Charles van der Haegen's List: Future of Education

"Waldorf (Steiner) education is a humanistic approach to pedagogy based on the educational philosophy of the Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy, which regards the human being as composed of body, soul, and spirit.
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Waldorf pedagogy distinguishes three broad stages in child development. The early years education focuses on providing practical, hands-on activities and environments that encourage creative play. In the elementary school, the emphasis is on developing pupils' artistic expression and social capacities, fostering both creative and analytical modes of understanding. Secondary education focuses on developing critical understanding and fostering idealism. Throughout, the approach stresses the role of the imagination in learning and places a strong value on integrating intellectual, practical, and artistic themes."

"The Challenges (and Future) of Networked Learning

[Sept] 05, 2014
Seminar presentation delivered to , Online, to Medellin, Colombia, via Vidyo.

A conversation about challenges (and future?) of networked learning. A broad understanding of the meaning and potential of networked learning can help educational institutions to rethink their role beyond the provision of LMS and centralized information systems. What skills are needed? What happens if we don't develop them? What kind of technology supports the development of said skills? What’s the relation between this and issues of information property and citizenship in a digital context (POSSE models, Indie web movement)?"

"This position paper explores the ambiguity of technology, toward refined understanding of Educational Technology. The purpose of education is described by John Dewey as growing, or habitual learning. Two philosophical conceptions of technology are reviewed. Dewey positions inquiry as a technology that creates knowledge. Val Dusek offers a “consensus definition,” a systems approach to technology that merges into social construction theory and actor-network theory, both of which emphasize complex relations between humans and technology. Using Dewey and Dusek as reference, literature related to Educational Technology is reviewed. A history of its definitions and conceptions of hard (material) technology and of soft (process) technology are examined. Three brief case studies reveal a bias toward hard technology in contemporary discourse. A misconception that soft technology begins with pre-authenticated knowledge is identified and shown to obscure the reciprocity between technology and the intellect."

See also Stephen downes comments here

"The concept of 'technology' has two facets: one is 'hard' technology, which focuses on the actual tools and hardware. The other is 'soft' technology, which focuses on methods, theories, or practices. This is the basis of AECT's definition of technology, writes Arun Lakhana in this engaging paper. But, "why does the AECT limit their current definition of soft technology to: 'human-made processes that systematically apply scientific knowledge'?" Why, in other words, is it rooted in systems that are, essentially, exclusively a priori and inflexible? "The AECT’s linear model, “input→process→output,” is easy to digest. However, it fails to account for the hidden agentive potential for processes to transform their inputs, as in Dewey’s theory. A more appropriate diagram might not only feedback on itself (connecting output back to input), but feedback also within itself: 'input↔process↔output.'" Quite so. But making this change in itself changes the definition from 'system', which is unidirectional (toward objectives or goals) to 'network' (which does not presume a priori objectives or goals). Anyhow, great paper, engaging, and carefully crafted."

"International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE)

The International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) is the leading global membership organization for open, distance, flexible and online education, including e-learning, and draws its membership from institutions, educational authorities, commercial actors, and individuals.

ICDE has consultative partner status with UNESCO and shares UNESCO’s key value – the universal right to education for all. ICDE further derives its position from the unique knowledge and experience of its members throughout the world in the development and use of new methodologies and emerging technologies.

ICDE was founded in 1938 in Canada as the International Council for Correspondence Education and today has members from over 60 countries worldwide.

ICDE's Permanent Secretariat is in Oslo, Norway, and has been hosted by this country on a permanent basis since 1988. ICDE is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research and by membership fees. "

"The price of a year at college has increased by more than 1,200 percent over the last 30 years, far outpacing any other price the government tracks: food, housing, cars, gasoline, TVs, you name it. Tuition has increased at a rate double that of medical care, usually considered the most expensive of human necessities. It has outstripped any reasonable expectation people might have had for investments over the period. And, as we all know, it has crushed a generation of college grads with debt. Today, thanks to those enormous tuition prices, young Americans routinely start adult life with a burden unknown to any previous cohort and whose ruinous effects we can only guess at."

"Published on Sep 28, 2012

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"Uploaded on Apr 18, 2011

Note: This series is a follow up to Bruce Lipton's - The Biology of Perception talk http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

Rob Williams, M.A. and Originator of PSYCH-K, discusses how beliefs determine your biological and behavioral realities and shows how to establish communication with the subconscious to "rewrite the software of the mind" and facilitate change.

PSYCH-K is a simple and direct way to change self-limiting beliefs at the subconscious level of the mind, where nearly all human behavior originates, both constructive and destructive. Its overall goal is to accelerate individual and global spiritual evolution by aligning subconscious beliefs with conscious wisdom from the worlds great spiritual and intellectual traditions.

