global trends in open education: implications for africa

Global Trends in Open Education:

Implications for Africa

Open Educational Consortium (OEC)

Prof. Dr. Stavros Panagiotis XanthopoylosVice President ABED/Vice Dean FGV-IDE

Nairobi, 3rd July, 2015

www.fgv.br/fgvonline

About Fundação Getulio Vargas - FGV

The New Learning Scenario

Educational perspectives and strategies

FGV’s OEC Experience


Final Remarks

TopicsTopics


FUNDAÇÃO GETULIO VARGASMISSION: To generate, transfer and apply

knowledge for Brazil’s economic development


The Internet’s role – new cyberspaceThe Internet’s role – new cyberspace

The Internet, the icon of this revolution, is a communication means that made possible, for the first time in the history of mankind, “the communication of many among many, at a chosen time, and in global scale,” besides having constructed and unconstructed a new notion of time and space, making the world look infinitely smaller and globally connected, not needing 80 days to go around the world, as this happens in a matter of seconds... (Castells, 2003).

New dimension of communication – Cyberspace

heterogeneous space composed by complex forms of interaction

works as an extension of relations established in the real world

http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Castells


Network TechnologyNetwork Technology

“It is not about getting organized in network technology, but the organization of human beings

in networks through thje technology. It is not about of na era of intelligent machines, but of

human beings that, through the networks, can combine their intelligence.” Don Tapscott

Society as a Network

mediated through computers and other ICT’s

establishes new sociabilities built in a space of integrated communication

http://dontapscott.com/

http://dontapscott.com/


What do we practice today?

Continuum Face to Face

Face to Face with ICT’s

Semi-presential

Blended

Tutored Elearning

Elearning

Correspondence courses

Blend of Open, Online and Flexible Education

Education Today

• Some new perspectives in the learning environment

• Connectivism, for example

• Knowledge Management perspective

• Offers freedom and flexibility for the adoption of learning strategies for the individual or, collectively, for groups

Fonte: CTAE/FGV

Impact on Learning

• More involvement by all stakeholders – Teacher (mentor), Student (researcher) and Peer evaluation

• A market of “ideas” is developed

• Knowledge created in a network environment, debated and not necessarily consensual

• More time to collaborate

• Call for a new approach – Digital Citizenship

Impact on Education

Perspectives and Challenges

Educational Model

Digital Citizenship

Professors/Teachers – Learning transformation agent

Students/Learners– Effectiveness in the use of the connectivism environment – new learning culture

Learning networks: informal and formal networks to form knowledge networks – leverage networks of learning that will become networks of research, consolidating knowledge management;

Network technology - access to open sources, web 2.0, etc;

University and school networks: using the networks as supplements, complements, for online or for blended learning;

Learning networks and open education – possibility to use networks to transform learning, research and knowledge from global to universal.

• Communities of Practice and knowledge/research networks are created and developed

• Update and perpetuate the content – economic and strategic value

• Digital citizenship is developed

• Personalized access to knowledge

• Redefinied educational model – form, develop, enable and train

Webs of Knowledge - Outcomes


FGV Online & OECFGV Online & OEC

FGV Online is the first Brazilian school to become a member of OEC (2008) 51 courses are available in different knowledge areas 5 of them has a version in Spanish More than 30 million visits to the main courses page

Over 7,5 million students registered

Over 4,6 million students certified since July/2008 Around 20 million visits to the individual course entry page

FGV Online was elected as the most Innovative & Avant-garde institution in the OCW People´s Choice Award 2011 and as the institution that has the Most Engaging Resources in the OCW Peoples Choice Awards of 2012.

