quality in education

www.kennisnet.nl

Naam van de Auteur

7 januari 2008

Better schools with ict?

Frans Schouwenburg

Sector manager primary and secondary education

Study Visit "Quality in Education"

1. Kennisnet

2. Why ict in education?

3. Research

4. Current quality issues

Contents

Kennisnet Foundation

Mission is to support schools and educational facilities with independent services regarding the effective and safe use of ICT, thus improving the quality of teaching and learning

•130 fte

•Budget: 35-40 million Euro

•Funded by the Ministry of Education

• Key characteristics:Innovative - Public – Independent - Expert

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Focus 2009-2011

• Professional development of teachers and management

• School as a flexible organisation

• Availability of digital learning materials

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Products and services for schools examples

Knowledge

Networks for professional development

Portals and platforms

portal site

KENNISNET.NL

Communitie

sof practice

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Media

literacy

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Gifted

student

s

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Digital

learning

materials

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Teacher TV

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Marketplace

vocational

education

Key question

Why should we use ICT in education?

social rationale vocational rationale pedagogical rationale

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7 januari 2008

Dropouts

National ambitions

Governance

Teacher shortage

Exchange of information

Lifelong learning

Knowledge vs. competences

Accomodation

Differences between students

Budget cuts

Educationalgoals

Test-scores

Social cohesion

Several challenges

Smart kids

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National ambitions are not metThe Global Competitiveness Report W.E.F.

Graduates from secondary education

Bron: Pisa – OECD programme for international student assessment

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Teachers want

Flexibility

Customized education

Configurable materials

Variety

Quality

Teachers want student centered education

Then why don’t we?

1908

1958

2008

State of ict in education

Four in Balance model

Vision

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Research brings us evidence

Examples of evidence (OECD-PISA data)

use of ICT

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Digital picture books double number of words learned by pre-schoolers

Benefits of ICT for teaching and learning

More effective: students learn more, better and faster

More efficient: maintains the quality of student performance in less teacher time

More interesting: improves teacher and student motivation

IF……

A proper balance between social and material conditions

FOUR in BALANCE

Shaping an open landscape

Co-operative production materials

Dutch education core set

More schools collaborate

Free school books

(Bill 2008)

Innovation programme adopted bySector org.

Open source, - standards

adopted

Wikiwijs

top down

bottum up

Communities of

practice

users

user services

enablers

sources

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Wikiwijs: policy objectives …

• increase quality of education through more flexible and up-to-date learning materials

• stimulate development and use of open educational resources

• improve access to both open and ‘closed’ digital learning materials

• support teachers in assembling their own learning materials

• extend options for customized education

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Thinking in platforms

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agreement about:metadata, sso, cc-by,

scorm, …

agreement about:metadata, sso, cc-by,

scorm, …

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EduRep harvester

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Quality in three variaties

certified adoption group wisdom of crowds

lenses and adoption groups

lens A:Selection by a

teacher

lens B:selection by

Interest groups

Lens C:Most popular

items

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End of tour…

Thank you