The impact and implications of educational technology on higher education
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The Impact and Opportunityof Educational Technologies
on Higher Education
Dave Cormier
Being there
A few key trends
• Just in time enrolment• The separation of learning from
credentialing• And…
Flexibility
Internationalization
Analytics
http://www.slideshare.net/sbs/learning-analytics-dream-nightmare-or-fairydust
Storing Technologies
brains
books
The database
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dahlstroms/4140461901/sizes/l/in/photostream/
• What edtech tools do we know that are store and access?
• How are flexibility, internationalization and analytics built on top of them?
Can Higher Education compete at storing things?
“Prices for online access to articles from two major publishers have increased 145% over the past six years, with some journals costing as much as $40,000”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices?CMP=twt_gu
http://www.flickr.com/photos/0ystercatcher/5900455514/sizes/m/in/photostream/
Black Swan 1 – MIT accredits MOOCsMIT seeing Stanford pulling ahead in the free openness sweepstakes, decides that it will work to provide accreditation for open online courses…they’ve decided that they are going to hire 10K tutors to evaluate people in the new MOOCs they plan to launch this year. 1 million students, 10000 tutors. What would that do?
http://davecormier.com/edblog/2011/12/19/top-ten-black-swans/
What else can the technology offer?
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford
“We don't do market research" Steve Jobs
A few words on innovation
• What does that student need?• Who's job is it to decide what
the university is about? • What value do we provide?• Why do we teach?
Setting the context
”Successful health services in the 21st century must aim not merely for change, improvement, and response, but for changeability, improvability, and responsiveness.” Coping with complexity: educating for capabilitySarah W Fraser, Trisha Greenhalgh. 2001
1.They can map in any direction from any starting point
2.They grow and spread via experimentation within a context
3.They grow and spread regardless of breakage
Why a rhizome?
Multiple Voices
Connection
Networked
Learning Analytics
What else can we do?
We can be…
http://xkcd.com/519/
This
THIS
We need to know who we are, and then make the technologies be who we are.
@davecormier