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On 12/17/2012,
in animation, biology, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, digital learning, health, nursing,
by Daniel Christian
On 12/17/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, career development, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, future, languages and translation, professional development, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Using devices like these, students of all ages might be able to take some serious field trips:
For example…implementing and leveraging such a network of remote-controlled devices*, students could:
- Tour the Louvre in Paris
- Be backstage at a Broadway musical or checking out a live performance of Macbeth
- Watch a filming of a National Geographic Special in the Fiji Islands
- Attend an IEEE International Conference in Taiwan
- Attend an Educause Conference or a Sloan C event to get further knowledge about how to maximize your time studying online or within a hybrid environment
- Tour The Exploratorium in San Francisco
- Tour the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago
- Be a fly on the wall during a Senate hearing/debate
- See how changes are made in the assembly lines at a Ford plant
- Or perhaps, when a student wheels their device to a particular area — such as the front row of a conference, the signal automatically switches to the main speaker/event (keynote speakers, panel, etc. via machine-to-machine communications)
- Invite guest speakers into a class: pastors, authors, poets, composers, etc.
- Work with local/virtual teams on how to heighten public awareness re: a project that deals with sustainability
- Virtually head to another country to immerse themselves in another country’s language — and, vice versa, help them learn the students’ native languages
For accountability — as well as for setting aside intentional time to process the information — students would update their own blogs about what they experienced, heard, and saw. They would need to include at least one image, along with the text they write about their experience. Or perhaps a brief/edited piece of digital video or audio of some of the statements that they heard that really resonated with them, or that they had further questions on. The default setting on such postings would be to be kept private, but if the teacher and the student felt that a posting could/should be made public, a quick setting could be checked to publish it out there for others to see/experience.
Real world. Engaging. Passing over more choice and control to the students so that they can pursue what they are passionate about.
* These mobile devices could also be hooked up to translation engines as well as to suites of web-based collaboration tools.
On 12/17/2012,
in corporate universities / corporate training, creativity, design, digital learning, education technology, elearning, engagement / engaging students, graphics, instructional design, marketing/social marketing, multimedia, online learning, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, quality, tools, training / L&D, user experience (UX),
by Daniel Christian
Excerpt:
- Best in Show: Vesone Dean, What is SignUp?
- EDU category: Valerie Pennington, Anatomical Terms of Direction and Planes of Section
- Sales & Marketing category: Nino Paglia, Mantic – RealeFlow
- Tutorial & Training category: Ron Hogue, Top Five-ish Screencast Tips
- Wildcard category: Mel Aclaro, Best Screen Capture Software Series (Episode 3 – Camtasia Studio 7)
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Enter up to three (3) screencast videos. Videos will be assigned a category based on the information you provide (so please be as detailed as possible!). Categories are: Education (videos with a focus on teaching and/or schools, at any level); Tutorial/Training (videos with a focus on training or tutorial content); Sales and Marketing (videos made to sell or persuade); and Wildcard (videos that don’t fit in the previous categories).
On 12/14/2012,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, change, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, emerging technologies, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, internet, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, the downsides of how people use tech, TVs,
by Daniel Christian
Adjust your set — and your expectations — says TV of Tomorrow — from streamingmedia.com
One-day connected TV and second screen conference hits New York City, bringing a look at tomorrow’s viewing.
Smart TV hack highlights risk of ‘The Internet of Everything’ — from csoonline.com by Taylor Armerding
As the use of smart connected devices expands, so do threats because while they may not look like computers, they are
Google wants to let Chrome apps interact with your TV and other devices — from thenextweb.com
Excerpt:
Google’s Chrome team appears to be looking to extend the way the browser connects with other devices, incorporating support for a new protocol that will enable Chrome apps to discover and interact with “first screen devices.”
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The future of TV content delivery is the Internet — from by Adam Poltrack
It won’t be long before cable and satellite boxes go the way of the VCR.
We have seen the future of TV content delivery, and it is the Internet.
Future TV disruption – Forbes says it’s worth half a trillion dollars for Internet companies — from hackfest.tv
$500 Billion TV Market New Battlefield For Internet Companies — from forbes.com
Why Valve’s new living room PC is the new face of the console business — from digitaltrends.com by Anythony John Agnello
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On 12/14/2012,
in A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, education technology, learning spaces, multimedia, participation, smart classrooms,
by Daniel Christian
On 12/13/2012,
in adjunct faculty, change, colleges, community colleges, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, elearning, experimentation, faculty/staff, future of higher education, game-changing environment, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, marketing/social marketing, marketplaces, new business models, online learning,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
Some reflections on New platform lets professors set prices for their online courses — from InsideHigherEd.com by Jeffrey R. Young
Excerpt:
Professors typically don’t worry about what price point a course will sell at, or what amenities might attract a student to pick one course over another. But a new online platform, Professor Direct, lets instructors determine not only how much to charge for such courses, but also how much time they want to devote to services like office hours, online tutorials, and responding to students’ e-mails.
