Oesis

Blend, Don‟t Break –

Thoughts on the

Changing Instructional

Landscape

Howard Lurie OESIS – October 10, 2013

•Unbundled Schools

• The Platform Land Rush

• More than Rocket Science

Blend, Don‟t Break…

A Highly Selective and Personal Timeline

2012 edX, Open

Source MOOC 2008

OER / DLO / TD

2006 IWB

2004 1:1

2000 wysiwygcampus

1994 MIT

Netscape1992

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1986 8 mm / slides

•Unbundled Schools




Unbundling

Forces driving an unbundling of learning, education,

and schools:

• unprecedented digital tools, platforms and

services

• erosion of public / institutional monopolies

• multiple pathways for school – college –

workplace transitions

• competency based instructional models

challenging time-based models

An Unbundling Framework

M.P. Staton

An Unbundling Framework

M.P. Staton

Unbundled Schools – Implications

Interoperable & visual data

http://hint.fm/projects/wind/

Karen

Cator:

LPS:Learnin

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Position

System


Networked, p2p professional development

https://p2pu.org/en/groups/schools/school-of-open/


Open content meshed with “less than” open

How large systems change: Thoughts on the future of higher education, George Siemens, PhD, September 3,

2013


Which “college” will be for Everyone? 2,4,6,8 years?

• Unbundled Schools




The Platform Land Rush

Education Sector Factbook, 2012

There‟s Gold in demder Hills

After: We‟ve Flipped the Funnel

Same staff resources as 150 person on-campus

class

7,157

Certified8,240

Took the Final9,318

Passed the Mid-Term10,547

Made it the Mid-Term

26, 349

Tried the First Problem Set

154,763

Registered for 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics

Platform Land Rush

Observations:

• All platforms are not

created equal!

• “Delivery” platforms do not

always imply functional

software platforms.

• Platform solutions are only

part of a successful

instructional service model

LMS Market Share, 1997 - 2013

Platform Questions to Consider

• Open source? Open source license?

• Service level agreements

• Business model? Where is the provider going to be in 6, 12,

18 months?

• Interoperability

• Open access / OER

Click to Start or Just Minimize to the

Desktop?

Wait… who has the map? Who has the

compass?

Instructional Questions to Consider

• What are the core instructional goals you‟re trying to

accomplish?

• Does a platform (service, delivery, etc) lead to measurably

significant instructional change?

• What is the research design? How will / can data be used to

improve instruction?

• What will be gained?

• What will be lost?

• Unbundled Schools

•The Platform Land Rush

•More than Rocket Science


A New Coin of the Realm

Flipped and Blended Classrooms

Will it Blend?

More complex than rocket science…

Candace Thille, Schools of Tomorrow, 9/17/13

That‟s what I‟ve spent the last 10 years of my

life doing.

One thing we found is that learning is really

complex…

Once a colleague asked me, „why do you study

learning? We all teach, it‟s not rocket science.‟

Well, actually it’s more complex than rocket

science. Really understanding human

learning at that episodic moment where you

have change in thought is a complex

process

Blended Flavors of the Week

Yes, it will blend, but…

More than Rocket Science…

• Learning engineers – the new instructional designer.

• Invest in faculty development and support; don‟t ignore the

destabilizing realities of blended learning.

• instructional solutions for

instructional problems.

• research driven, but

recognize it‟s still early

days.

Thanks!

Howard Lurie

CS4Ed – Consulting Services for Education

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