eLearning A Global Revolution

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• e-LearningA Global Revolution
• Adnan Badran
• MIT LINC Conference, Dubai
• November 2007  

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What is e- Learning

• Is generally defined as any form of learning
  that utilizes a network for delivery,
  interaction, or facilitation .

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ONLINE learning is the future schooling for
providing education for all and increasing
potential of ICT to meet different educational
objectives
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• Online Learning
• Expands opportunity of education
• Expands quality of learning.
• Increases delivery of learning.
• Improves efficiency of teaching.

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Memory - The Brain

• Old Days Memory
• Central Nervous System
• We used to use the book, managed by a teacher
  store the knowledge in our memory, and retrieve
  them as required. It was an educational system of
  memorization and spoon feeding of information.

• Todays Memory
• Digital Nervous System
• The knowledge is downloaded. The teacher is a
  full-time facilitator to manage information and
  construct knowledge to deliver skills.

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Future of e- Learning

• Nobody has the exact answer  
• Graduates will be exposed to new information in
  one year than their grandparents in a lifetime. 
• Memorizing facts will have lower value, than
  utilizing information for decision-making.

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Future of e- Learning, contd

• Multi-career.
• Change of career.
• Lifelong learning.
• Just-in-Time (JIT) learning.
• Career development learning by the corporate
• Telecommuting learning distance

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Traditional vs. e-Learning
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Potential online-learning Pros
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Potential online-learning Cons
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Potential online-learning Cons Contd
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ICT was the fastest growing technology during the
last decades.Internet has reached 25 or the
world's population, faster than any other
innovation.
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Number of Internet users in the world per
language, 2007
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Internet Penetration Top 10 OIC Countries
Source http//www.internetworldstats.com and
Zoubi (2007)
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Internet Penetration Lowest 10 OIC Countries
Source http//www.internetworldstats.com and
Zoubi (2007)
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What might learning look like in the future?

• Time flexible
• Geography independent
• Competitive cost / value
• Learner-centered
• Technology embracing
• Ethnically diverse

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Creativity and innovations

• Change of schooling from disseminators to
  facilitators of knowledge
• Learning to structure knowledge from avalanche of
  information
• Learning to learn, to think, to analyze, and
  solve problems to create the analytical mind
• To develop the inquisitive mind to discover the
  unknown
• To integrate ICT in the learning process
• Self-learning and long-life learning
• To transfer knowledge into application and
  technology

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ICT-based education

• brain-intensive, knowledge-driven
• Renovate educational system blended integrated
  approach
• Motivate bright students to take up careers in
  technology-enabled education
• ICT for all
• Assistantships, fellowships and training
• North-South and South-South post-doctoral
  programs
• Brain-gains into brain-bank for building capacity
  and excellence

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Entrepreneurs

• Stimulate educational environment to create
  entrepreneurs
• Provide co-op education
• Access to incubators of creative ideas
• Graduation projects
• Provide time and space to nurture entrepreneurial
  trends
• Provide access to information through networks
• Access to venture capital

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Organizations that deliver learning, need to
consider

• Realize what market they serve
• Be responsive to learner needs
• Prove their value to learners
• Listen closely to the needs of business
• Upgrade the quality of instruction
• Look for partnerships with other complementary
  organizations
• Find creative ways to certify learning credentials

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To predict learning for the future

• The corporate will compete directly with colleges
  and high schools.
• Partnerships and mergers between learning
  institutions, publishers, technology providers
  will consolidate for the marketplace.
• Schools and colleges will be taken over or will
  go out of business

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To predict learning for the future Contd

• Role of instructors will be broken down into
  multiple positions curriculum design, content
  delivery, classroom facilitator, learner support,
  etc. His role as a spoon feeder will vanish.
• Top instructors will be hired by the private
  sector for all the positions stated above.
• Fewer students will get the traditional on-campus
  degree, and most will get at least a portion of
  it online and off-campus.
• A much greater percentage of learning (formal and
  informal) will take place online.

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Why do people learn? Many answers

• Work?
• Wealth?
• Economy?
• Development?
• Opportunity?

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Some intellectuals say that most of us make our
living from thin airDo We?
This is exactly what Bill Gates, is doing .
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This is what is happening in the 3rd millennium
generation of wealth is no more farms, lands or
factories, but creativity and ideas
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Jordan InitiativeEducational Reform For
Knowledge Economy Program

• COMPONENT 1
  
• National Strategy and Public
  Relations Campaign
  
• Organizational Change
• Education Decision Support
  System
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Institutional Arrangements
• COMPONENT 2
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  Curriculum Renewal
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  Teacher Training
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  Student Assessment
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  Resources for Learning
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  COMPONENT 3
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  Renovation of Existing Schools
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  Building of New
  Schools
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  Computer Labs and
  Science Labs
• 
  Kindergarten
  Classrooms
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  COMPONENT 4
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  KG Curriculum, Licensing and
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  ECE Teacher Training

Appropriateness of the Substance of
Implementation
ACCESS EQUITY QUALITY
Effectiveness of the Process of Implementation
PLANNING COORDINATION LEADERSHIP
Source Ministry of Education - Jordan
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Finally, What can we do?

• e-learning is a new culture of learning
• Resistance to e-learning is not because of the
  product, but simply because human nature is
  reluctant to innovate and change.
• It is expected that bureaucratic ministries of
  education and governments will gradually accredit
  and recognize e-learning or otherwise they become
  obsolete
• It is us who can implant the technology enabled
  education among our students
• It is us who can change the rules and implant the
  culture of e-learning

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Thank You