The 2020 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: New Methods, New Horizons

Session Description
EDUCAUSE began publishing the Horizon Report in 2018. For the 2020 Report, we revamped the underlying methodology for the report, evolving it to keep pace with the rapid evolution of postsecondary teaching and learning, while at the same time preserving its traditions. In this session, we’ll take a close look at the new methodology, called forecasting, and also take a tour of the content for 2020. We’ll conclude with a discussion on the implications of the 2020 Report, particularly in light of the current virus crisis. You can download a copy of the 2020 Horizon Report here: https://tinyurl.com/ehr2020
Presenter(s)
Malcolm Brown
Malcolm Brown, Director of Learning Initiatives, EDUCAUSE, United States
Dr. Malcolm Brown has been Director of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative since 2009 and has initiated major ELI undertakings such as its Seeking Evidence of Impact program and the Learning Space Rating System. Prior to assuming the ELI directorship, he was the Director of Academic Computing at Dartmouth College, overseeing a team active in instructional technology, research computing, classroom technology, and pedagogical innovation. During his tenure at Dartmouth, he worked actively with the ELI, contributing chapters to the EDUCAUSE eBooks, helping to plan focus sessions, and serving on the ELI Advisory Board. He has been a member of the EDUCAUSE Evolving Technologies committee and was the editor for the New Horizons column for the EDUCAUSE Review. Brown has served as a faculty member of the EDUCAUSE Learning Technology Leadership program. He has been on the Advisory board for the Horizon Report since its inception in 2004 and served as Chair of Board of the New Media Consortium.
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Online Education: Increasing Visibility and Reputation

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Online education is growing everywhere. Indeed, in the current COVID-19 pandemic, online education is a feasible solution for keeping people connected to learning that they have started and are continuing. Online education, however, is a fuzzy term. Everyone understands the words depending on the way they experienced it. Many don’t have a clear perspective of the difference between “remote teaching” and online education.

This presentation emphasizes the need for making online education more visible and presents a set of actions to enhance its reputation by providing evidence and increasing accessibility for all.

Presenter(s)
Albert Sangrà
Albert Sangrà, Director, Chair in Education & Technology for Social Change, UNESCO; Professor, Open University of Catalonia, Spain
Professor Albert Sangra, is Director for the UNESCO Chair in Education and Technology for Social Change, Professor in the Department of Psychology and Education at the Open University of Catalonia, and researcher at the Edul@b research group.

He is a founding team member of the Open University of Catalonia (1994-95), where he served as director of the eLearn Center. He was a consultant and trainer for online and blended learning projects in Europe, America, Asia, and Australia, focusing on implementation strategies and quality for technology in teaching and learning.

His main research interests include ICT in education and training and in particular, policies, organization, management and leadership in the implementation of online education (e-learning) and its quality, as well as professional development for the online educator. He has worked as a consultant and trainer in several online and blended learning projects in Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. He was also a World Bank consultant.

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Building a Remote Learning Site for K12 School: Strategies, Challenges and Solutions

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A midsize K12 school in Eskişehir Turkey was an early adapter of the remote learning movement easily adjusting to the closing of schools due to coronavirus. Setting priorities, establish a technological infrastructure and the processes as well as training and managing the human resources were among the major operations in this adaptation process. Those who are interested in agile remote learning site development will learn about implementation strategies of this project, instructional and assessment strategies employed, challenges faced, and the solutions generated during the building of this system.
Presenter(s)
Cengiz Hakan Aydin
Cengiz Hakan Aydin, Professor, Open Education Faculty, Turkey
Cengiz Hakan AYDIN, Ph.D., is a full professor in Anadolu University of Turkey offering courses in the field of open and distance learning since the early 1990s: Instructional Design, Designing ODL, Trends in ODL, and Research on ODL. He has also served as an instructional designer in the Open Education System of the University and as the dean of one of the major ODL Faculty of the University between 2013-2016. His current research interests focus on the design and development of ODL environments, integration of new technologies into ODL, Open Education Resources (OER), and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
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Artificial Intelligence in Education ~ Promise and Implications for Teaching and Learning ~

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Multimillion-dollar funded companies are increasingly selling their education-focused AI technologies into schools worldwide – despite limited evidence of effectiveness, and with little consultation or debate. The widespread introduction of AI in education needs to be subjected to critical scrutiny, and I will recommend that educators engage in early discussions with the AI technologists and entrepreneurs – all to ensure that the use of AI in classrooms is genuinely beneficial and that it always starts and ends with the learning.
Presenter(s)
Dr. Wayne Holmes
Dr. Wayne Holmes, Principal Researcher, Nesta, UK
Wayne Holmes, Ph.D. is the Principal Researcher (Education) at Nesta on the application of Artificial Intelligence to both enhance and further understand learning and the ethical and social implications of AI applied in educational contexts. He is the co-author of three books: Artificial Intelligence in Education. Promise and Implications for Teaching and Learning; Technology-enhanced Personalised Learning: Untangling the Evidence; and Intelligence Unleashed: An Argument for Artificial Intelligence in Education. He also advises the UK’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI (Education Taskforce) and UNESCO on the pedagogical, ethical and social implications of AI in education (including leading UNESCO’s ‘Policy Guidelines for AI in Education’, in preparation).
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Learning Spaces Around the World: Global Trends, Perspectives, and Challenges

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This session will highlight the latest trends of the innovative physical Learning Spaces (Active Learning Classrooms, Collaborative Lecture Theatres, Learning Commons and Learning Centers). It will especially discuss the key design principles, the strategic shifts that can be observed in Higher Education, as well as the position of those new space in the new campuses’ geopolitical landscapes. It will also present the different competition levels they may face and different frameworks and tools currently available for their design and their assessment.
Presenter(s)
John Augeri
John Augeri, Director, Ile-de-France Digital University, Paris
John Augeri is Director at Ile-de-France Digital University (Paris). He leads since 2016 a research project consisting of an international comparative study that already involved more than 220 spaces located on four continents. He has developed and translated several major design and assessment tools.

He also advises several governances in major American, Canadian, Japanese, Singaporean and Australian universities for their campuses’ spaces transformation strategic plans.

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