The 2nd International Conference on Digitalization and Management Innovation (DMI 2023)
—Build a New Ecology of Lifelong Education

Abstract: Lifelong education is mostly initiated and managed by the learner and mostly done through the internet. This presentation discusses how to design learning experiences for effective and motivating lifelong education in the digital age. It begins by offering guidance for the main concerns of the learner: (a) how to find learning resources for one’s learning goals, somewhat akin Amazon and the App Store, and (b) how to judge the quality of those resources through user reviews and expert reviews. Then it offers guidance for the main concerns of the learning experience designer: (a) how to design project-based learning that enhances motivation and transfer, has multiple levels of certifications/badges, and utilizes virtual reality and augmented reality to merge the learning experience with real-world environments, and (b) how to design just-in-time tutorials for use during the projects to enhance efficiency, transfer, motivation, and certification of mastery utilizing artificial intelligence. Finally, the presentation offers guidance for the process of designing such learning experiences, including (a) deciding which learner needs, interests, and competencies to address, including levels and progressions of competence, (b) deciding on a variety of learning experiences/projects for each level of competence as viewed from the learner’s perspective using a holistic, top-down, systemic approach, (c) designing the just-in-time tutorials for all competencies as viewed from the “teacher” perspective, (d) formatively evaluating throughout the design process, and (e) using ChatGPT or Bing to help with these design tasks.

Biography: Charles M. Reigeluth is a distinguished educational researcher and consultant who focuses on paradigm change in education. He has a B.A. in economics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in instructional psychology from Brigham Young University. He taught high-school science for three years, was a professor at Syracuse University for 10 years, was a professor at Indiana University for 25 years, and is currently a professor emeritus in the School of Education at Indiana University. He facilitated a paradigm change effort in a small school district in Indianapolis for 11 years. His latest books are Instructional-Design Theories and Models, Volume IV: The Learner-Centered Paradigm of Education (www.reigeluth.net/volume-iv), Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency-Based Education (www.reigeluth.net/vision-and-action), and Merging the Instructional Design Process with Learner-Centered Theory: The Holistic 4D Model (www.reigeluth.net/holistic-4d). They chronicle and offer guidance for a national transformation in K-12 education to the learner-centered, competency-based paradigm. He offers presentations and consulting on this topic.