1. Recent & Future Trends in
Open Education
Frederik TRUYEN
KU Leuven

2. Preparing for the mobile knowledge
worker

3. Knowledge economy
Peters, M. A. (2010). Three Forms of the Knowledge Economy: Learning, Creativity and
Openness. British Journal of Educational Studies, 58(1), 67-88.
Learning economy
Bengt-Åke Lundvall
Open
knowledge
economy
Yochai Benkler
Creative
economy
Charles Landry,
John Howkins,
Richard Florida

4. Knowledge views
Traditional view
• Knowledge is a requirement
• Knowledge is a commodity
• Knowledge is an effect
• Knowledge is measured in
output
Today
• Knowledge as a task
• Knowledge as responsibility
• Knowledge as a resource
• Knowledge as an asset
• Knowledge as a matrix

5. The New Creativity
– User-generated content
– The Long Tail
– Folksonomies, Social Bookmarking
– Syndication, mashups
– Crowd Sourcing, hacking

6. New visions on Learning
• George Siemens, Stephen Knowles stress the
collaborative creation of knowledge in a
network (Connectivism)
• Harry Collins highlights the importance of
tacit knowledge and interactive expertise
• Importance of informal learning, on-the job
learning, LLL

7. The 4 R's of Openness
– Reuse—The most basic level of openness. People are allowed to use all
or part of the work for their own purposes (e.g. download an educational
video to watch at a later time).
– Redistribute—People can share the work with others (e.g. email a digital
article to a colleague).
– Revise—People can adapt, modify, translate, or change the form the
work (e.g. take a book written in English and turn it into a Spanish audio
book).
– Remix—People can take two or more existing resources and combine
them to create a new resource (e.g. take audio lectures from one course
and combine them with slides from another course to create a new
derivative work).
David Whiley

8. OpenCourseWare
– Learn Any Time, Any Place, Any Pace
– Discover
– Collaborate
– Exchange
– Contribute
– Share
– Take responsibility

9. • 4 C’s of 21st Century skills
– Creativity
– Communication
– Critical Thinking
– Collaboration
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KMM387HN
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10. Widening Participation
• From participation in education to
participation in knowledge development and
the creation of meaning
• Reaching out to professional communities
• Connecting with other professional practices
• Bridging Cultures
• Building the Knowledge Society
• Fostering the Creative Class

11. Recent and Future Trends
Linked
Data
Rich
Content
Rich
Use
Learning
Analytics
MOOCs
Learning
Commons
Personal
Learning
Environment
Certification
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12. Maerlant Centre
Rich Content, Rich Use
• Automation
– The computer network acts on the content, it plays a role in content selection
– Information selection through metadata (tags): Resource Description
Framework
– >> Rich Content
• Socialisation of the web
– The web connects people. It allows peer-to-peer knowledge development
– Information selection through the social network, e.g. social bookmarking
– >> Rich Use

13. Linked Data
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Slide: Stefan Gradmann

14. MOOC
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15. Learning Analytics
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16. Personal Learning Environments
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17. Learning Commons
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AGORA KU Leuven
http://bib.kuleuven.be/agora

18. Perpetual Learning …
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19. Certification
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