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The Digital Revolution: Impact on Educational Innovation, Reform and Governance

Øystein Johannessen

4 Nov 2014

Outline

• Trends, Challenges and

Technologies

• Innovation: Coherence and

Lessons

• The Case of OER

• Towards Embedded Assessment

and Learning Analytics

• Summing up

Horizon Report Europe 2014 Schools Edition

Policy/Strategy Coherence

Curriculum

Assessment Teacher Competence

School Leadership

(Johannessen, Pedro: Inspired by Technology, Driven by Pedagogy, OECD 2010)

Innovation: Lessons

• Imbalance between technology investments, content, teacher training

and knowledge base

• Potential of new research disciplines (e.g. brain research) should be

explored

• Work on assessment limited to digital literacy

• Research must be translated into meaningful guidelines for improved

pedagogical practice

• To what extent is research evidence phased into the education and

practice of teachers?

OER for less used

languages

• LangOER aims at

enhancing teaching and

learning of less used

languages through

OER/OEP

• Availability: Diverse,

sometimes scarce

• Need for greater awareness

and models for using OER

for less used languages

• Policy issues

• Models

• Common area

• Licensing

Towards Embedded Assessment

Learning Analytics

• Unlocking the potential

• Methods and Tools: Deep

enough?

• Security and Privacy

Summing up

• Diversity and Complexity

• Old School and New School in Parallell Universes?

• Embedded Assessment: Still early days

• Information Systems: Yes, but how avoid "monster disease?

• Teacher training back on track

Famous last words...

• It has been said that no man is an island. This is also

true when it comes to technology-based innovation in

education. No actor or group of stakeholders can

secure success and sustainability in this domain by

themselves. Only through collaboration within

education, between education and industry, and

between education and other parts of public service,

can we secure success for the benefit of all learners.

• Source: Johannessen/Pedro, Inspired by Technology, Driven by

Pedagogy, OECD, 2010