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Google's Eric Schmidt on What the Web Will Look Like in 5 Years
"Google CEO Eric Schmidt envisions a radically changed internet five years from now: dominated by Chinese-language and social media content, delivered over super-fast bandwidth in real time. Figuring out how to rank real-time social content is "the great challenge of the age," Schmidt said in an interview in front of thousands of CIOs and IT Directors at last week's Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Orlando 2009."
Using technology to improve the cost-effectiveness of the academy: Part 1 « Tony Bates
Is e-learning failing in higher education?
In previous blogs, I have discussed whether e-learning is failing in higher education. To answer the question, I have examined the expectations or goals for e-learning, and whether they are being achieved.
Finally, I come to the last goal or expectation: that e-learning will increase the cost-effectiveness of higher education. I will argue that this is the most important and valuable of all the goals for e-learning, but is the one that is furthest from being achieved.
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- Classes are organized at scheduled times in a fixed location on the assumption of full-time attendance.
- Students receive (at least within the same course) a ’standard’ or common product, in terms of curriculum (same lectures, same reading lists, etc. for each student in the course), delivered at the same time and place, irrespective of the needs of different kinds of students (full-time, part-time, working, following Henry Ford’s classic model-T car strategy: ‘you can have any colour you want, so long as it’s black’).
- To deal with large classes, another classic industrial strategy is used: hiring low-paid and less ‘qualified’ workers – adjuncts and graduate students – to take up the extra load.
- The institution is divided into departmental silos, with a hierarchical management structure of heads or directors of departments, deans and vice-presidents. Academic staff are also organized hierarchically: research student, post-doc, associate professor, full professor, departmental chair.
- The Spellings Commission in the USA (US Department of Education, 2006) even pushed (unsuccessfully) for standardized measurements of output, to allow comparison in ‘performance’ between institutions, reflecting a classic industrial mentality of ‘standardized’ products.
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Given the potential and benefits of digital learning, a radical re-thinking of the benefits and limitations of physical presence, related to the nature of the subject matter and the type of learner being targeted (e.g., high school leavers or lifelong learners, full-time or part-time students) is needed.
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The Future Online Learner - Market Research Reports - Research and Markets
The Future Online Learner report explores the results of a recent survey conducted for the purposes of identifying future trends in adult online higher education and informing program development and marketing decisions A national sample of adults who are not currently enrolled but are interested in...
The Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
This report presents the outcomes of the expert workshop held at the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) on 29 and 30 October 2008 to discuss the impact of the social computing on Education and Training (E&T) in Europe.
The workshop aimed to validate the results of the Learning 2.0 study, launched by IPTS in collaboration with DG EAC. The study explored the impact of social computing on E&T in Europe (in terms of contribution to the innovation of educational practice, and to more inclusive learning opportunities for the knowledge society). It also assessed Europe’s position in the take up of social computing in formal educational contexts and - by identifying opportunities and challenges - devised policy options for EU decision makers.
The report offers a structured account of the debate that took place during the two day workshop. It reflects the discussion on the potential of social computing take up in organized educational contexts, focusing on innovation (from the pedagogical, organisational and technological standpoints), and on inclusion. It further discusses how, despite the recent emergence of the phenomenon mostly outside E&T institutions, its primarily experimental nature within formal E&T contexts, and the speed of its evolution, there are clear signs that it can transform educational practice and that a new schooling culture is called for. The report then presents the main risks that were identified by the experts and proposes a number of items for research and the policy agenda to respond to the educational needs of society as it is being transformed by the social computing wave. Finally, it summarizes the trends identified as likely to affect the future evolution of the learning landscape.
Times Higher Education - Education news, resources and university jobs for the academic world - The future's bright for universities ... if they reinvent themselves
Mike Boxall argues that we must forget the certainties of the past if we are to make the most of the opportunities of the future
Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE
How can those of us in higher education best understand new technologies? The phrases "emerging technologies" and "evolving technologies" remind us that the digital world is largely in flux. New devices, altered applications, and shifting practices keep crossing over the horizon—or quietly appearing in our midst.
Tech that Gen Y will sweep away | Tech News on ZDNet
Web 2.0 evangelist Don Tapscott - author of tech titles including Wikinomics and The Digital Economy - is forecasting a "big conflict" in the office, sparked by the generation of 11- to 30-year-olds who are determined to reshape the workplace in their own image.
