NEW DIMENSIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND 21ST

CENTURY TEACHER EDUCATION

KEYNOTE ADDRESSDr. Jagannath K. Dange

Department of EducationKuvempu University

ShankaraghattaDist: Shimoga,

Karnatakajkdange@gmail.com

http://jkdange.blogspot.com

Higher Education

Primary objectives: such as employability, enhancing the earning potential, seeking and advancing knowledge and wisdom, research and experimentation.

Secondary objectives: like attaining mental and spiritual growth, engaging in quest for the unknown, facilitating better lifestyle, and developing scientific outlook.

Growth of Higher Education in India

At the time of independence……… we had only 20 universities and 695 colleges

but today we have 785 universities where as

colleges have increased to more than 38,000. Out of total colleges, four per cent are

Education colleges. India's one of the major wealth is youth (18-40

years of age) which presently stands at almost 80 crore, 62% of the total population (127 crore, male 65.6 crore and female 61.4 crore).

Indian higher education system is one of the largest in the world.

New Dimensions in Higher Education

Education is dynamic process which changes from time to time.

In the present era it is very essential to know the changes which happened in the higher education in general and teacher education in particular.

Unless we understand the changes, it would be difficult to consider the dimensions for the 21st century higher education and plan for the expectations for the century.

Hence there is a dire need to consider the new dimensions for the higher education.

The changes which can be considered for framing new dimensions are,

Growth in the Population, Knowledge Expansion, Technology Revolution, Change in the value pattern, new theories and methods, change in methods of teaching, Global competition, Redressal of Inequality and sustainable development.

New Dimensions in Higher Education

1. Branding, Openness and academic Quality:An educational brand is often equated to an institution's academic reputation.two major components:

(1) promotion of the brand and (2) delivering on the promise of the brand.

Openness: Education Is Sharing. knowledge and information.

OER, Open Access (OA), Open Source and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are regarded as forms of openness

Academic quality is the educational outcomes rather than academic resource measures.

2. Access, Cost and Quality

3. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Education is an essential tool for achieving

sustainability. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) promises to make the world more livable for this and future generations.

Strategic Perspectives to Inform Education and Learning for Sustainable Development

Socio-cultural perspectives: Human rights, Peace and human security, Gender EQUALITY, Cultural diversity and intercultural understanding, health, and Governance.

Environmental perspectives: Natural resources (water, energy, agriculture, biodiversity), Climate change, Rural development, Sustainable urbanization, Disaster prevention.

Economic perspectives : Poverty reduction, & accountability, Market economy

4. Other dimensions:

Growth in the Population: Information Explosion: Technology Revolution: more devices, strategies,

methods and techniques. Change in the value pattern: Teachers have to

understand, adjust and nurture among the learners. New theories and methods: Due to the

experiments and explosion of knowledge new theories.

Change in methods of teaching: the Students are Central to the Educational Process.

Global competition: Globalization. Anybody can learn anywhere and (Teach) work anywhere in the world.

Redressal of Inequality: the Religion, caste, creed, Race, regional, special children group and language inequalities.

Teacher Education for 21st century: Indian Teacher Education has been

strengthened a lot during the past couple of years. The NCTE efforts are indeed appreciable.

The Teacher Education has been struggling to strengthen its identity. There are issues and resolves, problems and solutions, puzzles and pathways.

Teacher education for 21st century needs to be improved and strengthened.

Reflections on some of the issues concerning Teacher Education in India are discussed in the following

The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) has observed that teachers are the single most important element of the education system and the country is already facing a severe shortage of qualified and motivated teachers at different levels.

The training of teachers is a major area of concern at present as both pre-service and in-service training of teachers are extremely inadequate and poorly managed in most states.

Pre-service training needs to be improved and differently regulated both in public and private institutions.

NCTFE 2009 emphasised ICT in schooling as well as e-learning became centre stage in the frame work.

  ICT has become an integral part of

today’s teaching learning process.

Brand Inequity: There is Public Private Dichotomy in Teacher Education. The Teacher Education Degrees conferred by the various universities and institutions are non-comparable.

Quality Crisis: There are wide gaps between expected and actual quality. This gap is widening day by day

Overgrowing Establishment: Establishment of the Teacher Education centers have over grown in most of the states. There is a need to have demand and supply estimates.

Mismatching Teachers: Merit is destroyed due to mismatches between Teacher Educators and Teacher Trainees. Quality teachers can be developed through skilled and competent Teach or Education professionals who have passion for profession.

