Thinking about KIST in 5 Years

Today was a great day to kickoff our face-to-face sessions of Collaborative Teaching & Learning 2009 in Kigali, Rwanda. We met at the Kigali Institute of Science & Technology (KIST) with 12 participants today. We spent time discussing Open Learning concepts.

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We gathered thoughts about how faculty see teaching and learning changing in the next 5 years at KIST.

Some of the ideas that the group has put forth so far are:

• Reduce contact hours lecturing
• Allow students to explore themselves
• To solve online problems
• Move beyond instructor-led learning to self-directed learning
• More active and interactive learning, less passive
• Greatly expand access to knowledge resources
• Old black board methods are obsolete
• Examinations shall be more practice oriented
• Self learning is key to learning
• Reduce contact hours lecturing
• In next 5 yrs what we teach is obsolete
• Allow students to explore themselves
• Students should be able to adapt to new technologies, presentation - web sharing
• Using of ICT will be more popular in all academic services
• More e-learning resources will be available
• ICT OS enrolling knowledge management
• More robust IT resources (computers + internet connection)
• Students will likely listen to lectures on mobiles, interact with other educational materials on mobile devices

Tomorrow we will spend some extended time exploring some of the new media tools that we have discussed plus a few new ones.