Tradition And Emergence

Tradition and Emergence: Finding new points of balance in the educational use of technology COHERE Blended Learning Conference George Siemens October 3, 2008

Tiers of change pressures
Tier 1: Global
Tier 2: Technological/Societal
Tier 3: Educational

Global

Economic

Global Warming

Population growth

...relocation
1800: 3% of population in large cities
2050: 75%
http://www.192021.org/

Healthcare...epidemics

Technological/Societal

Need for advanced learning
2 of every 3 new/replacement jobs require post secondary education
Canadian Council of Learning (2006)

Networked Workers
93% own a cell phone , compared with 78% of all American adults.
85% own a desktop computer, compared with 65% of all adults.
61% own a laptop computer , compared with 39% of all adults.
27% own a Blackberry , Palm or other personal digital assistant, compared with 13% of all adults.
Pew Internet

Access
70+% level in many countries (Net)
Mobile/PDA (21%) web access – doubled in 2003-2005-2007
88% have mobile
Steep decline after age 55
Oxford Internet Institute

3.3 Billion Mobile accounts
Informa, 2007

Our relationship to content/information...

We’ve pulled it apart…

Fragmentation

Educational

Bigger shift that that from a Ptolmeic to Copernican view of the solar system…
Self-organization is the way the relevant sciences are heading.
Carl Bereiter (2002)

“ Tectonic shift that will transform the map of higher education worldwide—the growth of universities in the developing world”
Daniel, Kanwar, Uvalic-Trumbic (2006)

Education’s future will be shaped in developing countries
China: HE enrolment doubled, 2000 – 2003
16 million. Exceeds US
India: by 2010,
40% of all HE education
will be distance
Carnegie Foundation (2006)

China: 800 new institutions in higher education since late 90’s
China: doubled scientific article output between 1997-2004 (rest of world declined %)

Threats to university
Borderless education
Private for-profit
Corporate universities
Peter Scott, 2002
Response: Triple-helix
Etzkowitz & Leydesdorff, 1999

Trends in Online Education
2/3 plus of all Higher Education 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)

Online Nation (Allen & Seaman, 2007)

Participatory Pedagogies
(Collis & Moonen, 2008)
(Askins, 2008)
(Harvard Law School, 2008)

Open Educational Resources

Open Teaching Alec Couros Stephen Downes Leigh Blackall David Wiley

Three tiers of change generate tension points...

Emerging tension points
Education/business
Accreditation/reputation
Transformation/utility
Research/responding
Formal/informal

Emerging tension points
Open/Closed
Expert/Amateur
Hierarchy/Network…Command/Foster
Pace/Depth
Epistemology/Ontology

Given the changes in how we interact with content and each other, how should we change the educational process?

Skills learners and educators need...

Digital literacy
Information literacy
21 st century skills
Harvard curriculum
Play, performance, networking, distributed cognition
(Jenkins)

Learning design?

Thin walls

Where is the strategy in the change?

Websites and Newsletters
www.elearnspace.org
www.knowingknowledge.com
www.connectivism.ca
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/
gsiemens AT elearnspace DOT org

Tradition And Emergence

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