Many of these presentations will be live streamed at:
Also see:
On 12/20/2013,
in 21st century, economics, education, education reform, faith, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, health, hearts -- matters of the heart, higher education, history, journalism, learning, legislatures / government / legal, liberal arts, media/film, Michigan, music, presentations, professional development, psychology, religion, society, sociology,
by Daniel Christian
On 10/30/2013,
in business, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital video, disruption, experimentation, journalism, media/film, multimedia, new business models, new media literacies, online media, publishing, storytelling, trends,
by Daniel Christian
Recent trends in storytelling and new business models for publishers — from smashingmagazine.com by Jose Martinez Salmeron; with thanks to Gary Hayes for the Scoop on this
Excerpts (emphasis DSC):
It is clear that the ongoing dramatic transformation of the media industry in all its formats (audio, video and text) leaves the door open for a complete reinvention of the publishing business. This transition has opened up opportunities for experimentation, and many players are trying to define the future of media in general, and journalism in particular.
In this article, we will discuss several recent such experiments, with special focus on new forms of storytelling, as well as new business models for publishers — a fascinating recent trend called “subcompact publishing” will be our main reference.
The Media Industry As We Knew It Is Gone
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“The publishing ecosystem is now primed for complete disruption.” – Craig Mod
On 10/28/2013,
in 21st century, change, changing business models, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, innovation, internet, journalism, lifelong learning, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, personalized/customized learning, strategy, streams of content, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
AUDIO | Looking to the newspaper industry to understand higher education’s transformation — from evoLLLution.com by Byron White | Vice President for University Engagement, Cleveland State University
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One of the lessons I do think can be learned is really tailoring a focus to individual students … and moving more toward a reader-driven kind of format, where you really are having to pay attention to individuals who are coming, each one, and having to customize and personalize what they are looking for.
The other thing I think [is] a lesson to learn is to really be focused on the outcomes those individual users … are looking for. I don’t think the newspaper industry ever really redefined the kind of outcome or value newspapers were providing to readers, other than providing them with the news of the day. You know, the New York Times, “All the news that’s fit to print.” In reality, what we should have been shifting toward was helping people make sense and navigate their lives and their worlds. And I think we started talking that way, but we never really developed the evidence we were really helping people do that.
Higher education can learn from that. If we can move from providing students [with] knowledge, information, even a credential, to seeing ourselves as being in the business of developing people to have lifelong success … I think we’ll start to see the ways we provide that might be different than just the traditional ways of sharing knowledge.
That’s a lesson we can learn from what newspapers, I think, weren’t able to transition to.
3. The move to free online content significantly changed journalism, both in terms of the value readers put into written news and their expectations for accessibility and speed of reporting. What kind of an impact do you see the growth of online learning having on students’ expectations of higher education?
On 09/18/2013,
in business, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, disruption, experimentation, future of higher education, game-changing environment, journalism, leadership, strategy, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
Don’t go the way of the newspapers — from revolution.com by Donn Davis on August 28, 2012
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
So the fall of the great Tribune Company was not about getting blindsided. It was not about failing to understand what was going on with new technologies. It was about failing to act.
The newspaper industry’s Shakespearean fall is a lesson in inaction (like the fate of hero Hamlet). Inaction in the face of disruptive technologies took many forms. “Won’t be a major game-changer,” most said. “Won’t impact good companies like ours,” some opined. “Won’t impact the company until long after I have retired,” others demurred. The leaders of colleges and universities must not make the same mistake of sitting on their hands.
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Both the newspaper industry and higher-education are risk-averse, so the strong bias will be the status quo.
From DSC:
Great call here Donn; I would also add “Board of Trustees” to your TO: line.
On 05/07/2013,
in A/V -- audio/visual, Adobe, Bring your own device (BYOD), cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, creativity, Daniel S. Christian, emerging technologies, experimentation, future, future of higher education, innovation, interactivity, journalism, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning spaces, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multi-touch, multimedia, publishing, smart classrooms, tools, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC: re: Adobe’s Project Context:
This is the type of hardware/software combination that I’ve been hoping for and envisioning! Excellent!
It appears to be the type of setup whereby students could quickly and easily collaborate with one another — in a face-to-face setting (and ideally in remote locations as well) — by not just displaying files but also being able to share files with one another. Files can be sent up to the interactive, multi-touch displays as well as to an interactive table. So it’s not just displaying files, but actually sharing files and being able to collaboratively work on a project.
Eventually, I see this being able to be done in your living room. What if MOOCs could integrate this type of web-based collaboration into their projects?
But for now, this is a HUGE step forward in this vision. Great work Adobe! This is innovative! Very helpful!
