Measuring the impact of ICT on our lives and personal stories

Airina Volungevičienė

Vytautas Magnus University

LieDM association

Measuring

Theory

Definition (en.wikipedia.org)Classical definition

• measurement is the determination or estimation of ratios of quantities

Representational theory

• measurement is defined as "the correlation of numbers with entities that are not numbers”.

Information theory

• recognises that all data are inexact and statistical in nature. Thus the definition of measurement is: "A set of observations that reduce uncertainty where the result is expressed as a quantity."

Note that in this view, all measurements are uncertain, so instead of assigning one value, a range of values is assigned to a measurement. This also implies that there is not a clear or neat distinction between estimation and measurement.

Any measurement can be judged by the following meta-measurement criteria values: level of measurement, dimensions and uncertainty

“Impact” of “ICT” (is measured)

• on business

• on development

• on economic growth

• on education and learning

Data (webometrics, social dynamics, data

mining, web mining, etc.)

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DATA matters! – on several conditions:

1. If you have enough of it2. If it is correct and up to

date3. If know what to do with

it4. If you do proper

conclusions out of it…

Data that matters today

en.wikipedia.org

Internet representation

Network mapping

Cluster analysis

Personal data“The museum of me” by Intel

Through Facebook

Impact measured upon

1. Business (“hidden” marketing + community development + opinion (influence) + feedback + information!)

2. Research (data!)

3. Economic development

4. … and

Impact upon education. Institutional level

MOOCs

OU

• University creates a company – a company creates a university

• Companies invite university teachers

• Business model:

– Competence recognition (certification)

– Examining

– Companies buy student learning results and portfolios

– Companies buy student record data

– Teachers get paid

– Platform is for sale

– Sponsorship

– Study fee

MOOCS? (EUA paper on MOOCs)

VM impact for HE institutions• Development and exploitation of intercultural studies

• Joint study programs, quality enhancement and expertise sharing, transparency of professionalism and academic processes

• Modernisation and internationalisation of curriculum (transferrable quality standards, modular curriculum based on learning outcomes, updating pedagogical models)

• Multi-institutional instead of bilateral collaboration

• Improvement of education attractiveness and HE competitiveness

• Expanded areas of learning for students

• Additional transferrable skills and knowledge areas

• Teacher professional development

• Additional skills and experience for students

ICT impact – teacher level

VM impact for teachers

• Personal professional development:

– Interpersonal communication, online communication, linguistic skills, ICT competences

– teaching quality improvement, new teaching methods applied and experimented

– new knowledge, skills and experience in multiple EU HE institutions

• Professional networking, exchange of good practices

• International, intercultural professional activities

• Transparency and recognition of teaching and professionalism

• Career opportunities

• Research enhancement – especially in teacher VM

Impact upon students.Scenario 1. Physical mobility

Scenario 2. Virtual mobility (not to replace, but to enrich and enhance

physical student mobility)

VM benefits for students

• Upgraded transferrable skills:

– Linguistic, interpersonal communication

– ICT competences

– Additional learning skills (networking, critical thinking, intercultural knowledge and skills, quality schemes)

• Curriculum and study quality enhancement

• New learning methods suggested by various HE institutions

• Transparency of learning, individual portfolio development

• Enhanced employability

• Intercultural, international experience and expertise

• Enlarged academic areas of studies

• Support for home students and LLL groups, international study accessibility for physically and socio-economically disadvantaged

Responsible and quality-criteria basedintegration of ICT within an organization

1. ICT is recognised by the strategy and management

2. ICT infrastructure and resources are well ensured

3. Curriculum and didactics are well developed

4. Continuous professional skill development is ensured in application of ICT

5. Support system is available and running

6. Quality assurance system is in place and running

7. Marketing and business model are well supervised

Our lives

Our lives

• 1 – 2 mobiles at hand

• 1 – 2 computers every day

• 8 – 12 hours online

• 1 – 2 – 3 e-mail boxes

• 1 – 2 – 3 social networks (LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, other?)

• Anything else forgotten?

What if?

• 1 – 2 mobiles at hand

• 1 – 2 computers every day

• 8 – 12 hours online

• 1 – 2 – 3 e-mail boxes

• 1 – 2 – 3 social networks (LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, other?)

• Anything else forgotten?

Trusted networks

If you are a member of a trusted network:-you benefit from cases and practices-you share your way – and get early feedback-you validate your results and get suggestions for improvements-- you live among ideas, people and feel a social human being – we need that – and ICT create these opportunites

Hypotheses

1. If I use ICT:- my social skills become better/ worse?- my professional performance improves/ goes wrong ?- I safe time/ I do not have time?- I reach new/ bigger audience?- my eyesight becomes poorer and memory/ attention

worse- I become distracted by piles of files and information- I get attention deficit

What would not happened without ICT?

Personal stories

Why do we use ICT?

Or how professional lives are merged with social and personal lives

Introduction.Professionalization

Applying ICT since 1996 ICT definitely:- opens all opportunities- improves the quality of education

through accessibility, intercultural studies, transparency and openness

- brings my trusted networks easily and accessibly to me – for expertise, help and correction of my mistakes

- insures variety, creativity and democracy

- educates me (people) and brings them together (not apart!)

- brings all cognitive resources to me, teaches to validate, select and adapt ideas to my daily life

- creates traces and memory of my life

Story No. 1Travelling

Story No.1. Traveling.

Now ICT allows us to travel all together

Story No. 2. Multilingualism

Story No. 2. Multilingualism

The stories were produced in the framework ofLLP KA3NW project

“European network for knowledge diffusion of Digital Storytelling”