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Slide 1: Pressures of Change: A Response Ohio State University Extension Annual Conference George Siemens December 12, 2007

Slide 2: Transformation

Slide 3: 1. Reality: Pace and Growth 2. Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners 3. Where are We Now? 4. The Need for Change? 5. Models of Change 6. Moving Forward 7. Innovation

Slide 4: 1. Reality: Pace and Growth 2. Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners 3. Where are We Now? 4. The Need for Change? 5. Models of Change 6. Moving Forward 7. Innovation

Slide 5: Growth of information and tools to create/access information

Slide 6: “...in the 21st century, the education and skills of the workforce will end up being the dominant competitive weapon” Lester Thurow

Slide 7: % of population (25+) with 4 or more years of college Signal Hill 2007 Post Secondary Fact Book

Slide 8: By 2015: 70+% of all new jobs will require PSE Canadian Council for Learning, 2007

Slide 9: “The United States must find ways to nurture a broader and more diverse talent pool to be successful in the knowledge-based economy” Council of Graduate Schools Report. Graduate Education: The Backbone of American Competitiveness and Innovation

Slide 10: Trends in Online Education • 2/3 plus of all HE institutions offer online learning • 3.5 million students taking online course (in fall 2006) • 20%+ percent annual growth rate since 2003 Online Nation (Allen & Seaman, 2007)

Slide 11: Online Nation (Allen & Seaman, 2007)

Slide 12: ECAR, 2007 Undergraduate Students and IT

Slide 13: Most Valuable Benefit from IT in Courses ECAR, 2007 Undergraduate Students and IT

Slide 14: Views have changed

Slide 15: 1. Reality: Pace and Growth 2. Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners 3. Where are We Now? 4. The Need for Change? 5. Models of Change 6. Moving Forward 7. Innovation

Slide 16: Millennial Learners Oblinger (2005), Dede (2005)

Slide 17: Do different experiences impact our neural structure? Richard Davidson, 2002 Kelly, Grinband, Hirsch, 2007

Slide 18: The rise of everyone

Slide 19: A word of caution

Slide 20: Preference for IT Use in Courses ECAR, 2007 Undergraduate Students and IT

Slide 21: Oxford Internet Institute: Internet in Britain 2007

Slide 22: 1. Reality: Pace and Growth 2. Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners 3. Where are We Now? 4. The Need for Change? 5. Models of Change 6. Moving Forward 7. Innovation

Slide 23: Signal Hill 2007 Post Secondary Fact Book

Slide 24: Oxford Internet Institute: Internet in Britain 2007

Slide 25: 3.3 Billion Mobile accounts Informa, 2007

Slide 26: Oxford Internet Institute: Internet in Britain 2007

Slide 27: Oxford Internet Institute: Internet in Britain 2007

Slide 29: “Prototypical US industry in 10 years, if all goes well” National Center on Education and the Economy: Tough Choices or Tough Times

Slide 31: 1. Reality: Pace and Growth 2. Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners 3. Where are We Now? 4. The Need for Change? 5. Models of Change 6. Moving Forward 7. Innovation

Slide 32: “...we have to change ourselves in changing environments, and we have to empower ourselves to change these environments as well” Theo Hug

Slide 33: New skills • ALA: information literacy (2000) • Jenkins: New media skills (2006, p. 5) • 21st Century Skills • Digital Literacy – Gilster 1997, Jones-Kavalier & Flannigan, 2006

Slide 34: Harvard (2007): Core Curriculum 1. Civic Engagement 3. Students to understand themselves as products of— and participants in—traditions of art, ideas, and values 5. Respond critically and constructively to change 7. Students’ understanding of ethical dimensions of what they say and do

Slide 35: New Skills • Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World • Intellectual and Practical Skills • Personal and Social Responsibility • Integrative Learning AAC&U, 2007: College Learning for the New Global Century

Slide 36: Our structures of presenting information and fostering knowledge development cannot keep pace with growth!

Slide 38: 1. Reality: Pace and Growth 2. Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners 3. Where are We Now? 4. The Need for Change? 5. Models of Change 6. Moving Forward 7. Innovation

Slide 40: Cook, Holley & Andrew British Journal of Educational Technology 38 (5), 784-794.

Slide 41: OECD: Schooling for tomorrow • Bureaucratic • Re-schooling – Focused learning organizations – Core social centres • De-schooling – Extended market – Learning in networks • Crisis

Slide 42: 1. Reality: Pace and Growth 2. Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners 3. Where are We Now? 4. The Need for Change? 5. Models of Change 6. Moving Forward 7. Innovation

Slide 43: What will education look like?

Slide 44: Threats • For-profit providers • Global schools • Relationship to University • Funding • Re-skilling faculty

Slide 45: Opportunities • Global market • Partnerships with other institutions • Collaboration with global partners • Adopt combined resource-models • Innovate method and structure

Slide 46: 1. Reality: Pace and Growth 2. Reality: Lives and Habits of Learners 3. Where are We Now? 4. The Need for Change? 5. Models of Change 6. Moving Forward 7. Innovation

Slide 47: http://dltj.org/2006/12/disruptive-innovation-card

Slide 48: Innovating Education Distance Education and Extension departments uniquely suited to the task

Slide 49: What are core tasks in Extension? • Administration – Management, policy • Technological – Infrastructure, security • Research – New markets, future opportunities • Marketing • Teaching and Learning

Slide 50: Teaching and Learning Reconsider full spectrum of activity

Slide 51: How do we begin to innovate?

Slide 52: small steps many directions

Slide 53: Seed Select Amplify (Meyer & Davis, 2003)

Slide 54: Conceptualization Experimentation Implementation

Slide 55: Websites and Newsletters www.elearnspace.org www.knowingknowledge.com www.connectivism.ca http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/