NEW RESPONSIBILITIES OF

A UNIVERSITY AND TEACHERS

IN OPEN AND DISTANCE

EDUCATION

The Web has entered our lives and homes

Can you imagine your life

without the Internet?

Information technology has had a

globalizing effect, knocking down many barriers

The World Is Becoming

Smaller&Closer

Role of Information Technology

in Today’s World

Development of new approaches to management

system is required!

Technological revolution determines the establishment

of a new type of society, namely Information Society.

Global economy framework is changing dramatically within the process of Information Society establishment. At the same time borders between countries and people are being erased.

What kind of challenges arise

in the Information Society?

Change in society

Our reality

• Need for new knowledge in all areas all the time

• Workforce more agile – continously acquieringnew skills during worklife

• To be competetive we need to deliver more knowledge behind our products – added value

• Tasks are becoming more complex

• To keep up - we need to educate smarter, more flexible, more responsive, more engaging, basedon learners prerequisites, use technology wisely

Developing informatization of

society

Growing number of people involved in the

development of information

technologies, products, and services

Building a global information space

Increasing role of information,

knowledge, and information

technologies in the life of society

Challenges of

the Information Society

Changing educational environment

Students different from us (Next generation)

Information society

Knowledge society

Smart society

Our reality

The silent generation

Baby boomers

Generation X

Generation

Y(generation

«Next»)

Generation Z (Generation M, Net Generation,

or InternetGeneration)

Representative of generation

1963-19821923-1942 1943-1963 1982-2000 2000-2020

Digital-generation

• wake up to the alarm on phone;

• go to social networks via iPad and iPhone;

• visit social networking sites DAILY;

• send or receive tweets at least once every day;

• check email through laptops/netbooks/computers;

• watching TV/radio via the Nintendo Wii;

• listen to the iPod on the way to school.

• play virtual games;

• enjoying virtual drawing;

• Study: At-home 3-D printing;

• learning language;

• learning musical instruments;

• puzzles developing logic;

• gaining text;

• watching cartoons;

• communicate with friends.

Generation Z – they comes,

get ready!

How Russian parents

view and capitalize on Digital Media?

90% of childrenuse phone regularly

Digital Parenting Russia Study, 2012

digitalparentingrussia.com

80% of children

regularly use a computer

Why students choose online learning and their expectations?

• Convenience

• Flexible pacing for completing a program

• Work schedule

• Cost

• Program requirements

• Reputation of institution

• Financial assistance available

• Ability to transfer credits

• Future employment opportunities

• Distance from campus

• Recommendations from employer

What is notable for online students?

• The quality of online instruction is excellent.• Student assignments are clearly defined in the

syllabus.• Faculty are responsive to student needs.• Tuition paid is a worthwhile investment.• Faculty provide timely feedback about student

progress.

Online students are looking for an education that fits conveniently into their personal and work lives with adaptive, self-paced learning

options and an educational experience that meets academic standards.

11. Free-Ed

12. EdX

13. Learn Python The Hard Way

14. Learning Space: The Open University

15. O’Reilly

16. Treehouse

17. Tufts Open Courseware

18. UMass Boston Open Courseware

19. Udemy

20. Udacity

1. Coursera

2. Coder Dojo

3. Codecademy

4. Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative

5. Google Code University

6. Khan Academy

7. Stanford iTunes U

8. MIT Open Courseware

9. Mobiletuts+

10. Mozilla Developer Network

MOOCs: Top sites for free education

with elite universities

ICT allows us to solve a number of problems, allowing us to look at distance learning as

a key resource, offering opportunities to compensatefor social inequalities.

