This document discusses how education is changing due to technology, globalization, and the internet. It argues that the traditional model of education, with lectures and closed classrooms, no longer applies. Instead, learning happens through open networks and connections between students, faculty, and the outside world. The boundaries between the classroom and the global community are breaking down. New models of open education are needed that place the learner at the center and leverage the potential of online networks and resources.

1. Education, Technology,
Globalization & Our Ivory
Towers
<Zen of Teaching>
<Antonio Vantaggiato</>
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Virtual Educa 2015 // #ve2015
zenofteaching.us

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Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
stemmed.sagrado.edu

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Virtual Educa 2015 / Guadalajara
Photo CC-licensed by Alejandro Castro
Pyro-Chaos's
Espectáculo del Nodo de Ranvier, Glorieta de la Minerva
Guadalajara, Jalisco, México

4. The Web
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Fundamental pedagogic environment (Suter 2005)
From NMC’s Horizon Project 10-year Anniversary Retreat, Austin, January 2012

5. Quality?
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No learning?
“Your So-Called Education”, The New York Times
May 14, 2011; http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/
opinion/15arum.html?_r=3
Arum & Roska:
45% of students showed “no significant improvement”
over one year of study (freshmen in fall 2005 through spring
2007). 36% after 4 years of college “education”.
“American higher education is characterized by limited or
no learning for a large proportion of students.”

6. The Myths / Knowledge
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Teaching = Content Delivery

7. Content
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Produced / Packaged / Distributed / Delivered
https://www.flickr.com/photos/evadedave/ CC-Licensed Photo by D.K.

8. Myth Zero
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Learning Happens in the Classroom (we
deliver instruction!)
Photo CC-Licensed by Erik Mallinson https://www.flickr.com/photos/chromatic/

9. Lecture / Lección
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c. 1350

10. Enseñar
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un cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun cursoun curso

11. Dictar
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un curso

13. ...Students “sit” through a
semester worth of lectures, while
“distance” students “watch”
online.
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Live vs. Distance Learning: Measuring the Differences
From The New York Times, November 5, 2010 / http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/05/us/05collegeside.html?_r=1

14. Myth Zero.1
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Learning Happens

15. Myth Zero.2
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... Without studying (or action)
And no responsibility!! [Upon the student]
The Student: Namely, she who studies!!!

16. Learning...
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Chaos &
Confusion /
Autonomy /
Learner in
Control /
Openness (Siemens)

17. Learning Networks, not Teaching Machines
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Villemard, 1910 – Chromolithographie Paris, BNF,
Estampes / Thanks to Audrey Watters: http://
hackeducation.com/2015/06/10/eden2015/

18. Lecture
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May 5, 1958 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Sunday comic, Closer Than We Think,
http://paleofuture.com/blog/2011/8/24/the-push-button-school-of-
tomorrow-1958.html

19. Class of the future
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1999 A.D. Learning

20. If knowledge is like this…
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http://www.philosophyforlife.org/the-kevin-bacon-history-of-philosophy/

21. why “deliver" it like this?
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22. Learner is not the center
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Audrey Watters
In an LMS, students are not in control of their content, their
data, their connections. …the course is behind a wall.
Everything is meant to take place therein. At the end of the
course, the student loses access to the course, and to any of
the content or data they’ve created.
There is one instructor. Maybe two. Maybe some course
assistants. They grade. They monitor the forums.
The instructors are the center.
The content is the center.
The learner is not the center.
The Web, of course, does not work this way.
http://hackeducation.com/2014/09/05/beyond-the-lms-newcastle-university/the-
lms-newcastle-university/

23. MOOC
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“What we found was that in a MOOC, instead of
the classroom being the center, it becomes
just one node of the network of social
interactions."
--G. Siemens

24. Five Arguments Against the LMS
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Jim Groom, Brian Lamb, EDUCAUSE Review,
49,3; May/June 2014.
http://www.educause.edu/visuals/shared/er/extras/2014/ReclaimingInnovation/default.html

25. Why Blogging is Key
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to the future of Higher Ed (Gardner Campbell)

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Let's shutter our "learning
management systems" and build
"understanding augmentation
networks" instead, moving away
from educational assembly lines
toward intellectual ecosystems of
interest and curiosity.
--Gardner Campbell

27. Myth
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The Shallows / Don’t Need Internet…

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29. As quoted by Clay Shirky in his rebuttal article Does the Internet Make You Smarter?; The Wall Street Jornal, June 4, 2010; http://online.wsj.com/article/
SB10001424052748704025304575284973472694334.html
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The enormous
multiplication of books
in every branch of
knowledge is one of the
greatest evils of this age;
since it presents one of
the most serious
obstacles to the
acquisition of correct
information.
--Edgar Allan Poe
The multitude of
books is a great
evil. There is no
measure of limit to
this fever for
writing.
--Martin Luther
“
“

30. Myth
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Death of …

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Death of the
Book
Ceci tuera cela
The book will kill
the cathedral /
images will kill
the alphabet.

32. Myth
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Teachers: Can We Be Replaced By Machines?

33. Arthur C. Clarke
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If a teacher can be replaced by a machine,
they should be.

34. Myth
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Technology

35. Integrating Technology into the Curriculum
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRDSj62tlvQ

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37. 37Jim Groom: Mother Trucking Zombies, Bavatuesdays 7 Nov. 2008; http://bavatuesdays.com/mother-trucking-zombies/

38. Myths
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Styles of Learning, Multitasking

39. Globalization?
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Way out, not in

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41. info.cern.ch
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42. 30 April 1993: public domain 42

43. Text
Global?
Really :-)

44. But, is the world allowed into the classroom?
Don’t Lock Educational Production Within A
Classroom’s Berlin Wall
Classroom Is The World…
Photo: Some rights reserved by gavinandrewstewart (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gavinandrewstewart/)

45. Free exchange of ideas and educational production
among students, faculty and the outside world.
Open
Photo: Some rights reserved by opensource.com (https://www.flickr.com/photos/opensourceway/)

46. Open Ethos
Open Ed Resources
Open Journals
Some Rights
Reserved (cc)
Open class?
Photo: Some rights reserved by Brett Jordan (https://www.flickr.com/photos/x1brett/)

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http://bit.ly/flickd15/

48. Photo: Some rights reserved by Tim Ellis (https://www.flickr.com/photos/tim_ellis/)
LMS

49. Harry Potter Wordwide Movement
fanfiction.com / fanfiction.net
Communities / Discussion forums / stories /
podcasts
Photo: Some rights reserved by John Pasden (https://www.flickr.com/photos/jpasden/)

50. World of
Warcraft’s
Knowledge
Ecology
Open
Environment
Crowdsourced
Manuals,
Tutorials, Help
Image: some rights reserved / cc Juan Pablo Olmo - Flickr

51. What Now?

52. Open portals
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inf103.com

53. inf115.com
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55. http://ds106.us
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Digital Storytelling & syndication bus

56. The end.
antonio vantaggiato @avunque
e-mail > avantaggiato@sagrado.edu
blog Skate of the Web > blogs.netedu.info
STEMmED stemmed.sagrado.edu
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