Poor Integration of Skills : All the skills, such as, Life Skills, Techno-pedagogic skills, Techno-Savvy skills, Info-Savvy skills, Emotional Skills, Human Development skills, Spiritual Skills need to be integrated in Teacher Education.

Alienated(separate) Modes of Education: There is little parity amongst various modes of education, such as, distance mode, e-mode, and face to face mode.

Little contribution to Higher Education : Teacher Education has made very little contribution to Higher Education.

Good old Philosophies: Old theories and old philosophies particularly, in Social Sciences are going obsolete. There is a need to build problem specific instantaneous theory.

Identity Crisis: Self disclosure done by the Teacher Education institutions is largely poor.

Lacking Innovations: Personalized Teacher Education, holistic Teacher Education, Specialized Teacher Education, and even Integrated Teacher Education are rarely found.

Inadequate Technology Infusion: Teacher Education Programs traditional and Pace of modernization is very are large, not yet been infused the technological innovations for transacting the education.

Little Choice Base: the choice is very limited. There is a need to employ CBCS in Teacher Education, which can be realized through e-platforms, and amalgamation of various modes, such as, Face to face, Distance and Electronic. Choice base demands plenty of sources & resources.

Poor Research Scenario: Research in Education is replicate and repetitive. There is a need to be innovative.

Illusive Laboratories: The various laboratories namely, Science Lab, Psychology Lab, Guidance & Counseling Lab, Educational Technology Lab, Computer Lab, and Language Lab are either not there or are mostly in very bad status.

Insufficient Practice Teaching: Though a sizable number of innovative approaches of teaching learning have surfaced, such as, participatory, holistic, activity based, constructivistic, interdisciplinary, but the practice teaching is largely primitive/ancient. Bloom's Taxonomy of Instructional objectives has become more or less stagnant.

Rare In-Service and Continuing Teacher Education: Refresher courses are largely for name sake. Adequate provisions need to be made for continuous professional development of teachers.

ICT Illiteracy: a large number of teachers at all levels are ICI illiterate. The students being latest generation are excelling the teachers in ICT, being better exposed to ICT

Blending of Open education Resources: Open Education Resources for Learners & learning – content (geogebra), creativity (hot potato,C map), Evaluation (R-compus and mahara).Learning management system (Moodle & wiki spaces), teachers Managed Communication Platforms ( Classroom 2.0 & Web Quest) Statistical Tools for data processing,

These are need to thoroughly inter-woven into our curriculum and education system.

Technology Integrated Teacher Education:There is Technological revolution in Teacher Education. There is a quick shift from web-1 to web-2 to web-3. We have initiated into Open Education, Open Course Ware, Open Source are, Open Content and Open Research. There are proposals for e-Teacher Education.

Smart Classrooms are emerging, where-in; we have e-learning and e-testing.

Invalid Recognition and Accreditation: There are questions on Recognition of Teacher Education institutions. There are questions even on Accreditation of Teacher Education institutions.

Public Private Partnership in Teacher Education: Teacher Education co-operatively should seek the resources of all sectors- Public and Private.

Inter-disciplinarity and Multi-disciplinarily: Inter-disciplinarily and multi-disciplinary research should be promoted in the teacher education institutions.

ICT and e-learning: Explosive upcoming of ICT

Computers, Networks: Internet and the Web, mobile phone, tablets, E-learning, and on-line learning. Lesson plan-correction- mail, webquest. Discussion groups, Blogs-creation and discussion, Guidance. Website-create and post important events-test, scores and programs, Internet-Google free Books, articles, reports, theses, projects. Google videos- learning theories, discussions, conference discourses. Micro teaching skills- record and make repositories. Mobile phone-SMS-free sms.com,way2sms.com whatsapp, hike,

telegram Facebook, Tweeter Slideshare.com, freeshare.com Radio and TV lessons E-gyankosh, e-content repositories. IGNOU-content, NCERT, NCTE, UGC, DSERT- websites. Virtual classroom, smartboards-whiteboards

MOOCs (Massive Open online Courses) MOOCs are recent development that is reshaping the

trend of higher education on the web. It represents an emerging methodology of online teaching, based on the philosophy of connectivism. “Massive” refers to the large number of students can be engaged in online course, and its “Openness” is associated with software used registration to anyone who has access to web, open curriculum, learning resources and evaluation.

