Picture yourself in 1989, right before the creation of the World Wide Web. Imagine that you knew, before anyone else, the impact that the Internet was going to have. What skills would you say were the most important to teach to the ‘new generation’? This is not an easy question to answer. In many cases,… Read More »
An increasing trend that we hear more and more is the unbundling of higher education. Today many services traditionally being offered within universities can be supported by partner organizations which could assist universities to achieve their goals in a flexible or more cost-effective way. Hereby some trends and transformations that can be helpful to think… Read More »
Today we release a report we prepared for the UNESCO International Bureau of Education (IBE) the evaluation of this education and technology public policy initiative was elaborated for the serie Current and Critical Issues in Curriculum, Learning and Assessment (published in Ginebra, Suiza). Abstract: Plan Ceibal is a multi-stakeholder public policy programme in education and… Read More »
As Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) aims to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 (“inclusive and equitable quality education”), it faces several significant challenges: low student performance, poor teacher training, and high dropout rates. Students in the region spend 2.5 years less in school than the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average. Moreover,… Read More »
‘Future of Education’ #GlobalSolutions Berlin Summit 2018 #EdTechUy, full panel https://t.co/zKOmODk3Y7 @Plan_Ceibal @CIPPEC @RedAprendizajes @IDRC_LAC @T20Solutions @declancurry pic.twitter.com/mcCs0VBmhR — Cristobal Cobo (@cristobalcobo) June 5, 2018 The G20 is an international forum for the governments. Membership of the G20 consists of 19 individual countries plus the European Union (EU). The T20 provides research-based policy advice to the G20, facilitates interaction among its members and the… Read More »
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Luyjld9GfJI&w=700&h=400] Recently I was invited to participate in the Education World Forum (EWF) that takes place every year in London. This is an initiative lead by the British government in partnership with a number of agencies and companies which are working in development and education initiatives. Although, I have participated earlier in this kind of Summit’s … Read More »
Context is critical: The use of #education #technology at home differs from that in the classroom @WISE_Tweets https://t.co/fIcElgVtR9 pic.twitter.com/Ei203mGpSG — Cristobal Cobo (@cristobalcobo) October 29, 2017 (Source: ed.review World Innovation Summit of Education) In different moments of the 20th century, we have witnessed various trends in technology that promised to “revolutionize” education. Nothing can be… Read More »
[slideshare id=81119774&doc=diapositiva01-171023213504] This presentation summarizes some of the key trends in the changing ecosystem of higher education. Rather than a particular adoption of certain technology, a novel certificate or a new business model, what we explore is how the disintermediation of education is changing the boundaries, strategies and infrastructure of universities. The complex phenomena of… Read More »
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run” (Amara’s law) At least during the last ten years (roughly since the launching of the OLPC initiative world wide), several analysts tended to over rate the expectations of educational technologies in education ignoring their… Read More »
The next ‘University of the Future Network’ meeting will be in Hagen (at theFernUniversität in Hagen), Germany (July, 2017). The topic of the meeting will focus on the issues of digitalization: “Universities of the Future: Digital Challenges – the international perspective”. As known, digitalization is gaining more and more relevance on the HiEd agenda, and… Read More »