Emerging Trends in Ed Tech: Crossing the Chasm summarizes the history of educational technology adoption in higher education. It notes that while online education and ed tech tools have seen growing use, their application in mainstream education is still in early stages from an organizational change perspective. It discusses how massive open online courses (MOOCs) and claims of their potential impact have not come to pass as predicted. However, the presentation argues we are now at an inflection point with the potential for mainstream adoption of ed tech driven by new platform designs and moving beyond just digitizing traditional classrooms.

1. Emerging Trends in Ed Tech:
Crossing the Chasm
Presented at Pearson HSSL Product Meeting
June 4, 2015
Presented by: Phil Hill
@PhilOnEdTech
MindWires Consulting and e-Literate blog

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3. If history of universities were
compressed to 15-week term . . .
•First university - 15 weeks ago
•First textbook in US - 6 weeks ago
•First distance learning course - 3 weeks ago
•Carnegie hour - 2 weeks ago
•First online course - 2.5 days ago
•Approval of competencies - 1 day ago
•First commercial MOOC - 6 hours ago

4. From an organizational change
perspective, we are just
starting with online education
& application of educational
technology in the mainstream

5. Playing in the corner
Photo Credit: www.mummymummymum.com

6. Now loose in the house
Photo Credit: http://www.youtube.com/user/mtmuzic

7. The Great Unbundling
vs.
The Great Resiliency

8. MOOCs!
• “In 50 years, there will be
only 10 institutions in the
world delivering education,
and Udacity has a shot at
being one of them.”
- Sebastian Thrun
• “I can see a day soon where
you’ll create your own
college degree by taking the
best online courses from the
best professors from around
the world.”
- Thomas Friedman
Credit: Mariana Fumes

9. Source: https://vimeo.com/79954057

10. "There's a tsunami coming. [But] I can't
tell you exactly how it's going to break."
John Hennessy, Stanford
"We are at the beginning of a technology-led
revolution in pedagogy: Our innovation is not
the blackboard, but instead an evolving suite of
tools that allows interactive learning online"
Drew Faust, Harvard
L. Rafael Reif, MIT

12. “The Gutenberg revolution changed and
destabilized so many dimensions of
society that some have wondered why it
had, relatively speaking, less effect on the
structure of the medieval university. …
The answer is that the new technology
complemented the university’s
established business model.”
Kevin Carey,The End of College

13. Good Lens
• Everett Rogers wrote the
origin of much of
technology adoption
concepts
• S-curve, categories of
adopters

16. While there will be
(significant) unbundling
around the edges, the bigger
potential impact is how
existing universities allow
technology-enabled change
to enter the mainstream of
the academic mission

17. Platforms Matter

18. “The LMS is a remarkable phenomenon in higher
education. On the one hand, the LMS has seen
unprecedented adoption rates. Estimates of institutions
running an LMS are almost always near 99%.2 According
to the first ECAR survey of faculty and IT, 85% of faculty
use an LMS (with 56% using it on a daily basis), and 74%
say it is a useful tool to enhance teaching.Among
students, 83% use an LMS, and 56% say they use it in
most or all courses.3 In an enterprise as highly
individualistic as teaching and learning, these are
remarkable numbers. No other academic application
comes close to such adoption rates.”
- EDUCAUSE, NGDLE report

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20. Source: http://whatabeautifulmess.org/2012/05/31/me-and-my-badass-mini-
van/

21. Source: http://www.jokeroo.com/pictures/funny/1015966.html

22. Source: http://lolheaven.com/is-the-air-conditioning-in-your-minivan-broken-
try-this/

23. Source: http://www.mhtwheels.com/mht-luxury-alloy-gallery-vehicle

24. Source: http://www.edmunds.com/suv/

31. New Opportunities

32. Mimic Factory Model
One path, all students
treated as identical

34. We are in the midst of an
inflection point in higher
education driven by
mainstream adoption,
different platform designs,
and moving beyond the
digitization of traditional
classroom

35. Phil Hill: phil@mindwires.com
Web Site: http://e-literate.tv/
e-Literate Blog: http://mfeldstein.com/