Learning 2020The Higher Education Learning

Infrastructure of the Future

Jon MottAsst. to the Academic VPBrigham Young University

BYU IP&T Seminar 3 February 2010

“Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins

on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings,

apparatus, and libraries without

him.”

- President James Garfield

“Thirty years from now the big university campuses will

be relics. Universities

won't survive. It's as large a change as

when we first got the printed book.”Peter Drucker

1997

“Radical changes

occurring in a university’s

environment … will require

different institutional

arrangements than those

found today.”John Seely Brown

2000

“Universities are finally losing their

monopoly on higher learning …The definition of a

lecture has become the

process in which the notes of the

teacher go to the notes of the

student without going through the brains of either.”

Don Tapscott2009

“Your institutions will be irrelevant by

2020.”David Wiley

2009

The Web is “a world of pure connection, free of the arbitrary

constraints of matter,

distance and time.”

David Weinberger

Open Participatory

LearningEcosystem

We must solve “the teacher-

student contradiction, by reconciling the

poles of the contradiction so

that both are simultaneously teachers and students.”

Paulo Freire