Meeting the Top Challenges in Teaching and Learning with Technology (Notes from March 24th discussion session) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
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Five topics were presented and voted upon, to drill down to two for discussion
1. Creating learning environment that promote active learning, critical thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge creation. (winner)
2. Developing 21st century literacies
3. Reaching and engaging today’s learners
4. Encouraging faculty adoption and innovation in teaching and learning with IT. (winner)
5.Advancing innovation in teaching and learning in an era of budget cuts
Microsoft Higher Education - White papers This is a cached version of http://www.microsoft.com/education/highered/whitepapers/future/FutureWork.aspx. Diigo.com has no relation to the site.x Microsoft Higher Education - White papers
In 2004, Microsoft undertook the task of exploring the future of work using scenario planning. In this article, the follow-up to “Scenario Planning and the Future of Education,” which appeared in Innovate’s June/July 2008 issue, Daniel W. Rasmus describes what education looks like in the four scenarios that emerged from this process. Rasmus suggests that educators and policy makers can use these scenarios and the accompanying narratives to consider how large and small choices work toward or against a particular future.
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In 2004, Microsoft undertook the task of exploring the future of work using scenario planning. In this article, the follow-up to “Scenario Planning and the Future of Education,” which appeared in Innovate’s June/July 2008 issue, Daniel W. Rasmus describes what education looks like in the four scenarios that emerged from this process. Rasmus suggests that educators and policy makers can use these scenarios and the accompanying narratives to consider how large and small choices work toward or against a particular future.
Demos | Projects | Open Universities | Overview
This project will explore how technological and social change will impact on Universities.
All three of a university's traditional missions are changing rapidly. First, in education, teachers are having to adapt to a context in which they are one source of information among many. Secondly, in research, ICTs have opened up the possibility of new forms of collaboration and communication, particularly in the sciences. Debates about open access are already filtering into the practice of science itself, as researchers begin to share lab notes and data around the world. Lastly, the emergence of Universities' 'third mission', incorporating elements of knowledge transfer and community engagement, presents challenges for higher education to which technology is well placed to contribute.
Creatively Speaking, Part One: Sir Ken Robinson on the Power of the Imaginative Mind | Edutopia
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Half an Hour: The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On
In the summer of 1998, over two frantic weeks in July, I wrote an essay titled The Future of Online Learning. (Downes, 1998) At the time, I was working as a distance education and new media design specialist at Assiniboine Community College, and I wrote the essay to defend the work I was doing at the time. “We want a plan,” said my managers, and so I outlined the future as I thought it would – and should – unfold.
In the ten years that have followed, this vision of the future has proven to be remarkably robust. I have found, on rereading and reworking the essay, that though there may have been some movement in the margins, the overall thrust of the paper was essentially correct. This gives me confidence in my understanding of those forces and trends that are moving education today.
- A useful summary of where we are at now and how we got here. - willstewart on 2008-11-21
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What we have begun to notice with online learning, however, is a decreasing emphasis on this formal style of learning, and an increasing emphasis on what has come to be called informal learning. (Chivers, 2006) In the case of informal learning, students are not constrained by the limits of the classroom model. They can set their own curriculum and proceed at their own pace. (Moore, 1986) Learning can thus be based on a student’s individual needs, rather than as predefined in a formal class, and based on a student’s schedule, rather than that set by the institution.
Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
The world has become increasingly “flat,” as Tom Friedman has shown. Thanks to massive improvements in communications and transportation, virtually any place on earth can be connected to markets anywhere else on earth and can become globally competitive.1
- Interesting article for those interested in transforming Distance Learning. - willstewart on 2008-11-03
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This perspective shifts the focus of our attention from the content of a subject to the learning activities and human interactions around which that content is situated. This perspective also helps to explain the effectiveness of study groups. Students in these groups can ask questions to clarify areas of uncertainty or confusion, can improve their grasp of the material by hearing the answers to questions from fellow students, and perhaps most powerfully, can take on the role of teacher to help other group members benefit from their understanding (one of the best ways to learn something is, after all, to teach it to others).
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There is a second, perhaps even more significant, aspect of social learning. Mastering a field of knowledge involves not only “learning about” the subject matter but also “learning to be” a full participant in the field. This involves acquiring the practices and the norms of established practitioners in that field or acculturating into a community of practice.
We-think: The power of mass creativity - Charles Leadbeater
We Think explores how the web is changing our world, creating a culture in which more people than ever can participate, share and collaborate, ideas and information.
Ideas take life when they are shared. That is why the web is such a potent platform for
Is the Web still the Web? |Fatal Exception | Neil McAllister | InfoWorld
For developers of RIAs (rich Internet applications), Adobe's announcement that Google and Yahoo will soon be able to index text within Flash movies should come as welcome news. Until now, Flash files have been black boxes; as binary files, search indexers
Schooling for Tomorrow - The Starterpack: Futures Thinking in Action
We are living in an increasingly global world. This brings many challenges and problems, but it also makes it much easier to learn from those in other countries about areas of common interest. It helps those concerned about education in different countrie
2008 Horizon Report
The New Media Consortium (NMC) and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) jointly produced Horizon Report describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education within three adoption horizons over the next on
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