Badran
MIT LINC Conference, Dubai
November 2007
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What is e- Learning
Is generally defined as any
form of learning that utilizes
a network for delivery,
interaction, or facilitation .
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ONLINE learning is the
future schooling for
providing: education for all
and increasing potential of ICT
to meet different educational
objectives
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Online Learning
• Expands opportunity of education
• Expands quality of learning.
• Increases delivery of learning.
• Improves efficiency of teaching.
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Memory - The Brain
Old Days’ Memory:
Today’s Memory:
• “Central Nervous System”
• We used to use the book,
• “Digital Nervous System”
• The knowledge is
managed by a teacher
store the knowledge in
our memory, and retrieve
them as required. It was
an educational system of
memorization and spoon
–feeding of information.
downloaded. The teacher
is a full-time facilitator to
manage information and
construct knowledge to
deliver skills.
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Future of e- Learning
• Nobody has the exact answer
• Graduates will be exposed to new
information in one year than their
grandparents in a lifetime.
• Memorizing facts will have lower
value, than utilizing information
for decision-making.
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Future of e- Learning, cont’d
• Multi-career.
• Change of career.
• Lifelong learning.
• Just-in-Time (JIT) learning.
• Career development: learning by the
corporate
• Telecommuting learning: distance
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Traditional vs. e-Learning
Traditional Learning
Teacher Centered
Single Media
Isolated Work
Information Delivery
Factual-based
Learning
Bricks & Board
Push approach
E-Learning
Student Centered
Multimedia
Collaborative Work
Information Exchange
Skills-based learning
Technology-enabled
learning
Pull approach
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Potential online-learning: Pros
•New opportunities to
maximize learning potentials
•Customized and flexible
learning
•No commuting time or travel •No constraints of
cost
geographical location
•Learning while working
•Learning at her/his own pace
•Just-In-Time (JIT) learning
•Learning to fit busy schedule
•Re-tooling for the
•No campus space is required
•Probably less costly
•Greater learning resources
unemployed
available
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Potential online-learning: Cons
Instructors need to be
effective
Needs of students for
equipment and service
providers
Hard for instructors to move
traditional content online
Academic integrity of online
students
Time consuming for
individualized feedback
Lack face-to-face interaction
Technical training of learners
Lack of regulations of learning
practices and quality
assurance
Effectiveness of assessments
Lack of e-learning culture
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Potential online-learning: Cons
Cont’d
Equity of access to learners of
different backgrounds
E-learning must be integrated
into the mainstream
accreditation and quality
assurance – guidance, design
delivery and assessment
Requires new skills and
responsibility from learners
Lack of policies of intellectual
property rights to protect elearning content authors
Content developers have to be Lack of social interactive
trained in instructional design, aspects of campus and
learning theory
classrooms
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ICT was the fastest growing technology during
the last decades.
Internet has reached 25% or the world's
population, faster than any other innovation.
Innovation
Years
Electricity
45 years
Telephone
35 years
Radio
22 years
Television
26 years
Cellular
13 years
Internet
7 years
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Number of Internet users in the
world per language, 2007
other
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Malaysia
Brunei
UAE
Qatar
Kuwait
Bahrain
Guyana
Lebanon
Morocco
% Pop
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Jordan
Internet Penetration: Top 10 OIC
Countries
Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com and Zou’bi (2007)
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Internet Penetration: Lowest 10
OIC Countries
0.6
0.5
0.4
% pop
0.3
0.2
Guinea
Mali
Burkina
Faso
Chad
Tajikstan
Bangladesh
Sierra
Leone
Niger
Iraq
0
Afghanistan
0.1
Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com and Zou’bi (2007)
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What might learning look
like in the future?
• Time flexible
• Geography independent
• Competitive cost / value
• Learner-centered
• Technology embracing
• Ethnically diverse
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Creativity and innovations
• Change of schooling from disseminators to facilitators of
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knowledge
Learning to structure knowledge from avalanche of
information
Learning to learn, to think, to analyze, and solve problems
– to create the analytical mind
To develop the inquisitive mind to discover the unknown
To integrate ICT in the learning process
Self-learning and long-life learning
To transfer knowledge into application and technology
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ICT-based education
• brain-intensive, knowledge-driven
• Renovate educational system: blended integrated
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approach
Motivate bright students to take up careers in
technology-enabled education
ICT for all
Assistantships, fellowships and training
North-South and South-South post-doctoral programs
Brain-gains into brain-bank for building capacity and
excellence
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Entrepreneurs
• Stimulate educational environment to create
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entrepreneurs
Provide co-op education
Access to incubators of creative ideas
Graduation projects
Provide time and space to nurture
entrepreneurial trends
Provide access to information through networks
Access to venture capital
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Organizations that deliver
learning, need to consider:
•Realize what market they serve
•Be responsive to learner needs
•Prove their value to learners
•Listen closely to the needs of business
•Upgrade the quality of instruction
•Look for partnerships with other
complementary organizations
•Find creative ways to certify learning
credentials
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To predict learning for the
future:
•The corporate will compete directly
with colleges and high schools.
•Partnerships and mergers between
learning institutions, publishers,
technology providers will consolidate
for the marketplace.
•Schools and colleges will be taken over
or will go out of business
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To predict learning for the
future: Cont’d
• Role of instructors will be broken down into
multiple positions: curriculum design, content
delivery, classroom facilitator, learner support,
etc. His role as a spoon feeder will vanish.
• Top instructors will be hired by the private sector
for all the positions stated above.
• Fewer students will get the traditional on-campus
degree, and most will get at least a portion of it
online and off-campus.
• A much greater percentage of learning (formal
and informal) will take place online.
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Why do people learn?
Many answers
Work?
Wealth?
Economy?
Development?
Opportunity?
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Some intellectuals say that
most of us make our living
from ‘ thin air’
Do We?
This is exactly what Bill
Gates, is doing .
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This is what is happening
rd
in the 3 millennium:
generation of wealth is no
more farms, lands or
factories,
but
creativity and ideas
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Jordan Initiative
Educational Reform For Knowledge Economy
Program
COMPONENT 1
National Strategy and Public Relations Campaign
Organizational Change
Education Decision Support System
ACCESS
Monitoring and Evaluation
EQUITY
Institutional Arrangements
COMPONENT 2
Curriculum Renewal
Teacher Training
Student Assessment
Resources for Learning
Effectiveness
of the Process
of Implementation
QUALITY
Appropriateness
of the Substance
of Implementation
COMPONENT 3
Renovation of Existing Schools
Building of New Schools
PLANNING Computer Labs and Science Labs
Kindergarten Classrooms
COORDINATION
LEADERSHIP
Source: Ministry of Education - Jordan
COMPONENT 4
KG Curriculum, Licensing and
ECE Teacher Training
Kindergartens for the Poor
Public Awareness and Understanding
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Finally, What can we do?
•e-learning is a new culture of learning
•Resistance to e-learning is not because of the
product, but simply because human nature is
reluctant to innovate and change.
•It is expected that bureaucratic ministries of
education and governments will gradually
accredit and recognize e-learning or otherwise
they become obsolete
•It is us who can implant the technology –
enabled education among our students
•It is us who can change the rules and implant
the culture of e-learning
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Thank You
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