edtech europe 2015 [track 1]: [digital assess], ([dan sandhu], [ceo])
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ED TECH 2.0Enabling Vocational And Professional
Skills
DAN SANDHU
Classroom 1900 Classroom 2015
USUAL COMPARISON
VOCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL
We live in a world saturated with information. We have virtually unlimited amounts of data at our fingertips at all times, and we’re well versed in
the arguments about the dangers of not knowing enough and not doing our homework. But what I have sensed is an enormous frustration with
the unexpected costs of knowing too much, of being inundated with information.
KNOWLEDGE vs LEARNING
- Malcolm Gladwell
We have come to confuse information with understanding.
KNOWLEDGE
COLLABORATIVE SKILLS
CREATIVITY
PROBLEM SOLVING
KNOWLEDGE ALONE IS NOT SUFFICENT“Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form”
Vladimir Nabokov
Or .. how to get people to ask good questions
Was needed so was sought
Is needed and is sought
It's about understanding the tools they have got available and how to utilise them.
When we are asking a question where we know there's access to the internet, we could ask a different question - it's
about the interpretation, the discussion.
Its more.
Mark Dawe, OCR, Cambridge Assessment
COST OF COMPLACENCY
THE TIME IS RIGHT
£2.8TRILLION
Education spend 2014
84%INCREASE
In education
spend 2014
Stagnant growth in standards
E-LEARNING
Expenditure to grow at 23.0% p.a. to £166bn by 2017
INVESTMENT
80% attrition in Massive Open Online
Courses (MOOCs)
• Employers want the means of ensuring their workforce has the right skill set
• Institutions need to more reliably assess creative and collaboration skills
• Universities need to provide better learner experience
• MOOC’s need to improve learner engagement and therefore retention
• Governments need evidence they are getting value for their educational spend
PERFECT STORM
THE MODERN LEARNER
Empowered, Accessible Work Related Learning
of workforce
work remotely
of global workforce is
mobile
30% 37%
50-60% viaonline
courses
70% viasearch engine
ON-DEMAND
UNTETHERED COLLABORATIVE EMPOWERED
80%
of workforce learning
happens on the job
55%at Google
of training delivered by 2,000+
peer learners
2 ½ to 5Half life
(in years) of many
professional skills
62%
of IT professionals have paid for training themselves
THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING IS CHANGING
THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING IS CHANGING
THE LANGUAGE OF LEARNING IS CHANGING
SCALABLE DEVICE
AGNOSTIC PRODUCTS
ACADEMICALLY VALIDATED & OPERATIONAL
CURRICULUM AGNOSTIC
COUNTRY AGNOSTIC
VOCATIONALLY FOCUSED
WHAT ED TECH TOOLS ARE NEEDED TO ENABLE VOCATIONAL &
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
A Brief Introduction
LEARNING PRODUCT SUITE
CAPTURE
Capture digital evidence of
student knowledge,
capability and progress
ANNOTATE
Annotate any digital file and
reference rubric
COLLABORATE
Peer to peer assessment
MEASURE
Game-changing alternative to
marking that is reliable for
measuring a wide-range
of learner work
MANAGE
E-portfolio to support
assessment for learning
Uncomplicated technology designed for learners to excel.Our product has been used by some of the world’s most trusted education brands
to provide more stimulating, blended learning activities and a deeper understanding of learners’ acquisition of skills.
SOCIAL LEARNING
TEAM UPENGAGE
ATTAIN
Capture and present evidence in a storyboard-style digital portfolio using in-built digital features or learners’ own mobile
devices.
Market leaders of online assessment products for awarding bodies, English language training and educational institutions.
OUR CLIENTS
Digital Assess is changing learning for the better and making evidence basedassessment more reliable, easier to validate,
more authentic and simpler to manage.
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