Beyond Standards Holistic Approaches to Educational Technology and Interoperability Oleg Liber 4 th CETIS Conference 2007

2 Agenda Today Keynotes: Sarah Porter & Iain Stinson Lunch First parallel sessions (break at 15.15) End of sessions for day Conference Dinner Tomorrow Second parallel sessions (break at 10.45) Lunch Plenary Keynote: Professor Mark Stiles Close

3 A few words …

4 Before Computers The curriculum  Accessible only in universities Other learners  University cohorts Experts  Lecturers

5 Now Huge content availability  From Wikipedia to online journals  JISC call  Open content New communities  Social networking New tools  Ning to Netvibes  PLEs

6 How has this happened? Motivation  Access  Improved learner experience  Because we can How  Innovation  Commitment Recently  Bandwidth  Interoperability

7 Impact Challenge for institutional change  Understanding and managing new technology  Developing and managing business processes Growing “ecology of content repositories” Part of global learning environment Beyond standards  Interoperability at the next level

8 Actions for change Inter-working  Between institutions  Formal and informal Content  Making and sharing  Validity Tools  Institutional - individual  Teacher - learner Personal information  Agreement  Safeguards

9 Do we need universities? “Society created institutions to serve society. But they have become counterproductive to their original intent… they now exist to benefit themselves rather than the betterment of society” “Their inversion implies institutions that would foster the use of individually accessible tools to support the meaningful and responsible deeds of fully awake people” Illich (1976)

10 The Role of Developers Tools that cross the institutional – personal barrier Technology that provides institutions with the possibility of change Better options for validation and certification Seamlessly interoperable technology

11 What’s your view? What have we achieved this year? What should we seek to achieve this year?

12 Parallel Sessions Responding to Change and Institutional Challenges Beyond Reality: Multi User Virtual Environments and Games Learning Resources in the Ecology of Repositories Coordination and Control of Business Processes Beyond Standards Mapping across domains: an exploration 'Cool' or just 'Sad'? - What motivates learners to participate in and use technology? Mash-up Market Semantic Structures for Teaching and Learning Beyond Education: Employment and Skills

13 Plenary One sentence + one picture on one slide Upload to fxr7b4&invite=cm8jthr fxr7b4&invite=cm8jthr

14 JISC Learning and Teaching Initiatives Technology Enhanced Learning Environments  User-owned technologies, learning spaces… eContent  Open Content call: design a module using only open content Rolling call  Supporting innovation eAssessment, eAdmin, ePortfolio