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Thinking about key uncertainties for the future of education We invited a number of international thought leaders to identify what they believe to be key uncertainties for the future of education and to share these thoughts by recording a short video signpost. We hope that these video contributions will be a catalyst for you to start thinking about the drivers of change and key uncertainties in your own context. Select a few of the video signposts from the contributions below. View the videos you have chosen and share your own thoughts by posting on twitter or WEnotes. Optional: Consult the background reading(s).

Terry Anderson

A free content video streamed from Vimeo Terry Anderson, Athabasca University. In this video signpost Terry Anderson reflects on three key uncertainties: Impact of the Internet on two forms of interaction in open distance learning: The Internet has facilitated radical reductions in the cost of production and dissemination of resources to support student-content interactions and digital technologies facilitate adaptive interactions impacting on student-teacher interactions and issues associated with "deskilling" the role of the academy. Authenticating and credentialing of learning referring, for example, to the growing reluctance among learners and employers to rely on traditional models of assessment for authentication of learning. Impact of social networking on teaching and learning referring to what might happen when learners begin to leverage the potential of social media in support of their learning. Share your thoughts on this video by posting on twitter or WEnotes. Remember to include the hastag "#SP4Ed" in your post, for example: I agree with Terry on .... b/c #SP4Ed I don't think Terry's point about ... is ... #SP4Ed Terry's point about ... made me think of ... #SP4Ed Additional thoughts? Note: If you want to say more than the 140 character limit of a microblog post, feel free to use the open forum or your personal course blog (Remember to label or tag your post with "SP4Ed"). Background reading Miyazoe, M., & Anderson, T. (2010). The interaction equivalency theorem. Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 9(2)

Biography Dr Terry Anderson is professor in Distance Education at Athabasca University and previously Canada's Research Chair in Distance Education. Terry has published extensively in the area of distance education and educational technology.

Ray Schroeder

A free content video streamed from Vimeo Ray Schroeder, University of Illinois Springfield. In this video signpost Ray Schroeder highlights three key uncertainties: The economic downturn and associated funding of education - will it turn around? Ray suggests that the economic downturn is the source of quickening changes in education in particular governments reducing financial commitments to supporting higher education around the world. The advent of "faculty-free" universities relying on assessment of work experience and (perhaps) OER for learning. In particular the phenomenon of competency-based assessment for degrees without instruction. The shrinking number of faculty members who create and update our new learning materials for education. Share your thoughts on this video by posting on twitter or WEnotes. Remember to include the hastag "#SP4Ed" in your post, for example: The recession in HE means .... b/c #SP4Ed I think degrees without instruction ... #SP4Ed We need faculty because ... #SP4Ed Additional thoughts? Note: If you want to say more than the 140 character limit of a microblog post, feel free to use the open forum or your personal course blog (Remember to label or tag your post with "SP4Ed"). Background reading Disrupting the Degree? Credentialing in 2023 The Recession Realities in Higher Education blog The Online Learning Update blog

Biography
Ray Schroeder is Associate Vice Chancellor for Online Learning, Director of the Center for Online, Learning, Research and Service (COLRS) and Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of Illinois Springfield. Ray publishes the popular Online Learning Update blog and you can follow Ray on on twitter.

Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić and Sir John Daniel

A free content video streamed from Vimeo Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić and Sir John Daniel. In this video signpost Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić and Sir John Daniel posit OER as a certainty in higher education and highlight three key uncertainties: Open badges as a new bottom-up certification model. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) reflecting on the current herd behaviour of higher education institutions joining the MOOC phenomenon in the absence of an obvious way for institutions to cover the costs of development. Will online learning fly in the East? referring to whether open, distance and online learning will ever become a mainstream delivery model in countries like Arabia and China. Share your thoughts on this video by posting on twitter or WEnotes. Remember to include the hastag "#SP4Ed" in your post, for example: Open badges will / won't .... b/c #SP4Ed MOOCs are / aren't ... b/c #SP4Ed Online learning in the East ... #SP4Ed Additional thoughts? Note: If you want to say more than the 140 character limit of a microblog post, feel free to use the open forum or your personal course blog (Remember to label or tag your post with "SP4Ed"). Background reading UNESCO. 2012. Paris OER Declaration. Paris: UNESCO. Daniel, J. 2012. Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of Myth, Paradox and Possibility, Journal of Interactive Media in Education. Mozilla Open Badges. MOOCs' disruption is only beginning, Clayton Christenson and Michelle Weise, The Boston Globe. Can MOOCs and Universities Co-Exist, The Wall Street Journal. Are MOOCs just Moneymaking Scams?, Campus Technology.

Biographies
Stamenka Uvalić-Trumbić was previously the Chief of the Higher Education Section of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO). She was voted International Higher Education Professional of the Year 2009 by her peers in the International Community of Higher Education (Washington, D.C, January 2010). Stamenka works with Sir John Daniel at the DeTao Masters Academy, People's Republic of China.

Sir John Daniel is Senior Advisor to Academic Partnerships International and Master at the DeTao Masters Academy. Sir John is one of the world's eminent thought leaders in open, distance and technology-mediated learning. Previously he was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning, Assistant Director General of Education at UNESCO and Vice Chancellor of the Open University.

Derek Wenmoth

A free content video streamed from Vimeo Derek Wenmoth, CORE Education. In this video signpost Derek Wenmoth highlights three key uncertainties which potentially suggest a systemic transformation in schooling whereby the focus truly shifts from the system to the learner: Ubiquity - Anywhere, any time and any pace learning. Agency - The "power to act" where the learner is in charge rather than the school or system. Connectedness - Learning as part of a global network using personal learning networks. Share your thoughts on this video by posting on twitter or WEnotes. Remember to include the hastag "#SP4Ed" in your post, for example: I agree with Derek on .... b/c #SP4Ed I don't think Derek's point about ... is ... #SP4Ed Derek's point about ... made me think of ... #SP4Ed Additional thoughts? Note: If you want to say more than the 140 character limit of a microblog post, feel free to use the open forum or your personal course blog (Remember to label or tag your post with "SP4Ed"). Background reading CORE Education's Ten Trends 2013 Derek's Blog - Musings on the impact and use of technology in education and the future of education in general.

Biography Derek Wenmoth is Director of e-Learning at CORE Education, a New Zealand non-profit organisation which provides world-class professional learning and development, research, and thought leadership in the school sector.