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Mark Greenfield

Higher ed web professional, consultant, keynote speaker, futurist, uwebd overlord,

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Five Themes

•The Singularity•Everyware•Ambient Findability•The Live Web•Ambient Connectivity

Moore’s Law

transistor density on integrated circuits doubles about every two

years

computer

A Keyboard and a Mouse

that’s so 1970’s

• The End of Print • Millennials and their love of technology

Web 2.0

The Social WebConnecting People

Web 3.0

The Internet of ThingsConnecting Devices

• Improving services for students

The amount of data created by humans in 2009 exceeded that of all data created by humans prior

to 2009

Findability precedes usability in the alphabet and on the web.

You can’t use what you can’t find

the end of the web page paradigm

• Understanding the content lifecycle• Content Curation

the live web

Balancing speed with accuracy Emergency notifications Live event coverage

Ambient Connectivity

24/7

the internet is always in your pocket

mobile is as different from the internet as tv is from radio

hyper-local

Our education system was built for a world that no longer exists

Flattened

When the impact of the internet and globalization render and industry

unrecognizable, and in many cases, obsolete

Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive. ... Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable.

- Peter Drucker (1997)- Peter Drucker (1997)

The question isn’t should be laptops in lecture hallsThe question is should there be lecture halls in universities

“Most institutions can no longer afford to be what

they’ve become”

Concluding Thoughts

Concluding Thoughts

new technology is overhyped in the short termbut underhyped in the long term

Concluding Thoughts

In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves

beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

12/21/2012

Its easy to get stuck in the past when you are trying to make a good thing last

-Neil Young-Neil Young

Thank You

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