This document discusses the impact and opportunities of educational technologies in higher education. It notes several key trends, including increased flexibility through just-in-time enrollment and separation of learning from credentialing. It also mentions internationalization and the use of learning analytics. Educational technologies allow information to be stored digitally and accessed through tools like learning management systems. However, higher education must compete with these technologies at storing and providing access to information. The document calls for innovation in higher education and focusing on the needs of students.

1. The Impact and Opportunity
of Educational Technologies
on Higher Education
Dave Cormier

2. Being there

3. A few key trends

4. Flexibility
• Just in time enrolment
• The separation of learning from
credentialing
• And…

5. Internationalization

6. Analytics

7. http://www.slideshare.net/sbs/learning-analytics-dream-nightmare-or-fairydust

8. Storing Technologies

9. brains

10. books

12. The database
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dahlstroms/4140461901/sizes/l/in/photostream/

13. • What edtech tools do we know that are
store and access?
• How are flexibility, internationalization
and analytics built on top of them?

14. Can Higher Education
compete at storing things?

17. “Prices for online access to articles
from two major publishers have
increased 145% over the past six years,
with some journals costing as much as
$40,000”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices?CMP=twt_gu

18. http://www.flickr.com/photos/0ystercatcher/5900455514/sizes/m/in/photostream/

19. Black Swan 1 – MIT accredits MOOCs
MIT seeing Stanford pulling ahead in the free
openness sweepstakes, decides that it will work
to provide accreditation for open online
courses…they’ve decided that they are going to
hire 10K tutors to evaluate people in the new
MOOCs they plan to launch this year. 1 million
students, 10000 tutors. What would that do?
http://davecormier.com/edblog/2011/12/19/top-ten-black-swans/

21. What else can the technology offer?

22. A few words on innovation
“If I had asked people what
they wanted, they would have
said faster horses.” Henry
Ford
“We don't do market
research" Steve Jobs

23. Setting the context
• What does that student need?
• Who's job is it to decide what
the university is about?
• What value do we provide?
• Why do we teach?

24. ”Successful health services in the
21st century must aim not merely for
change, improvement, and response,
but for changeability, improvability,
and responsiveness.” Coping with
complexity: educating for capability
Sarah W Fraser, Trisha Greenhalgh.
2001

27. Why a rhizome?
1.They can map in any direction
from any starting point
2.They grow and spread via
experimentation within a context
3.They grow and spread regardless
of breakage

28. Multiple Voices

29. Connection

30. Networked

31. Learning Analytics

35. What else can we do?

36. We can be…

37. This
http://xkcd.com/519/

38. THIS

39. We need to know who we are, and then
make the technologies be who we are.

40. @davecormier