Disruptive technologies: Advances that will transform life, business, and the global economy — from mckinsey.com by James Manyika, Michael Chui, Jacques Bughin, Richard Dobbs, Peter Bisson, and Alex Marrs
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On 05/24/2013,
in 3D, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, corporate / business world, disruption, emerging technologies, innovation, internet, mobile technologies, robotics, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
On 05/21/2013,
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by Daniel Christian
IBM Watson at your service: New Watson breakthrough transforms how brands engage today’s connected consumers — from IBM.com
Delivered from the cloud and into the hands of mobile consumers, Watson provides faster, personalized service for smarter commerce; top brands tap Watson’s ability to crunch big data and provide fast, personalized advice for empowered consumers
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Also see:
- How cognitive technologies can help transform the way companies and consumers connect — from asmarterplanet.com by Manoj Saxena
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IBM’s Watson tries to learn…everything — from spectrum.ieee.org by Steven Cherry
What happens when Watson learns a million databases? RPI students and faculty hope to find out.
On 05/16/2013,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, blended learning, collaboration, communications, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, distance education, education technology, educational games / serious games, experimentation, face-to-face, global / globalization, higher education, human-computer interaction (HCI), innovation, interactivity, internet, IT in HE, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, machine-to-machine communications, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, nursing, online learning, social learning / networks, technologies for your home, telecommunications, telepresence, television, training / L&D, TVs, vendors, videoconferencing, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
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From the Oblong.com website:
Mezzanine™ is a collaborative conference room solution that introduces multi-user, multi-screen, multi-device collaboration. This is next-generation communication: share any content from any device with anyone, anywhere.
Mezzanine transforms creative teamwork, executive meetings, and sales presentations into real-time, collaborative work sessions. Mezzanine expands on existing telepresence technology by providing what we call InfoPresence™—the incorporation of multiple users, multiple devices, and multiple streams of information in the collaboration environment. The future of conference room collaboration is here.
A Mezzanine workspace lets any person on a network bring their own device and share content and applications with any colleague, anywhere in the world, interactively. Mezzanine is a collaborative conference room solution combining presentation design and delivery, application sharing, whiteboard capture, and video conferencing, all within a framework of multi-participant control.
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Also see:
- Oblong Technovates with LA High School
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Oblong Industries recently participated at OME, a summit hosted by UC San Francisco. The two-day summit focused on charting the future of precision medicine—an emerging field combining big data with clinical research and patient care to deliver insights and advances in treatment that is more targeted and enables improved patient outcomes.
On 04/23/2013,
in Augmented Reality (AR), education technology, engagement / engaging students, K-12 related, mobile learning, mobile technologies,
by Daniel Christian
Augmented reality is going mobile–and coming to a classroom near you — from thejournal.com by Jennifer Demski
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This article, with an exclusive video interview,
originally appeared in T.H.E. Journal’s April 2013 digital edition.
On 04/19/2013,
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by Daniel Christian
BII REPORT: Here’s why the “second screen” industry is set to explode — BusinessInsider.com
Excerpt:
Here’s why the second screen industry will ultimately succeed:
- Usage is growing rapidly
- And mass acceptance isn’t even necessary
- Second screen isn’t really a new activity
- Second screen apps and sites are bridges
From DSC:
As this article alludes to, I wouldn’t rule the living room out in terms of where interactive, multimedia-based, educationally-related, second screen-based applications will turn up (apps backed up by data mining, AI, and opportunities for social learning). This area is poised for some serious growth.
![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)
On 04/17/2013,
in mobile learning, mobile technologies, publishing, web design and production,
by Daniel Christian
10 developer tips to build a responsive website [infographic] — from readwrite.com by Dan Rowinski
Excerpt:
Responsive design is a concept where you build your website once and then format it so it can adapt to any screen size that accesses it. Designers use HTML5 and CSS to build the sites and set parameters so the content will resize itself whether the user is in vertical or horizontal viewing mode, on a tablet, desktop or smartphone or even a screen as large as a television.
Also see:
- 65 percent of Buzzfeed’s traffic now comes from mobile devices — from paidcontent.com by Janko Roettgers
Summary:
The world is ending for traditional media companies, but new players who ignore the rules, and bet on mobile, will prevail, argues Huffington Post Co-Founder and Buzzfeed Chairman Kenneth Lerer.
On 03/15/2013,
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by Daniel Christian
PayWizard launches first dedicated payment and subscriber management solution for TV and media industry — from PayWizard
Excerpt:
London, 21 February 2013 – PayWizard, specialists in payment and subscription management, has launched the TV and media industry’s first dedicated, end to end payment and subscription solution. The integrated solution brings together a strong heritage in the Pay-TV market with a deep understanding of the challenges TV operators and media companies face in monetising the multiplatform world.
Using its award-winning modular Payment and Subscription platform, PayWizard combines payment processing, intelligent subscriber management technology and real-time customer service operations to tailor-make solutions that enhance the consumer experience across all screens.
With 16.8 billion video-enabled devices set to be in the global marketplace by 2015, content owners are facing the challenge of enhancing existing services while creating compelling experiences that embrace new routes to market. PayWizard’s comprehensive set of products and services has enabled clients, such as the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, ITV, to address these commercial challenges by enabling new monetisation strategies to drive revenue and profitability.
