The document discusses emerging technologies and their impact on higher education, highlighting the tools available (like blogs, wikis, and social media) and the challenges faced in adapting to these changes. It emphasizes the need for new skills in information, visual, and technological literacy while addressing the digital divide among students and staff. Overall, there is a call for innovation, leadership, and formal assessment in the evolving educational landscape.

1. Emerging
technologies
Bac kg round, tools and
c hallenges for Higher
Education
Kathryn Greenhill
Emerging Technologies Specialist
Murdoch University July 2009

3. blogs.murdoch.edu.au/et

4. "The world is changing very fast.
Big will not beat small anymore.
It will be the fast beating the
slow.”

5. Murdoch

6. Rupert Murdoch

7. Today...
Background
Tools
Challenges/opportunities

8. Background

9. Background
online lives

10. Source: Forrester Nov 2008 Australian Adult Social Technographics® Report.

11. Background
K- 12 education

12. Using the SMARTBoard in Room 14 – 05 http://www.flickr.com/photos/technolote/3129042835/ Uploaded on December 23, 2008 by

13.  Smart boards, powerpoint,
Using the SMARTBoard in Room 14 – 05 http://www.flickr.com/photos/technolote/3129076237/ Uploaded on December 23, 2008 by

14. Background
student
expectations

15. Expectations of Higher Education
ICT were met
Had very low expectations

16. Background
workplace
expectations

17. Communication
Participation
Networking
Sharing
Teamwork

18. Background
norms of higher
education

19. Heirarchical
Substantially introvert
Guarded
Careful
Precise
Measured

20. Background
Graduate attributes

21.  Communication
 Critical and creative thinking
 Social Interaction
 Independent and lifelong learning
 Ethics
 Social Justice
 Global perspective
 Interdisciplinarity
 In-depth knowledge of a field of study

22.  Communication
 Critical and creative thinking
 Social Interaction
 Independent and lifelong learning
 Ethics
 Social Justice
 Global perspective
 Interdisciplinarity
 In-depth knowledge of a field of study

23. Tools

24. Blogs
Wikis
YouTube
Twitter
Flickr
Facebook
RSS / XML feeds

25. They have changed what we
do.
These tools will be constantly
replaced by something better.

26. Tools for
hyperconnectivity

27. Collaboration
Read/write
Co-creation
Produsage
24/7

28. Blog Image Twitter Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanmildert/3427996361/ Uploaded on April 10, 2009

29. Tools for
mobility

30. Tools for mobility
devices

31. The Menagerie http://www.flickr.com/photos/lhl/3611675787/ Uploaded to Flickr on June 10, 2009 by lhl

32. Tools for mobility
cloud

33. ngkok Uploaded to Flickr on June 17 2007 by sara y tzunky

34.  Monk at internet cafe
 Google docs
 Windows live
 Wikis
 Storage
 Social bookmarking

35. Tools for
input

37. Tools for
“me” space

39. Tools for
“we” space

42. Tools for
“see” space

45. Tools for
free

46. Tools for
free
as in
liberty

49. Tools for
free
as in
no initial cost

50. Costs same amount of money
Invest in people and skills instead
of software licenses
Gain flexibility and control
Gain a community to work with
 Blackboard – 2200 institutions worldwide
 Moodle 52,153 registered sites worldwide

52. Tools for
remix

56. Tools for
identity

58. Tools for
being green

61. Tools for
stability

65. Challenges

66. Opportunities?

67.  There is a growing need for formal instruction in key new skills,
including information literacy, visual literacy, and technological
literacy.
 Students are different, but a lot of educational material is not
 Significant shifts are taking place in the ways scholarship and
research are conducted, and there is a need for innovation and
leadership at all levels of the academy
 We are expected, especially in public education, to measure and
prove through formal assessment that our students are learning
 Higher education is facing a growing expectation to make use of
and to deliver services, content and media to mobile devices
Source: Educause The Horizon Report 2009 (January 2009)

68. Challenge/
opportunity
digital divide

69. Challenge/opportunity: digital
divide
students

70. Challenge/opportunity : digital
divide
gender

71. Source: Luckin et al, KS3 and KS4 learners' use of Web 2.0 technologies in and out of School – Summary
http://partners.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/web2_technologies_ks3_4_summary.pd

72. Challenge/opportunity: digital
divide
staff

73. Challenge/opportunity: digital divide : staff
1. theoretical

75. Challenge/opportunity: digital divide : staff
2. technical

76.  14 Things

78. Challenge/opportunity: digital divide : staff
3. pedagogical

79. Challenge/opportunity : digital
divide
outside digital
life and
university

80. Challenge/opportunity
PLE vs
VLE/LMS

81. My PLE Diagram http://www.flickr.com/photos/nessman/2590572476/
Uploaded to Flickr on June 19, 2008 by nessman

82. Challenge /
opportunity
control

83. Challenge /
opportunity
constant
re-evaluation

84. Challenge /
opportunity
capture

85. Challenge /
opportunity
sharing

86. Challenge /
opportunity
engagement

87. Challenge /
opportunity
competition

88. Challenge /
opportunity
information
fluency

89. Challenge /
opportunity
making
informed
decisions

90. Keep
the baby
sequoia can sit up by himself in the bath now - _MG_5837 Uploaded to Flickr on May 28, 2007 by sean dreilinger

91. “The only education out of
which good can come is
the education which
teaches you to think for
yourself instead of
swallowing whatever the
fashion of the moment
may prescribe.”

92. Walter Murdoch