This document discusses the future of textbooks and education. It notes that the purpose of education needs to change to prepare students for their future by facilitating relevant learning experiences. Textbooks are shifting from static printed materials to more dynamic digital platforms that allow for interactive, collaborative and personalized learning. Platforms may integrate learning management systems with social networking and eportfolios. Learners may one day author their own customized textbooks by finding and connecting content related to their interests and goals. The future of education resources is uncertain but will likely move away from traditional textbooks towards more open and learner-directed experiences.

1. The Future of
Textbooks
Presented by
David Warlick
http://davidwarlick.com/

2. Online Handouts
http://davidwarlick.com/handouts/

3. What is the purpose
of education?
Top 35 words “Race to the
Top” press release June 14, 2009

4. What is the purpose
of education?
Top 25 words in a listing of
education’ese phrases

5. What is the purpose
of education?
• New Conditions
– New Generation of Learners
– New Information Landscape
– A Future we can No Longer Describe

6. New Purpose
• Prepare our children for
their future
• ..by facilitating learning
experiences that:
– Employ learner-relevant
pedagogies,
– Harness the qualities of a
new information
environment, and
– Instill in all children a
learning lifestyle.

7. What's a textbook for?
• Content delivery
• Curriculum consistency
• Curriculum control
• Curriculum/Content confidence

8. What's a textbook for?
Control Learning?
Well, “Yes”
But, “Who?”

9. What's a textbook for?
Control Learning?
• Society
• Government
• Institutional (school)
• Teacher
• Learner

10. Qualities of the ’Native'
Information Experience

11. Qualities of the ’Native'
Information Experience
• Responsive
• Provokes conversation
• Fueled by questions
• Built on & through identity
• Rewarded with currency
• Demands personal investment
• Guided by safely made mistakes

12. Textbook continuum
Gutenburg Cyberspace
Or
Cyborg

13. Published print
Enabled
• Classify
• Catalog
• Standardize

14. Print/digital Hybrid
• Textbooks
• Supplemental Print
• Supplemental
Digital
Opportunities for more
interactive learning
experiences

15. PDF
Advantages
• Light weight
• Less impact on
environment
• More easily updated
• Potentially cheaper
TB Industry shifts workforce
from production to content
creation & maintenance

16. Social Tools & Interactive
Applications
• Web 2.0
• Multimedia
• Games
Less about teaching
& assessment and
more about learning
experience

17. Platforms

18. Platforms

19. Platform 1.0
• Learning management system (LMS)

20. Platform 1.0
• Learning management system (LMS)

21. Platform 1.0
• Learning management system (LMS)
• Apps
– Wired Magazine
wired

22. Platform 1.0
• Learning management system (LMS)
• Apps
– Wired Magazine
– Cool Hunting

23. Platform 1.0
• Learning management system (LMS)
• Apps
– Wired Magazine
– Cool Hunting
– Dynamic Content
• Flipboard

24. Platform 2.0
• Hybrid
– LMS
– Social Network
– ePortfolio

25. Content Source
• Teacher
• Local Teacher community
• Open source community
• Captured on-going conversations
• Publishing industry

26. Content Format
• Text
• Multimedia
• Data
• Interactive tutorials
• Games

27. Group collaboratives
• Flexbooks
Flexbooks

28. Platform Extreme
• Learner writes his own textbook
– Finds content,
– Related to goals,
– Corresponding to learning styles, and
– To learner’s power interests

29. Learner as Author
• Connects content to other learners
• Connects to the content of other learners
Connections
• Can be learner directed connections
• Can be agent suggested connections

30. Textbook goes with the
learner
• Continues to add new content
• Delete obsolete content
• Edits content, re-coloring it based on
new learning & new power interests

31. No predicting
• Form?
– We don’t know what the next Facebook or
Twitter will be
• Function?
– We do not know whether education will
continue down the narrowing path of the past
decade, or become more “open”
• Source
– Textbook Industry?
– Open Source Industry?

32. Think about Online Video
Games

33. The Future of
Textbooks
Presented by
David Warlick
http://davidwarlick.com/