Presentation from BISG's "What College Students Think: Making Information Pay for Higher Ed Publishing" Conference, held Feb 9, 2011 in NYC. TITLE: Customized Content Platforms for the New Learning Ecosystem DESCRIPTION: During this presentation, a late substitution for Clancy Marshall’s session, Dean Florez will focus on how students can participate in their own learning ecosystem through disruptive technologies on customized Web 2.0 platforms.  Dean will discuss the need for student-centric learning models built on shared knowledge and assessment tools delivered by instructors through “MeshBook,” a new initiative currently funded by The 20 Million Minds Foundation (20MM). He will further discuss the need for merging of both commercial and open resource material, future university content farms, non-proprietary shared “mesh” networks, crowd-sourced curriculum evaluation and an enhanced royalty system that values customization and individualized instruction.  Dean is a Harvard MBA and past California Senate Majority Leader.

1. 20 Million Minds Foundation
By Dean Florez, President

2. My Agenda today:
Push the Refresh Button
The 20 Million Minds Foundation
Students: Digital Natives and Immigrants
Content: From Paper to Pixel
Web 2.0: Student Grazing Grounds

3. T
If Facebook were a country, it would be the
third most populated in the world, ahead of
the United States.
500 BILLION MINUTES PER
MONTH
(last year it was ONLY 150 Billion
China 1.35B
India 1.14B minutes spent on Facebook per
Facebook 500M month)
United States 300M

4. 24 Hours. The amount of video uploaded to YouTube every minute.
2 Billion. The number of YouTube videos viewed per day.
4 Billion. The number of images hosted on Flickr.
That’s 13 times more than the Library of Congress.
27 Million. The average number of “tweets” per day on Twitter.
7 Hours. The time it took for LeBron James to amass first 150,000
Twitter followers.
A power shift is underway and a tough
new business rule is emerging…….

5. …Harness the new collaboration or
perish.
Those that fail to hit the refresh button
will find themselves isolated—cutoff
from rapidly changing networks that
share, mesh, adapt and update
knowledge to create value.

6. The 20 Million Minds Foundation
 Embrace mass collaboration and
sharing.
 Support open educational resources to
lower the cost of books for students.
 Aim for student-centric learning and
assessment based on personalized
learning platforms.
 Believe in leveraging disruptive Web 2.0
technologies to lower barriers of access
and affordability.

7. Our Three Initiatives
MeshBook
 Customized Books
Open Source
Education
Resources
and Courseware
 Agnostic Platform MeshBook
 Faculty adoption
based on search, find, Virtual
create, and pay.
Community
Colleges
 OER push toward
affordability

8. T “Students currently
enjoy powerful
technology that
continuously
assesses skill and
interest and
customizes
content delivery.
Unfortunately, it
occurs after school
when they play
games.”

9. Digital Native Digital Immigrant
Static content
transformed
by dynamic
participation
 whatever  specific information
 whenever  limited availability
 wherever  institutional access
 multi-task Rise of  single focus
personalized
 networked learning  proprietary users
 trans-media leveraged off  proprietary platform
navigators instructors users: books
and students  expert driven
 crowd wisdom

10. Emerging Trends: Paper to Pixel
 The Future is Mobile
 Phones, tablets, laptops merge on cloud computing
Open Educational Resources Movement finds
its business model.
 OLI, Obama Administration, Non-Profit On-Line Learning and
Semantic Search
Rise of Value-Added Multimedia Content
 Bonus content, format clarity, discount pricing, rise of apps
Container-less Education
 Content shifts to smaller, autonomous pieces and rise of more
content publishing tools

11. Student Grazing on the New Content Farms
 Collaboration & Networking
 Play
 Performance
 Simulation
 Appropriation
 Multitasking
 Collective Intelligence
 Judgment
 Networking
 Negotiation
 Trans-media Navigation
WEB 2.0  Self created curriculum
THE NEW STUDENT  e-portfolio on exit
LITERACIES