Invited presentation for UA Shaping the Future Conference, Universidade de Aveiro, 16th December 2020.

1. Professor Mark Brown
Dublin City University
16 December 2020
Shaping the Future:
What’s inside the Box?

2. @mbrownz
http://www.slideshare.net/mbrownz

3. What is unboxing?

4. a) Trying to find lost items in storage
b) Something that happens on YouTube
c) Unwrapping a piece of new technology
d) Unpacking after moving to another house
e) None of the above

6. Commercialization
Out
of the
box!

7. 1. Boxed thinking
2. Many different boxes
3. Breaking out of the box
Outline….

8. “The light comes through the gaps”

9. 1. Boxed thinking

10. Rhetoric vs. Reality

11. Art vs. Actual

12. Near vs. Far

13. A Teaching Assistant named Jill Watson

15. “You can’t just unbox
something and expect the
latest shiny new thing will
transform education because
it looks or sounds good”

16. 2. Many different boxes

17. 17http://futureuniversities.com
2018

18. 2018

23. Different interest groups
and stakeholders are borrowing
the same ‘languages of
persuasion’ to legitimize very
different agenda

24. Education
in
Change
Education
for
Change
Navigating Through Entangled Narratives
Future Faker

27. 3. Breaking out of the box

28. CHALLENGING CONVENTIONAL
THINKING

29. On-Campus
in Class
Formal
Informal
Physical Virtual
Digital
Leakage
DigitalLearningEcology

30. Off-Campus
in Class
Off-Campus
Out of Class
Formal
Informal
On-Campus
out of Class
Physical Virtual
On-Campus
in Class
Digital
Leakage
DigitalLearningEcology

31. https://www.classcentral.com/report/mooc-stats-pandemic/

34. • 1 new university each day
• 7 new universities per week
• 365 new universities per year
• 10,950 new universities over 30 years
= 30K students
= 210K students
= 11M students
= 329M students

35. Access
Quality
Cost
Iron
Triangle

38. https://tinyurl.com/eumcs

41. Around the table…

42. Final remark…

43. “All education springs from images of the future
and all education creates images of the future.

44. “All education springs from images of the future
and all education creates images of the future.
Thus all education, whether so intended or not, is a
preparation for the future. Unless we understand
the future for which we are preparing we may do
tragic damage to those we teach”
(Toffler, 1974).

45. Go raibh maith
agaibh!
Thank you