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Technology and the Future of Education, Learning and Knowledge
FuturistGerd.com @gleonhard
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You ain’t seen nothing yet!
EDUCATION
TECHNOLOGY
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Huge opportunity ☯ threat
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A big challenge for universities: the framework is changing
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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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Education may just become like this shoe…
CUSTOMIZATION
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BRAND BECOMES CRUCIAL
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The
futu
re is
already h
ere!
Everything: Connected Intelligent Real-time
Personalized Cross-platform
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ONLY THE BEGINNING
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SCREENIFICATION OF EDUCATION
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A ‘Kodak Moment’ for Universities…?
@gleonhardnot really… BUT….
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The Digital Default is near
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Exponential growth of technology
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...1 2 4 8 16 32 64
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Now, many things will happen a lot quicker
than we think!
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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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Image of BP platform via US Coast Guard
‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ IS DEAD‘UNIVERSITY AS USUAL’ IS THE PAST
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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
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The Future is no longer a zero-sum game
Photo by WallStreet Journal.com
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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
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“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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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
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Interdependence is inevitableBusiness
Technology Politics Culture Europe
EDUCATION
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Information Tsunami
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Overload Everywhere
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Learning: from copy & paste & memorize and downloads to flows, from ownership to access
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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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The
futu
re is
already h
ere!
The
futu
re is
already h
ere!
Education, Learning, Training: dramatically increasing fragmentation, unbundling, splintering, personalisation…
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Image of BP platform via US Coast Guard
THE FUTURE ISN’T ‘EITHER/OR’
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It’s not an ‘either/or’ world - it’s an ‘and’ world
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Image thanks to http://www.beachandisland.net/destinations-in-hawaiian-islands/
New Content Interface Technologies &
Screenification: we’re only at the very beginning!
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Video Source: IBM Future Scenarios, YoutubeVideo Source: Cisco via Youtube
Human-only tasks on-top of big data, smart machines, AI
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Knowledge 2.0: Wisdom. Learnings. Relevance. Depth.
http://pinterest.com/pin/197876977350036245/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_Pyramid
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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...?
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BUT IS THIS THE ‘LEARNING’ WE NEED?
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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”
Image via Popsci.com
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Formal Authority
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Peer - Networked - Self-made - Earned- Authority
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