Building the School 2.0 - OpenFest Sofia - Marko Kažić

1. BUILDING THE SCHOOL 2.0 MARKO KAŽIĆ @marxo
2. EDUCATION 1.0 THIS IS THE BEST THAT WE CAN DO, REALLY.
3. Most of our learning is non-institutional WHERE DO WE LEARN “Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” — Isaac Asimov
4. Social dynamic wrong Isolation as a service Discourages learning for life as in living and as in lifelong Academy-first view of the world Cult of the average SCHOOL 1.0 – ISSUES
5. Offline-first Knowledge is fragmented Proprietery software, if any No common shared resource Not agile Doesn’t leverage technology for evaluation Doesn’t adapt/personalize SCHOOL 1.0
6. ONLINE ≠ ONLINE Online built to mimic offline Decade of the internet – 1990s Decade of the OER and Open Access – 2000s Decade of the MOOC – 2010s
7. ONLINE ≠ ONLINE Online built to mimic offline Decade of the internet – 1990s Decade of the OER and Open Access – 2000s Decade of the MOOC – 2010s
8. OER - ISSUES • mostly academia • quality issues - moderation • lack of human interaction between stakeholders • language and/or cultural barriers • discoverability • technology availability & disparity • intellectual property/copyright concerns • sustainability
9. • bad social dynamic • business model behind it all • lack of human interaction between stakeholders • technology availability & disparity • retention MOOC - ISSUES
10. Audience has changed Goals have changed Society has changed Technology has changed NOT SO BRAVE
11. “Changing education will not require technological advancement, but a tectonic change of our existing means and ethics.” A MODEST REVOLUTION
12. EDUCATION 2.0 OPEN BY DEFAULT
13. A SPECTER IS HAUNTING THE WORLD – THE SPECTER OF FREE EDUCATION.
14. WE SHOULDN’T PROFIT FROM PROVIDING EDUCATION, BUT BY REAPING THE FRUITS OF GOOD EDUCATION.
15. DENOUNCING COMPETITION IS A STARTING POINT TO BUILDING A POST-SCARCITY SOCIETY.
16. 1. Don’t let education be governed by governments. 2. Don’t let education be governed by corporations. 3. Don’t let education be ungoverned because we don’t know any better. ANTHROPOCENTRIC EDUCATION
17. The struggle for liberating knowledge has proven that it’s easier to create corpuses of knowledge that are open and free by default. EDUCATION – A PUBLIC RESOURCE
18. 1. Free as in freedom, free as in gratis 2. Crowdsourced single source of truth 3. Personal and adaptive 4. Meritocratic 5. Biomimetic 6. Universal* SCHOOL 2.0
19. 1. Governance open and transparent 2. Infrastructure open and common 3. Schools built as platforms 4. Services and goods leave space for profit and competition. SCHOOL 2.0 – “IDEAL“ IMPLEMENTATION
20. • Establishing a governing body • Sustainability • Building core infrastructure • Licensing • Adoption SCHOOL 2.0 – INTRINSIC CHALLENGES
21. • Ethics of technology • Access to electricity • Access to the internet • Access to personal computing units • Digital literacy SCHOOL 2.0 – EXTRINSIC CHALLENGES
22. SCHOOL 2.0 – BASE MODEL
23. ZAMPHYR AN ARCHETYPE OF THE SCHOOL 2.0
24. • to build a free corpus of CS knowledge • to build free software that could serve as free school infrastructure • to explore platform requirements for a universal school • to test premises regarding sustainability of a free school ZAMPHYR – GOALS
25. School as a platform Virtual Learning Environment Offline Learning Environment Identity Data API Social, continual, peer-to-peer learning Projects (Emulating real environment) ZAMPHYR – FEATURES
26. SCHOOL 2.0 – SCHOOL MODEL
27. 1. Measure outcomes depending on module combinations, order and dynamic 2. Compile a path from combining factors 3. Spice 4. Everything nice ALGOGENERATED PATHS IMAGINE
28. • ODF • Virtual machine inside • Runs code in the document VM • Document is an autonomous computer SMART DOCUMENTS IMAGINE
29. • Algogenerated content • Learning companion bots • Augmented social engine • Impact analysis • Consensus-dependent evaluation • New digital didactics (i.e. TTS + Echo) MORE IMAGINE
30. 1. Recruitment/ATS tools 2. Mentoring marketplace 3. Didactic tools 4. Analysis tools (Code, skills, teams) 5. Bots, bots, bots BUILD ON ZAMPHYR COMMERCIAL EXAMPLES
31. SCHOOL 2.0 – FEDERATION MODEL
32. Identity service ready Virtual learning environment work in progress Offline work in progress Community hub work in progress PROGRESS UPDATE NEXT STEPS
33. Knowledge exchange of all kinds and shapes Join the translation community Help with legal expertise Advocate to government and industry stakeholders JOIN, CHANGE EVERYTHING NEXT STEPS
34. @marxo ХВАЛА! THANK YOU!