Learning Innovation in the 21st Century

Sumonta Promboon

Need for Learning Innovation

• Comes from within

• Could be triggered by the following factors: quality issue, high dropout rate, reduced enrollment, poor student achievements, academic rankings, strong high-level policy, etc.

Worldwide movementby professionals, not education faculty

• UK: Higher Education Academy, UK Professional Framework (UKPSF), Professional Recognition

• Korea: KAIST, Dean of Learning Innovation

• USA: U. of Oklahoma,

• Thailand: PODN, Professional and Organizational Development Network Association (ควอท), General Education Forum

Back to Philosophy of Higher Education

• Why higher, not just high?

• Why academic freedom?

• What makes a person a free man?

• What does HE do about “Critical Thinking” and “Creative Thinking”?

• What is good work?

All is about “Faculty” and “Liberal Arts Education”

• Faculty means teaching++

• How much is General Education Liberal Arts?

• Who should be in charge of General Education?

A Teacher

• A poor teacher tells;

• Average teacher explains;

• A good teacher demonstrates;

• A great teacher inspires.

Teaching

• Give someone a fish,

• And you feed them for a day.

• Teach them how to fish,

• And you feed them for life.

Learning

• I hear, and I forget;

• I see, and I remember;

• I do, and I understand;

• I repeat, and I am confident;

• I know, and I want to know more;

• I wonder, and I think;

• I think, and I create.

Roles of Faculty

“An authority of knowledge and

a mentor of a learner”

Plus

“Learning coach and a guide in exploring, discovering and innovating”

Education Evolution

Education 1.0

Education 2.0

Education 3.0

Education 4.0

Transition in Education

From one way to interactive

From knowledge transfer to knowledge production and management

From knowledge to innovation

From limited interaction to borderless sharing and interacting

Key Words of Education 3.0 and 4.0

• Co-Constructive/Collaborative

• Technology-Based

• Continuous Innovation-Oriented

• Holistic/Integrative

• Systematic

• Transformative

• Flipped Learning

• Personalized, Formal/Informal

Factors for Change

Pedagogy

Curriculum

Leadership

Governance

Culture

Infrastructure

More Readings:

D.Keats and J.P.Schmidt, University of Western Cape, South Africa, 2007

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John Moravec, University of Minnesota, USA, 2008

Arthur M.Harkins, University of Minnesota, USA, 2008

leapfrog.umn.edu/Documents/HarkinsCoreComponents.pdf

Arthur M. Harkins, 2008

• “…the first nation to Leapfrog into local expressions of Education 3.0 and 4.0, support them with advanced technologies, and apply them in early childhood through tertiary and adult education, will become bellwether human capital development leaders among creative economies of the 21st

Century.”

IntelligenceDefinition by Howard Gardner

• Biopsychological potential to solve problems or fashion products that are valued in a culture or community

Multiple Intelligences (MI)By Howard Gardner

• Verbal /Linguistic Intelligence

• Mathematical/Logical Intelligence

• Visual/Spatial Intelligence

• Body/Kinesthetic Intelligence

• Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence

• Interpersonal Intelligence

• Intrapersonal Intelligence

• Naturalist Intelligence

• Existential Intelligence

Four Pillars of Learning

Mathematics Science

HistoryArts/

Languages

General Education covers the 4 pillars with many objectives.

• Language skills

• Social and life skills

• Ethical and Moral education

• Well-roundedness

• etc.

In Conclusion

• Big class lectures cannot reach those objectives. Interactive and individualized teaching and learning are the keys.

• Teaching of General Education should focus on inspiration and motivation, rather than covering subject matter.

• We need great teachers in General Education.