Moving beyond Education 2.0

Posted by John Moravec on Friday, February 15th 2008

Topics: Featured, General
Tags: classroom, education, Education 3.0, entrepreneurs, ICT, knowledge, online, open source, teaching

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There’s a lot of talk about moving to “Education 2.0″ –but, what would Education 3.0 look like?

Here’s my take on the Education 1.0 – 3.0 spectrum:

	Education 1.0	Education 2.0	Education 3.0
Meaning is…	Dictated	Socially constructed	Socially constructed and contextually reinvented
Technology is…	Confiscated at the classroom door (digital refugees)	Cautiously adopted (digital immigrants)	Everywhere (digital universe)
Teaching is done …	Teacher to student	Teacher to student and student to student (progressivism)	Teacher to student, student to student, student to teacher, people-technology-people (co-constructivism)
Schools are located…	In a building (brick)	In a building or online (brick and click)	Everywhere (thoroughly infused into society: cafes, bowling alleys, bars, workplaces, etc.)
Parents view schools as…	Daycare	Daycare	A place for them to learn, too
Teachers are…	Licensed professionals	Licensed professionals	Everybody, everywhere
Hardware and software in schools…	Are purchased at great cost and ignored	Are open source and available at lower cost	Are available at low cost and are used purposively
Industry views graduates as…	Assembly line workers	As ill-prepared assembly line workers in a knowledge economy	As co-workers or entrepreneurs

17 users responded to this post

Alvis Brigis said in February 15th, 2008 at 8:48

Great summary of where education is moving to. Seems you were inspired by semantic web tech, virtual worlds and the trend toward super-connectivity, all of which are of course going to transform education and the world.

For the “Teaching is done” slot, do you also see information “objects” or structures as a key element? I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the semantic web, and it seems that as the quality of the info packaging increases and is facilitated by baby-AI that human-to-info learning will be bettered. Are you lumping this in with tech?

Very cool post.

John Moravec said in February 15th, 2008 at 10:34

Thanks for the comments!

Education 3.0 needs to move away from focusing on information, which can be construed as “objects” by some definitions. Education 3.0 moves more toward the contextual development of information into personal knowledge –which has both tacit and explicit components, making it an intangible that cannot be objectified.

Attending to knowledge as abstract intangibles is the key challenging for both the development of the Semantic Web and Education 3.0. So, yes, the two concepts are closely related and the development of both will be closely intertwined.

Alvis Brigis said in February 18th, 2008 at 13:11

Have you seen this? A startup called Adaptive Blue is launching a product called Blue Organizer (hope I linked that correctly) which, to quote Tech Crunch, “lets you surf things instead of Web pages. It recognizes when a Webpage that you are browsing is about certain classes of things: books, movies, music, stocks, recipes, restaurants, blogs, wine, clothing, electronics, celebrities, musicians, hotels. And it creates shortcuts to other Webpges about that same “thing” (or object).”

To clarify, this is an example of the new sorts of semantic “objects” that have my brain whirling and would seem to transform knowledge into more of an abstract intangible, as you put it. A new human-to-info / info-to-human relationship could emerge were these abstract intanglible objects more or less alive or active if coded with certain characteristics and behavior. –Twine.com (by Nova Spivack) is a fledging app that seems to be more focused on the behavior of information packets or twines.– If these “objects” get smart enough then perhaps we will be able to teach them and they to, reciprocally, teach us?

In case I butchered the insertion above, here’s the Adaptive Blue link again:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/12/blue-organizers-latest-indigo-release-lets-you-surf-things-instead-of-web-pages/

Eric Grant said in February 19th, 2008 at 14:39

wonderful job. i hope you’ll check out the KnowledgeWorks Map of Future Forces Affecting Education; it supports many of the trends you call out. i particularly like the co-creation aspect.

John Moravec said in February 20th, 2008 at 7:43

Alvis, are you suggesting that we can track knowledge as objects? (I really don’t think that’s possible…!!)

Alvis Brigis said in February 22nd, 2008 at 15:49

@ John

It looks to me like we’re about to see apps that can effectively pool related knowledge far better than current search engines can, thus forming objects or pseudo-objects. So my answer to your question is yes, morphous objects, but still objects. Using such tools, I can imagine tasks like filling in wikipedia will get much, much easier. Thus, the terms in wikipedia will become more “alive” and autonomously generating. These morphous objects will then enable new types of interaction with people.

Mind you, my statements are still in the realm of speculation / imagination, but nevertheless there may be emerging a tendency for information systems to gradually boot-strap up to becoming more self-aware and self-defining.