The new service is run by StraighterLine, a company that offers online, self-paced introductory courses. Unlike massive open online courses, or MOOC’s, StraighterLine’s courses aren’t free. But tuition is lower than what traditional colleges typically charge—the company calls its pricing “ultra-affordable.” A handful of colleges accept StraighterLine courses for transfer credit.
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From DSC:
The power of online-based marketplaces. We’ve seen it in other industries. Are we now going to see more of this within higher education as the unbundling of higher education seems to be a possibility? Will there be an increased importance of professors’ individual brands? Could be.
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From DSC:
Congrats Burck & Co. on your continued innovative thinking and business models! Way to help keep a college education accessible to many!
On 12/13/2012,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, blogs / blogging / vlogging, career development, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, game-changing environment, global, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, learning ecosystem, machine-to-machine communications, metacognition / metacognitive skills, mobile learning, mobile technologies, more voice more choice more control, multimedia, online learning, participation, passions, personalized/customized learning, professional development, real-world assignments, robotics, student-related, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
“Mom! Check out what I did at school today!”
If you’re a parent, don’t you love to hear the excitement in your son’s or daughter’s voice when they bring home something from school that really peaked their interest? Their passions?
I woke up last night with several ideas and thoughts on how technology could help students become — and stay — engaged, while passing over more control and choice to the students in order for them to pursue their own interests and passions. The idea would enable students to efficiently gain some exposure to a variety of things to see if those things were interesting to them — perhaps opening a way for a future internship or, eventually, a career.
The device I pictured in my mind was the sort of device that I saw a while back out at Double Robotics and/or at Suitable Technologies:
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The thoughts centered on implementing a growing network of such remote-controlled, mobile, videoconferencing-based sorts of devices, that were hooked up to voice translation engines. Students could control such devices to pursue things that they wanted to know more about, such as:
- Touring the Louvre in Paris
- Being backstage at a Broadway musical or checking out a live performance of Macbeth
- Watching a filming of a National Geographic Special in the Fiji Islands
- Attending an IEEE International Conference in Taiwan
- Attending an Educause Conference or a Sloan C event to get further knowledge about how to maximize your time studying online or within a hybrid environment
- Touring The Exploratorium in San Francisco
- Touring the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago
- Being a fly on the wall during a Senate hearing/debate
- Seeing how changes are made in the assembly lines at a Ford plant
- Or perhaps, when a student wheels their device to a particular area — such as the front row of a conference, the signal automatically switches to the main speaker/event (keynote speakers, panel, etc. via machine-to-machine communications)
- Inviting guest speakers into a class: pastors, authors, poets, composers, etc.
- Work with local/virtual teams on how to heighten public awareness re: a project that deals with sustainability
- Virtually head to another country to immerse themselves in another country’s language — and, vice versa, help them learn the students’ native languages
For accountability — as well as for setting aside intentional time to process the information — students would update their own blogs about what they experienced, heard, and saw. They would need to include at least one image, along with the text they write about their experience. Or perhaps a brief/edited piece of digital video or audio of some of the statements that they heard that really resonated with them, or that they had further questions on. The default setting on such postings would be to be kept private, but if the teacher and the student felt that a posting could/should be made public, a quick setting could be checked to publish it out there for others to see/experience.
Real world. Engaging. Passing over more choice and control to the students so that they can pursue what they are passionate about.
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Also see/I saw this at:
- Nice to find a free circuit simulation tool — from blogs.ucl.ac.uk by Rodd Digges
On 12/10/2012,
in 21st century, career development, computer science, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, new business models, online learning, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
Citing IT skills shortage, IBM wants to expand presence at universities — from wiredacademic.com
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
“We want to be the scale up partner of choice for these universities,” said Jim Sporher, head of IBM’s university programs. “We want to make sure they have access to technology and understand our strategy.” He also sees massive open online courses (MOOCs) as a mega-trend and will be considering ways for IBM to be part of the MOOC trend in the future, particularly as many of the MOOC providers such as Udacity and Coursera offer classes in computer science.
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As a big blue-chip progenitor of the tech industry, IBM is worth listening to in many regards. For one, corporate computing trends often filter down into the education space. The corporate world often has the money to purchase and deploy game-changing technologies. IBM sees that it also works the other way too, where computing at the university level creates new businesses and ideas that move up into the corporate realm.
