Sustainability Development Goals and TEL

Sustainability Development Goals and TEL

Thursday 08/06 17:30-19:00h

Workshop Space B

Abstract

TEL spread like a pandemic during the pandemic. Many tools have arrived in the educational system and long standing ideas and promises of TEL delivered and integrated into practice. This changed the perspective on TEL significantly and TEL moved more prominently into the perception of global educational development objectives, most notably with respect to the UN Sustainability Development Goal 4: “Quality Education for everybody”. While this shift is good for business, it also raises the bar for researching TEL. Questions regarding up-scaling or organisational integration are no longer nice-to-haves, but need mandatory answers. This is no task for one person but needs collaboration across topics, people, and disciplines. This participatory design workshop allows you to relate your research to the works of others and develop concepts, that use your (future) work to achieve a greater objective.

Needs Analysis

TEL has arrived in mainstream education around the world after COVID19. However, many educational systems struggle now with integrating the different facets of TEL into their common practice. The pandemic made clear that TEL is part of the equation of the global UN “sustainable development goals” (SDGs), particularly with respect to SDG4: “Quality education for everyone”. This calls for a solid understanding of organisational requirements, interoperability needs, as well as of scalable systems and solutions. Today’s TEL PhDs do not and cannot operate outside this context when delivering relevant and impactful research.

Learning Objectives

– Understand relating the own research to the complexities of SDG4
– Develop a joint understanding of own contributions locally, nationally and globally
– Identify Interoperability and Integration issues of the own research
– Collaborate with their peers to create more complex solutions.

Pre-activities

Primer on UN SDG4 as well as the UNESCO AI in Education Agenda.

Session Description

– Short intro about SDG4, interoperability standards and scalability issues
– Brainstorming in small groups
– presentation of the outcomes and remixing for developing integrated solutions.