How is Technology Transforming Vocational-Technical education

How Technology is Transforming Technical and Vocation Education Virtual TVET

Dr. Steven McKee, President of Worlddidac, Global Education Association President and Founder Labtech International Ltd. Email: steve@labtech.org

Knowledge Engineering

10th Asia Didac Forum/ TVET CONNEX Conference 2019

Bern, Switzerland

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The World Around us is Transforming

Where is Smart Education?

Technology Should Transform Education

• Most Major industries have transformed over the past few decades through the use of technology.

• But Education has yet to transform through the use of technology for teaching & learning.

• Technology can greatly improve teaching and lower costs, especially for TVET.

• Delivery and scalability can be improved.

• Learning can be improved and adapted to student needs and delivered where and when they need it.

Medical area is a close parallelEducation needs a larger vision

The Future is changing . . . .We must too

• Technologies are changing

• Jobs are changing

• Skills are changing

• How about Education?

Tech Jobs Skills Learning

ReINVENTing Education and TVET

VIRTUAL TVET

What is Virtual TVET?

• Using Technology for Teaching and earning

• Interactive 3D modeling, animations, and simulation to visualize technical processes

• Delivered with standard 2D PCs, Tablets, VR, AR and blended (braided) with Practical hands-on.

• Content delivered through an LMS system that can provide student performance info to the schools and educational managers.

• Learning off campus and on campus

• Schools networked together to form functional clusters with COEs at the center.

BLENDED Virtual LEARNING: RE-THINKING TVET

Virtual LearningBlended e-Learning

Simulations

PracticalHands-onSkills

Psychomotor Affective Cognitive

TheoryPractical

VIRTUAL TVET: Creating the Right Balance between Theory and Practical Hands-on Learning

Virtual TVET is now a possibilityLabtech 3D Virtual TVET

The educational aims of Virtual TVET

• Targeting the areas that students have difficulty understanding and that takes time for the teachers to teach.

• Improving comprehension of the foundational Knowledge of technology and its applications

• To develop and prepare them in advance of practical training tasks in the lab.

• Thereby reducing workshop time or increasing student throughput

• Teachers have more time to develop student hands on skills and mentor them.

Converging Technologies willchange educational Capabilities

• Schools can transform by using the new technologies for the benefit of :

• Teaching

• Learning

• Administration

• ICT infrastructure

School Transformat

ion

Shift from Static to Dynamic

Ed Platforms

LMS/CMS/SMS

Learn AWAT

New Content

2D/3D, VR, AR, MR

Connect-ivity -Cloud

Adaptive Learning Big Data

Benefits of Virtual TVET

• Lower Costs by 50 to 75%

– Redesigned labs for Digital learning

– Less equipment, different equipment

– Digital upgrade is equivalent to a physical lab upgrade

• Quicker Implementation time

– Traditional methods take time and huge cost and have poor scalability

– Digital Deployment is much quicker

Benefits of Virtual TVET

• Teacher Improvements –

– Updating Instructor Skills to new technologies

– Enables teachers to train more students

– Frees up Teacher’s time to mentor students

– Increased capacity.

• Labs and workshops and curriculum upgrading

– Provides a virtual upgrade to older labs

– Improves instructional materials

– Can improve curriculum delivery

Benefits of Virtual TVET

• Helps keep schools Up to date

– Easier to keep curriculum and content up to date

– Keeping up with the latest technology and industry needs

– Upgrading and adapting new courseware and materials

• Performance Monitoring

– For School, teacher and student performances

Enhanced Student Learning Potentials

• Enhanced Quicker Learning

• Differentiated & Deeper Learning

• Flexible Learning pathways

• Strengthens Fundamental Concepts

• Skills Cluster Approach

• Formative Assessment tools for Competency

• Learning on Demand: anywhere and anytime

• Learning process more similar to work

• Moving beyond time-based education to performance or competency based.

21st Century Learning Environment

Hands On Practical Lab

2D/3D

On-line VR

DAQ

AR

Potential role for Big Data and Learning Analytics

• To monitor performance at schools, teacher and student performance.

• To enable differentiated learning to tailor learning to the individual needs and styles (slow, medium, fast learners)

• Adaptive learning: learning that can adjust as the student progresses and offer more choices for exploration

• Learning is characterized by feedback and interactive learning and formative assessment

Cloud Based Knowledge Platform: • LMS & Content• Learning Objects• Coordination &

Communication

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Showing the Clustered Relationship With a Technology Diffusion Model SMK = Senior Vocational High School

Connecting Schools

Cluster School Concept usingDigital Technology

Deployment Modes

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1 to 1 Student Centred

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Cluster

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Cloud Based

Linked to LMS and Sync to

Schools

MOBILE BLENDED LEARNING FUNDAMENTAL LABORATORY

Making Technology Visible

www.labtech.org

Computer Tablets with Mobile Charging Trolley

Audio Headsets

Students TabletCompartment

Server, Access Point and UPS.

Teacher’s Projector

• For Institutions to use for their students

• For Adults for Life Long Learning

• For Teacher upgrading on new technologies

• For Industry – For upgrading Staff

• Starting to be available on-line 2020

For Use by Whom, When

21st Century TVET Eco-System – New Learning Architecture

Virtual Reality

For large systems or dangerous areas

Augmented Reality

Paired with equipment

Pre Lab Learning

2D/3D

Practical Hands-on Lab for Skills training

Mixed Reality

Environment

Technology Use and Deployment

30%

10%

5%15%

40%

Use of Technology

2D/3D

On-line

VR

AR with Lab

Hands On

Digital Content Design

Design of Labtech Content uses many leading & cutting

edge multimedia tools:

• Well thought out educational methodology in delivering

our topics modules. Able to deploy in various Mixed

Reality environments.

• CBT approach (Competency Based Training)

• Advanced 3D graphics games engines

• Interactive and realistic simulations

• 360 Videos and immersive learning experiences

• Non-linear learning, differentiated and adaptive learning

Classroom Performance Monitor

Analytics and Dashboards

City

District

Centre

Teacher

Student

Skills Proficiency

Proficient

Level 3

Level 2

Level 1

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TVET Ranking

Achievement

Accuracy

Completion

Integrated holistic Project Approach

Curriculum Inclusion of

Digital Learning,

implementing

Pedagogy 3.0

Virtual Delivery systems

And Content

School Design

Learning Spaces

Physical Training

Equipment

Teacher

Development:

Pre-Service

In-Service

Integrated Approach and Continuous Support

• To create a shared international Virtual Learning Platform in which industry and governments can participate.

• By collaboration we can widen the task of content creation and also enable it to be customized to meet local needs.

• Teacher Pro Dev programs to provide new ways of upgrading in-service teachers.

International Collaboration Opportunity

• Hi Tech Institutions

• Industry

• Training needs

• Teacher Institutions for TVET

• Labtech

• Methodology

• Content

• PlatformLabtech

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Dr. Steven McKee, President and Founder of Labtech International Ltd.Email: steve@labtech.org

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