Reading Indicators of Change to Inform Technology Enhanced Learning

Datum: 2. Dezember 2011

Bereich: Technik & Wissen

Technology Enhanced Learning is facing the challenge of ever faster technological change combined with evolving expectations about what form education should take in the future. As a result innovators, researchers, policies and practitioners need to keep track of emerging signs of change in order to anticipate upcoming trends and opportunities. However, it is not a trivial task to recognise the first weak signals of what will become major changes. We identify potential filters that may lead to early warning signs being missed.

When it comes to driving new policies and processes, not only is it important to bring a comprehensive set of stakeholders to the table, but also to guide communication between all stakeholders in productive ways. A typical mechanism to structure the communication Delphi-based debates.

The aim is to discuss polarised responses and create alternative future scenarios. The input to this debate is based on topics generated from semi-structured interviews we have held with several TEL experts.  We asked the interviewees to think about the future of TEL over the next ten years and to suggest possible scenarios anchored in their daily work experience. A few examples of the resulting themes which will provide input to the debate include
• the expectations of students in an increasingly expensive higher education sector
• a paradigm shift in universities understanding of their role and activities
• social learning technologies raising new questions for corporate training

Participants input into this session will feed into the broader TELmap roadmapping process, and through this participants’ statements will serve to shape EU research policy in TEL.

Typ: Veranstaltungen anderer Institutionen

Organisator: Online Educa Berlin

Veranstaltungsort: Berlin

Webseite: http://www.online-educa.com/