Digital technologies and the future of universities
The document discusses pedagogy at the university level and the need for updating teaching methods. It notes that today's students learn differently than when teachers were students. New learning theories have emerged from fields like neuroscience and artificial intelligence that provide insights into the human learning process. Universities need to offer new formats of content, courses, and degrees to reflect cultural and technological shifts. While universities still need to provide higher education, nurture science, and share knowledge with society, they must also support innovation in a low-risk environment and view learning as engaging with content, not just consuming it. Universities should collaborate within the higher education system and with other connected systems to share problems and solutions.
Digital technologies and the future of universities
- 1. Pedagogy at University Teaching, Learning, Self-study and Creative Audiences Neuza Pedro, nspedro@ie.ul.pt Ulisboa, 9-1o january 14
- 2. Digital environments and technologies in elementary and secondary education + E-learning program of University of Lisbon
- 3. #1 The students that are presently in the classrooms of the elementary and secondary schools are used to learn in a very different way that todays’ teachers have been used to teach.
- 5. "There's a new generation around the world that is the first to grow up digital.’ (Tapscott, 1999)
- 7. Online environments and networks support a peace of their identity.
- 11. Adults are better on: . Reading facial expressions (interpersonnal face-to-face interactions) . Reflection (connections, generalization) . Perform more metodically and preciselly . Reasoning (not-acting) Kids are better on: . superior cognitive abilities in snap decisions and juggle multiple sources of inputs. . Understanding graphic representation (3D) . multitasking . Parallel information processing
- 12. #2 An update is needed is teaching methods in higher education! New learning theories have emerged. More quality and innovation is demanded.
- 13. Neuropsychophisiology, Artificial intelligence, Machine learning, Big data Analysis, Synthetic Biology … all this new fields of sciences provide relevant inputs about Human learning processes.
- 14. High-value activities on campus: Teaching vs Research & Development
- 15. (Pedro, Matos, Pedro & Abrantes, 2011)
- 19. Quantum Mechanics: The Structure Of Atoms
- 24. #3 To reflect cultural and technological shifts new formats of content, courses, degrees and certification should be offered.
- 26. #4 The higher educational system is not failing or in need of some renovation. Universities just need to remember their main role: . to provide higher education . to nurture science and make it prosper . and to share the developed and carefully validated knowledge with society in order to promote social growth.
- 27. Universities are pedagogical places where innovation can happen in a low-risk environment. To learn, in the higher education level, is not about content it’s about learning of to touch the content.
- 28. #5 Universities are part of the higher education system. Therefore, they should work as actor in this network: articulate efforts, share problems and co-operate solutions.
- 29. Higher education system is also linked with other systems in an Educational Ecology.
- 30. Pedagogy at University Teaching, Learning, Self-study and Creative Audiences Neuza Pedro, nspedro@ie.ul.pt