madlat 2008
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Walking Uncertain Paths: Technologies and Models of
Learning for TomorrowPeter Tittenberger
George SiemensMADLaT
May 9, 2008
Learning Technologies Centrewww.umanitoba.ca/learning_technologies
3. Technological developments4. Societal impact?5. Next wave of change
Dual pressures
Conceptual (social learning theory, situated/contextual learning)
Technological (web, participative technologies)
Infrequent duality – last time: 1750-1850 (social/technological upheaval)
Recent developments in Educational Technology
Web 2.0
Millenials
Open Education Resources
Blogs
Wikis
Second Life
Virtual Worlds
Wikipedia
YouTube
uStream Podcasts
flickr
Skype
Diigo
Blogger
Google Docs
LMS
Learning 2.0
Distributed learning
Learner-centered
Authentic Teaching
Accountability
Standards
Online learning
Hybrid learning
Blended learning
Globalization
Digital literacy
Digital divide
Tag clouds User generated
Mashups
Impact?
Where have we seen change?
Systems level: ERP, HRM, LMS
What about at classroom level?
What is the adoption rate?
JISC LXP
ECAR
EDU Research
Network Learning (Dissertation: de Laat, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning)
Web 2.0 (whatever that means)
Not yet familiar with LMS...
And now here we are
Distributed
Networked
Social networks
Mobile learning
Microlearning
Immersive worlds
Single functionality tools
Discussion...(maybe a bit of argument)
Adopt, Adapt, or Ignore?
2. Technological developments
3. Social impact?
4. Next wave of change
Social impact
Identity
Ethics
Morality
What’s permissible?
MyLifeBits
Justin.tv
Transparency...capturing everything...expressing anything (Wikileaks)
(but who has time to review??)
...the drift towards a narrowing down of the “function” of a university in the traditional, constantly self-renewing sense, towards an institution which merely serves the needs of the community as determined by current economic and social needs, by focusing mainly on the training of “professionals”.
Bert Oliver
Emerging tension points
Education vs. business
Accreditation vs. reputation
Transformation vs. utility
Research vs. responding
Formal vs. informal
Conceptual and technological developments require:– New process of education (y/n?)
– New view of literacy
– New skills
Instructional design
Faculty concerns with online teaching
Social impact of technology
PLAR – learning outside of formal institutions
Implications?
Mixed
Hype
Systemic change?
Challenge
Retain transformative character of traditional education
Adjust to reflect new tools, new needs, new society (?)
Impact?
End of certainty
Adjustment to notion of expertise– Reputation is accreditation
Policy
Mixed signals
Systemization (ID)
Corporatization of education
Business-like view of research/commercialization
Utilitarian view of education
Declining professorship/faculty...(NCES)
Discussion...(maybe a bit of argument)
Adopt, Adapt, or Ignore?
2. Technological developments
3. Societal impact?
4. Next wave of change
The future isn’t only about us.
Education’s future will be shaped in developing
countries
China: HE enrolment doubled, 2000 – 2003 16 million. Exceeds US
India: by 2010, 40% of all
HE education will be distance
Carnegie Foundation (2006)
China: 800 new institutions in higher education since late 90’s
China: doubled scientific article output between 1997-2004 (rest of world declined %)
1800: 3% of population in large cities
2050: 75%
http://www.192021.org/
Trends
Haptic devices
Open educational resources
Globalization
New devices for internet access (diminishing role of computers)
New, continuous access to web
GPS...location awareness
Trends
Visualization to assist in sensemaking
Neuroscience – remaking of our understanding of learning, will, humanity
Embeddedness – diminished volition of pursuing learning. Learning as breathing
Overlay
Trends
Mashups: multiple, unanticipated connections
Distributed labs
Cloud computing
Web OS
Collaboration/co-creation
Collective/Connective intelligence
Networks are changing:
Teaching
Learning
Social
Self-organizing
Loosely-planned targets
Mediated by artifacts of invention
Global, connected, collaborative, distributed
“I’ll take buzzword for 200, please Alex”
Society
Science...
Collaborative
Open
Evolving
Engaged with society
PLOSOne
Discussion...(maybe a bit of argument)
Adopt, Adapt, or Ignore?
