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Challenges for Education on the Cloud
Creating a Cloud Computing Strategy for European Education Karl Donert, Director: Innovative Learning Network Ltd.
Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-earth.eu [email protected]
Do we need a Cloud Computing Strategy in European Education?
Does the Cloud (in education) really matter?
Society might never be the same
Cloud Computing
Norman, D. A. (1998). The invisible computer: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So Complex, and Information Appliances Are the Solution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Technological maturity
Learning inreal and virtual
contextsHow should education
respond?
Disruptive Innovation
Disruption: threats and consequences
Threats• Chaos – instability -
change routine• Initial investment • Resistance – fear • Loss of control • Ownership - security• Quality
Consequences• New learning processes• Change administration• Different decision
making• Integrated ecosystems• Exchange of knowledge • Better assessment
Disruption: opportunities • Full control – monitoring
learning process / outcomes• Adjust expenditure• Improve organisation• Systemic change –
different roles• Move forward – better
assessment
• Empowering• Motivating – exciting –
attractive• Flexible organisations• Competitive• Optimising – greater
efficiency
Constructive disruption
School on the Cloud Network
http://www.schoolonthecloud.net/@schoolon_cloud
https://www.facebook.com/SchoolOntheCloudLinkedin group schooloncloud-7426807
Digital Agenda (https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/)
Europe’s Digital Future
DG CONNECT: European Cloud Computing Strategy
ETSI: Cloud Standards CoordinationThe Cloud Select Industry Group on Service Level AgreementsENISA: European Cloud Computing Strategy - SecurityDevelopment of model 'safe and fair' contract terms and conditionsThe Cloud Select Industry Group on Certification SchemesThe Cloud Select Industry Group on Code of ConductEstablishing a European Cloud Partnership
http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/cloud-computing-strategy-working-groups
DG CONNECT: European Cloud Computing Strategy
DG CONNECT: European Cloud Computing Strategy
• ”Unleashing the Potential of Cloud Computing in Europe”
• outlines actions to deliver a net gain of 2.5 million new European jobs, and an annual boost of €160 billion to the European Union GDP (around 1%), by 2020 – SME focus
• designed to speed up and increase the use of Cloud Computing across all economic sectors
So far, educational perspectives are not included
European Cloud Partnership
• Established in 2012• Interested in certification, standards,
interoperability, open science cloud, the digitalisation of industry
• Led to policy recommendations• Cloud-for-Europe (C4E) initiative for public
administration• HNScicloud focusing on the Cloud for public
research and innovationEuropean Cloud Partnership, https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/european-cloud-partnership
skills and jobs were included
• Agenda for New Skills and Jobs - Europe 2020• Digital Agenda Action 68 – mainstream elearning• Communication on Rethinking Education, skills
for better socio-economic outcomes, scale-up ICT• Communication on Opening Up Education: setting
a European agenda for new ways of learning• Learning and skills for youth, DG CONNECT• Education, Audiovisual and Culture, eTwinning,
Open Education DG EAC
ICT in Education Policy
Where do we go for Cloud Computing in
education initiatives?
http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1223&langId=en
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Bratislava eSkills Declaration 2016 http://tinyurl.com/zlck4a6
• Foster digital skills training programmes• Harness industry-led education• Accelerate labour mobility for digital jobs• National Digital Skills and Jobs Coalitions
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Bratislava eSkills Declaration, 2016 http://tinyurl.com/zlck4a6
• Raise awareness of key enabling technologies in the digital single market and digital career opportunities
• Maturing the ICT profession• EU funds dedicated to upskilling initiatives and
training platforms • Encourage better gender balance
Capacity for change: sustainable implementation and progressive scaling up (of ICT-enabled innovative learning environments) EC Joint Research Centre (2012)
Europe needs to scale up educational uses of ICT
European Commission ‘learning research’
Creative classrooms
JRC (2012) "Challenges of implementing Creative Classrooms practices”, http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/documents/_6_Etwinning_WS1_March2012.pdf, eTwinning conference, Tampere Finland
eTwinning
Up-Scaling Creative Classrooms in
Europe (2011-2013)JRC (2013), http://is.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pages/EAP/SCALECCR.html
Euractiv, http://tinyurl.com/zhllrtm
756,000 jobs can’t be filled
Europe is behind
• fast Internet access = digitally literate workforce• make fastest connections in schools, and other
major places where people gather• provide free wi-fi in cities around the EU • BUT with a desperate plea for better
technology education
Euractiv, http://tinyurl.com/zhllrtm
DG Education & Culture
Digital Strategy for Schools 2015-2020: Enhancing Teaching, Learning and Assessment, https://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Policy-Reports/Digital-Strategy-for-Schools-2015-2020.pdf
Cloud not an EU or national education
priority
• Cloud Computing is used as THE delivery method for IT services in education
• wide range of customised solutions and individual / collective actions
• Piecemeal, nothing coordinated• some teachers and learners are enjoying
education benefits
Education on the Cloud 2015: State of the Art
European Success• universities are thriving in strong
partnerships with regional institutions. • education is ‘in’ … to help solve global
problems • automation and data-intensive science• from open access to radical open access • cities are laboratories of democracy
Three Guiding Principles
… on thinking about what Europe’s knowledge institutions must do to prosper:
Principle 1: OpennessAn open knowledge system in Europe
Principle 2: ExperimentationFlexibility and experimentation in innovation
Principle 3: CooperationEuropean-level cooperation
Our Vision
Leaders, managers, teachers, learners, parents integrated as one - in a
dynamic, Cloud-based environment, for lifelong learning
What sort of education do we want from the Cloud?
