This article from Stephen Downes offers a lot of food for thought in terms of openness in education and what the future will bring, including some references to the polytechnic model through internships and apprenticeships as enablers of collaborative co-creation.

 

 

A LOOK AT THE FUTURE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

 

The following concluding remarks particularly resonate with me as I reflect on learning design in the open:

 

“Students today face the challenge of complex and rapidly changing work and study environments. These challenges, and the affordances enabled by new technologies, are driving a new generation of learning resources. These resources will be dynamic and adaptive. They will be created at the point of need by AI-assisted learning design systems and will draw on constantly changing requirements and data sources. These resources will not teach by means of content transmission, but rather, will require that students interact with both the data and algorithms, modifying the resource and creating solutions to real-world challenges. They will work using the same tools as people already working in the field, adapting to changes in the tool alongside the experts, working with and alongside them in a cooperative open working environment.”

 

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Rosario Passos

Instructional Development Consultant (IDC)

Learning and Teaching Centre

British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

3700 Willingdon Avenue, Burnaby, BC V5G 3H2

Tel: (604) 456 1266    rosario_passos@bcit.ca             www.bcit.ca/ltc

 

Education for a Complex World

 

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