e-IRG workshop 5.12., Tieteiden talo, Helsinki
Break-out sessions
Group 1: How to make data on education FAIR? (Room 104, 1st floor)
Speaker facilitator: Robin Ghurbhurun; Notetaker: Anu Märkälä
Supporting questions:
How do we manage the growing amount of education data?
What kind of shared education services and data pools would benefit education, research and society at large?
What could be the next steps for data-informed decision making in higher education?
Insights from group discussion:
- Need to define what we mean with educational data
- Distinguishing between content and metadata and how these can be made FAIR
- Need to agree on standards that create interoperability, identifiers and semantic artifacts - what are they for education?
- Challenges on why content could not be made FAIR, e.g. straining teachers and stifling academic freedom.
- Might need content structure and semantics for wider curriculum overview
- Multilingualism, legality, ethics present challenges
- Not all data is captured that could be used (e.g. feedback)
- Analytics: personal vs institutional, to fit the audience
- MyData concept and its application in education
Group 2: How could we further the use of ICT in education and learning? (Cabinet, 2nd floor)
Speaker facilitator: Sandra Kucina Softic; Notetaker: Lara Anastasiou
Insights from group discussion:
- What kind of opportunities digitalisation brings that could benefit education and learning?
- Supporting different learners, bringing education geographically closer to the larners, promoting equity and accessbility
- Infrastructures as enables (e.g. VR, simulations, advanced teaching environments)
- Analytics of teaching and learning
- How to advance the openness of learning resources and materials?
- Education policies, regulations and principles
- Motivating teachers, what could it be?
- responsible evaluation, education for teachers, financial resourses, infrastructures, quality support
- Strategic decision of the organisations
- competitiveness
- recognition of studies elsewhere
- online study offerings
- What could be the next steps for technological advancements e.g. AI in education?
- Wellbeing of people coming back to the center, AI has a central role in the process of following wellbeing
- Better use of data in AI and learning analytics
- Data policy: Need of common rules for learning analytics?
- Libraries change into centres of knowledge
- help also in data issues and using all the technology
Group 3: What could be the role of e-infrastructures in supporting lifelong learning (Room 404, 4th floor)
Speaker facilitator: Erik Fledderus; Notetaker: Jesse Oikarinen
Supporting questions:
- How do (NREN) service portfolios need to change to account for supporting learning and learners?
- How to support cooperation between research and education to promote lifelong learning?
- What would it mean to do learner-centered service development?
Insights from group discussion:
- Current situation: NRENs often provide ”bits and pieces” (not a coherent, packaged) services for institutions to support learners
- provide hints and hooks for policy makers to improve the LLL related policies
- NRENs need a coordinated voice / demand and collaborate with the learning institutions efforts to express their joint needs
- eduGAIN as an example (originated from eduroam)
- E.g. universities shouldn’t think about these services only by themselves but together with other universities for improved efficiency
- remind that there are people outside universities and other higher education institutions. What about adult population outside of those?
- join the efforts to prepare students to change their attitudes towards lifelong education as work life is changing and updating of skills is needed
- improve the interaction with service end users regarding their service needs
- support the communication between e.g. the NRENs and Uni staff as sometimes they speak different languages when discussing service needs and development => this requires often new staff at NRENs (“translators”)
- Common reference architecture for Finnish higher education Institutes study and teaching support services and administration: https://wiki.eduuni.fi/x/RpG0Bg