Pat Utomi

TERTIARY EDUCATION:
Key Drivers, Challenges and the Role of Technology
Prof Pat Utomi
agenda
The capacity Need
The idea of a University
The early triumph in Nigeria
The challenge of Universal access
Underfunding and adapting after convergence and the new way of technology as aid for higher education.
The 1996 idea on micro processing curriculum in Engineering.
Knowledge Society and the Idea of a University: lessons from South Korea and Finland
The role of Tertiary Institutions in Bridging the gap
The challenging situation
Education for the Old world
Education for the New world
Contd….
The power of influence: When educators fail to construct the world
The opportunity:
Online & on-campus = ‘e-learning’
Online & off-campus = online distance learning ‘ODL’
Online and no-campus = MOOCs, OER, informal learning, ≡ LLL?
The Idea of a University
John Cardinal Newmann
Advancement of knowledge through teaching, research examination of students.
The Advancement and diffusion of knowledge for systematic human progress.
Character supports learning and makes it disposed to the Common Good.
Escriva in 1974. Since the problems confronting mankind are multiple and complex (spiritual,
Cultural, Social, financial and physical etc) a University should address challenges.
The Early Triumph
The Ashby Commission
As good as the best in the world
Post war military and the new egalitarianism
of Universal access.
Not Matching with funding in the face of oil
price volatility
Intercontinental Bank Test
One of 4 Locations in Lagos
The Nigerian Immigrations Recruitment Exercise
Tertiary Education as Link for Economic
Growth and Development
Tertiary Educational institutions have the responsibility of
developing capacity for Nigerian industries
The challenge according the former governor of the Central
Bank Of Nigeria, Charles Soludo is that the average graduate
is unemployable.
Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one
thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational.
The reason for the dearth of adequate competencies to drive
the Nigerian state is that the available human resource lack
the right kind of education.
WHY?
The World and Tertiary Education
How do we assess the relevance of our methods
There are enormous challenges with the
growing demand for tertiary education
Poor Infrastructure
Competent Teachers
Cost of Good Education
Access and Availability
Practical Relevance in contemporary times
Imagine having access to some of the best educational content with industry
relevance from some of the highest rated universities in the world and taught by some
of the worlds leading professors absolutely free and from the comfort of your home.
These programmes also gives you the opportunity to interact with over 100,000
professionals from all over the world engaging in the same programme as yourself
From…
To…
Benin
City
North
America
North
Africa
Karachi
Pakistan
Introducing
Mass Open
Online Courses
(MOOCS)
MOOCs…..
are open to anyone – no mandatory qualifications
have no fees for study
have enrolments at start >>> learners at end
have learners who are not students of universities
are fully online
are very lightly tutored & supported
do offer assessment (in various forms)
have low study hours per week, on modules not degree programs
offer ‘certificates of completion’ rather than credits (but…)
are a different business model to traditional Tertiary Education
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MOOCs, RUGIT Edinburgh – Feb 2013
MOOC Goals
1. Offer quality education to the most
remote corners of the world.
2. Help people further their careers.
3. Help people expand intellectual and
personal networks with strong
communities.
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MOOCs, RUGIT Edinburgh – Feb 2013
https://www.edx.org/
Late December 2011 MIT announced edX
Aim of letting thousands of online learners take laboratory-intensive
courses, while assessing their ability to work through complex problems,
complete projects, and write assignments.
October 2013, 76 courses, 29 partners
Pedagogy of edX
As with other MOOC style offerings edX students won’t have
interaction with faculty or earn credit toward an MIT degree.
For a small fee students can take an assessment which, if successfully
completed, will provide them with a certificate from edX.
EdX offers honor code certificates, ID verified certificates, and
XSeries certificates (successfully completing a series of courses)
edX platform used to conduct experiments on how students learn and
how faculty can best teach. Assessing course data, from mouse clicks
to time spent on tasks, to evaluating how students respond to various
assessments.
Pedagogy of edX
Initial edX aim was to improve teaching and learning of tuition paying
on-campus students. Have revised aim to developing best practices to
enhance the student experience and improve teaching and learning
both on campus and online
Pedagogy very similar to Udacity
Regrettably the rich body of research about online learning is not
being used
Focus of edX so far is not on pedagogy but on engineering an open
source MOOC platform
April 2012 Stanford computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne
Koller launch Coursera as an educational technology company offering
MOOCs.
Oct 2013 have 5,112,216 Courserians, 461 courses, and 91 partners
Pedagogy of Coursera
Video lectures, mastery learning, and peer assessment.
Retrieval and testing for learning. Interaction = the video frequently stops,
and students are asked to answer a simple question to test whether they
are tracking the material.
Coursera provides university partners with a flipped classroom. MOOC
handles the lecture, course reading, some assessment & peer-to-peer
interaction for campus-based tuition paying students. On-campus activities
focused more on active learning & instructor help.
Non-tuition paying open participants have no active learning component.
Students are tossed a tidbit of social learning in the form of discussion
forums.
The power of Convergence:
1.Telecommunications
2.Computing
3.Broadcasting
The Concept of Smart Classrooms