Learning Ecosystems

My objective with this blog is to provide you with a broad-range of insights and resources regarding educational technology. Although the focus will be on integrating technology within institutions of higher education, K-12 teachers, administrators, and parents of students within K-12 will also benefit from these resources. I hope to address the quickly-changing landscapes out there, helping folks keep a pulse check on such items as:

• 1:1 computing, AI, personalized learning
• “The Forthcoming Walmart of Education”; changing business models, opportunities, and threats within the world of higher education
• The disruptive power of technology
• What elements should be in your learning ecosystem
• Keeping students engaged
• Digital storytelling
• Multimedia (tools, techniques, trends, other)
• Mobile learning
• Building your global network
• Instructional design
• Web design and production
• …as well as other educationally-related topics.

To get an idea of my views on the above topics — along with some of the other topics I’ve covered in the last 3 years — please feel free to review my personal site at Calvin College.  Here’s an example archives page covering all of 2009:  http://www.calvin.edu/~dsc8/announcement_archives_2009.htm

I look forward to our future discussions as we try to make our individual and corporate contributions to the worlds of education…thereby making the entire world a better place.

Sincerely,
Daniel S. Christian