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MOOCS IN TOURISM EDUCATION:FUTURE OR FANTASY?
Pauline J. Sheldon, PhD
University of Hawaii, USA
ENTER CONFERENCE
2014, DUBLIN, IRELAND
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Questions• Are MOOCS interesting or just a fashion?
• If Yes is there space for them in the tourism domain?
• If Yes, what could be done to further explore and start a project?
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The Changing Academic Landscape
• Changed Focus: • Research and assessment/metrics • Teaching outsourced• Neo-liberalism
• Dissolution of boundaries• Space • Discipline• Time
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“It's quite fashionable to say that the education system is broken — it's not broken, it's wonderfully constructed…. It's just that we don't need it anymore. It's outdated.” Sugata Mitra
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Paradigm Shift in Learning
• Cartesian View of Learning
• Knowledge as substance
• Pedagogy as knowledge transfer
• Knowledge stocks
• Social View of Learning
• “We participate therefore we are”
• Understanding is socially constructed
• Knowledge processes
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Ways of Learning:
• ‘Knowing’ is obsolete; • ‘How to learn’ is important (Negraponte)
• Lessons from the Hole in the Wall: Sugata Mitra• SOLE Self-organizing learning environments
• Broadband connectivity, collaboration and encouragement
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Technology and Co-creating Knowledge
• Students learn differently: • The Millenials
• Search Technologies• Open access to knowledge• Students are self-organizing e.g. ClassroomAlive.
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MOOCS in TOURISM DOMAIN?• Challenges of Tourism Education
• Complex, multi-discipline multi-sectored industry• Where do we belong on campuses?• Status - Quality Students - top campuses?
• YES…there is space if we:• Can use them to teach critical thinking• Balance them with experiential learning• Encourage Inter-disciplinary learning Start answering the key social, ethical and spiritual questions
confronting society and how tourism can contribute to a better world
Collaborate and partner with other institutions, associations, social change movements etc.
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• VISION • To ….inspire, inform and support tourism educators and students to
passionately and courageously transform the world for the better.
• Is tourism education addressing the needs of the future?• Shouldn’t educational institutions be leading the societal and tourism
industry shifts? • What does it take to create responsible leaders for the future?
www.tourismeducationfutures.org
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FIVE AREAS of FOCUS for TEFI
Advocacy for tourism
•As a field of study
•As a source of employment
Re-shaping tourism scholarship
Metrics
•Meaning
•Relevance
Forum for Futuristic Debate
•Impact of future socio-economic trends
•Annual conference
Facilitating Improved Learning experiences
•Innovative
•Values-based
•Technology driven
Social Entrepreneurship
•Opportunities for field trips
•Walking conferences
•Opportunities for faculty to broaden their perspective
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Future Pathways for Tourism Education: Can MOOCS help?
YES….IF….Part of a broader integration of new learning
technologies: resources and talent Balance technology and service/experiential learningDevelop more collaborative learning networksWe develop tourism education for the social good
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THANK [email protected]
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Future Issues in Education
Ways of Learning
Technology Collaboration
Learning Spaces
Education for the Social Good
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Technology Based Learning• Carnegie Mellon University
• Open Learning Initiative • 4 feedback loops (student, faculty, course design, learning process)
• Stanford University• Appoints Vice-Provost for Online Learning• online.stanford.edu
• GIGU The University Community Next Generation Innovation Project • 40 US universities with very high speed networks linking university
and community. • Developing innovations to address critical needs in the community
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Learning Spaces
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Collaboration: New Knowledge Sharing• Crowdsourcing
• ‘The Wisdom of Crowds’: James Surowiecki• ‘We is Better than Me’: Libert and Spector• User-generated content
• Citizen Science• Non-scientists use mobile technologies to collect data
• Collaborative Innovation Networks (COINS):• Based on trust and self-organization• Operate in internal honesty and transparency (Gloor, 2005)
• Distributed and cloud computing
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Learning Beyond Walls“The desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world “ John le Carre
• Education through travel: • European Master in Tourism Management• George Washington University• ITHAS• Finland• More….
• Experiential Learning
• “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Benjamin Franklin
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E-Campuses• .
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Students are Self-Organizing: IT is critical
• ClassroomAlive• 6 month walking across Europe• Students bring individual questions• Research on the road with IT
• IDEAS for US• https://www.facebook.com/IDEASforUs
IDEAS FOR US• a youth-led movement advancing sustainability and environmental
awareness
• EMERGE Conference: Said Business School, Oxford University
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Walking and Learning• FIRST TEFI WALKING WORKSHOP • SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
TOURISM
• NEPAL May 2-11, 2014 • FORMAT:
Walking Up - The Quest; The Query: Walking papers
The Peak - Camp - Rest – reflection; Awareness-raising workshops on social entrepreneurship and tourism; observation in the villages
Walking Down - Waking Up; Stepping Up, Commitment, Action.
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Tourism Education for Social Good Beyond Knowledge economy towards the knowledge society Start answering the key social, ethical and spiritual questions
confronting society and how tourism can contribute to a better world
Partner with social change movements e.g. NGO’s, International agencies, change agencies
Ashoka: Innovators for the Public
Vision: To advance an Everyone a Changemaker world, where anyone can apply the skills of change-making to solve complex social problems173 projects in tourism