The Internet and Mobility - Paradigm Shift Sept09

gen X +Y + Z (click)
http://http://www.articlesbase.com/culture-articles/generation-xyz-522842.html
All eyes on cyberspace
Gen Y - 76 million people in the Canada born between 1977 and 1994
Gen Z – click generation - 1995 to present
Born into digital
Clicking
Mobile
Avatar
IT Savvy
Self-determined
click generation the long tail on-line social media web 2.0 visualization mobility transformation shiftirvin kovar

social media
http://events.eife-l.org/events/2007/IEOC2007
"educare," which means to nourish, to rear, to bring up....
cyberspace – overflowing tap of information nourishing millions of participants
HOW? TECHNOLOGY ENABLED.
AN ENTIRE CULTURE BASED UPON CREATING A LIST OF YOUR OWN FRIENDS!
blogging - 100s of millions
podcasting- 100s of millions
vodcasting – 100s of millions
Web 2.0
AJAX
CREATE YOUR OWN MEDIA
REST
JSON
Web 3.0
RDF
OWL
semantic WEB
READ WRITE EXECUTE

visualization
http://www.visualthesaurus.com
Google Earth
http://www.gapminder.org
mass collaborative environments stimulate the aggregation of media

mobility
http://laptop.org
1.5 billion with a mobile device and growing
Generation Y: 97% of students owned a computer, 94% owned a cell phone, and 56% owned an MP3 player (iPod, Zune, Sansa, etc.)
Gen Z - One Laptop Per Child - $100 / unit
Meshed
Millions of youth globally
Text messaging (37%)
Email (26%)
Social networking IM (15%)
Instant messaging (11%)
Social networking email (11%)
And 12% of students check email on a mobile device
Why Wireless?
Gen YZ expect a seamless digital experience
Gen YZ experience limitless customization
Gen YZ always on, anywhere on the internet
Gen YZ are your target market....
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=96664#comment
digital generation + social media + visualization + mobility = ?

the long tail
http://mitworld.mit.edu
web resources are becoming central to popular culture
government run,
standard driven
centrally-determined,
all-inclusive curriculum
high cost
faculty run
participatory
niche (global)
student / peer driven
low cost to create
low cost to deploy
If an institution can sell a million copies of one (excellent) online course versus a full degree, have they fulfilled their mission?
http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume43/MindsonFireOpenEducationtheLon/162420
http://www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/?p=257

http://smarttech.com/
Transformation
The Faculty:
Competitive locally and globally
Wider market – distance learning
Application centric
Lower cost
Enables collaboration
Administrative tools – attendance
bulletin boards, key metrics, alerts
Gadgets and dashboards
Collaborate on curriculum
Work from anywhere
The Student Body:
Curriculum over the web
Lower cost of delivery
Higher concepts translate well
More individualized
Repeatable
Lower cost
Self-paced
Work from anywhere
Global reach – new markets
The digitization of education drives the learning experience towards collaboration, niche interests, and lower cost, all with greater reach

Paradigm shift
Evolution of Curriculum through Web 2.0?:
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How do you retain academic integrity?
How will organizations redefine profitability?
How do you support this new architecture from a distributed campus perspective?
How will government policies react to the web in the future (DOLPA - moral panic)?
Mixing, converging, distributing student generated course material...
Open ID – url as your identity
Open Course Ware – on line + free
CC- Creative Commons – some rights reserved. What does this mean. Enforceable?
Tagging – categorizing the content yourself – no longer the Dewey Decimal System
Contrarians: Is this learning or entertainment. Stimulation or true analysis of the topic?
Increasing the “digital divide” btw “the haves and have nots?”