1. Professor Christopher Hoadley, NYU Steinhardt
Educational Media & Technology in 2013:!
What’s Next?!
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2. Does multimedia help learning?

3. 2002: $10m, 10k students, 130 schools
Does multimedia help learning?

4. Does multimedia help learning?
Answer: It depends.!

5. Video-Based "
Distance Education

6. Video-Based "
Distance Education
On Campus Class vs Remote Streaming Video = Same

7. Video-Based "
Distance Education
On Campus Class vs VHS Video

8. Video-Based "
Distance Education
On Campus Class vs VHS Video

9. Video-Based "
Distance Education
On Campus Class vs VHS Video

10. The Productivity
Paradox

11. The Productivity
Paradox
• Technology stinks
• Costs offset benefits
• The benefits aren t being measured

12. The Productivity
Paradox
• It’s the work, stupid.!

13. What do we think
this stuff is for?

14. The Productivity
Paradox Redux
• Learning more
• Learning more efficiently
• Learning differently

15. What’s the same?

16. What’s the same?
• Human psychological apparatus

17. What’s the same?
• Human psychological apparatus
• Student demographics
(give or take)

18. • Human psychological apparatus
• Student demographics
(give or take)
• Most curriculum
What’s the same?

19. • Human psychological apparatus
• Student demographics
(give or take)
• Most curriculum
• Most institutional
structures
What’s the same?

20. • Human psychological apparatus
• Student demographics
(give or take)
• Most curriculum
• Most institutional
structures
• Most instructors
What’s the same?

21. • Human psychological apparatus
• Student demographics
(give or take)
• Most curriculum
• Most institutional
structures
• Most instructors
• Teaching?
What’s the same?

22. What’s different?

23. • Experiences
What’s different?

24. • Experiences
• Habits
What’s different?

25. • Experiences
• Habits
• Culture
What’s different?

26. • Experiences
• Habits
• Culture
• Roles
What’s different?

27. • Experiences
• Habits
• Culture
• Roles
• Economics
What’s different?

28. • Experiences
• Habits
• Culture
• Roles
• Economics
• Teaching?
What’s different?

29. Different possibilities

30. Vannevar Bush 1945
BF Skinner 1961

31. Vannevar Bush

32. Vannevar Bush

33. BF Skinner

34. BF Skinner

35. Hoadley’s Three Laws of
Educational Technology

36. Law 1: It s not the
technology. It s what
you do with it. !

37. (Brynjolffson & Hitt)
(human capital, business
processes, culture)
Computers are 10%

38. Law 2: It s not what the
technology makes
possible. It s what the
technology makes easy.!

39. Possible vs. Easy
Technology
application
Possible
Easy
Crowdsourced
content
WAIS 1991
Wikipedia 2001
Online courses
OpenU UK 1971
CSILE 1983
OOCs 1999
MOOCs 2011
Access to the
world s information
Internet 1969
WWW 1989
Mosaic 1993
ISPs 1990s
Video collaboration
ARC/Engelbart
1968
Skype 2003

40. Law 3: Pay attention to
the trends in learning,
not in technology.

41. Societal view

42. Societal view
• Knowledge on tap vs. in the head

43. Societal view
• Knowledge on tap vs. in the head
• Know-who vs. know-what

44. Societal view
• Knowledge on tap vs. in the head
• Know-who vs. know-what
• Democratic vs. autocratic media

45. Societal view
• Knowledge on tap vs. in the head
• Know-who vs. know-what
• Democratic vs. autocratic media
• Connected/global vs. isolated/local

46. Societal view
• Knowledge on tap vs. in the head
• Know-who vs. know-what
• Democratic vs. autocratic media
• Connected/global vs. isolated/local
• Context vs. content providers

47. Institutional View: Schools

48. Institutional View: Schools
• Gatekeeper vs. Resource

49. Institutional View: Schools
• Gatekeeper vs. Resource
• Bundled vs. Pick-and-choose

50. Institutional View: Schools
• Gatekeeper vs. Resource
• Bundled vs. Pick-and-choose
• Outcomes vs. Engagement

51. Institutional View: Schools
• Gatekeeper vs. Resource
• Bundled vs. Pick-and-choose
• Outcomes vs. Engagement
• Forced vs. Fun

52. Institutional View: Schools
• Gatekeeper vs. Resource
• Bundled vs. Pick-and-choose
• Outcomes vs. Engagement
• Forced vs. Fun
• Uniform vs. Tailored

53. Hoadley’s Three Laws of
Educational Technology
Law 1: It s not the technology. It s what you do
with it. !
!
Law 2: It s not what the technology makes
possible. It s what the technology makes
easy.!
!
Law 3: Pay attention to the trends in
learning, not in technology.!
!

54. Follow Chris Hoadley on Twitter at @tophe

55. Professor Christopher Hoadley, NYU Steinhardt
Educational Media & Technology in 2013:!
What’s Next?!
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