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

Facebook

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

Facebook

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