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Also see:
- Multi-screen – are we there yet? — from blog.adbglobal.com
- Digital Home World Summit — London, UK — June 18-19, 2013
From DSC:
See the categories listed above for the items/topics/disciplines/trends that are relevant here.
Addendum:
Check this out!
Massive Open Online Course offered by UMass Boston to feature the first adaptive MOOC technology
Enables students to be taught according to individual learning strategies
Excerpt from email:
(Boston, MA) – February 27, 2013 – If you’ve ever been in a course and struggled because you just aren’t “getting it,” the reason might be less your ability than the way in which the material is being presented.
New technology is now allowing online course environments to analyze how individual students learn, customizing instruction to individualized learning strategies. The College of Advancing and Professional Studies (CAPS) at the University of Massachusetts Boston has teamed up with USDLA 21st Century Sponsor, Synaptic Global Learning (SGL), to use the new learning management system, Adaptive Mobile Online Learning (AMOL), to deliver the first adaptive Massive Online Open Course (a-MOOC) ever offered. The course launches March 25.
On 03/11/2013,
in A/V -- audio/visual, Apple, collaboration, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, higher education, innovation, IT in HE, K-12 related, mobile learning, mobile technologies, participation, web-based collaboration, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
The worlds of K-12, higher education, and corporate training/development are all seeking solid solutions to the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or the Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) solution. (The way I see it, it would sure be helpful it Apple worked with the other relevant vendors to establish better wireless networking protocols.) Anyway, below are some items on this topic:
How to BYOT for Learning? –– from shift2future.com by Brian Kuhn
Responding to the “Shift to the Future” — from seanrtech.blogspot.com by Sean Robinson
BYOD: 7 reasons to leave them to their own devices — from Donald Clark Plan B
Ten reasons the iPad is an awesome tool for classrooms and education — from isource.com with thanks to Krista Spahr, Senior Instructional Designer at Calvin College, for this resource
The 4 easiest ways to mirror the iPad (comparison chart) — from edudemic.com by Seth Hansen; working off of a similar posting from Tony Vincent
Strategies for taking flight with BYOT — from byotnetwork.com
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills identified 4 critical areas of learning for students that include creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration. In Forsyth County Schools, we’ve been working hard with parents, teachers and students to embrace learning with student-owned technologies; something we call Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT). What we know for sure is that BYOT is really more like Bring Your Own Learning because we’ve discovered that it is NOT about the technology – it IS about the learning.
From DSC:
This aligns well with Alan November’s replacing “one-to-one” with “one-to-world.”
But whether we use the acronomyns BYOD, BYOT or BYOL (or whatever), it’s all about students being able to contribute content (hopefully that they created) and participate in the discussions.
From June 2012
From October 2009:
Building off of Steelcase’s media:scape product line
On 03/08/2013,
in 21st century, Apple, content development, aggregation, repositories, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, innovation, K-12 related, machine-to-machine communications, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), strategy, student-related, tools, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
On 03/07/2013,
in change, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, computer science, education technology, mobile learning, mobile technologies, new business models, programming, trends,
by Daniel Christian
Desktop PCs less popular than ever — from Scott Martin and Jon Swartz, USA TODAY — with thanks to Mr. Rick DeVries at Calvin College for this resource
On 02/21/2013,
in Adobe, Apple, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, digital learning, elearning, India, mobile learning, mobile technologies, training / L&D, ubiquitous learning, UK,
by Daniel Christian
The question of why (not) eLearning on iPads or tablets? — from upsidelearning.com by Amit Garg
Excerpt:
2012 saw the re-emergence of ‘Mobile learning’ or ‘mLearning’ as “new” (ok, not really new) buzzwords in L&D and Training circles around the world. But largely in the wrong context! Mobile Learning is being loosely attributed to any learning activity that is not location bound, which is very surprising! And even more surprising is, more often than not, it is not even referring to mLearning at all! But to things like, making an LMS available on an USB drive so you can track courses while on a plane! Certainly not mobile learning in my opinion.
I believe ‘real’ mobile learning is much more than just learning on a mobile device. I also believe that ”tablet” learning is neither mobile nor eLearning, but actually occupies a position between mLearning and eLearning. So let me lay out my argument for why I believe this!
Also see Amit’s presentation at LT13uk — the full presentation is available here:
http://www.slideshare.net/UpsideLearning/designing-elearning-for-ipads
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On 02/05/2013,
in Apple, business, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, computer science, economics, Google, Microsoft, mobile learning, mobile technologies, platforms, programming, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
The new basis of competition and the superiority of ecosystem economics — from visionmobile.com by Michael Vakulenko
Also see:
The changing landscape of app discovery — from visionmobile.com by Andreas Pappas
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Also see:
Also see the following infographic from
OnlinePhDPrograms.com
On 02/03/2013,
in CMS/LMS, corporate universities / corporate training, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, informal learning, mobile learning, mobile technologies, online learning, professional development, social learning / networks, technology (general), training / L&D, trends,
by Daniel Christian
