Expanding Learning
Opportunities for the Last
25 years … and Beyond
Prof. Albert Sangrà, Ph.D.
Academic Director, UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for
Social Change, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Barcelona, 12 June 2015
• EDEN and UOC in the timeline
• Drivers of change
• Learning ecologies
• Challenges
• Final remarks
Content
Albert Sangra: Expanding Learning Opportunities for the Last 25 Years... and Beyond
Forerunners
• Paul of Tarsus (5-20 aC – 57-
68 aC)
• Seneca (6 bC – 65 aC)
• Caleb Phillips (1782)
• Sir Isaac Pitman (1843)
• University of London (1858)
(External Programmes)
• Anna Ticknor (1873) (Learning
at Home)
• International Correspondence
School (1888)
• University of Chicago (1892)
(Satellite Campuses)
• Penn State (1922) (Radio
courses)
• Iowa, Purdue and Kansas
State Universities (1938) (TV)
• Articulated Instructional Media
Project (Wisconsin) (1964)
(Integration of technologies)
• Stanford Instructional
Television Network (1968)
• ARPAnet (1969)
• Open University UK (1971):
other Open Universities
followed
• World Wide Web (1989)
EDEN
First conference
(Krakow, 1992)
Historical challenges of DE:
•To reach large numbers of students
•To provide a high quality learning experience
•To do it at a sustainable cost
•Always the same goal: creating opportunities for
learning.
Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya (UOC)
Universitat Oberta de
Catalunya (UOC)
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Educational model
The importance of having
a MODEL
The importance of having
a MODEL
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Would be it enough?
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The importance of method
• Competency-based
approach in which the
activity, and all what it
needs around to be carried
out, is the core
Activity-based learning model
Drivers of evolutionDrivers of evolution
Albert Sangra: Expanding Learning Opportunities for the Last 25 Years... and Beyond
Albert Sangra: Expanding Learning Opportunities for the Last 25 Years... and Beyond
It is not about distance …
… but FLEXIBILITY
• Flexibility
• Personalisation
• Collaboration
• Informalisation
(Redecker et al., 2011)
Main pillars for the future of learning
Flexibility
Personalised learning means
ensuring that individual
differences are acknowledged
PersonalisationAge
Gender
Working
situation
Family issues
Other personal
circumstances
Prior
knowledge
Professional
experience
Socio-cultural
context
Professional
interests
Working
expectations
Estudiante
Student
Student
Student
L
E
N
A
G
N
IR
Student
Collaboration
Interaction
Teaching and learning process
Interaction ...
Student-student
Student-teacher
Student-group
Teacher-group
Student academic life
Interaction ...
Student-community
Student-institution
Institution-community
Informalisation
From content-based to activity-based design
0
100
Activity-based
approach
Content-based
approach
Self-content materials
Subsidiary
associated
materials
Superficial learning
Deep learning
An actual challenge
Transformation
Wisdom
Knowledge
Information
Data
C
O
M
M
I
T
T
M
E
N
T
An actual challenge
Learning EcologiesLearning Ecologies
Learning Ecologies
“A set of contexts made up of configurations of
activities, materials, resources and relations
generated in physical or virtual spaces, which
provide opportunities for learning”
(Barron, 2004)
Learning Ecologies
Albert Sangra: Expanding Learning Opportunities for the Last 25 Years... and Beyond
Albert Sangra: Expanding Learning Opportunities for the Last 25 Years... and Beyond
Albert Sangra: Expanding Learning Opportunities for the Last 25 Years... and Beyond
• Beyond CoP, IG, or
learning communities
• ICT extend the potential
of the learning ecologies
• Every individual may
develop a personal
strategy for professional
development and
relations
Learning Ecologies
Cosmovision
Reflexive
thinking
Information
Professional
environment
ExperiencesTechnology
Social
interactions
Learning
Ecology
Learning
Ecology
(both physical
and virtual)
• Teachers & their professional development
– Be aware of taking advantage of your whole learning ecology
– Improve your professional development more efficiently
• Instructional Designers
– Create new learning opportunities
– Advice new resources
• Higher Educaton Institutions
– Consider the future will no loner be as it used to be
– Become more granular and a quality node
Implications
ChallengesChallenges
Learning
is changing
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“If your time to you
Is worth savin’
Then your better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’.”
Bob Dylan
Aprendizaje formal, no formal e informal
A lo largo ... y a lo ancho de la vida
(The LIFE Center, 2007)
18,5% 7,7%
[Son nativos digitales]
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From economy
• Massification of
access
• Openness
• Disruptive business
models
Massification of access
Quality
CostAccess
TechnologyTechnology
Openness
Disruptive business models
(Christensen, 2011)
Quality
CostAccess
TechnologyTechnology
OpennessOpenness
Recognition
Recognition
Methodology
Methodology
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- “My teacher told
me I’ve improved
my writing since I
do my homework
with a laser
printer …”
Quality
CostAccess
TechnologyTechnology
“Foodies are reactionaries”
“Rinehart criticized people who eat regular food as
being “reactionary.”
He thinks that his own industrialized food product
is going to save the world, and that “new” and
“different” are necessarily better.”
(http://www.returnofkings.com, June 1, 2013)
SOYLENT
The need of humanistic competencies for technologists
“… if we say that reality is one, we also know that it is complex and if we don’t
collaborate between disciplines, from science and art, we will live a partial
reality.” (Aymerich, Ara, 7/6/15)
Technology should support, but not shape life.
“I will set up the University XXXXXXXX, but I want
to be able to extend the University to people
outside the University through the latest
technologies.”
“Between conventional university and learning at
a distance, they need not be competition or they
need to be polarised, each has its own place and
each can fulfil its own mission to the advantage of
both.”
“I will set up the University of Chicago, but I want
to be able to extend the University to people
outside the University through the latest
technologies.”
“Between conventional university and learning at
a distance, they need not be competition or they
need to be polarised, each has its own place and
each can fulfil its own mission to the advantage of
both.”
William Rainy Harper (1896)
President, University of Chicago
Final remarksFinal remarks
• Distance and online education should keep going
increasing learning opportunities based on
sustainability and quality criteria.
• This goes beyond technology. Pedagogical and
organizational issues have to be primarily
considered.
• Decision making is being moved towards the
individual. Institutions have to realize they should
soften the control they use to have. Relationship
between institutions and individuals is yet to
change.
• Data on interactions (opportunities provided for a
good learning experience)
• Guarantee of well-trained and competent group of
teachers in online education
• Resources for learning available to the students
• Basic and applied research, particularly in online
education methods and the results achieved by the
students (student performance)
“It is not because
things are difficult we
don’t try them ... It is
because we don’t try
them they become
difficult”
Seneca
(4 bC - 65 aC)
I
M
P
E
G
N
O
Thank you very much
asangra@uoc.edu
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twitter: albert_sangra
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