New Business Classic

Pervasive computingTechnology supported research & learning

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Tove Bang, ASB Library & ICT, June 2008

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Digital generation overview

Digital generations

Digital Na-tives:Enjoy digital technology; videogames etc.

Digital Adaptives: Embrace technologies and use IT in consumer durables

Digital Aliens:Latecomers to technology

Digital Immigrants: Grew up without digital technology

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The Y-generation profile

Impact on technological advancement:• Never experienced life without computers

The Y-generation

”Millennials”at work:• Teamworkers• Collaborative work• Innovative thinking• Impatient / Speed

Characteristics: • Connected 24/7/365• Goal oriented• Entrapreneurial• Global, community minded• Independent • Determined

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• Colla

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• Knowledge sh

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• Learn

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• Values

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Challenges for ASB to attract the Y-generation

• Create incentive, innovative learning styles / learning facilities to attract the Y-generation

• Shape the Y-generation to fit the 21.st century business profile (innovation, collaboration)

• Build up loyalty towards ASB (Lifelong learning)

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Learning styles to fit the Y-generation

From:

Passive Learning

Lectures

Reflected in :• ASB curriculum• ASB way of teaching• ASB learning facilities

To:

Active learning

Case method;Learning by doing from real-life business situations Collaborative learning

Learning 2.0

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Web 2.0 technologies support Learning 2.0

• ASB must use and facilitate medias and social technologies known by students –

If not - students produce their own wikis, blogs, videos etc.

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Learning spaces, places for social networking and relaxation

Flexible learning spaces and technological infrastructure must facilitate the ASB learning environment

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Access movements with impact on ASB ”New Business Classic” within 2-3 years

Issues to be considered:

• Open Access (OA):

• OCW - Open CourseWare OER - Open Educational Ressources:

• Copyright issues

Free, full-text online access to digital scientific and scholarly materials. Primarily research articles in peer-reviewed journals. Limited copyright and licensing restrictions.-OA self-archiving (print + inst.rep.)-OA publishing (in OA journals)

Movement world-wide towards distribution of course materials on the web for free

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Technological movements with impact on ASB ”New Business Classic” within

2-3 years

• Video / podcast / grassroots videoo User created video content as case stories in courses (MIT/Berkeley)o Media courses for students and staff (NYC, Yale, MIT)

• Collaboration webs / virtual workplaceso Tools for collaborative work, e.g. editing group documents, sharing documents

• Mobile learning devices (PDA, mobile phones, iPhones)o Self-learning on the flyo Lifelong learning o 7/24/365

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Distribution and archive infrastructure designed for ”New Business Classic” within 1

year

• Distribution & Media • Partnerships (business.dk. )

• Podcast / video / audiocast• Streaming / Simulations • Multimedia

• Metadata scheme• Learning objects• Semantic web• Long term preservation• Search facilities