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From DSC:
I wonder…will the corporations develop their own MOOCs? Their own digital “playlists” and associated exams? (i.e. that someone needs to go through and pass in order to work for them…show me what you can do.) Hmmm…
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Also see:
- This could be huge… — from timeshighereducation.co.uk by Zoë Corbyn
MOOCs are already big – in reach and in hype – and are predicted to explode. Zoë Corbyn checks in to learn if they are more than just a novelty and to find out what it’s like to teach a class of 38,000 - Georgetown to offer free online courses — from washingtonpost.com
- Free online courses could change Engineering education — from theinstitute.ieee.org by Kathy Pretz
On 12/10/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, changing business models, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, flipping -- inverted learning, future of higher education, game-changing environment, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, marketplaces, online learning, second screen apps, social learning / networks, social media, TVs,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
The educational “store” part of this graphic could take several forms:
- Online-based exchanges between buyers and sellers (teachers/professors and learners) — professors as their own brand
- Institutional offerings/brands
- Team-based content from newly-developed firms, organizations
- Each of us puts up our own learning materials for others to take (for free or for a price)
- Other
On 12/07/2012,
in Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital video, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, new business models, professional development, tools, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Excerpts from John Katzman’s Keynote:
Higher ed is made up of a series of smaller markets — niches [From DSC: What’s your niche?]
- Elite level
- Mid level
- Entry level
Might have 2-3 high quality programs; and many smaller programs with lower production levels.
Fewer players of larger size
Consolidation is going to occur w/in higher ed. Besides consolidation, there will be collaboration/pooling of resources, and/or the hollowing out within higher ed.
From DSC:
Not that this is new…but looking at the above image, I wonder if more 100% online-based courses and schools will adopt this sort of “space”/interface as a sort of entryway into their institution’s materials.
On 12/07/2012,
in creativity, digital learning, education, education reform, Europe, future, global, innovation, learning, society,
by Daniel Christian
LWF World Summit – The Barbican – June 17th-21st, 2013
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Other resources/links
This is Learning Without Frontiers
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On 12/06/2012,
in A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, digital learning, learning spaces, smart classrooms,
by Daniel Christian
On 12/05/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, analytics, Apple, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business side of he, changing business models, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, experimentation, future, game-changing environment, Google, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, K-12 related, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, media/film, Microsoft, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), new business models, online learning, online media, online tutoring, participation, personalized/customized learning, play, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, social media, streams of content, technologies for your home, telecommunications, telepresence, television, training / L&D, trends, TVs, ubiquitous learning, user experience (UX), using teams, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring,
by Daniel Christian
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![The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart/Connected TV](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg "The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian---July-2012")
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From DSC:
I’m beginning to wonder if many of us will be moving off of Moodle, Sakai, Bb Learn, Desire2Learn, etc. to platforms and ecosystems that are being created by Apple, Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. Rockstar professors on “primetime” — or anytime. If that happens, you can be sure there will be teams of specialists creating and delivering the content and learning experiences.
On 12/04/2012,
in A/V -- audio/visual, Asia, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, engineering, entrepreneurship, experimentation, face-to-face, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, internet, IT in HE, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, learning spaces, machine-to-machine communications, mobile technologies, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), online media, participation, play, productivity / tips and tricks, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I’ve been trying to figure out the best ways to incorporate a BYOD/BYOT into the Smart Classroom. That is, how can students’ devices seamlessly communicate with the main displays around the classroom? How can they quickly display a blog posting or a Google doc for example…or play a song they wrote, etc. So I was excited to wake up this morning with the following concept/idea:
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Other features/thoughts:
- Line of sight communications — students must be in the room to display something up on the main displays
- Information travels many ways: From large multitouch displays/walls to students’ devices and vice versa; so a professor could hit “Save” in order to send his/her annotations to all of the students’ devices (allowing them to be more cognitively present — vs madly writing down what the professor is writing)
- The Smart Classroom’s infrastructure becomes like a multi-thredded processor — instantaneously and simultaneously handling a far greater amount of data — going in multiple directions
- What’s an interesting idea here is for discipline-specific, cloud-based storage mechanisms for students who want to contribute their pieces of content to their schools repositories of content
- This topic reminds me of a graphic I created a while back, re: The “Chalkboard” of the Future:
So…what if the 4 screen’s on Julong’s Ultra-IPBOARD were coming from 4 different sources? Perhaps:
- One from a publisher’s cloud-based content repository
- Another from a stream of content originating from a student’s iPad
- Another from a stream of content originating from the Smart Classroom’s PC or Mac
- …and the last source originating from a student’s smartphone?
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