Recent studies on accessing educational content – WS 11 2021

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30 June 2021 | 10:30-11:30 CEST | Studio Trieste | Video recording | Live transcription
Consolidated programme 2021 overview / Day 2

Proposals: #13 #35 #60 #76

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Session teaser

COVID19 has highlighted and reinforced inequalities in our society whilst introducing new challenges. Schools and universities are particularly affected by these changes, both in lacking equipment and teacher skills to bring all content online. The lack of professional training to develop digital teaching skills makes it harder for teachers to deliver lessons from a distance and for pupils and students to learn. E-learning systems are not standardised and neither is educational material that is shared on these systems. The structure of learning courses is often modelled after a formal education curriculum, which provides no accommodation for the new interactive opportunities. The lack of standards and regulation for interoperability severely limits the usability of existing digital learning platforms for individual knowledge management by learners. Much of the material is already in corporate walled gardens coupled with expensive licensing and tracking of users. Compounding to these challenges is the lack of high-speed or low latency Internet connectivity which introduces a limit to the audio-visual or augmented reality opportunities that remote learning could enable. But work is taking place to find solutions!

Session description

Right now we are facing a lot of practical and societal challenges in e-learning. Many of these challenges are reflected in the state of the tech industry and infrastructure on which e-learning relies upon. When is this technology helpful? When it's a hindrance? How can we do better?

The session will include in-depth discussion on the state of e-learning industry as a whole, questions of knowledge management and accessibility, digital autonomy, digital literacy, as well as tools and best practices both educators and learners can employ for more efficient and engaging learning experience. We will discuss standards, implementations and interoperability of a variety of technologies, as well as new and long-standing challenges.

Format

  1. Opening word from the organizational team to introduce the audience to topics and invite dialogue (~5min), introducing key speakers;
  2. Interactive dialogue session with the audience (10-25min);
  3. A series of lightning talks from key speakers (5 minutes each, 30-35 minutes);
  4. Dialogue and Q&A with speakers (30-45min).

Further reading

People

Focal Point

  • Alex Culliere

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Subject Matter Expert (SME)

  • Olivier Crepin-Leblond

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  • Alex Culliere
  • Roberto Gaetano, EURALO
  • Kathrin Morasch, Better Internet for Kids | Youth IGF Germany
  • Sabrina Vorbau
  • Oliana Sula
  • Vladislav Ivanets

Key Participants

Rute Baptista is a Pedagogue and currently acts as the Professional Development Manager, in Brussels, in eTwinning project, from European Commission. She works closely with hundreds of thousands of teachers from 44 countries, supporting, coordinating, and managing online and face-to-face professional development opportunities. Rute also works as a pedagogical consultant and project manager to a consortium of Ministries of Education, European Schoolnet, based in Brussels. For 8 years and until 2012 Rute Baptista has worked in the Portuguese Ministry of Education dealing with European Projects and ICT in Education having collaborated in several projects and initiatives on this topic, at the national level. Rute is a Teacher Trainer and trains trainers in private companies in Portugal. She holds a degree in Pedagogy and is specialized in curricula development and project coordination.

Alex Culliere is a software engineer from Helsinki who specializes in the development of learning and knowledge management solutions. He has been deeply involved in the development of e-learning tools since 2013 with John Wiley & Sons Inc, as well as conducting his own research in learning tools interoperability, standardization, best practices, and methodologies of effective self-teaching. As a member of the Organization for Ethical Source, Alex is also working on licensing strategies for the protection of digital autonomy and rights of e-learning users.

Moderator

Alex Culliere and Roberto Gaetano

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Reporter

Andrijana Gavrilovic

Current discussion, conference calls, schedules and minutes

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Messages

  • We should develop a culture about tools that can be adapted to optimise e-learning. The criteria of validating the use of a certain tool should include self-determination, digital autonomy and ethics, and human rights. Pedagogical objectives and the learning moment are also important factors in choosing a tool.
  • It is important to note that digital should adapt to the learner’s needs, not the reverse. Tutors and facilitators should have the skills to navigate through digital and choose the best tool for their learners.
  • Education needs to evolve in terms of content, but also needs to safeguard the public values that we want to transfer. We need to ensure that we safeguard those public values and that they are not manipulated by e-learning platforms and their embedded values. We need to ensure that the tools do not inherit the bias of the industry which developed the software.
  • We need to build in the respect for digital autonomy of people in the foundational structure of the tools used for e-learning. We need to ensure that the tools accommodate insecurity about our data, insecurity about our learning process, loneliness, lack of socialisation, and lack of interoperability with other tools.
  • It is of essential importance to have a tool that makes the discovery of educational content easier for teachers and students regardless of the platform on which the content is hosted.

Find an independent report of the session from the Geneva Internet Platform Digital Watch Observatory at https://dig.watch/resources/recent-studies-accessing-educational-content.

Video record

https://youtu.be/sP3oBZWkz2A?t=2023s

Transcript

Will be provided here after the event.