Example screenshots:
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Also see:
- Adobe’s hardware experiments are more than just hobbies: Hands-on with Project Context –– from techcrunch.com by Frederic Lardinois
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
At its MAX conference in Los Angeles [on 5/6/13], Adobe showed quite a few products that will soon be available to its customers, but it also highlighted a number of hardware experiments, including Project Context, a totally re-imagined way for creating magazine layouts, as well as an advanced stylus and a ruler for touchscreens.
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On 04/29/2013,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, career development, communications, computer science, journalism, programming,
by Daniel Christian
Making news: How software is disrupting media — from fastcolabs.com by Gabe Stein
Get out from under your rock and take notice; the news industry is in big trouble! The Internet is killing journalism. Craigslist is stealing all the classified ads. Digital ad revenues stink. Yet journalists are still working, getting paid, and breaking important stories. Here’s what you need to know to survive and thrive as a techno-savvy journalist!
Want to catch up on other news about
the convergence of technology and journalism?
This is an ongoing story we’re tracking;
read on for context…
SXSWi Report: Liquid journalism and dynamic storytelling emerge in 2013 — from waggeneredstrom.com by Eddie Rehfeldt
Excerpt:
Breaking News: the search for a better narrative format for the internet is now available. Ben Decker once said “the internet is not just another TV pipe” and this was made apparent at SXSWi in Austin last week. “Liquid Journalism” or interactive storytelling hit the Lone Star state with a vengeance.
The future of higher ed according to Richard DeMillo; some thoughts/perspectives worth reflecting on
On 03/20/2013,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, accreditation, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, emerging technologies, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, internet, journalism, lifelong learning, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, online learning, reinvent, staying relevant, student-related, surviving,
by Daniel Christian
Traditional institutions will close, number of colleges and universities will rise (audio and transcript) — from evoLLLution.com (where LLL stands for lifelong learning) by Richard DeMillo | Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities, Georgia Institute of Technology
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
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Well, for me, it always boils down to value. People misunderstand this as assigning value based on salaries or employability, but I mean value in the larger sense. You have to have a reason to ask students to pay more than the marginal costs of delivering education. And with all these revolutions in technology for course delivery, that marginal cost is going to zero very, very quickly [think journalism]. So, every institution that’s going to survive, I think, over the next 50 years, is going to have to make that case. Why is it that tuition at this institution is justified?
The interesting thing about this is it’s going to be accelerated because the old bureaucracies, the old institutional models… are crumbling. At least, their boundaries are crumbling. Let me tell you what I mean by that.
The accrediting agencies, which I think traditionally have had — at least for the last 120 years or so—an institutional focus, are now shifting their focus to students; to competencies, to demonstrations of what students know. And that really starts to cut against institutional entitlement.
I think the conclusion of all this is that, as it becomes harder and harder for… a “Me-Too Institution” to argue for a marginal increase in price, the amount of money that those institutions are going to have available to them to spend on anything but core mission for students is also going to go to zero. So, this is kind of a virtuous cycle; … institutions that are unable to make the value proposition will find themselves more and more strapped for discretionary funds in order to move themselves into a different space. And that’s an ending that’s not very good for most institutions.
From DSC:
How will our/your organization keep from becoming a commodity? What are we/you all going to bring to the table that’s different, unique, and worth paying for?
Also see:
- Higher Education’s turn in the vortex of change — from evoLLLution.com by Karen Sibley | Dean of Continuing Education, Brown University
Excerpt:
Here’s the mind-bending question that prompts this thought:
What will brand value and marketing in higher education look like in 2023?
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MOOCS likely to be integrated into traditional university programming — from evoLLLution.com by Larry Cooperman | Director of OpenCourseWare, UC Irvine
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Traditional instructors will remain, but online learning heralds a new breed — from evoLLLution.com by Pepper Lynn Werner | Doctoral Student, University of Wyoming
On 03/19/2013,
in journalism, television,
by Daniel Christian
Also see:
- The changing TV news landscape — from stateofthemedia.org by Mark Jurkowitz, Paul Hitlin, Amy Mitchell, Laura Santhanam, Steve Adams, Monica Anderson and Nancy Vogt of Pew Research Center
A new class of Knight News Challenge winners focuses on mobile in the developing world — from niemanlab.org by Joshua Benton
The common thread through several of the eight winners: turning underpowered phones into information engines.
On 01/16/2013,
in experimentation, innovation, journalism, mobile learning, mobile technologies,
by Daniel Christian
Jan. 17, 10 a.m. EST:
The winners of the News Challenge: Mobile
Jan. 18, 12:30 p.m. EST :
Hear the winners talk about their projects via live webstream at www.knightfoundation.org/live. The presentations are part of a gathering at Arizona State University on the future of mobile media.
