Evolution of Pedagogies, Learning Cultures & Organizational Structures in e-Learning Symposium

1. The Evolution of Pedagogies, Learning Cultures & Organizational Staructures Dr Nikitas Kastis Lambrakis Research Foundation & President, MENON Network Advanced Technologies in Education Symposium, Kefallinia, July 2004

2. The Evolution of Pedagogies, Learning Cultures & Organizational Structures, Kefallinia July 2004

3. Technology trends to enhance e-Learning • The pivotal role of Wireless communication protocols and the related hardware as well as software solutions • The expected evolutions in the field of handheld devices, ensuring access to both wired and wireless LANs and 3G networks • The expected developments of Human-Computer Interface technologies and more specifically the handwriting recognition patterns and software systems

4. Market Macro-segment Main Technology Trend Impact Forecast Education (academic) Market Peer-to-peer networking, “Web-services” Training (corporate & public) Market Wireless Networking Home (“consumer”) Market Human-computer interface & Wireless Networking Technology trends to enhance e-Learning

5. Market, Practice and Technology trends E-Learning: a smaller growth than predicted • Slowdown of economic growth and ICT marketgrowth • Effects of population ageing on e-Learning • Increasing personalisation and individualisation • Mergers and acquisitions are slowing down • School segment slowly, but positively evolving • E-Universities: both regional and global • Piracy in education? • Threatened monopolies: the case of Open Source Software • Growing quality awareness • Reuse, VLE, m-Learning: big promises still underdeveloped • Growing integration of services and of e-Learning withface-to-face learning (blended learning)

6. Policy and Research orientations E-Learning policies: from infrastructure to skills and quality of learning • Increasing commitment and coordination within and among EU countries: • e-Government and digital divide • Pedagogical innovation • Flexibility of human capital • The European e-Learning initiative • Increasing synergy and concertation incl. PPPs • Education in policy agendas: increasing awareness, persisting gaps,contradictory trends in Investment in E&T • Spectacular growth, but divergence in research • Gap between research and practice

7. Key messages • E-Learning survived the collapsing e-bubble • Quality is a priority, but different roadmaps • Reuse: big promise • Converging European policies/strategies to meet the needs of quite differently matured national markets • The ambiguous “blended learning” trend • Growing of services with “sandwich functionalities” • Increased Learners acceptance of e-Learning • Coordinated/embedded multi-area policies not to lose focus on e-Learning • Professionalisation of e-Learning institutions • Improving transferability of skills and competencies • Need for a debate on aims and ownership of learning

8. Forecast on Evolution • Growing presence of e-Learning in E&T expenditure • Supply of e-Learning growing at variable paces (higher growth rate in the next 3-5 years followed by a consolidation phase) • Growing importance of services (integrated service provision most likely scenario in the next 5-10 years) • Human factor kept and learning paradigm modified (shift towards support to learners, learner-to-learner communication, social interaction) • Differentiated scenarios expected (in Schools, Higher Education, Vocational and Corporate Training, Home and Informal Learning)