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    1. Tradition and Emergence: Finding new points of balance in the educational use of technology COHERE Blended Learning Conference George Siemens October 3, 2008
    2. Tiers of change pressures
      • Tier 1: Global
      • Tier 2: Technological/Societal
      • Tier 3: Educational
    3. Global
    4. Economic
    5. Global Warming
    6. Population growth
    7. ...relocation
      • 1800: 3% of population in large cities
      • 2050: 75%
      • http://www.192021.org/
    8. Healthcare...epidemics
    9. Technological/Societal
    10. Need for advanced learning
      • 2 of every 3 new/replacement jobs require post secondary education
      • Canadian Council of Learning (2006)
    11. 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
    12. 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
    13. Our relationship to content/information...
    14. We’ve pulled it apart…
    15. Fragmentation
    16. 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)
    17. 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 %)
    18. Threats to university
      • Borderless education
      • Private for-profit
      • Corporate universities
      • Peter Scott, 2002
      • Response: Triple-helix
      • Etzkowitz & Leydesdorff, 1999
    19. 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)
    20. Open Educational Resources
    21. Open Teaching Alec Couros Stephen Downes Leigh Blackall David Wiley
    22. Three tiers of change generate tension points...
    23. Emerging tension points
      • Education/business
      • Accreditation/reputation
      • Transformation/utility
      • Research/responding
      • Formal/informal
    24. 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?
    25. Skills learners and educators need...
      • Digital literacy
      • Information literacy
      • 21 st century skills
      • Harvard curriculum
      • Play, performance, networking, distributed cognition
      • (Jenkins)
    26. Learning design?
    27. Thin walls
    28.  
    29.  
    30. Where is the strategy in the change?
    31. Websites and Newsletters
      • www.elearnspace.org
      • www.knowingknowledge.com
      • www.connectivism.ca
      • http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/
      • gsiemens AT elearnspace DOT org

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