The future of education and learning in a digital era

Research centre for digital education

Charly RozenbergTrends and Strategies in the Creative Industries2009-2010

Research question

What are possibilities for the future of digtal learning environments?

What is new media

Adding new abbilitiesConvergence old mediaNew ways of delivering a message

What is new about media in education

New ways for teachingNew ways for learningNew technologies for educationNew sources for education

Technical options for education

Several options:InternetPC’s for everybodyTeaching toolsLearning tools

Technical options for education 2

People need to keep up with technologies

New education methods on education

Wisdom of the crowds

Interesting way of educationEasy to do via new technologies

Open source media

Free and or less expensive tools to educate students

Everybody can use the knowledge produced by a view

For example: cheaper textbooks via Creative Commons Licensing

Peer production

Somewhere in between wisdom of the crowds and open source media

Helping each other with education and learning

Media wisdom

Dutch government project

Education on how to use new media

Econmics

Cost of new tools in classroom are high

Computers for people can be expensive

Education on how to use new education takes time

Economics 2

On the other hand:

Cheaper books

Free information on the internet

Creative Commons Licenses

Theoretical Perspective

Remediation

Genealogy

New comes fromt the old

Newness of media and education

Media us in education is not new

Remediation and digitalization of media for education creates a new learning environment

Vision for the future

Create and develop new and challenging ways to educatestudents and teachers

Backcasting as methodology

Outline of a future situation

Evaluate preferences

Testing feasibility of desired future

Backcasting as methodology 2

Create a roadmap of what to achieve in the future

Step by step timeline that addresses specified milestones thatneed to be conquered to change the future

Concluding the pitch

Creating new and challenging education is a long process

All assets need to be researched carefully

It is about the future of delegation of knowledge in a new era

Financial proposal

Cost of researcher: €80 an hour

Estimated time for research: 2 months(setting up research, contacts, interviews, evaluations, conlusions)

Costs research: €25.600

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Richard Baraniuk’s presentation for TED on open-source learning. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/richard_baraniuk_on_open_source_learning.html.

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