SOURCE: FGV Online - February/2014


FGV Online & OEC Demographic dataFGV Online & OEC Demographic data

Marital Status

Gender

Age

SINGLE61%

MARRIED34%

OTHERS – 5%DIVORCED – 4%

WIDOWER – 1%

15 to 2530%

25 to 3543% 35 to 45

18% 45 to 55 - 2%

More than 55 - 2%

WOMEN58%

MEN42%

Most students are single, women and age between 15 and 35



FGV Online & OEC Professional and Academic DataFGV Online & OEC Professional and Academic Data

ANALYST30%

MANAGER15%

ENTREPRENEUR – 5,5%

DIRECTOR - 4%

MILITARY - 4%

CHAIRMAN - 1%

PROFESSOR14%

COORDINATOR10%

SUPERVISOR8,5%

CONSULTANT7%

OTHERS - 1%

GRADUATED49,5%

HIGH SCHOOL36%

POST GRATUATED - 11,5%

SPECIALIST - 9%MASTER – 1,5%DOCTORATE – 0,5%POST DOCTORATE – 0,5%

OTHERS – 3%FREE DOCENCY – 2,9%UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

– 0,1%

Most students are Analysts, followed by Managers and Professors. Almost half of the students are Graduated



FGV Online & OEC Professional and Academic DataFGV Online & OEC Professional and Academic Data

Areas

Salary

BUSINESSADMINISTRATION

27%

EDUCATION9%

IT7%

LAW7%

COMMUNICATION & MARKETING

5%

OTHERS34%

ENGINEERING4%

FINANCE3%

HEALTH & SCIENCE

3%

TOURISM2%

up to U$ 1,000

from U$ 1,001 to U$ 1,500

from U$ 1,501 to U$ 2,000

from U$ 2,001 to U$ 3,500

more than U$ 3,500

Business Administration is the area with the highest number of students doing open courses followed by Education, IT

& Law. The majority of the students perceive a monthly income of up to US$ 1,000 – 78% and 88% that

access perceive up to US$1,500 monthly

78%

10%

5%

5%

2%


88%


FGV Online & OEC Satisfaction SurveyFGV Online & OEC Satisfaction Survey

48% of the students did the course to upgrade their education and 27% to get a quick review on the subject, while 25% expect to create new professional possibilities

46% knew about the open courses by searching on the internet and 45% knew about it through friends/other students, the rest by other means

43% of the students would like to do a regular on-line course

61% of the students had never studied on-line before

99% of the students had their expectations met after finishing a free course

All students would recommend an online course and would take another



High School Content and ENEM (National Entry) Type Questions BankHigh School Content and ENEM (National Entry) Type Questions Bank

Motivation – Enhance quality of students through quality content qualify teachers train students

Lessons Learned through OEC

Project consists of today 670 hours of online courses Over 10,000 ENEM type questions published (goal 50,000 in 2 years)

Launched end of October/2012

Elected as the best High School Content Portal by Segmento Publisher 2013

Over 1 million registered users to date

SOURCE: FGV Online - April/2013


• Educational gaps and continental size justifies the implementation of integrated online, open and flexible educational models to reduce costs and increase reach to education and learning, use and combine existing resources to gain scale

• Take advantage of the ICT educational solutions and tools to manage and implement new pedagogical models integrated to ICT, neuroscience and necessarily be sustainable – Technopedagogical Approach

• Equity and Access – Social Impact

• Expand beyond degrees – Employability

• Surveys and Research to align local contexts and special needs

Implications for Africa - Challenges

• Infrastructure – Internet and Cloud Computing/Network

• Train teachers, this puts them into the student’s position

• Include a technology statement in the institution’s vision and mission

• Prepare leadership for the new educational scenario• Convince governance of the importance for legal or

public policy frameworks for ICT in education • Support and value teachers to work online• Demand for formal research on how different groups

of learners study online• Pre-qualification courses to improve access• Do not lower standards and guarantee quality• Develop curricula that serve society

Final Remarks

• One the greatest democratic movements in the world – in our day to day life, in education and in the organizations;

• No way back – New dimension of communication

• New Value Chains in education

• A never ending process …

A Quote to enpower us to take leadership

Source: funcrisp.com


Prof. Dr. Stavros Panagiotis XanthopoylosVice Dean – FGV-IDE

[email protected]/fgvonline

Education and Knowledge at everyone’s reach, the distance, you define!

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Asante-sanaAsante-sana

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