Rob Williams has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Philosophy from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Masters Degree in Counseling and Personnel Services from the University of Colorado. He is President of The Myrddin Corporation, and Director of the PSYCH-K Centre International. Rob's life-long exploration of human potential, combined with his background in marketing, advertising, business management -- and 14 years in private practice as a psychotherapist -- provides a practical, results-oriented approach to personal change."

"Published on May 1, 2013

Professor Robert Kegan describes his Hauser Grant project (The lecture in 21st century learning: Reconstructing and revaluing our oldest teaching asset) where he plans to redesign his large lecture course based on active learning strategies but, at the same time, preserving possible benefits of the traditional lecture format."

"New online learning models are bursting from startups and top universities, bridging the educational divide.

We are in the midst of a revolution that will bring high-quality education to hundreds of millions of people who have never had access to this level of learning before.

These tools will reach those in developing cities and countries but also foment a revolution in the U.S. classroom as they change our perception of what learning can be.

Here are the leading new platfoms disupting the education world: "

"he Edge Foundation has produced a report entitled ‘The Skills Mismatch’. It focuses on the disconnect between the education system of our country and the needs of the British economy.

Download full report

Personal remark: Why prepare people for jobs? Why not for life and as citizens?

The report demonstrates how this dysfunction operates at all levels - schools, further education colleges and universities. It suggests if we are to deliver the skills required over the next decade radical changes are needed.

At the school level we need more 14 year old specialist colleges.

We need FE colleges to spawn 14 year old Career Colleges.

And we need universities to attract more STEM students."

"Massachusetts Institute of Technology — a coeducational, privately endowed research university founded in 1861 — is dedicated to advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century. Learn more about MIT. Through MITx, the Institute furthers its commitment to improving education worldwide.

MITx Courses
MITx courses embody the inventiveness, openness, rigor and quality that are hallmarks of MIT, and many use materials developed for MIT residential courses in the Institute's five schools and 33 academic disciplines. Browse MITx courses below."

What is Open Culture’s Mission?
<br />
<br />Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has given us great amounts of intelligent audio and video. It's all free. It's all enriching. But it's also scattered across the web, and not easy to find. Our whole mission is to centralize this content, curate it, and give you access to this high quality content whenever and wherever you want it. Some of our major resource collections include:

"We're empowering learning in the classroom and around the globe

At edX, we believe in the highest quality education, both online and in the classroom.

EdX was created for students and institutions that seek to transform themselves through cutting-edge technologies, innovative pedagogy, and rigorous courses.

Through our institutional partners, the XConsortium, we present the best of higher education online, offering opportunity to anyone who wants to achieve, thrive, and grow.

Our goals, however, go beyond offering courses and content. We are committed to research that will allow us to understand how students learn, how technology can transform learning, and the ways teachers teach on campus and beyond.

As innovators and experimenters, we want to share what we discover. The edX platform will be available as open source. By conducting and publishing significant research on how students learn, we will empower and inspire educators around the world and promote success in learning.

Our aim is to become a leading resource for learners and learning worldwide by staying focused on the goals and principles set forth when forming edX:

Our goals

Expand access to education for everyone
Enhance teaching and learning on campus and online
Advance teaching and learning through research

Our principles

Not for profit
Open source platform
Collaborative
Financially sustainable

EdX is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and is governed by MIT and Harvard.

Want to learn more? Contact us."

"EdX offers interactive online classes and MOOCs from the world’s best universities. Online courses from MITx, HarvardX, BerkeleyX, UTx and many other universities. Topics include biology, business, chemistry, computer science, economics, finance, electronics, engineering, food and nutrition, history, humanities, law, literature, math, medicine, music, philosophy, physics, science, statistics and more. EdX is a non-profit online initiative created by founding partners Harvard and MIT."

"Revisiting Educational Research through Morin’s Paradigm of Complexity

Because it grounds most of my academic work, the reflection developed in this paper follows the epistemological and anthropological critique characterizing the ʺparadigm of complexityʺ proposed by Edgar Morin. It invites us to question the way one conceives changes and transformations broughtby the use of the notion of complexity itself. In this perspective, instead of discussing Jörgʹs paper focusing on the content of his theoretical propositions, my intent is to question and comment on what I interpreted as being some of the implicit assumptions which frame his reflection."

