New Higher Education for Lifelong Learning

1. New Higher Education for Lifelong Learning Tom van Weert Chair ICT in Higher Education Hogeschool van Utrecht, The Netherlands

2. Traditional Higher Education • Education used to be: • Early in life • For life • Application of “knowledge” used to be: • Later in life • For life

3. New Higher Education • Education is becoming: • Lifelong: Working = Learning = Living • Just in Time, Just Fit, flexible in time and place • Application of “knowledge” is becoming: • Immediate: Working = Learning = Living • For now (not for life)

4. New Higher Education • Role of ICT: • Enabling • Empowerment • Communication • Integrated • Allows merging of personal, private, leisure and work time (IFIP SECIII)

5. Success is in empowerment

6. Success is in networked communication

7. New Higher Education • Why? • Changes in our living environment • New type of professional • New type of organisation • New type of student • How? • Learning as a professional • Virtual learning organisation

8. Changes in our living environmentThe Netherlands • Economical developments • Social developments • Cultural developments • Political developments

9. Flexibility& Technology Operational Knowledge Economical DevelopmentsThe Netherlands • Economy • Change

10. Economy Change Knowledge is like fish: Fresh today, Of no use tomorrow Economical Developments

11. Environment Business specific knowledge Professional learning Business or organisation Economical Developments • Knowledge worker • Learning at the work place

12. Economical Developments Knowledge worker:‘Knowledge creation’ Environment Business specific knowledge Professional learning Business or organisation Customer

13. Environment ‘Knowledge creation’ Business specific knowledge Customer specific knowledge Professional learning Business or organisation Customer Economical Developments Knowledge worker:‘Knowledge creation’

14. Economical Developments • Knowledge worker • Learning • at the work place • Knowledge creation at the workplace

15. Social DevelopmentsThe Netherlands • An ‘enterprising’ society: • ‘Human capital’ • ICT empowers in all dimensions of work • ‘wholeness’ of working life (meaning of life) • ‘enterprising’ society of dynamic professionals

16. Social Developments • ‘Enterprising society’ • Children have busy lives; who do they copy, you think?

17. E-Readiness Ranking 2002 ‘The Economist’ en ‘IBM’ USA Netherlands United Kingdom Switzerland/Sweden Australia Denmark Germany Canada Finland Singapore/Noorwegen Social DevelopmentsE-readiness

18. E-Readiness factors Connectivity and technology infrastructure (8) Business environment (1) Consumer and business adoption (4) Legal and policy environment (<10) Social and cultural infrastructure (6) Supporting e-services (<10) Social DevelopmentsE-readiness Netherlands

19. Zap Culture CuSee you IdIdea IdNo idea W8Wait :-)) Great laugh :-<A bit sad (\0/)Angel in flight <*}}}}}<>Fisch Cultural Developments

20. Cultural Developments • The Ten Commandments • God: • Im No. 1. No pix, plz. • Uz my name nicely. Day7=holy.Take care of mum’n’dad.Don’t kill, scrU round, steal or lie.Keep yr hands (&eyz) off wot isnt yrs. http://www.ship-of-fools.com/Features/frameit.htm?0802/txt_comp3.html

21. Cultural DevelopmentsVirtual communities and cultures

22. Cultural DevelopmentsGlobalisation • Centers of high skill expose attractive novelties • Less-skilled peoples try make these novelties their own, trying to preserve own customs and institutions • Separate civilisations have melted together in a new cosmopolitic civilisation, starting 2500 BC in the Middle-East. • New dimension with improvement of communication  world system (Wallerstein) • McNeill: ‘Rise of the West’

23. Political DevelopmentsEuropean Community • The Lisbon declaration (200) • Transition to a knowledge intensive society • New approach to education and training needed • Http://europa.eu.int/comm/elearning

24. New Higher Education • Why? • Changes in our living environment • New type of professional • New type of organisation • New type of student • How? • Learning as a professional • Virtual learning organisation

25. New type of professional • Knowledge worker • Learning • at the work place • Knowledge creation at the workplace

26. Environment Business specific knowledge Professional learning Business or organisation New type of professional • Knowledge worker • Learning at the work place

27. New type of professional Knowledge worker:‘Knowledge creation’ Environment Business specific knowledge Professional learning Business or organisation Customer

28. Environment ‘Knowledge creation’ Business specific knowledge Customer specific knowledge Professional learning Business or organisation Customer New type of professional Knowledge worker:‘Knowledge creation’

29. New Higher Education • Why? • Changes in our living environment • New type of professional • New type of organisation • New type of student • How? • Learning as a professional • Virtual learning organisation

30. Multi-disciplinary Team work ‘Soft skills’ ‘People skills’ New Organisation

31. Environment ‘Knowledge creation’ ‘Knowledge creation’ Business specific knowledge Customer specific knowledge Professional learning Business or organisation Customer organisation Learning

32. New Organisation • Virtual Learning Organisation • Temporary • Distributed in place • Distributed in time

33. New Higher Education • Why? • Changes in our living environment • New type of professional • New type of organisation • New type of student • How? • Learning as a professional • Virtual learning organisation

34. New student

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36. New student

37. New student

38. New student • Homo Zappiens • Learning should be ‘play’ en ‘fun’ • School is a meeting place, not a learning place

39. New Higher Education • Why? • Changes in our living environment • New type of professional • New type of organisation • New type of student • How? • Learning as a professional • Virtual learning organisation

40. Environment ‘Knowledge creation’ Business specific knowledge Customer specific knowledge Professional learning Business or organisation Customer Modern professionals • Working = Knowledge work = • Learning Knowledge creation

41. Learning as a modern professional • Modern professional • Modern student Droste Effect

42. Knowledge is a construction Capability to apply: Operational Knowledge Environment Institutional knowledge Student learning Institution of Higher Education Learning as a professional

43. Environment ‘Knowledge creation’ Business specific knowledge Institutional knowledge Student learning Business or organisation Institution of Higher Education Learning as a professional Studying = Working

44. New Higher Education • Why? • Changes in our living environment • New type of professional • New type of organisation • New type of student • How? • Learning as a professional • Virtual learning organisation

45. Learning = Knowledge creation Learning = Working Virtual learning organisation Environment Knowledge creation Knowledge creation Business specific knowledge Institutional knowledge Starting Professional learning Business or organisation Institution of Higher Education

46. New Higher Education Example Website: http://www.cetis.hvu.nl/teamleren/

47. Virtual Environmental Consultancy Bureau

48. Virtual learning organisation Wilfried Ivens Open University of the Netherlands

49. Project manager Project worker students Knowledge manager Consultant Cusotmers Communicator InCompany Milieuadvies Management staff Competence advisors helpdesk Examiners Ombudsman Virtual Learning Organisation

50. Learning = Knowledge creation customers orders results coaching company knowledge student teams input 'new' transfer 'old' academic institutions Virtual learning organisation