Technology and the Future of
Education, Learning and Knowledge FuturistGerd.com @gleonhard

You ain’t seen nothing yet!
TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

Huge opportunity ☯ threat
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A big challenge for universities:
the framework is changing

Technology changes how we perceive
the world @gleonhard

If you measure the wrong
thing you do the wrong thing: GDP & GPA…? @gleonhard

Education may just become like
this shoe… CUSTOMIZATION @gleonhard

BRAND BECOMES CRUCIAL
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The future is already here!
Everything: Connected Intelligent Real-time Personalized Cross-platform

ONLY THE BEGINNING

SCREENIFICATION OF EDUCATION
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5 Billion...soon

A ‘Kodak Moment’ for Universities…?
not really… BUT…. @gleonhard

The Digital Default is near

Exponential growth of technology 1
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ... 1 2 4 8 16 32 64

Now, many things will happen
a lot quicker than we think!

! Dramatic impact on Education
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The education sector has a
lot in common with the music, media & content business Cable & Sat Locked Broadcast Loose Cloud SoLoMo Liquid @gleonhard

Digitization and Virtualization of Education:
following music industry, publishing, newspapers

‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ IS DEAD
‘UNIVERSITY AS USUAL’ IS THE PAST Image of BP platform via US Coast Guard

E-M-P-O-W-E-R-M-E-N-T
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A common feeling these days
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“The greatest danger in times
of turbulence is not the turbulence, itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic” *Peter Drucker @gleonhard

Discover, co-create, imagine… tomorrow’s logic

The Future is no longer
a zero-sum game Photo by WallStreet Journal.com

http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/05/inventing-our-next-great-scarcities/ “The greatest danger in
times of turbulence is not the turbulence, itself, but to act with yesterday’s logic” *Peter Drucker @gleonhard

As educational content becomes abundant,
“experience” is the new scarcity Abundance Scarcity @gleonhard

Mobile devices have already become
our external brains Next: new ‘extensions of man’ that change us

“Search engines won’t wait for
you to ask for information. They will know you like a friend, aware of your concerns and interests at a detailed level” Ray Kurzweil @gleonhard

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The stuff of science fiction…no
longer @gleonhard

The coming ‘Global Brain’ is
a huge opportunity for universities @gleonhard

GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT
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Equal access to digital resources
will become a human right

Interdependence is inevitable Business Technology
Politics Culture Europe EDUCATION

Information Tsunami

Overload Everywhere

Learning: from copy & paste
& memorize and downloads to flows, from ownership to access

The rise of ‘OTT’ education
and learning platforms will dramatically accelerate hyper-fragmentation, resulting in ‘masses of niches’ and ‘nichehits’, hyper-globalization - and very fast-changing windows of monetisation

The future is already here!
Education, Learning, Training: dramatically increasing fragmentation, unbundling, splintering, personalisation…

THE FUTURE ISN’T ‘EITHER/OR’ Image
of BP platform via US Coast Guard

It’s not an ‘either/or’ world
- it’s an ‘and’ world

Image thanks to http://www.beachandisland.net/destinations-in-hawaiian-islands/ New
Content Interface Technologies & Screenification: we’re only at the very beginning!

Human-only tasks on-top of big
data, smart machines, AI Video Source: Cisco via Youtube Video Source: IBM Future Scenarios, Youtube

Knowledge 2.0: Wisdom. Learnings. Relevance.
Depth. http://pinterest.com/pin/197876977350036245/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_Pyramid

Knowledge is not merely about
information, data, facts and numbers.... ‘Learn’ wisdom...? http://conniecrosby.blogspot.it/2013/01/david-weinberger-on-nature-of-knowledge.html

BUT IS THIS THE ‘LEARNING’
WE NEED?

The appeal of ‘amazing free
stuff’ paid largely with attention & personal data is mostly (but not entirely) temporary: “If you don’t pay you are the content” Image via Popsci.com

! Formal Authority Peer Networked
Self-made Earned- Authority

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