Alvis Brigis said in February 22nd, 2008 at 16:49

@ John

Derek Keats said in February 24th, 2008 at 23:54

Nice comparison. Please see some thoughts on this in a publication at
1.Keats, D.W. & J. P. Schmidt. 2007. The genesis and emergence of Education 3.0 in higher education and its potential for Africa, First Monday, volume 12, number 3 (March 2007), at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_3/keats/i...

and some presentations at
http://www.slideshare.net/dkeats

regards
derek

John Moravec said in February 25th, 2008 at 8:03

Derek– I really like your taxonomy!! But, what you label as Education 2.0, I would still label as Education 1.0 because what is taught doesn’t change in the space between Ed 1.0 and Ed 2.0 in your spectrum. As long as we’re using new technologies to teach the same old crap, we’ll be stuck in Ed 1.0.

Your Ed 3.0 aligns well with my Ed 2.0 as an “orchestrator of collaborative knowledge creation,” put really reads as an extension of progressivism. I think that if you look at it from a (new) knowledge production perspective rather than one that is focused on content delivery, a new vision for Ed 3.0 will emerge…

Bidyadhar nayak said in July 31st, 2008 at 10:39

Today’s education aims at constructing knowledge to become the global member of knowledge driven society.In this context,the adoption of 3.0 education pillar in our education landscape is a matter of great importance.The 3.0 concept of education needs to to be implemented to equip every learner to face the emerging challanges of 21st century.

Derek Keats said in August 30th, 2008 at 3:39

Interesting that you think that our view of Education 3.0 is focused on content delivery. If that is the case, then we need to rewrite our explanation of it. Certainly, this is not our intention. Rather our view deals with institutional arrangements that foster and permit “new modes of knowledge production” as you call them. Of course, it is possible that you are using content in a difference sense than I would use it. regards, derek

raypodder (Ray Podder) said in December 18th, 2008 at 15:25

Cool matrix on the evolution of education: http://tinyurl.com/6gnt6a

alafafzan said in May 16th, 2009 at 1:02

Education 2.0 is really interesting issues. When I first thinking of dynamical of learning methods, I think education upgrading to 2.0 and soon. But then come accross my mind. How the reliable and souces issues will be handled. For me education is something come with integrity and trustfullness. For example; if you teach or give information that AiDS can be cured. but let say it is fake. The drug description or any others remedies given may become a poison checimal and soon. That’s why education is not only providing information but the realible and integrity of the information must be secured and spreaded among communities of education 2.0. I think the idea of Education 3.0 must be put with this elements. Unless no one will responsible with the chaos or havoc come from wrong information given.

RjWassink said in August 20th, 2009 at 13:15

A very good, well-thought matrix about the next generation of learning. The only thing that I get a little scared about is the “licensed professionals” part disappearing – but then again, there will be a huge need for “learning managers” and other newly-created positions to support Education 3.0.

Of course right now every school and district that you look at is defining and implementing “classroom 2.0″ differently (if at all) – so this is a good generalization, although not necessarily site-accurate.

John Moravec said in August 21st, 2009 at 10:18

Great comment, Ryan! I really wanted to highlight that the migration to Society 3.0 requires all of us to become learners and co-teachers. You prompt me to raise a question regarding “learning managers” — how do we manage learning, when we aren’t exactly sure anymore what it is we are supposed to learn?

alafafzan said in September 4th, 2009 at 1:32

Back to the principle of learning, all the information or knowledge we get must be clearly get from what resources and from whom. We actually need to have a better structure of information validation. For example internet marketing (IM), the best way to promote our product is to build the trust between us and the potential customer. So what we give? all the information to convince them to buy our product. Some IM shows their picture, background and with twitter for example, the follower can keep track any updating from the IM. Maybe the factor that the follower to do so mainly because money making tips. But this actually can be apply to all kind of education practices. The key is but 1) Build a systematic structure like twitter for education. Put a ranking or give star indicator for the higher vote and realiable sources like what used by Ebay to the seller and buyer. 3) Suppport with video, real time tutorial (webinar) and soon that where the teacher can really be known and the knowledge is not from the unknown resources.

Àngel E. Rúa said in November 7th, 2009 at 11:39

Very interesting and a really cool vision about education.

I’m not very sure if some aspects (in example “hardware and software in schools”) will be as you have exposed.

Some other things -and in my opinion important- are ignored: content production, treatment of learning subjects and license of contents. If you are right the general vision of subjects in education must change. I have seen little changes in treatment of subjects at schools and universities. And what will be the future of content licenses? If we pay attention to the actual tendencies, open licenses -like ColorUIRIS and Creative Commons- can’t compete against DRM and big corporations. We have to change this if we really want to ensure an equal rights education. In my opinion this is one of our really big deals.
Some of this things are not very clear yet.

Congratulations for this nice work, John.