Het is het jaar 2020. Een pabo-studente logt vanuit een loungestoel op haar dakterras in op de portal van De Haagse Hogeschool. Via haar Ipad 9 volgt ze een livestream van een hoorcollege. Aan het eind verschijnen in beeld een aantal opties: een ander college volgen van een hoogleraar
It is 2020. A student at the primary school teacher’s training college logs on to the portal of The Hague University of Applied Sciences from a deckchair on her sundeck at home. She can now attend a lecture being transmitted through livestream on her Ipad 9. At the end of the lecture, a number of options pop up: attend another lecture by a professor from the USA with the latest information about teaching methods, go to a virtual chat room to participate in a discussion with her teacher and classmates, take a digital exam for a course she finished two days ago or start a game in which she, represented by her Avatar, has to teach a class full of recalcitrant children. The possibilities are endless, and the choice is hers. This is the new method of learning in practice. It is 2010. Education advisor for ICT Karin van Bakel is working on an innovative project at THU: digital exams. Three years ago the QMP program was purchased for this purpose, and a pilot is expected to be launched soon for around three study programmes. Van Bakel explains that digital exams will enable teachers to create a databank of exam questions. ‘These questions can be entirely different than what we’re used to and make use of audio and video examples. Students will also be able to receive their exam results immediately.’ It is the first step on the way to implementing the new method of learning. The education advisor expects the results of the pilot to become available in March 2010.
in Amerika met de laatste informatie over nieuwe onderwijsvormen, in een virtuele ruimte praten met haar docent en klasgenoten, een digitale toets maken van het vak dat ze twee dagen geleden heeft afgerond of het starten van een game waarin haar Avatar voor een klas vol vervelende kinderen staat. De mogelijkheden zijn eindeloos, de keuze is aan haar. Dit is het nieuwe leren in de praktijk.
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This is one of the innovations envisaged to enable the new method of learning. In today’s digital world, the role of a teacher is not so much about transferring knowledge as it is about coaching students as they navigate the maze of available information. What do students and teachers think about this development? During a debate held on 24 September as part of the ‘New Ways of Living, Working and Learning’ event organised by the Academy for Facility Management, Rob Brons, chairman of the Executive Board, posed the following theory: ‘The 1.0 version of students and teachers in 2010 is truly a different species from the 2.0 version of 2020.’ He believes that students are becoming increasingly used to absorbing information; it is teachers’ task to put this information in perspective. ‘The teacher of the