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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
CFHE12: Drivers of change
Hi Beth -
I don't think the iron triangle captures every single aspect, but looking to major drivers, these seem as big ones. You raise the issue of credentials, and I definitely think this is a huge one, and Sir John Daniel is other papers, including his recent work on MOOCs brings to the forefront. For years now, he has advocated that assessement/certification/credentialing should be done separately from the teaching and learning. If that were to happen, students would have a plethora of venues to learn, both formal and informal, different ways of assessing mastery and competencies would be in place. One could actually have the 'real' passport of learning, where the 'stamps' give you recognized credentials and one can move around. This is exactly the concept behind badges. In my view, all these movements will only create actual change in these connections are made. Not necessarily this needs to happen in a concerted way though...Sir John Daniel's paper can be found here through Tony Bates' wonderful blog post:
http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/10/01/daniels-comprehensive-review-of-mooc-developments/
cheers,--Stella.
CFHE12: Higher-ed changers...
I'll use this blog, which I had left to die for years now ;-) as a way to track some of my thoughts. Maybe in doing so, I can revive this medium once again, and capture some of my ideas and reflections, which I still often have, but don't really share other than through my Diigo bookmarking mania (see link on the side of this blog).
For the first discussion, we were asked about the major drivers of change... Sir John Daniel pops right into my head. So, from October 8, here is my post...
As I read through all the articles about the changes in HE, Sir John Daniel speeches still ring true. The iron triangle still explains the forces of change and push-pull relationship in education in general, and HE, namely: the tight relationship between cost-quality-access. Daniel makes the point that technology has the potential of 'breaking the iron triangle' (sometimes called the eternal triangle). But, it still very much a complex issue to be solved. Technology will require appropriate practices and policies that ensure that high quality can be achieved, with open access at a low cost.
Here are some places where this concept is well defined:
http://www.col.org/resources/speeches/2011presentation/Pages/2011-12-15a.aspxhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/916/1739
--Stella.