15 October 2012 1 WEEF 2012 Buenos Aires World Engineering Education Forum 2012 “Engineering Education for Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion”

15 October 2012 1WEEF 2012 Buenos Aires

World Engineering Education Forum 2012

“Engineering Education for Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion”

New Challenges in Engineering Education

Michael E. AuerDanilo Garbi Zutin


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Agenda of my Talk

• The New Challenges with Respect to Learning

• Theses about the Future of Learning

• The New Aspects in Engineering Education


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The New Challenges





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Peter F. Drucker

The most important and indeed the truly unique contribution of management in the 20th Century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st Century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and of the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

Peter F. Drucker “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”


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Peter F. Drucker

The most important and indeed the truly unique contribution of management in the 20th Century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity of the MANUAL WORKER in manufacturing.

The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st Century is similarly to increase the productivity of KNOWLEDGE WORK and of the KNOWLEDGE WORKER.

Peter F. Drucker “Management Challenges for the 21st Century”

EDUCATION

TEACHER


Shift happens

We are living in exponetial times!


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Agenda of my Talk





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Thesis 1

The Future of Learning requires the enforcement of a new learning model.

We need more to focus on 21st century competencies and expertise such as

• critical thinking, • complex problem solving, • collaboration, • multimedia communication• and much more

New concepts:

• Open Educational Resources• Educational MashUps• Learning Ecosystems• Online Laboratories• Living Labs• MicroLearning• …

The DULP Vision:

Design inspired learning, Ubiquitous learning, Liquid learning places (liquid society), and Person in place centered design,


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Thesis 2

The Future of Learning will be a balanced approach between:

• E-Learning and Face-to-face Learning

• Formal and informal learning

"Synergy from Classic and Future Engineering Education"


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Thesis 3

The Future of Learning will revolve more around context than content:

• Information Age.• Knowledge Society • Data, Information, Knowledge • Easy to access 7/24

Instruction Construction


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Learning in Transition

Learning in transition means:

IMS Global Learning Consortium

Past Focus The Future

Learning objects Instructional design Self-paced learning

Content development CBT (computer based learning) Learner tracking

Web learning applications Learning activity design Self-service guided learning and

collaborative, social learning Content capture ICT for learning Formative assessment, learner

profiles, e-portfolios


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Thesis 4

The future in learning will be characterized by:

• Open content

• Open technology

• Open knowledge

For all !!!

“By making the educational assets free, open and accessible, the open education movement is beginning to radically change the ecology and economics of education”.

(Toru Iiyoshi & M.S. Vijay Kumar, MIT)


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Open Content Initiatives• MIT's Open CourseWare initiative (http://ocw.mit.edu)• Carnegie Mellon's Open Learning Initiative (http://www.cmu.edu/oli), • Rice University's Connexions project (http://cnx.org/) and the • UK Open University's OpenLearn endeavor (http://openlearn.open.ac.uk).

• MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (http://www.merlot.org/)

Web-based materials offered freely and openly for use and reuse in teaching, learning and research including any tool, material or technique used to support access to knowledge. (OER Definition by UNESCO)

http://ocw.mit.edu/

http://www.cmu.edu/oli

http://cnx.org/

http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/


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Thesis 5

The Future of Learning is a global one.

Global expertise:

• Global markets for content, skills and competences

• Expertise can be exported anywhere wherever it is in demand

• Experts can be also recruited from anywhere


Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

MITx’s prototype course, “Circuits and Electronics.”has more than 120,000 enrollees.

New Business Models necessary !

ELIG (in its white paper 2011)

Open Education: A wake up-call for the learning industry?


Thesis 6

The Future of Learning will be characterized by:

• Mobile learning• Learning on the job• Embedded learning• Ubiquitous learning

Pervasive Learning


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Thesis 7The Future of Learning is inseparable connected with ICT and especially with Web 3.0 technologies.

• from receiver to producer of information,

• from static to dynamic contents,

• from control of the few to the wisdom of the crowds.

