The document discusses trends in technology that will impact community colleges, including increased digitization, networking, and participation. It argues that institutions must (1) engage students with participatory web tools, (2) expand eLearning opportunities to educate more students, and (3) leverage open educational resources to reduce costs and connect globally. Community colleges that embrace these changes, share resources openly, and reinvent pedagogy will be well positioned for the future of networked, collaborative learning.

1. The Future of Technology
in Community Colleges
TCC in Perpetual Beta
Cable Green
eLearning Director

2. http://www.slideshare.net/
cgreen

3. The Future of Technology?
I haven’t the slightest idea…
But we can talk about the
trends and how to prepare
for what’s coming…

4. Hold On!

5. “We are in the midst of a
technological, economic, and
organizational transformation that
allows us to negotiate the terms of
freedom, justice, and productivity in
the information society”
Yochai Benkler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonewolf23/1570632701/

6. Yes… We Really are Networked…
seamless connection of

people, resources &
knowledge
digitization of content

mobile, personal

global platform for

collaboration
outsourcing

Anyone notice our

global economy?

7. quot;According to an IBM study, by
2010, the amount of digital
information in the world will
double every 11 hours.quot;

8. And we can make
all of our
“digital stuff”
available to
all people…
and most of it
will get used...
by someone.

9. “Long Tail” of Publishing
$
long tail
Harry Hyper-geometric
Potter partial differential
equations

10. We All Get to Participate
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart

11. http://www.slideshare.net/trib/i-am-knowledge-worker-20

12. Who (and what) is
Knowledge Worker 2.0?
Work has changed
from making things…

14. In a flat world, the
artists, the
synthesizers of
ideas will rule.
And they will use
web 2.0 software
standards, and
practices to
distribute their
ideas.

15. And they are not
afraid to:

16. And they want
services
like this:
Backup

17. How do we Deal with This?
We are preparing students for
jobs that don’t yet exist, using
technologies that haven’t been
invented, to solve problems we
don’t even know are problems yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI

18. (1) Engage
Participatory /
“Web 2.0+”
Tools & Practices

20. - JSB

22. “Welcome back to humanity. Some

technologies take us away from ourselves
and others bring us back. Web 2.0 is
helping us rediscover our naturally
cooperative, creative, and gregarious
nature.
Don't think, therefore, of Web 2.0 as

something foreign or hyped-up or all about
geeks; Web 2.0 is the rebirth of teaching
and learning that fits what we are as a
species.”
Why is Web 2.0 Important to Higher Education?

23. Web 2.0 Concepts widget commenting
wikis social bookmarking
community user-generated
tagging
collaborating
perpetual beta
INNOVATION
participating feeding
Social networking
creating viral speed
social software
crowdsourcing information clouds
social graph
swarm effect
file sharing
blogging
interacting
networking
connecting
THE SOCIAL WEB
~ a brand new language ~ - Elaine Talbert

24. http://www.go2web20.net

25. RSS

27. Social Networking

28. Social Bookmarking
http://delicious.com/geoffcain/oer

30. Common Craft: “in Plain English”
http://uk.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=leelefever

31. 3D Virtual World: Second Life
http://ctcinsl.wikispaces.com
http://secondlife.com

32. Friends
List
MiniMap
Chat
Inventory
Instant Media Motion
Messaging Controls Controls
Camera
Building Tools
Controls
Chat Window

33. Share Photos
http://www.flickr.com

34. Wiki
http://pbwiki.com

35. Share Slides (and use others’)
http://www.slideshare.net

36. Share Video

37. Online Meetings, Conferences…
Elluminate
• 1,437 faculty & staff accounts
• 1165 rooms online
• 1000+ meetings have taken place
• unlimited license, hosting, training
• 24/7 help desk
• unlimited license, hosting, training

38. Blog
http://www.blogger.com

39. “Micro-Blogging”
http://twitter.com

40. (2) eLearning
Why call it
“eLearning?”

