Top 10 Potentially Disruptive Higher Education Innovations

Bernard BullBernard.bull@cuw.edu

www.etale.org @bdean1000

Elite • Innovation is not necessary.

Industrial Age• In need of exemplars & getting informed about the possibilities.

Innovative• Breaking away from the pack.

Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University, 2013 Education Innovation Summit

1. Blended & Personalized Learning

“Blended learning is a formal education program where the student is learning in part online and has some control over time, pace, and path” – Michael Horn 2/14/14

2. Web 1.0 to Web 3.0Big Data & Predictive Analytics

Big Data & Analytics

Connectivity & InteractionInformation

the web as data

• web pages• news sites

• open source content• content repositories• iTunes University

• MIT Open Courseware• making money by

providing content• MOOCs as content

distribution• search engines as tools

to find information

the web as people & communities

• Listserv• Wikipedia• Twitter

• Facebook• Google Plus• YouTube

• Crowd Sourcing• Peeragogy• cMOOCs

• making money by helping people make

connections• Search engines as portals & ways to find

connections & communities

people & communities as data

• behavioral analytics• informatics

• learning analytics• adaptive learning

software• making money by studying behaviors &

selling access to people• MOOCs as pools of data

to mine for educational research

• Search engines as advertising companies &

tools for behavioral analysis

3. When Formative Assessment Becomes Summative Assessment

Adaptive Learning

learner action

interactive content

learner action recorded

feedback generated

displayed to learner

displayed to teacher

content adjusted

learner reflection teacher intervention

4. Gamification

5. Competency-based Education

The Syllabus Experiment

20% - participation40% - 8 unit tests

30% - daily homework / activities / assignments10% - quizzes

What is the highest possible

grading while knowing little?

What is the lowest possible grading while knowing a

great deal?

Port 1 - 0 Credits

Elective - 3 Credits

EDT 893 - 3 Credits

EDT 892 - 3 Credits

EDT 970 - 3 Credits

EDT 885 - 3 Credits

EDT 890 - 3 Credits

EDT 908 - 3 Credits

EDT 889 - 3 Credits

Elective - 3 Credits

Elective - 3 Credits

Elective - 3 Credits

Port 2 - 0 Credits

Port 3 - 0 Credits

=

M.S. in Educational Design & Technology

Learning Objectives

Required Learning Activities

Units of Instruction

Assessments

Flipped Classroom

Strategies for Interactive

Lecture

Learning Experience

Design Essentials

Digital Storytelling

Gamification & Game-based

Learning

Project-based Learning

Digital Discussion

-based Learning

Inquiry-based Learning

Sample Badge

Competency introduction and

instructions

Badge Host

Practice exercises to help reach the competency

Access to content and resources about PBL

Opportunities to connect and

collaborate on PBL

Worked examples of PBL

Criteria for earning the badge

=

M.S. in Educational Design & Technology

University owns the credential

Student owns / controls some of the credentials

Updated resume upon completion of courses and degree

Ongoing resume updates with each new badge

University formatted transcriptStudent can adjust the “transcript” based on a given context.

Credential describes courses and degrees.

Prerequisite competencies.

Credential describes discrete knowledge & skill.

Prerequisite courses

=

M.S. in Educational Design & Technology

=M.S. in Teaching &Learning

Graduate Certificatein Assessment Strategies

= M.S. in Educational Design & Technology

Badge from a MOOC

Badge Through Prior Learning

Badge from Professional Organization

Badge from Another University

Student Designed Badge

= School A

= School B

= School C

Cross-School Curriculum

6. Non-Cognitive Skill Development

The KORU7 of what employers want and need from graduates and people they hire: grit, rigor, polish, impact, curiosity, teamwork, and

ownership. -Kristen Hamilton, CEO of Koru

7. Democratization & Self-Directed Learning

Diagram recreated from Jay Cross’ Informal Learning, pp. 6-7

Bands Kingdoms Democracy

“Capable People”

“The world is no place for the inflexible, the unprepared, and the ostrich with head in sand, and this applies to organizations as well as

individuals.”

http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/~steve/pr/Heutagogy.html

The Personal Learning Network (and why it matters for students)

“A personal learning network is an informal learning network that consists of people a learner interacts with and derives

knowledge from in a personal learning environment.” – from the learning network known as Wikipedia

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cpoyatos/5292412247/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Your Personal Learning Network

The PLN Challenge

http://etale.org/main/2013/10/30/join-the-pln-challenge-earn-a-rare-and-prized-badge/

Self-directed Learning“...the individual takes the initiative

and the responsibility for what occurs. Individuals select, manage,

and assess their own learning activities...”

http://selfdirectedlearning.com/

Self-Blended Learning

The Aspiring Author

The Personal Learning Plan1. What is the question that will drive my inquiry?2. How will I pursue answers to this question?3. How will I expand or leverage my personal

learning network?4. How will I document my journey?5. What will be the culminating product or

performance?6. How will I monitor my progress?7. What is my timeline?8. With whom will I share my work?

8. Partnership, Alliances, Mergers, Acquisitions

Education Job

Job Education Promotion or New Job

Education/Job/Internship New Job

4000

http://www.stanford2025.com/open-loop-university/

You have to lean into the future and realize that most of the smart

people don’t work for your company…so you need to partner,

network, acquire…

– paraphrase from Steve Case

9. Education Startupsnot just B2B interactions

more agile and less regulated

$103 million in funding

10. Unbundling

Mitra, S., & Rana, V. (March 01, 2001). Children and the Internet: experiments with minimally invasive education in

India.. British Journal of Educational Technology, 32, 2, 221-232.

11. Alternative Education Meets Higher Education

K-12

project-based schools, classical schools, self-directed learning academics, place-based learning schools, leadership academies, service learning, etc.

Minerva, Antioch College, Bennington College, Goddard College, Prescott

College, Draper University, University of Illinois MBA via MOOCs

Top 10 Potentially Disruptive Higher Education Innovations

Bernard BullBernard.bull@cuw.edu

www.etale.org @bdean1000