Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development How Upskilling, Data Analytics, and Educational Technologies Close the Skills Gap

Reimagining Digital Learning for Sustainable Development is a comprehensive playbook for education leaders, policy makers, and other key stakeholders leading the modernization of learning and development in their institutions as they build a high value knowledge economy and prepare learners for jobs that don't yet exist.

Currently, nearly every aspect of human activity, including the ways we absorb and apply learning, is influenced by disruptive digital technologies. The jobs available today are no longer predicators of future employment, and current and future workforce members will need to augment their competencies through a lifetime of continuous upskilling and reskilling to meet the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This book features curated insights and real-world cases from thought leaders throughout the world and identifies major shifts in content formats, pedagogic approaches, technology frameworks, user and design experiences, and learner roles and expectations that will reshape our institutions, including those in emerging economies.

The agile, lean, and cost-effective strategies proposed here will function in scalable and flexible bandwidth environments, enabling education leaders and practitioners to transform brick-and-mortar learning organizations into digital and blended ecosystems and to achieve the United Nation?s ambitious Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

Chapter 18 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Foreword 1: Digital Classrooms are Reinventing the Way We Teach and Learn
Anant Agarwal

Foreword 2: Accelerating a 21st Century Learning Ecosystem that Supports Countries in Leapfrogging from Learning Deficits to Upskilling and Reskilling
Ju-Ho LeeAbout the Editor

Acknowledgements

Acronyms

Preface

THEME 1: LEARNING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Chapter 1: Scale of the challenge – Massive Reskilling & Upskilling Needed –The Crucial Role of Capacity Development
Sheila Jagannathan Chapter 2: The Digital Learning Opportunity
Sheila Jagannathan Chapter 3: Lifelong Learning for Careers that Don’t Yet Exist
Chris Dede and Eileen McGivneyChapter 4: Decisions Pathways Leading to the Successful Digital Transformation of Learning: Conversation with Tony Bates
Ryan WatkinsTHEME 2: INNOVATIVE PEDAGOGIES TO ADVANCE REACH, RELEVANCE AND QUALITY LEARNING OUTCOMES

Chapter 5: Reimagining Pedagogy for a Digital Age: Conversation with Tony Bates
Sheila Jagannathan Chapter 6: Pedagogic Choreographies for Practitioner Skill Development
Som Naidu and Sharishna NarayanChapter 7: Quality for New Digital Learning Cultures
Ulf-Daniel EhlersChapter 8: The Manifesto for Teaching Online and the Complexities of Digital Education
Peter Evans THEME 3: NEW MODELS FOR DEEPER LEARNING

Chapter 9: How MOOCs are Changing the World and What Lies Ahead
Lee Rubenstein Chapter 10: Game Mechanics for Digital Learning
John TraxlerChapter 11: The Future of Learning is Immersive: Games, Simulations and Virtual Reality
Anders Gronstedt THEME 4: DIGITAL AND BLENDED LEARNING IN ACTION: GOOD PRACTICES
Chapter 12: Linking Learning to Jobs and Service Delivery in the Public Sector –The Tec De Monterrey Experience
Laura Ruiz Perez Chapter 13: Building National-Level Partnerships for e-Learning: The Malaysian Experience
Ansary AhmedChapter 14: Improving Performance and Employability Through e-Learning: The IDB Experience
Edgar Gonzalez, Stella Porto, and Xenia Coton Chapter 15: Lessons from Two Transformational EdTech Initiatives in China
Ronghuai Huang, Huanhuan Wang, Hang Lu, Bojun Gao, Zhisheng Li, Ahmed TliliChapter 16: Skilling the Youth Bulge in India: NSDC Experiences
Manish Kumar THEME 5: FUTURE OF CONTENT DEVELOPMENT: LEVERAGING OPEN RESOURCES

Chapter 17: Open Educational Resources for Sustainable Development: Guidelines for Policy and Capacity Building
Sanjaya Mishra THEME 6: THE POWER OF THE PLATFORM: SMART TECHNOLOGIES AND TOOLS

Chapter 18: The Power of Open Educational Technology
Martin Dougiamas Chapter 19: AI, Blockchain and 5G: Implications for Education, Upskilling and Lifelong Learning
Balaji Venakatarman, Alexis Carr Chapter 20: Reimagining Educational Experiences via Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies
David Guralnick
Chapter 21: A Metaknowledge Framework in the Training of Trainers Using Smart Mobile Learning Applications
Abtar Darshan Singh, Edward Robeck, Shriram Raghunathan, Bibhya Sharma, Vaikunthan RajaratnamTHEME 7: MODERNIZING LEARNING MEASUREMENT, EVALUATION AND CREDENTIALING THROUGH DATA ANALYTICS FOR INSIGHTS AND DECISION MAKINGChapter 22: Evaluating and Improving the Impact of digital learning
Ingrid Guerra-Lopez Chapter 23: Using Learning Analytics to Accelerate Change
Gary NatrielloChapter 24: Advancing Sustainable Educational Ecosystems with Open Digital Credentials and Badges
Daniel Hickey and Ilona BuchemTHEME 8: MOBILIZING PARTNERSHIPS TO SUPPORT PATHWAYS TO WORK
Chapter 25: Partnership Engagements for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Educational Technology Partnerships
Shafika IsaacsChapter 26: From Concepts to Action: How to Accelerate Digital Learning to Achieve SDGs - Influencer Viewpoints
Sheila JagannathanChapter 27: The Future of Learning Is Here – Are You Ready?
Sheila JagannathanAbout the Contributors

Sheila Jagannathan is the Head of the Open Learning Campus at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., USA. She serves as the organization’s focal point on digital learning and issues at the intersection of technology use and education in emerging countries. She is an internationally recognized thought leader, advisor, author and a forward-thinking senior education leader with over 35 years of experience in leading capacity building, knowledge management, data, social learning and transformation change across public and private organizations. She has been responsible for designing and implementing world-class solutions in challenging global environments, resulting in performance and productivity improvements. Sheila also provides policy advice and technical assistance to World Bank country-level capacity building programs (both government and training centers of excellence seeking to introduce technologies in their educational systems) in, East Asia, China, the Middle East and North Africa, Africa and South Asia. Her current areas of interest and activity include: skilling and the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 60-year curricula, corporate talent management, diversity & inclusion, organizational development, MOOCs, experiential pedagogy, online/hybrid strategies, multimodal and social learning environments, immersive learning (AR/VR), use of artificial education in education, big data analytics, LXPs, LMS, and learning ecosystems. She has written articles for various peer-reviewed publications and journals. She is on the advisory board and planning committees of major professional associations of learning such as the Canadian Foreign Service Institute, Global Distance Learning Network, Indian National Skills Development Council, George Mason University, E-learning Africa, (Annual International Conference for developing E-learning capacities in Africa), International Conference on e-learning (ICEL), and Skills Development Councils.