41. “eLearning”
 “Distance”is about geographic
separation.
 “eLearning” is about leveraging the
unique affordances of digital
technologies to support new ways
of learning in new spaces.
Online, Hybrid, Enhanced


42. Ongoing Online Learning Growth
Over 83,000 students learn online

each year
 eLearning enrollments up more than
41% (Winter 08 – Winter 09)
 Growth projections: by 2019, 45% or
71,090 of system FTE will be
enrolled in at least 1 online or hybrid
course
42

43. Ongoing Online Learning Growth
45% of all CTC graduates earn 15 or

more credits online or hybrid
 23 colleges offer 6 different degrees
and certificates online
 27 colleges offer an AA degree online
 Community and Technical Colleges
teach over 80+% of all online [state
supported] FTE in WA
43

44. Growth in Online Courses
Annualized Headcount: 1998-2011 115,924
120,000
105,386
95,805
100,000
83,309
80,000 72,482
63,407
60,000
48,073
40,000
30,046
15,835
20,000
6,738
0

45. Why does this
growth matter?

46. Educate More Citizens
HECB Master Plan

I. Raise educational attainment to

create prosperity, opportunity
Policy Goal: Increase the total number of

degrees and certificates produced annually to
achieve Global Challenge State benchmarks.
By 2018, raise mid-level degrees and

certificates to 36,200 annually, an increase of
9,400 degrees annually.

47. 2008 Online + Hybrid Learning
Gas / Carbon Savings
1.9M round trips

avoided
= reduced traffic

congestion
2.1M gallons of gas

saved
47
http://www.fhcrc.org/about/pubs/center_news/weekly/img/2007_0806_i5_traffic.jpg

48. (3) Open
Educational
Resources

49. Why is “Open” Important?
Because when we cooperate and share, we

all win – exponentially.
Reedʼs Law:Networks grow [in value]

exponentially by the number of nodes.
It’s a social justice issue: everyone has

the right to access global knowledge.
Institute for the Future whitepaper: Technologies of Cooperation

50. Definition of OER
 Digitized
materials, offered
freely and openly for
educators, students, to use
and re-use for teaching,
learning and research.

51. (a few) Open Content Repositories
OpenLearn (UK) - DEMO

OCW – MIT (MIT HS)

China Open Resources for Education has

translated 109 MIT OCW courses into Simplified
Chinese.
Rice Connexions


52. and there is this small
collection of articles:

53. Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
 2005 GAO report: College textbook
prices have risen at twice the rate
of annual inflation over the last two
decades
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf

54. Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
 The College Board reported that for
the 2007 through 2008 academic
years each student spent an
estimated $805 to $1,229 on
college books and supplies…
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf

55. Why so urgent?
Consider One High

Enrollment Course:
English Composition I

37,226 enrollments / year

X $100 textbook

= $3.7 Million + (cost to

students)
 What if we looked at
100, 200, 300 high enrollment
courses?
http://rtnl.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/thinker21.jpg

56. Hey Higher Ed!
We must get rid of our “not invented

here” attitude regarding others’ content
move to: quot;proudly borrowed from therequot;

Content is not a strategic advantage

Nor can we (or our students) afford it


57. Future of Openness in Education
“As uncomfortable a proposition as this

new openness may be for some, I
believe it is the future of higher
education.”
In web 2.0, everything is public
& higher education needs to
get used to it.
David Wiley 2006. Open source, openness, and higher education.

58. What Happens if we
Don’t Change?
Functional Possibilities
Higher Education
Time

59. How is the fiscal health
of your local newspaper?
59

60. Choices:
(1) Open up and
leverage global input
OR
(2) close up shop

61. Think Big Crazy Ideas….
We could share all of our instructional digital

resources including: courses, textbooks and
library resources with the world… and, more
important, use global digital materials.
We could use common teaching & learning,

student services, and administrative
technologies and support services.
We could design courses that enable and

encourage students to contribute, change,
remix course content.

62. TCC is ahead of the pack!

63. TCC is ahead of the pack!

64. Online Advising: How to register
for nursing (finalizing now).
Online Orientation for
Health Information Management
Dan Small’s “Small Talk” Blog …
John Miller’s work in Second Life

65. Parting Thought…
Is the network to the point where we
can challenge traditional models of
pedagogy, publishing, student
services, and our existing administrative
business processes?
If so, what would you change in your
department? How would you use digital
technologies to help students learn and
accomplish their dreams?

66. Want to talk more about
Open Educational
Resources?
…come join us
@ 1:30pm

67. http://blog.oer.sbctc.edu
http://blog.elearning.sbctc.edu
Dr. Cable Green
cgreen@sbctc.edu
(360) 704-4334
Twitter: cgreen