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Technology and Tomorrow’s University
George SiemensTechnology Enhanced Knowledge Research Institute
Athabasca UniversityMay 13, 2010Presented to:
Technology & knowledgeMore is differentControl shiftCoherence & LearningScholarshipUniversity’s Value Points
Technology & knowledgeMore is differentControl shiftCoherence & LearningScholarshipUniversity’s Value Points
Social MediaSocial Networked LearningInternet of things: “central nervous systems for
the planet”Analytics
“What we have here is a transition from a stable, settled world of knowledge produced by authority/authors, to a world of instability, flux, of knowledge produced by the individual”
Kress and Pachler, 2007
Everything is Explicit
Technology & knowledgeMore is differentControl shiftCoherence & LearningScholarshipUniversity’s Value Points
More is differentPW Anderson
The diminishing cost of data
Big data, Analytics, Data visualization
Abundance “will challenge decision-support processes which are based on ‘ordered’ knowledge”
DCDC Global Strategic Trends
Technology & knowledgeMore is differentControl shiftCoherence & LearningScholarshipUniversity’s Value Points
Transition: control and capacity to shape
From . to /
www.you.com
twitter.com/you
facebook.com/you
ustream.tv/user/you
foursquare.com/user/you
www.whatever.com/you
Contrast
moodle.youruniversity.com
with
allovertheweb.com/yourlearner
We have created spaces instead of connections
Technology & knowledgeMore is differentControl shiftCoherence & LearningScholarshipUniversity’s Value Points
Porous learning: not confined to classrooms or life stages
Networked learning doesn’t have a centre
But…
We need “centering” to understand
We need “centering” to makesense
We need “centering” to see patterns
We need “centering” to share
Social and technological networks for coherence making
Social and technological networks for sensemaking
Social and technological networks for wayfinding
Challenging the “efficient market hypothesis” of learning
Community as curriculumDave Cormier, 2008
Curriculum as computation
Edfutures/CCK08/09
Technology & knowledgeMore is differentControl shiftCoherence & LearningScholarshipUniversity’s Value Points
Your “findability” factorGráinne Conole
Technology & knowledgeMore is differentControl shiftCoherence & LearningScholarshipUniversity’s Value Points
Universities map realityFrank & Gabler (2006)
Online learning is “kind of destabilizing the mechanisms by which we produce the elite in our society”
Christopher Edley, Dean, Berkeley Law School, University of California http://chronicle.com/article/In-Crisis-U-of-California/65445/
New value points?
Content? No
Research? Yes
“Scholarship in higher education in this century has to be irrevocably tied to the technology and knowledge media that constitute such important drivers in the society of which we are a part.”
Gourley, 2008
Teaching? No (unless it’s personal, mentoring)
Credentialing? Yes
Innovation in credentialing is an important value point for universities to explore
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Social Networks & Learning (June 21-25, 2010)https://tekri.athabascau.ca/dr_seminar/
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