From Web 2.0 to 3.0:

Main characteristics of Web 3.0 are the use of:

• Cloud Computing and Cloud Environments• Semantic Technologies, • Social Web Services, and • 3D Interactive Technologies


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Agenda of my Talk





Definitions of Engineering

Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize a solution to the needs of society.

Short definition of engineering: exploiting basic principles of science to develop useful tools and objects for the society.

Link between the Sciences and the Society

Engineering represents creative thought and skilled actions associated with the use or adaption of natural materials and natural phenomena in the conceptualization, planning, designing, and disposing of devices.

Harms/Baetz/Volti: Engineering in Time

Wikipedia


New Engineering Disciplines• Software Engineering• Information Engineering• Data Engineering• Requirements Engineering• Medical Engineering• Neuro Engineering• Gen Engineering• Social Requirement Engineering (!)• …• Systems Engineering as integrating discipline !

New tasks within traditional engineering:

• Online Engineering• Remote Engineering• Virtual Engineering• Re-Engineering• Reverse Engineering


Decreasing Innovation Cycles

How many years does it take to reach a market audience of 50 Million?

• Radio 38 years

• TV 13 years

• Internet 4 years

• iPod 3 years

• Facebook 2 years

• Tablet PC 1 year


Exponential Times

From Carlos Delgado Kloos


Greatest Engineering Achievements and Challenges

1. Electrification2. Automobile3. Airplane4. Water Supply5. Electronics6. Radio and Television7. Agricultural Mechanization8. Computers9. Telephone10. Air Conditioning and Refrigeration11. Highways12. Spacecraft13. Internet14. Imaging

1. Prevent Nuclear Terror2. Secure Cyberspace3. Manage Nitrogen cycle4. Access to Clean Water5. Carbon Sequestration6. Advanced Health Informatics7. Better Medicines8. Better Understanding of the Human Brain9. Cheaper Solar Energy10. Energy from Fusion11. Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure

and Transportation12. Personalized Learning

2011 Study by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

Challenges for the 21st Century

Greatest Achievements in the last century


Technology Outlook

2012 Horizon Report


New Aspects (1)

• Social Position of Learning

80% of all learning on the job


New Aspects (2)

• Engineers’ Interaction with Others

60% interaction activities (meetings, supervision, writing reports etc)40% technical engineering activity

Skill/Quality Weighted average rating*

Ability to work in a team structure 4.60

Ability to verbally communicate with persons inside and outside the organization

4.59

Ability to make decisions and solve problems 4.49

Ability to obtain and process information 4.46

Ability to plan, organize, and prioritize work 4.45

Ability to analyze quantitative data 4.23

Technical knowledge related to the job 4.23

Proficiency with computer software programs 4.04

Ability to create and/or edit written reports 3.65

Ability to sell or influence others 3.51

5-point scale, where 1=Not important; 2=Not very important; 3=Somewhat important; 4=Very important; and 5=Extremely important

Source: Job Outlook 2012, National Association of Colleges and Employers


New Aspects (3)

• New Organizational Aspects in Engineering Education

Engineering issues become • very complicated• cross disciplinary • internationalized in a global economy

Example:Boeing Development and Production Chain


New Aspects (4)

• Improvement of the Agility of Engineering Education

Creation of virtual educational units


New Pedagogic Questions

• What learning approaches have to be used to effectively response to these changes?

• What are the pedagogies that provide the most effective learning experiences for engineering students of the 21st Century?

• What learning skills in engineering education need to be developed and how can engineering teachers succeed in guiding their students to achieve them?

• What pedagogical approaches have been found to support the different phases of the present life-long learning continuum, or is there more research necessary?

• What are the approaches that enable competence in leadership skills in a multi-cultural working environment, and what is the best way for these competencies to be delivered?

• Ambient technology is becoming a reality. What does ambient learning in Engineering Education look like? How can it be designed, delivered and assessed?


Thank you!

Michael E. AuerDanilo Garbi Zutin

Villach, Austria

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15 October 2012 1 WEEF 2012 Buenos Aires World Engineering Education Forum 2012 “Engineering Education for Sustainable Development and Social Inclusion”