Keynote to Irish Manufacturing Conference.

1. Brian Mulligan BE, MED,
Centre for Online Learning, Institute of Technology Sligo
34th International Manufacturing Conference,
Institute of Technology Sligo, August 30th-31st, 2017
Learning Technologies
and
The Future of Manufacturing Education

2. An overview of existing and emerging
learning technologies
A glimpse into the future.

3. Online CPD
School
leavers
Technology
Enhanced

4. Growing online CPD is not difficult!
Constantly exceeding targets

5. Demand for Lifelong Learning is Growing
More complex workplace
• Ease of access
• Lower cost
• Specialties

6. Evening Classes
Online

7. Simple video
Production Methods

8. IT Sligo Facilities

9. Things you might find in an online course
• Live online classes
• Short (and long videos)
• Multimedia
• Reading materials
• Links to free materials
• Quizzes
• Assignments with
feedback and grading
• Online simulations
• Discussion boards
– with or without instructors
• Face to face meetings
– College visits, practical
laboratories, local meetups
• Home lab kits / field
exercises
• Remote lab access
• Supervised Exams
– F2F or online

10. • Virtual Reality
• Augmented reality
• Artificial Intelligence
– Data analytics identifying opportunities for
intervention
– Adaptive learning systems
– Generating learning content
– Advisors

11. Adaptive Learning Systems
Analytics
Monitoring
Human intervention

12. Adaptive Learning Systems
Personalisation - Mastery
A system that “learns”

13. • 300 AI students
• Trained to answer based on prior
responses
• Only answers if confidence rate >
97%
• Frees humans to do more
complex technical/philosophical
inquiries
• Teaching award
Bots
As
Teaching
Assistants

14. ANT text or video
Semantic
engine
Active
learning
wildfirelearning.co.uk

15. Technology
Enhanced
Learning
• Reading materials
• Links to free materials
• Quizzes
• Assignments with feedback and grading
• Online simulations (+VR)
• Live online classes
• Short (and long videos)
• Discussion boards
• AI

16. A biased glimpse into the future?
• Impact on “modes” of learning
• Some trends changing how people will choose
to learn

17. Cost reduction
• Decrease in cost of -
– Delivery
– Development
– Support
• F2F part-time will mostly disappear.
• Online will be dominated by large providers

18. • Can assessment and certification be free?
– MC Quizzes, Peer assessment
• Can we certify learning from MOOCs?
moocs4all.eu

20. Full Programmes?

21. Disaggregation / Unbundling
Learning Assessment
• Competency Based Assessment
– Formal and informal learning
– Portfolio
– Challenge exams

22. Credit for Prior Learning
• Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
– Certified courses
– Learning on the job
– Free online learning

23. Full-time post-secondary
education may shrink

26. Alternative Credentials

27. Can they show what they have learned?

28. Will employers trust
online certificates?

29. Can campus education
change?

30. The empire strikes back?

31. Cost reduction
• Invest in content
– It is not that expensive
• Share between..
– Programmes, campuses, institutions, modes

32. Increase quality
• Self-paced / individualised learning
• Flipped learning
• Project-based learning
• Intervention / Support
– Analytics /AI

33. Flexible access
• Mixed-mode learning
– Remote access to campus programmes
– Campus, distance, home, WBL, Free, CBE
• Work-based learning
– Apprenticeship (and other versions)

34. Earn and Learn

35. Some shots in the dark!
• Lifelong learning >>> Fulltime education
– Online and blended
• Costs will come down
• Automation and AI will be important
• Unbundling, RPL and CBE will be significant
• College accreditation will be less important
• Less school leavers will go to college fulltime.
– Apprenticeship + WBL
– Alternative credentials and online distance learning
Thank you!
Brian Mulligan
Brian.mulligan.googlepages.com