Challenges scaled by: relatively solvable, difficult, wicked.
(Horizon wiki)
Low digital fluency of faculty
- relatively solvable
- "5 Keys" ; on incentives and training
- Crossing the chasm
- new message: design (doesn't have to involve tech, necessarily)
- LMS system change allows more usage, experimentation (ex: to Canvas, or Moodle upgrade)
- giving seminar, workshop on online learning, builds demand
- adding "innovative teaching methods" in meaningful way to t/p/r process
- revise faculty handbook
- possible union negotiations
- Instructional technologists learning from faculty
- specific applications in response
- collaborative learning
- pilot
- Also: demonstrates knowledge of the curriculum
- Still 1:1, not top-down
- Always be in faculty spaces
- Relative lack of rewards for teaching
- relatively solvable: European Union REF
- role of adjuncts, non-tenure-track instructors (report)
- "innovation as a problem to be punished"
- new student evaluation systems
- make sure students know if instructor is trying something new; new form just for this
Competition from new models of education
- difficult
- Competition or collaboration?
- competition: goad to development, top-down
- academia might influence competition
- learn how to educate for less money
- MOOCs and privates
- competency-based assessment
Scaling teaching innovations
- relatively solvable
- UK JISC Curriculum Design and Delivery Program review (participatory + collaborative)
- European Commission's Opening Up Education; Open Education Europa; Erasmus+
- observational challenges: hard to find time to observe what's going on
- solution: service model requires time for evaluation
- example: student evaluation team
- teachers who teach teachers
Expanding access
- difficult: global; US throughput problems
- one answer: deliver education through phones
- another answer: "a la carter" core courses in one school, distance at vetted others
- change credit model
- Affordable Care Act model
- tiers: outcomes/skills; high specialization
- flatter world (communication, organizations)
- gap between academia and business
- some emphasis on education for work
- new audiences need specific skills - STEM, for example
Keeping education relevant
- wicked problem
- European two-track model -
- "plumbers with a heart"
- BLS report
- Will technological developments elicit innovation in practice and teaching?
- Race between humans and automation?
- Reeducation, retraining - major role for education
- Optimism: teaching people how to learn will always be desired
- Dichotomy between economic strata in academia
2014 Horizon Report Symposium