Technology and the Future of Education, Learning and Knowledge

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Not Dystopian

Today, let’ s look backwards from the Future

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THE CONCEPT BEHIND TWITTER:)

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You ain’t seen nothing yet!

EDUCATION

TECHNOLOGY

Huge opportunity ☯ threat

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A big challenge for universities: the framework is changing

Technology changes how we perceive the world

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If you measure the wrong thing you do the wrong thing: GDP & GPA

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Many digital natives will start to define and shape their own ‘degrees’

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Education may just become like this shoe…

CUSTOMIZATION

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BRAND BECOMES CRUCIAL

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Everything: Connected Intelligent Real-time

Personalized Cross-platform

ONLY THE BEGINNING

Everything is converging

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SCREENIFICATION

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5 Billion...soon

A ‘Kodak Moment’ for Universities…?

@gleonhardnot really… BUT….

The Digital Default is near

Exponential growth of technology

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Now, many things will happen a lot quicker

than we think!

The other 3 Billion are coming online: knowledge revolution

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! Dramatic impact on Education !

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The education sector has a lot in common with the music, media & content business

Locked Loose Liquid

BroadcastCable & Sat Cloud

SoLoMo

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Digitization and Virtualization of Education: following music industry, publishing, newspapers

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‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ IS DEAD‘UNIVERSITY AS USUAL’ IS THE PAST

E-M-P-O-W-E-R-M-E-N-T

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A common feeling these days

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“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence, itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic”*Peter Drucker

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Discover, co-create, imagine… tomorrow’s logic

Discover, co-create, imagine… tomorrow’s logic

The Future is no longer a zero-sum game

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“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence, itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic”

*Peter Drucker

http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/05/inventing-our-next-great-scarcities/

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ScarcityAbundance

As educational content becomes abundant, “experience” is the new scarcity

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Mobile devices have already become our external brains Next: new ‘extensions of man’ that change us

“Search engines won’t wait for you to ask for information. They will know you like a friend, aware of

your concerns and interests at a detailed level” Ray Kurzweil

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Automated. Intelligent. Everything.

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The stuff of science fiction…no longer

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The coming ‘Global Brain’ is a huge opportunity for universities

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GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT

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Equal access to digital resources will become a human right

Interdependence is inevitableBusiness

Technology Politics Culture Europe

EDUCATION

Information Tsunami

Overload Everywhere

Learning: from copy & paste & memorize and downloads to flows, from ownership to access

The rise of ‘OTT’ education and learning platforms will dramatically accelerate hyper-fragmentation, resulting in ‘masses of niches’ and ‘niche-hits’, hyper-globalization - and very fast-changing windows of monetisation

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Education, Learning, Training: dramatically increasing fragmentation, unbundling, splintering, personalisation…

Many nicely walled gardens will probably not be sustainable

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THE FUTURE ISN’T ‘EITHER/OR’

It’s not an ‘either/or’ world - it’s an ‘and’ world

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New Content Interface Technologies &

Screenification: we’re only at the very beginning!

Video Source: IBM Future Scenarios, YoutubeVideo Source: Cisco via Youtube

Human-only tasks on-top of big data, smart machines, AI

Knowledge 2.0: Wisdom. Learnings. Relevance. Depth.

http://pinterest.com/pin/197876977350036245/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_Pyramid

Knowledge is not merely about information, data, facts and numbers....

http://conniecrosby.blogspot.it/2013/01/david-weinberger-on-nature-of-knowledge.html

‘Learn’ wisdom...?

BUT IS THIS THE ‘LEARNING’ WE NEED?

The appeal of ‘amazing free stuff’ paid largely with attention & personal data is mostly (but not entirely) temporary:

“If you don’t pay you are the content”

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Formal Authority

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Peer - Networked - Self-made - Earned- Authority

“Creativity is the residue of time wasted” A. Einstein

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