MOOC providers: USA (Coursera, EdX, Udacity), Ireland(ALISON), Germany(iversity), Australia open2study), Japan(schoo), FutureLearn, open courseware, OpenUpEd, KHANACADEMY, educa, saylor.org, MOOC2DEGREE, NovoED, Canvas network, Neodemia, World Education University(WEU), Stanford Online, Eliedemy, EURODL,CLASS CENTRAL, edSurge, EFQUEL, Commonwealth of Learning, Minglebox, Swayam etc

Activity Open Source Alternative Description

Lecture Capture/Podcasting Opencast

Matterhorn

MediaSite Panopto

Matterhorn provides an end-to-end solution from automated lecture capture through processing and distribution.

Videos can also be published to existing public platforms such as YouTube or iTunes.

Captioning, keyboard navigation and screen readers are well supported.

Camstudio Camtasia

Adobe Captivate

iSpring Presenter

Jing

SMART Notebook

CamStudio allows you to make a video of what’s happening on your screen. It will also capture audio from a microphone.

As well as capturing a lecture or presentation, it can be used to record a tutorial or walk through of a system.

Videos can be recorded to AVI, or to SWF for streaming via Flash.

Audacity Windows Sound Recorder

GoldWave

Audacity is a fully-featured audio recorder and editor for Windows, Linux and Mac.

Multiple tracks can be recorded separately and edited together.

Additional audio tracks can be imported.

Files can be saved to a number of formats.

Online Lectures/

Webinars/

Remote Participation

BigBluebutton

OpenMeetings

Adobe Connect

Blackboard Collaborate

Mega Meeting

These systems allow multiple participants to participate in a session via the web.

Users can collaborate on a shared “whiteboard”.

Video, audio and text chat are supported.

Users can share presentations and applications from their screen with other users.

Video Streaming MediaGoblin

Plumi

Kaltura

Planet eStream

ClickView

MediaCore

vShare

PHP Motion

These products provide a locally-hosted “YouTube” style system.

Users can upload videos which are converted into a streamable format and shared.

Users can rate and comment on videos.

ASSESSMENT

High-stakes assessment

Rogo

(formerly TouchStone)

QuestionMark Rogo aims to provide an online assessment system with a focus on consistent quality, usability and security.

The system supports informal progress tests and surveys, self assessment, as well as formal exam papers.

Features for managing the assessment life-cycle are included, such as standards setting and peer review of papers.

CLASSROOM TOOLSSolution Software Consider as

Alternative toComments

Interactive Whiteboard Software

Opensankore SMART Notebook

Promethean ActivInspire/ActivOffice

OpenSankoré provides an interactive cross-platform interface for whiteboards, touch tables, or any type of computer.

Whiteboard-style drawing is supported, as well as inserting documents and media.

The environment’s functionality can be extended by the addition of Widgets.

Film/Media Production

KDEnlive PiTiVi Blender Evidemix Openshot Cinerellac

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Windows Movie Maker

Final Cut Pro

Adobe Premiere

KDEnlive and PiTiVi are fully featured multi-track non-linear video editors.

Google forms: Survey documents, get online response Processed to Excel Lime survey software: directly processed to SPSS Surveymonkey-preparing surveys.

Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Teacher Education Online certificate courses. www.cctionline.org

  www.Temoa.info Computer assisted assessment: Hot potatos Online assessment: ebox, myexambox Exelearning.net- OS windows based e-lg platform to create

website-content creation and putting Word claud OS To create graphics (tagul software)

National Knowledge Network-500mbps free to all schools

E-journals: www.e-journals,org/ , http://www.sciencedirect.com/, www.doaj.org

Reduce the hard work make to work smartly.

What we require is teacher with blend of education principles, educational software. - Computer teacher at B.ED. Colleges.

Shifting role of the Teachers in present scenario

Encourage Thinking: The information Provider: The Role Model: Teachers as a Facilitator: Teacher as a Participant in the Learners

Efforts: Teacher to Find his Own Teaching Style: Recognize Himself as a Professional: Be Sensitivity to Student's Needs and

Problems:

The Stanford centre for innovations in learning(SCIL): Effective teacher includes being

Concerned Committed Creative Competent

An educational system can be as good as its teachers

Who is a teacher? One who dares to teach and never

cease to learn

THANK YOUDr. Jagannath K. DangeDepartment of EducationKuvempu UniversityShankaraghattaDist: Shimoga, Karnataka

jkdange@gmail.comhttp://jkdange.blogspot.com