Verkkotutkintojen tulevaisuuden skenaariot ja uudistettu visio
Mäenpää, Kati; Joshi, Marjo; Kullaslahti, Jaana; Mäkinen, Leena; Timonen, Päivi; Valkki, Outi (2024)
Lataukset:
2024
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe20251111106915
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe20251111106915
Tiivistelmä
Our article discusses the results of the joint foresight work on online degrees in universities of applied sciences, including the future, the process of building them, and the thinking behind the work. The foresight work aims to identify alternative trajectories and the opportunities and challenges that can be derived from them. Rapid changes in the environment are pushing individuals and communities working in different sectors to constantly renew their culture and competences. Active efforts to anticipate future competence needs help professionals to find suitable contingency methods and create opportunities for new learning (Aaltonen & Wilenius 2002; Ahvenharju et al. 2020; Dufva 2015). In this article, we present scenarios and visions for the future of e-learning based on foresight work.
In this article, e-degrees are defined as interactive and guided, online university-level degrees. The eDegree visions suggest that eDegrees can be designed, built up, and implemented through national cooperation. It is essential to define the goal of a national e-degree, who the key actors are, what is essential to support and manage the implementation, in which environment the degree will be delivered, and how students and staff will be supported during the e-degree (Joshi et al. 2020).While e-learning is a model for building the future’s learning mode, there are also alternative trajectories for its self-direction and use, which is worth outlining. Societal changes and national policies will also put pressure on the future implementation of e-learning.
A community-based process of building future scenarios and visions has been carried out in cooperation between five universities of applied sciences and representatives from the world of work. The work has been carried out in the context of the National Network for Online Examinations, where different solutions are being sought through cooperation between higher education institutions and working life (National Network for Online Examinations 2020). It aims to respond to changes in society and the need to reform higher education, including in the direction of sustainable development and continuous learning. The future of online degrees was first examined through foresight work by creating future scenarios that took into account key societal variables (Joshi et al. 2022).
The foresight work was based on a model developed in the foresight work of the Southwest Finland Foresight Academy and the PESTE categorization for data collection and structuring of changes in the operating environment (Ojala et al. 2022). Following the scenario work, the needs for reform of existing online examination quizzes were examined in light of broad societal themes. Based on these, the visions were renewed and a completely new vision for the future of e-learning was created. The visions can be used in building new e-learning systems (Mäenpää et al. 2022) or in renewal as a tool for management and operational activities in national cooperation.
In this article, e-degrees are defined as interactive and guided, online university-level degrees. The eDegree visions suggest that eDegrees can be designed, built up, and implemented through national cooperation. It is essential to define the goal of a national e-degree, who the key actors are, what is essential to support and manage the implementation, in which environment the degree will be delivered, and how students and staff will be supported during the e-degree (Joshi et al. 2020).While e-learning is a model for building the future’s learning mode, there are also alternative trajectories for its self-direction and use, which is worth outlining. Societal changes and national policies will also put pressure on the future implementation of e-learning.
A community-based process of building future scenarios and visions has been carried out in cooperation between five universities of applied sciences and representatives from the world of work. The work has been carried out in the context of the National Network for Online Examinations, where different solutions are being sought through cooperation between higher education institutions and working life (National Network for Online Examinations 2020). It aims to respond to changes in society and the need to reform higher education, including in the direction of sustainable development and continuous learning. The future of online degrees was first examined through foresight work by creating future scenarios that took into account key societal variables (Joshi et al. 2022).
The foresight work was based on a model developed in the foresight work of the Southwest Finland Foresight Academy and the PESTE categorization for data collection and structuring of changes in the operating environment (Ojala et al. 2022). Following the scenario work, the needs for reform of existing online examination quizzes were examined in light of broad societal themes. Based on these, the visions were renewed and a completely new vision for the future of e-learning was created. The visions can be used in building new e-learning systems (Mäenpää et al. 2022) or in renewal as a tool for management and operational activities in national cooperation.