The Joinedup Learning Environment

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The Joined-up LearningEnvironment

• Dr Chris Yapp
• ICL Fellow
• Lifelong Learning
• Chris.Yapp_at_icl.com

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Joined-up?

• Local
• Regional
• National
• Global
• PSYCHOLOGICALLY

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Joined-up Thinking

• Joint planning
• to achieve
• Integrated delivery
• supported by
• Coordinated funding
• based on
• Agreed standards

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Rules for Predicting the Future

• Rule 1
• Youll never get there if you dont start
• Rule 2
• You cant get there from here
• Rule 3
• You cant get there anyway

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Interactive Multimedia changes...

• Individual lifestyles
• Work, its location and organisation
• Governmentlocal, regional, national
• Commerce, retail and finance
• Entertainment
• Education
• INSIDE ONE GENERATION

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Why is Education so important now?
Size Of Economy
Information
Industry
Agriculture
1800
1970
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Globalisation Technology

• Minimum skills for living wage rising fast
• Reduced demand for low-skilled workers
• Rapid obsolescence of skills
• State retreat to basic education ?
• Free market for adults?

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A Technology Agenda

• Internet/WWW
• Virtual Reality
• Interactive Media/DVD
• Voice Recognition
• Quantum/Biological/Fuzzy computing
• ATM/DAB/DVB/DTT/UMTS
• Intelligent agents
• Smart devices/homes

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A Learning Agenda

• Lifelong Learning
• Raising standards
• Widening access
• Tackling exclusion
• Tackling disabilities
• Teacher recruitment/ motivation
• Reducing unit costs

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The Logic

• People are for thinking, machines for doing
• If it can be done it can be automated
• If it can be automated it can be done more
  cheaply elsewhere

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Computer Architectures

• Computers attached to networks
• Networked information resources
• Embedded systems
• Information appliances
• Information Utilties

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Values of the Information Society?

• Competitiveness with social inclusion
• Risk management over minimisation
• Lifelong learning for all
• Social Innovation,not technological invention
• Smallish is beautiful
• Participation over representation
• Interdependence over independence
• Value-added with values

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The Policy Dilemma
Speed
Local Determination
Universal Service
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The Policy Dilemma
Speed
UfI-ADAPT ILAs EAZs
Literacy Hour Numeracy Hour
Local Determination
Universal Service
NGFL
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New Life-style patterns
The Traditional Pattern
EDUCATION
TRAINING
WORK
RETIREMENT
The Emerging model
EDUCATION
TRAINING
WORK
LEISURE\RETIREMENT
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Lessons from Industry

• IT is about organisational effectiveness
• Optimising effectiveness comes through
  organisational change
• Re-engineering Education to support Lifelong
  Learning

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Re-engineer what?

• The educational infrastructure
• The curriculum
• The teaching profession

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Learning on Demand

• Personalised, mass-customisation
• User-driven quality
• Teamwork-oriented teaching and learning
• Exams and Qualifications?
• Administration built-in not bolted-on to teaching
  and learning processes

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This implies...

• A Culture of Lifelong Learning
• Access to lifelong learning
• Content to support individual lifelong learners
• A social context for lifelong learning

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Transforming Learning

• Need for Change
• X
• Vision
• X
• Capability
• X
• First Steps

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Raymond Williams

• Education for..
• Understanding
• Adapting to change
• Authorship of change

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Networked Learning Communities
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Community Governance
Voluntary Sector
Private Sector
Public Sector
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Social Innovation in the Industrial Society

• Trade Unions
• Mutuals
• The Co-operative Movement
• Public Libraries
• Local authorities
• Museums and Galleries
• Police

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Social Innovation in the Information Age

• Post Office
• BT
• BBC
• ..

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The National Grid For Learning
Customer Premises Equipment
Distribution Network
Power Stations
Fast track to Universal Access and Competitiveness
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The National Grid For Learning
Customer Premises Equipment schools colleges libra
ries
Distribution Network satellite fibre radio
Power Stations content services
Fast track to Universal Access and Competitiveness
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National Grid for Learning
University for Industry
Public Libraries
Schools/ colleges
National Grid for Learning
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National Grid for Learning
Publishers/ Broadcasters
Museums and Galleries
Agencies
National Grid for Learning
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Learning Bank
Individual Learning Accounts
Credits
Smart Card
Debits
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The Teaching Roles

• Master Teachers
• Learning Resource Managers
• Learning Coaches
• Educational Administrators
• Curriculum Managers
• Staff Development Teachers
• Advice and Guidance Professionals
• Trainees

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This implies.....

• More languages
• Cultural sensitivity
• Media awareness
• Science and Technology awareness/confidence
• Teamworking
• Creativity/innovation
• Learning to learn

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Generic Skills

• Reading,Writing and Arithmetic
• Listening, Speaking, Thinking,Visualisation
• Time and Project management
• Information skills
• Design and presentation
• Problem identification, definition and solving
• Personal knowledge

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Special Educational Needs

• All children have special educational needs
• Technology offers the potential to take the dis
  out of disability
• The potential will only be realised by
  commitment to research and implementation of
  succesful pilots
• New teaching and learning skills?

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The Regional Challenge
Economic Regeneration
Lifelong Learning
Service Delivery
Basis for an Information Society Structure Plan
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Information Society Structure Plan

• Facilitate partnerships
• Reduce cost of bids
• Improve coordination
• Improve value for money
• Manage risk at time of great upheaval

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Economic Regeneration

• Improve quality of investment
• Transition major organisations
• Raise productivity of existing SMEs
• Create new SMEs
• Creative industries
• Improve service delivery to commerce

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Lifelong Learning

• Schools, Colleges,Universities
• Libraries and Museums
• Inhouse training in public/private sector

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Service Delivery

• Services to the citizen
• Education to the learner
• Agencies to industry
• Services to the home
• Citizen to citizen

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Infrastructure

• Public kiosks
• Cable networks
• Other telecomms infrastructures
• Community Web sites
• Support services

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The Information Society Structure Plan
Lifelong Learning
Economic Regeneration
Service Delivery
Information Superhighway
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This implies...

• Teacher as lifelong learner
• Learning as a social experience
• Teaching as a research-based profession
• Personalised curriculum
• Focus on social inclusion
• Globalisation/localisation of learning

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The New Renaissance

• A knowledge-led economy
• Blurring of Arts, Humanities, Science and
  Technology
• Risk and uncertainty
• People first, technology second

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Thought for the Millennium
The generation that is alive today has an
opportunity to design the next
civilization. This is not something given to
every generation.
Douglas S Robertson The New Renaissance (1999)