ide seminar 10 september 2012 open universities: what roles?
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IDE Seminar 10 September 2012 Open Universities: What roles? Sir John Daniel Former Vice-Chancellor, UKOU. PARIS. Undergraduate Doctoral. Université de Montréal. MA in Educational Technology. 3-month internship 1972. The Open University – Walton Hall. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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IDE Seminar10 September 2012
Open Universities: What roles?
Sir John DanielFormer Vice-Chancellor, UKOU
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PARISPARIS
Undergraduate Doctoral
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Université de Montréal
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MA in Educational Technology
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The Open University – Walton Hall
3-month internship 1972
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VVice-president, Learning Services
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Vice-Rector, Academic
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L’Université LaurentiennePresident
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UK Open University – Vice-Chancellor 1990-2001
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Assistant Director-General – Education
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1. Role of open universities
• Role of OU in lifelong education
• Role of OU in an ageing society
• What direction for KNOU?
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260,000 students of which
>60,000 ex UK
Open as to:
• People• Places• Methods• Ideas
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Sir John Daniel, Vice-Chancellor, Open University with Prime Minister Tony
Blair
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260,000 students of which
>60,000 ex UK
Open as to:
• People• Places• Methods• Ideas
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Ope
Open University Degree Ceremony
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260,000 students of which
>60,000 ex UK
Open as to:
• People• Places• Methods• Ideas
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…an intellectual stance of systematic scepticism…
“After doing a degree at the Open University I can’t see fewer than six sides
to any question!”
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Maureen MackintoshProfessor of Economics
“going through one of their courses and challenging every assumption
of normality that it contained”
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Lord Walter PerryFounding Vice-Chancellor
The Open University
The Course Team was the
OU’s most important innovation
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How can an open university be open in
other ways?
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How can an open university be open in
other ways?
Open to content?
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‘My Degree – My Way’
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THE TREND TOWARDS OPENNESS
- Open Source Software
- Open Access to Research
- Open Educational Resources
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OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER)
educational materials that may be freely accessed,
reused, modified and shared.
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Neil Butcher
StamenkaUvalić-
Trumbić
AshaKanwarcol.org/resources
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Zeynep Varoglu
Trudivan Wyk
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The VirtualUniversity
forSmall States
of the Commonweal
th
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28 million users
Interactive eBooks
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450,000 downloads of the UKOU’s materialsper week account for 10% of all iTunesU traffic
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250 million viewers worldwide in
2010
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Martin BeanVice-Chancellor
UK Open University
“the task of universities today is to provide paths from their informal cloud of learning towards formal study for those
who wish to take them”
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The Open Educational Resource
University
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2. Research Institute role in an OU
•What role to keep abreast of educational trends and cope with future challenges?
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Professor Tony BatesInitiated research into the
student use of media 40 years ago
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Digital Technology
=Generation
Gap
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Digital Technology
=Generation
Gap
WRONG
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Sample
7,000 students aged
between21 and 100
Ages Number of Students Response rate
20-29 1,000 31% (46% online)30-39 1,00040-49 1,000 (average for all groups 58%)50-59 1,00060-69 2,00070 and over 1,000 81% (60+% online)
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“no evidence of a clear break between
two separate populations”
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“Those students who had more positive attitudes to technology
were more likely to adopt a deep approach to studying, more likely to adopt a strategic approach to studying and less likely to adopt a surface approach to studying.”
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Students who combine work
and study learn better
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3. Examples / future directions of career management and prior learning in lifelong education
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4. With a rise in new technology – what form should distance education take?
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Evolution
not
Revolution
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DISTANCE LEARNING
a three-legged stool
studentsu
ppor
t materialslo
gist
ics
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5. What should be KNOU’s strategies for competing with other O & D universities?
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BRITAIN’S TOP NINE UNIVERSITIES
Quality Rankings of Teaching
based on all subject assessments 1995-2004(Sunday Times University Guide 2004)
1 CAMBRIDGE 96%
2 LOUGHBOROUGH 95%
3= LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS 88%
3= YORK 88%
5 THE OPEN UNIVERSITY 87%
6 OXFORD 86%
7 IMPERIAL COLLEGE 82%
8 UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON 77%
9 ESSEX 77%
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6. From your experience in OU UK as Vice- Chancellor, what should be the future direction for open universities in the 21st century?
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• A national institution(helpful to government policy)
• Help with global challenges- surge to secondary;- girls education
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Surging to Secondary
200 to 400 million youth
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The education of
girls may also be the
most powerful
tool against climate change
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“the broad availability of educational
opportunities for whole populations
that promotes democracy”
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• A national institution(helpful to government policy)
• Help with global challenges- surge to secondary;- girls education
• Tops in technology
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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY“networked individualism”
“participating, collaborating and producing as part of a community”
“connectivism”
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• A national institution(helpful to government policy)
• Help with global challenges- surge to secondary;- girls education
• Tops in technology
• Take partners
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“You can accomplish much if you don’t care who takes
the credit!”
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Be proud of KNOU!
Be leaders, not followers
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THANK YOU
For slides:www.sirjohn.ca