The 15 biggest education trends

1. MOOCs & OpenupEd

2. National and institutional aspects of online teaching and learning

3. Institutional models for online or blended course and curriculum

development

4. Innovations in technology enhanced learning for the future

5. Quality assurance in online and distance learning

6. Good practices of transitions to open and flexible learning

7. Research strand on national and institutional aspects of opening up

education and institutional models for curriculum development and delivery

8. Transforming the learning environment

9. Attract international students, but stay local

10. Collaborate and compete with other universities

11. Alternative credentialing platforms

12. Learning management systems

13. Tablets & smartphones & E-textbooks

14. Nontrivial courses

15. New professions

17 Real-World ways iPads are

being used in education

1. Putting students in charge of the learning experience

2. Replacing textbooks and transcribing lectures

3. Filling teacher shortages in rural communities

4. Providing home internet access

5. Improving math skills

6. Establishing models for large ipad deployments

7. Immersing children in better technology

8. Attracting grant money

9. Expanding on existing pilot programs

10. Helping students with disabilities

11. By students who bring their own ipads to class

12. Improving student engagement results

13. Closing the digital achievement gap

14. Gaining the trust of administrators

15. Expanding their higher ed. presence

16. Making old school supplies obsolete

17. Re-imagining how newspapersare used in class

How Non-Traditional students

are changing education

Our reality

• They’re demanding—and getting—flexibility

• They’re getting schools to accommodate their lives

• They’re driving an expansion in online degree programs

• They’re increasing employer acceptance of online degrees

• They’re showing diversity comes in many forms

Jennifer Williamson, Distance Education.org Columnist

• The students is obliged to attend classes at university

• The only two sources of knowledge are lectures and books

• The student has excellent basic IT skills

• The student is capable to find necessary information by his own

«Student-teacher» «Student-knowledge»

The evolution of educational paradigm

The modern student needs «guide»in the world of knowledge, but not a source of knowledge!

Cloud services

Always at hand –

anywhere in the world

File sharing

News

Open educationalresources

Online Communities

Networking

News subscription,video-channels Video

communications

E-books,

social bookmarking

Communities, blogs, wiki

Social network service as a tool for a modern teacher

http://edudemic.com/2013/04/most-used-education-apps/

• Calendar

• Camera

• Settings

• Dropbox

• ActionNotes

• Wunderlist

The most-used ipad Apps

for teachers

• Evernote

• Comic Life

• Diptic

• Nearpod

• Skitch

• Chrome

• Safari

• Mail

• Photos

• iDoceo

• MyLessonPlan

• Evidence

• Google Drive

• Pages

• Keynote

• Prezi

• Showbie

• Socrative Teacher

A 21st century teacher

• Focus on the student’s point of view.

• Dialogue with your students.

• Re-think how the student interprets your lesson.

• Let students question what they are learning.

• Make it real-life relevant.

• Let students contribute to their learning.

• Facilitate learning as opposed to giving knowledge.

• Have students photograph the world around them.

• Have students make time-lapse videos for later reflection.

• Participate in conference calls around the world your class.

• Let students use their cellphones.

• Have students create movie trailers for introduction to the lesson.

• Be just as teach savvy as your students.

• Have students design and create websites.

• Get students involved with the community.

• Teach students how to discern what is good information and what is not.

• Incorporate seeing things from a different perspective.

• Encourage and entertain all questions.

• Flip the classroom with useful resources.

• Documenting the learning for your reflection and the students’ reflection.

• Learn new ways relate to your students.

• Integrate theatrics into your classroom. Invest in the character you are teaching about.

• Collaborate with teachers from outside your circle.

• Design alternative assessments that use the whole brain.

• Be social.

• Learn, explore, integrate, utilize.

• Use tablets, create apps. for tablets, explore information through the tablet.

http://edudemic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/morphing3.pdf

A 21st century teacher

Our Student needs

was forced to

attend a

teacher’s

courses to record

the materials

the only source

of knowledge is

lectures and

books

student now

student in past

To create

training

materials

To carry out

classroom courses

What a student needs?

Teach him with the

use of IT technologies

already familiar to him

To conduct a student

towards learning

necessary

knowledge

To create new

knowledge

is fluent in basic

IT competence

able to find

himself required

information

doesn’t see the

need to record

lecture material

needs a “guide”

to the world of

knowledge2

Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics

LinkedIn –business social network

Google + - social network

Flickr

Skype

Blogger.com

Foursquare –geolocation

Twitter

Facebook

Virtual worlds Vkontakte -Russian analogue

to Facebook

Social communications of a modern Russian student

Odnoklassinki –Russian analogue to Facebook

Today a new task for teachers – not just toshare their own knowledge with students, their

own point of view, but also to give themthe chance to reach their own conclusions.

The new conditions demand that teachers be

able to build new skills in their students

• self-motivated study

• self-organisation an planning of personal educational processes

• personal working techniques with information resources in the electronic environment

• the readiness to study and gain new qualifications through their lives

High technologies are applied in teaching/learning process

Applications help students:• to get quick and easy access to study materials,

their grades, sports results, etc.• to get University fresh news on the phone (academic,

social, sport)• to create an account in the university social network

as well as to get access to the personal account• to have continuous access to the library catalog,

phone numbers and e-mail addresses of teachers• to use the convenient navigator in the e-campus

Today’s students believe that

the most important advantage of

a modern educational institution is

that it give them the chance to feel

there are no limits to their world of

education, and that it helps them

develop into modern people,

adapted to the realities of this new life.

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Natalia Tikhomirova

Rector, Ph.D, Professor

MESI, Russia

@NTihomirova

NTihomirova@mesi.ru

#MESI