International School of Knowledge, Innovations, Policies and Territorial Practices
for the United Nations Millennium Platform
"The
KIP International School
The School is comprised of a network of experiences, organizations,
specialized centres and universities of interested countries, who intend
to work together to construct new knowledge and develop new tools
for planning and managing development processes. It is based on
existing structures that are involved in development
practice, in
research for innovation and in building capacities of development
actors.
The School provides support to all actors who are working to achieve
the goals and values that the international community
agreed on
through the principal United Nat
ions summits of the past twenty years
(Millennium Platform), recognizing the serious difficulties they
encounter. While on one hand, the platform indicates a path towards
an equitable, participatory, and environmentally sustainable
development, on the othe
r, the reality everywhere continues to be
characterized by excessive competition leading to exclusion, poverty,
social tensions, pollution, irrational use of natural resources and other
dangerous imbalances.
Even those governments and actors most committe
d to implementing
the Millennium Platform find that the ideas and models of action
available to them are inadequate, resulting from the very cultural
patterns that the Platform wishes to overcome. For these reasons, the
International School aims to help id
entify new tools for understanding
the complex and contradictory dynamics of development and new
ways to plan and manage it.
The idea of
creating a School, involving the best experiences being
taken forward by public administrations, institutions, universities,
research centres and social actors in different countries, was first put
forward in a meeting between Edgar Morin and a group of
experts who
inspired the human development cooperation programmes that started
with the United Nations PRODERE Programme in 1989"

"Published on Aug 6, 2012

L'école George Gusdorf a été créée à Paris en 2008. L'objectif de cette école indépendante est d'offrir aux élèves dits précoces, surdoués ou à haut potentiel un environnement qui leur soit favorable sur le plan intellectuel, cognitif et émotionnel. Nelly Dussausse, la directrice de cet établissement, propose une solution nouvelle et des programmes adaptés à des enfants au mode de pensée bien spécifique. Une expérience d'enseignement innovant que l'Education nationale suit avec intérêt."

"About Coursera ®

We believe in connecting people to a great education so that anyone around the world can learn without limits.

Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Our technology enables our partners to teach millions of students rather than hundreds.

We envision a future where everyone has access to a world-class education that has so far been available to a select few. We aim to empower people with education that will improve their lives, the lives of their families, and the communities they live in.
Our Courses

Classes offered on Coursera are designed to help you master the material. When you take one of our classes, you will watch lectures taught by world-class professors, learn at your own pace, test your knowledge, and reinforce concepts through interactive exercises. When you join one of our classes, you'll also join a global community of thousands of students learning alongside you. We know that your life is busy, and that you have many commitments on your time. Thus, our courses are designed based on sound pedagogical foundations, to help you master new concepts quickly and effectively. Key ideas include mastery learning, to make sure that you have multiple attempts to demonstrate your new knowledge; using interactivity, to ensure student engagement and to assist long-term retention; and providing frequent feedback, so that you can monitor your own progress, and know when you've really mastered the material.

We offer courses in a wide range of topics, spanning the Humanities, Medicine, Biology, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Business, Computer Science, and many others. Whether you're looking to improve your resume, advance your career, or just learn more and expand your knowledge, we hope there will be multiple courses that you find interesting. "

"Published on Jan 23, 2013

Peter Senge, senior Lecturer of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 2013, Founder, Society for Organizational Learning"

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L’espéranto à ce jour — 2012/08/30
Dans un monde de plus en plus sensibilisé aux droits des minorités, ainsi qu’à la diversité linguistique et culturelle, apparaît chez les décideurs un regain d’attention pour la langue internationale espéranto. ...
Des organisations et associations non gouvernementales invitent les Nations Unies et l’Union Européenne à aborder la question d’une langue internationale. ...
Le Manifeste de Prague, réaffirmation moderne des valeurs et des objectifs qui inspirent le mouvement espérantiste, souligne l’importance de la démocratie linguistique. ...
Les célébrations du 150e anniversaire de naissance de Zamenhof, l’initiateur de l’espéranto (1859–1917), ont débuté par un symposium au siège de l’Unesco, à Paris, en décembre 2008 ; elles se sont poursuivies dans le cadre du Congrès Universel d’Espéranto de 2009 dans sa ville de naissance, Białystok, pour se terminer par un symposium à New York en présence de diplomates des Nations Unies. ...
À plusieurs reprises, l’Association Universelle d’Espéranto (UEA) a été candidate au prix Nobel de la paix ; le parlement polonais, en particulier, a soutenu sa candidature en 2009. ...
La Société Mongole d’Espéranto est récemment devenue la 70e association nationale reconnue par l’UEA. ...
Il y a des associations d’espéranto dans une vingtaine de pays africains. ...
La ville de Herzberg en Allemagne s’est déclarée « ville de l’espéranto ». ...
La version espéranto de la Wikipédia inclut à ce jour (2012) plus de 170 000 articles. ...
Une encyclopédie de la littérature originale en espéranto est récemment parue en anglais, sous le titre Concise Encyclopedia of the Original Literature of Esperanto : bien que « concise », elle fait plus de 700 pages…

Voici quelques faits additionnels sur l’état actuel de l’espéranto."