http://tinyurl.com/socfuture
Change Management
A Cloud Strategy for European
Education
Cloud Computing is vital for education
A Cloud Strategy for European
Education
Cloud Computing is vital for education
Education is vital for Cloud Computing
Indicators of Cloud Readiness for education
EstablishCapability
…. a framework describing what is needed for people to thrive in a Cloud-based education environment
Jisc, Digital Capability https://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/building-digital-capability
e-Leadership in SMEs• EU initiative: e-leadership
scoreboard and index• monitor and benchmark• indicators on business, policy
infrastructure, related outcomes • need for metrics and practices to
understand e-leadership• identify role models • How policies affect practice
e-Leadership
Business 2016
Where is Cloud Computing in EU 2016?
Cloud Computing: enabling a Digital Europe
Public Administration 2016
SMEs 2016
Health 2016Transport, Energy 2016
Industry 2016Research 2016
Science 2016
Cloud Computing 2016
Environment 2016
University Education 2016
School Education 2016
Business 2016
Where is Cloud Computing in EU 2016?
Cloud Computing: enabling a Digital Europe
Public Administration 2016
SMEs 2016
Health 2016
Vocational Education 2016
Transport, Energy 2016
Industry 2016Research 2016
Science 2016
Cloud Computing 2016
Environment 2016
Cloud Survey ResultsEducation policy makers MUST: • Encourage the development of a 'culture of innovation' at
system level, removing the fear of change and supporting decision-makers, teachers, and other stakeholders when taking sensible risks and trying new things
• Make sure that technological Cloud innovation in formal education settings is part of a wider transformation agenda, which includes pedagogical and organisational innovation
Cloud Survey ResultsHead teachers MUST: • Motivate, support teachers to make their innovative
Cloud-based practices more visible to others• Support teachers making it easier for them to
participate in professional networks on using the Cloud
• Ensure that all learners have equal and ubiquitous access, in and out of school
Cloud Computing in EducationSchool on the Cloud Brussels Declaration
Call on the European Commission to prioritise Cloud Computing in Education, so that
Access to Cloud Computing in education is considered a basic necessity for all.Cloud Computing provides ‘connected education ecosystem’ – a 24/7/365 learning community which involves all stakeholders.Developments start from a clear pedagogical concept – based on 21st century skills and Cloud literacy
Cloud Computing in EducationSchool on the Cloud Brussels Declaration
Call on the European Commission to prioritise Cloud Computing in Education, so that
The Cloud can be used to create your own personal learning network.
Educators are prepared for different roles based on
the paradigm shift
Initiatives pay attention to quality – not abundance.
Cloud Computing in EducationSchool on the Cloud Brussels Declaration
Call on the European Commission to prioritise Cloud Computing in Education, so that
• Clear European policies are developed to support Cloud-based innovation in education
• European funding is made available for Cloud Computing education initiatives
• An evidence-based monitoring system is established to benchmark achievements across Europe.
Summit Conclusions• Paradigm shift (fundamental change in methods of
delivering education) (Koutsopoulos & Kotsanis, 2014)
• Vision = Cloud-based learner-centred ecosystem• Exploit powerful services (Gonzalez-Martinez et al., 2015) • Create quality learning experiences (Silva & Donert,
2015)
• Demonstrate leadership (at EU level), policies and programmes for School on the Cloud
• Need a Cloud Computing in Education strategy
Why is Education important?
Cartoons from: http://cloudtweaks.com/category/cloud-computing/cartoon/
Presentation @ http://tinyurl.com/soc-declaration
Education could be so different today..
Presentation @ http://tinyurl.com/soc-declaration Cartoons from: http://cloudtweaks.com/category/cloud-computing/cartoon/
