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Yet Another

Education Revolution?

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José Manuel Martins Ferreira

Vice-rector, University of Porto

(available online at https://goo.gl/4BSWH2)

Sakthi Portugal | 14 de junho de 2017

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Check-in procedure

Three questions:

  • Do you know what MOOC stands for?
  • Do you know what Google Cardboard is?
  • Do you know who is Elon Musk?

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https://goo.gl/4BSWH2

(event # 5502)

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Digital superintelligence?

What consequences for education?

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Roadmap

  • Universities and higher education
  • Digital transformation happens everywhere
  • What about education?
  • Disruption: MOOCs and beyond
  • How can we prepare for the future?

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Universities and

higher education

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University pillars

  1. Research
  2. Education
  3. Outreach

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Normally ranked as shown above for “research-based universities” (but only one of six possible combinations)

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Mission and vision

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Vision: “aims to lead the world in research and education”

Mission: “to expand human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with education”

Mission: “to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.”

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What is a

university?

  • Wikipedia: A university (Latin: universitas, "a whole", "a corporation") is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in various academic disciplines

Source: Wikipedia

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https://goo.gl/RzhcoE

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For how long will academic degrees continue to matter?

https://goo.gl/dnootq

(25.02.2017)

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Digital transformation happens everywhere

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Dematerialization

  • Digital transformation increased enormously over the past 20 years

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The “gig economy”

https://goo.gl/4d87Kv

(05.11.2016)

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Technology and jobs: Good or bad?

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https://goo.gl/4JQN8L

(06.06.2017)

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Technology and jobs: Good or bad?

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https://goo.gl/4BSWH2

https://goo.gl/y8edEi

(10.12.2016)

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Technology and jobs: Good or bad?

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https://goo.gl/PPFGVh

(30.04.2017)

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What about education?

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Gartner’s top ten tech trends 2017

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https://goo.gl/Rlb7Zy

(18.10.2016)

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MOOCs by the

numbers in 2016

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https://goo.gl/nRSBdv

(25.12.2016)

Providers by registered users:

  1. Coursera: 23 million
  2. edX: 10 million
  3. XuetangX: 6 million
  4. FutureLearn: 5.3 million
  5. Udacity: 4 million

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But there’s good and bad...

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https://preply.com/

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There’s bad…

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http://monorean.com

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And even worse...

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Slate, May 2015

(https://goo.gl/XsXdPf)

NYT, May 2015

(https://goo.gl/UsfwXr)

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https://goo.gl/mp8zNR

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Sci-Hub: 62.000.000+ papers “bypassing publisher paywalls”

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http://sci-hub.cc

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Sci-hub is used everywhere

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https://goo.gl/S4hrLF

(28.04.2016)

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Disruption:

MOOCs and beyond

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On the importance

of degrees...

https://goo.gl/LQZ3uJ

(Global Employability University Ranking 2015)

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How far is the digital superintelligence?

https://goo.gl/4BSWH2

https://goo.gl/EyBYsS

(31.05.2017)

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Will teachers be replaced by bots in the digital superintelligence world?

https://goo.gl/mT8Mch

(10.05.2016)

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Not just “teachers”...

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https://goo.gl/Vx9rO6

(25.12.2016)

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Robots in

education

https://goo.gl/4BSWH2

https://goo.gl/9YmZi7

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Softbank’s

vision

https://goo.gl/6A67MN

(09.06.2017)

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How can we

prepare for the future?

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Call for

funds...

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https://goo.gl/Ze9lcz

(27.02.2017)

https://goo.gl/bQIuTq

(20.05.2017)

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European perspective

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https://goo.gl/JaqnOo

(31.05.2017)

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edX: Innovations in credentialing

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https://goo.gl/FUspBE

(Caroline Mol (edX), Re-Inventing the Future of Higher Ed, June 2016)

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UK higher education

https://goo.gl/4BSWH2

https://goo.gl/uVRpqn

(06.07.2016)

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Distance education portal @ U.Porto

https://goo.gl/4BSWH2

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Thanks for your attention

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José Manuel Martins Ferreira

Vice-rector, University of Porto

(available online at https://goo.gl/4BSWH2)

Sakthi Portugal | 14 de junho de 2017