This document discusses how education is being disrupted by new open technologies and models. It notes that traditional education institutions will become irrelevant if they do not change, as online alternatives can now provide educational content, support services, social connections, and credentials. While online options have increased access and reduced costs, traditional higher education has become more expensive with unclear improvements to quality. The document argues that education will eventually need to embrace more open, personalized, and collaborative models like other industries in order to survive, but institutions may lack the will to change practices.

1. Openness and Disagregation
Future of Education
Syed Affan Hamdani
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2. This Is a Wake-up Call
Our institutions will be irrelevant in
upcoming years
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3. “The World is Changed”
Galadriel, Lord of the Rings
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4. Then vs Now
Analog ⇒ Digital
Tethered ⇒ Mobile
Isolated ⇒ Connected
Generic ⇒ Personal
Consumption ⇒ Creating
Closed ⇒ Open
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5. But Wait! We’re Education!
Our historic monopoly is (gratefully)
being challenged on almost every
front
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6. Why Do Students Come?
Content, Support Services
Social Life, Degrees
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7. Content
OpenCourseWares, Wikipedia,
Public Library of Science, Arxiv.org,
Google Scholar, Flat World
Knowledge, etc.
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8. Support Services
Ask.com, Yahoo! Answers,
RateMyProfessor, Email, Instant
Messaging, Twitter, forums, etc.
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9. Social Life
Facebook, MySpace, MMOG,
iPhone location-aware apps, etc.
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10. Degrees
MCSE, RHCE, CCNA
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11. The Monopoly Is Being Busted
Everything we provide is now offered
by someone else
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12. Higher Ed, On the Other Hand
76% increase in cost over 10 years
How’s our quality?
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14. What About E-learning?
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15. What About E-learning?
Quite innovative in 1995!
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16. We’ve Only Changed the Channel
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18. Some Say Learning Has Changed
Digital natives or millennials
have brains that function differently
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22. Education Will Eventually Be Open
And involve connecting, personalizing, and
creating - just like everything else does
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23. Will Higher Education Be Open?
Can our school find the
institutional will to change?
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Danger: USB and Internet are strictly Prohibited in
KINPOE

25. Institutional Disaggregation
MIT OpenCourseWare,
Western Governors University
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26. Not a Technology Problem
Look around the Internet – not only do the
technologies we need exist, they’re open source
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27. “It is not necessary to change.
Survival is not mandatory.”
W. E. Deming
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28. “You never change things by fighting
the existing reality. To change
something, build a new model that
makes the existing model obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller
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29. Thank You!
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