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Challenge:Level 1: Using ’4 straight lines, connect all nine dots without breaking the line (i.e. lifting ′your pen off the paper).Level 2: Now using only ’3 Lines , connect all nine dots without breaking the line. (Try to ′think Out of the Box).
Challenge:Level 1: Using ’4 straight lines, connect all nine dots without breaking the line (i.e. lifting ′your pen off the paper).Level 2: Now using only ’3 Lines , connect all nine dots without breaking the line. (Try to ′think Out of the Box).
What is inside the box for education?
The traditional classroom
The distance (e)learning classroom
The networked classroom
• Students into teachers• Homework into Classwork• Classwork into learning by self or
network, guided or unguided• Hallways and Social spaces into
Classrooms• Closed curriculum to open• Degrees to badges• Fixed learning periods to flexible
learning time, anywhere• Fellow students into collaborators
The ??? classroom
Sage on the StageContent is King
Factory Mode
Process Based
Taking elements an instructional process, led principally by a teacher,Under an institution,That operates as a closed factory like system
…andChanging around the elements or sequencesTo create variations
…andHyping it as the next BIG thing
What these are doing is thinking inside the box…
They are using what I call the Mash-up Factory
eBook
TextbookGuide
Mobile Phone
Mobile Device
Location
Course
ClassroomExamPrep
Friends
Game
TwitterJobGrades
CertificationExpert
Tutor
PC Browser
BookmarkingPLE
Reader
VC
Audio
Video
TextSimulation
Podcast
Youtube
Flickr
Foursquare
PictureMessage
Sustainable
WBT
Survey
Music
Movies
Tags
New?
Institution
Newspaper
Mashup: Game based location aware curriculum?
eBook
TextbookGuide
Mobile Phone
Mobile Device
Location
Course
ClassroomExamPrep
Friends
Game
TwitterJobGrades
CertificationExpert
Tutor
PC Browser
BookmarkingPLE
Reader
VC
Audio
Video
Text Simulation
Podcast
Youtube
Flickr
Foursquare
PictureMessage
Sustainable
WBT
Survey
Music
Movies
Tags
New?
Institution
Mashup: Grockit?
What is outside the box innovation thinking for
education?
IMHO, it is the wrong question to ask
We need to ask the question:
Can we INVENT a new model of education?
Is there another viewpoint?
Complexity in Systems
Biggest insights
Rather than attempting to reduce a system, analytically, as the sum of its parts; look at the system as a whole.
E.g. Breaking a clock down into its parts, analyzing the parts can give us an understanding of how the clock works
But can we understand cities from houses and roads, human bodies from organs and bones?
Or can we understand learning from analyzing curriculum and experts?
Biggest insights
Rather than attempting to design a predictable system of education, can we instead design for a system that understands the complexity?
Instead of saying curriculum + content + teaching technique + student profiling + degree
= education, can we instead design ecologies that lead to outcomes commonly ascribed to a good education?
Enter the MOOCOr MOOLE…
Or…
Connectivism
Learning is the process of making connections
Knowledge is the network.
MOOCs are an invention.
A new way of thinking.
Incomparable.
A MOOC
Is an open, autonomous, networked and distributed space for sense-making
Is a space where teachers and learners re-invent their rolesTo teach is to Model and DemonstrateTo learn is to Practice and Reflect
Content is no longer king; the network is
Learning is more a dance of conversation than a linearly predictable path
Contrary to false beliefs propagated by Coursera, EdX and the rest of the xMOOCs
MOOCs are nascent
They face many intellectual and logistic challenges in implementation
They are culturally unique
They are an anathema to closed loop structures
They do not have developed supporting technology
However, the MOOC is an incredibly transformative invention
MOOC or MOOT
MOOT: Do we invent or innovate?
Thank You.Viplav Baxi’s Meanderings
http://learnos.wordpress.com
Twitter: @ViplavBaxi