To stay updated, follow @knightfdn and #newschallenge on Twitter.
The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding the best breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $5 million in funding – and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas.Innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate. Previously run once a year, the Challenge is running three times in 2012, to more closely mirror the pace of innovation. Each round has its own theme.
With a special thanks for the above resource going out to my sister, Sue Ellen Christian, Associate Professor of Journalism at Western Michigan University; and if I may put in a plug for her work, please see my sister’s latest book:
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- Her book’s accompanying blog
. - A review of her book by Canadian journalism professor Nicole Blanchett Neheli
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On 01/03/2013,
in business, Daniel S. Christian, economics, journalism, political science, society, United States, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
I’m not a political science expert and I won’t pretend to be one…but I did study economics and I don’t see what happened leading up to — and including — Tuesday night as any sort of victory or solid deal for America. Delaying the tough decisions is not helping us — the time will come when we have to pay the piper. Eventually, there will be pain. But will that pain start in 2013? I hope so. Because the longer the debt builds, the harder it will be to conquer it and the more pain we’ll need to get through (eventually). In fact, eventually 100% of our taxes will go towards just paying the interest on the debt if we follow the current trajectories. Printing more money won’t help the situation either, as inflation is likely to escalate at that point.
Backing up a bit…here are some resources on what happened on Tuesday night with the Fiscal Cliff in the United States:
- Obama signs bill warding off fiscal cliff — from CNN by Matt Smith
Cliff deal hollow victory for American people — from CNN by David Rothkopf (CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Excerpt:
(CNN) — The last political drama of 2012 and the first one of 2013 suggest that if you love America, you might want to consider making your New Year’s resolution quitting whatever political party you belong to. The “fiscal cliff” debate and the last-minute deal it produced have so far resolved nothing except to show that our system is profoundly broken and that radical changes are needed to fix it.
. - Fiscal cliff was bound to collapse — from CNN by Gloria Borger
. - After the fiscal cliff: What comes next? — from macleans.ca and the AP
Excerpt:
By delaying painful decisions on spending cuts, the deal assures more confrontation and uncertainty, especially because Congress must reach agreement later this winter to raise the government’s debt limit. Many businesses are likely to remain wary of expanding or hiring in the meantime.
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Bernard Baumohl, chief global economist for the Economic Outlook Group, thinks the lack of finality in the budget fight is slowing an otherwise fundamentally sound economy. “What a shame,” Baumohl said in a research note Wednesday. “Companies are eager to ramp up capital investments and boost hiring. Households are prepared to unleash five years of pent-up demand.”
. - 3 more fiscal cliffs loom — from CNN by Rich Barbieri
From DSC:
The media loves to divide. They hate to unite. Evidently, unity doesn’t pay the bills .
(BTW, to the remaining journalism majors out there — strive to build up and help our country, and try not to feed the flames of division just so that your organizations’ ratings go up. Watch whose agendas are truly being served and the verbiage you use. Unfortunately, as a Christian, I can’t say much for the church, as there are fractions throughout the church as well.)
Getting back to what’s on my mind…delaying the pain is just making the future pain all the worse. Let’s bite the bullet, compromise, work together, and go through the pain now rather than later. If we wait too long, our children will be paying the price for our ways.
As educators, it looks like we need to beef up those parts of the curriculum that deal with collaboration and creative compromise!
On 11/27/2012,
in chemistry, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, digital storytelling, education technology, innovation, journalism, robotics, science,
by Daniel Christian
An interesting augmented reality app:
Some other innovative apps:
- Nuclear — with thanks going out to Mr. Steven Chevalia for this find/resource
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- Solar Walk — with thanks going out to Mr. Steven Chevalia for this find/resource
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- The Wider Image from Reuters — with thanks going out to Mr. Steven Chevalia for this find/resource
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From DSC:
Publishers — take a look at what Reuters is doing here; consider offering such a constantly up-to-date stream of content that fills up digital “textbooks.”
Addendum:
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Note Anytime – Write stylish notes, mash up handwritten text or typed text with photos and high resolution graphics; scale from a piece of paper to a whiteboard, then output to your favorite social networks. Take a Note Anytime! By MetaMoJi Corporation
From DSC:
Hmmm…seems like this quote could be applied towards some situations in higher ed even though they were walking about journalism:
In old media the formula was simple. We edit. You read. The interactive web made that forced relationship a joke. People can talk, share, argue AND do business with each other. The newspaper was edited on a 24 hour cycle. You read when we said you could read. TV brought you news on THEIR schedule. We “pushed” news on readers and reader options were limited. Now you read, watch, and search whenever you want and you demand immediacy.