2. Defining - and agreeing - scale of social
challenge occurring around us
Understanding the extent of change
In a transformed world all institutions are
transformed
E-learning as symptom and solution
Unlocking e-learning’s Pandora’s box:
Tahrir Square to Occupy to los Indignados
3. Planetary urbanization
Struggles over ownership, control and
resources
Equality, access and inclusion – the mirage of
human rights
Acceleration of contradictions
Understanding crisis – living with crisis
Tsunamis of globalization: obliteration of
borders… but creation of connectivity
4. Ubiquity and access
Innovation – the failed imperative
Schools, Teachers, Families, Communities
Continuing debate over quality and
assessment
Replacement or supplement: masks
institutional crisis of European educational
systems
Freedom, openness and creativity in the
digital economy
5. Continuing impact of debate on privatization
Critical reflection vs. commodification of knowledge:
where does e-learning position itself?
Peer-to-peer learning economy
Free speech and autonomous expression
Openness as global logic based on free and open-
source software
Battles over digital rights management and IPR
Links between open content, open science and open
collaboration make collaborative creativity
sustainable
Move from Information Age to Conceptual Age
(Daniel Pink 2005)
6. Possible solution: not panacea
Digitization transforms all aspects of cultural
production and consumption
New digital logics alter traditional
organization of knowledge, education and
culture
Engaging with obsolete structures – the issue
of Power
New grammar of digital culture is being
created (Michael Peters 2012)
7. Learning as issue of identity and creativity:
eLearning as eMeaning
Processes of creativity no longer controlled by
traditional knowledge institutions
Creativity now facilitated by platforms and
infrastructures that encourage large-scale
production and challenge old hierarchies
Process of profound institutional re-structuring
comparable to European 16th century
Centrality of access, equality and diversity
Learning not learning unless:
Radical, Transformative, Empowering
