27/01/2009

Wierchomla

• Belgium: some general figures

• Digital divide

• Predictions for 2009 : some ideas from experts

End 2007 : 2.442.000 Internet access

11,7% more then in 2005

Private market > 2.000.000>90% broadband

Commercial market > 430.000

96% broadband

Belgium: some general figures

IT courses are obvious

114

91

59

23

227

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50

100

150

200

250

IT

Business Managementcourses

Personal Skills

Languages

Other

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Mainly after work…

27%

22%

51%

During w orking hours

Both

Af ter w orking hours

Cas

tle o

f La

arne

… and above all on their own pc at home

28%

7%

3%

58%

4%

Behind my own PC at work

In training rooms at work

In training rooms at a trainingcompany

At home

Other

Ant

wer

p

6 out of 10 do less than 30 hours

26%

22%

12%

11%

5%

24%

1 - 10 hours

11 - 20 hours

21 - 30 hours

31 - 40 hours

41 - 50 hours

> 50 hours

Bru

ges

by e-mail

13%

12%

73%

2%

on the premises

online

via e-mail

via telephone

Ard

enne

s

Wanted: liveliness and interaction

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Text

Photos and videos

Talking

Excercises

Level of difficulty

Too much Too little

A C

at?

Jobseekers are longer…

9%

17%

15%

13%

9%

37% 1 - 10 hours

11 - 20 hours

21 - 30 hours

31 - 40 hours

41 - 50 hours

> 50 hours

Ato

miu

m

Students: Short courses get high scores

32%

30%

22%

4%

2%

10%

1 - 10 hours

11 - 20 hours

21 - 30 hours

31 - 40 hours

41 - 50 hours

> 50 hours

Cat

hedr

al L

iege

Why e-learning?• more easily • more fun• No transport needed • Easy and quick to get to• keep up to date • at your own tempo • to sign up at any moment • while waiting for the bus or the

train• go over difficult bits again • Choose• Easy to learn further • yet teachers are always available

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Digital devide?

• Participation– E-learning and participation to learning– Obstructions to that?

• Time & Space– Effective anyhow-anywhere-anytime?– Obstructions to that?

• Skills– New skills needed?– Have and have not?

Participation/Motivation

Learning = problematic issue– Negative schoolexperiences– Limited learning capacity– Lack of trust in own learning capacity – No recognition in the usefulness of a

training– Aversion from formal education

Time/Space dimension

Lack of timeOverload of responsabilities

– Participation in learning <-> changes in personal life• Unemployment• Kids <-> Adults

– Mainly problematic for women

Ideal learning environment = home = trainingcentre+ Traningcentra = immediate help- Home = Appropriate learningsituation

Skills• Fear of buttons

– Solutions for the most– What if basic level is still too

• Selfstudy– Limited by most unemployed people

• Obligation by unemployment office• External elements• Lack of conscience• Lack of discipline

• Obligation to training is possible if adapted to

• knowledge level • interest of learner

Skills

• Learningstyles– Own specific learning style– Determines how/what/where/when learning is best

• E-learning not for everyone– Read/learn from screen = difficult– PC/internet = alternative learning source– Blended learning = possible solution

• PC/internet = laid-back learning means– Listening lazy behind the PC– No notes, no summaries– ? Effectiviness of e-learning?

Implications

• Need for direct the individuals= integration of existing trainings= collaboration between formal and

informal education

• Blended learning – Complementary approach

• New & existing learning methods• No replacement

– Learn to use IT during other course? Yes if

• personalised • individual

Trends 2009

On = Off = On

Online presence

Ilse Jansoone, Jetair

• Crisis = quicker shift• Traditional marketing online

marketing• UGC keeps growing• UGC more focussed, more efficient• Grow of video basic condition

Pieter Ardenois, Contentprint

• 2009 = 2010 – 1• Less > more• Less

– Words– Action– Noise, more relevance– Disturbance, more focus

• Online (virtual) conscienceWe need less to become more(Joost Zwegers)

Clo Willaerts, bnox

• UC UGC UCI

Tijs Vrolix

Free, always-on communciation = basic right

Blyk, mobilevikings

Helena Van Eykeren, imkedielen

• Digital Love doesn’t rust

• It’s all about connectivity

• Anti-online movements

Observe your childeren

Conclusions

1. Lack of time to read all things critically 2. On technological level so much

movement, hard to make predictions3. No big changes in didactical

approaches. In adult education and LLL fast grow of networklearning

4. Education without Web = impossible. Now we have to find good workmethods,

situations and equilibrity.

27/01/2009

Thank you Dank u dzièkujè

 gracias

kiitosta

Contact details: Bert Coolen Bert.coolen@be-odl.org

+32 9 265 49 04