online learning

Instruction for masses knocks down campus walls [Lewin]

On 03/05/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, convergence, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, faculty/staff, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, innovation, internet, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, online learning, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • convergence • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • disruption • future of higher education • game-changing environment • higher education • learning from the living [class] room • new business models in he • open • staying relevant

[From DSC: Is this a piece of the future?] Unified opens an online university for social media marketers [Anthony Ha]

On 03/02/2012, in accreditation, career development, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, future of higher education, game-changing environment, innovation, marketing/social marketing, online learning, professional development, real-world assignments, reinvent, social media, staying relevant, strategy, by Daniel Christian

Unified opens an online university for social media marketers — from TechCruch.com by Anthony Ha

Services > Unified University

The social media landscape is complex and constantly evolving, leaving top global brands and agencies with the challenge of staying on top of the latest trends and best practices. Unified University is a first of its kind – an all-encompassing training, continuing education and certification program, complete with access to the industry leading best practices knowledge base. Unified University is designed to help marketing and agency executives become experts and internal thought leaders on social strategies, platform insights, earned media measurement, and more.

Through Unified University’s comprehensive training program, a social team can get certified on the Unified Social Operating Platform and learn about the latest advances in social advertising. Certification ensures that a team is up to date on the latest options within the social web, including the benefits of advertising across social ecosystems including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, StumbleUpon and more.

Teams learn that brands may require very different strategies to ultimately achieve similar results. Unified University assures that teams know how to strategically represent brands across all social options while delivering high quality results and maximum ROI.

From DSC:
Is this a part of the future? If higher ed doesn’t respond more forcefully, I’d say so.

Along these lines, from page 408 of the Steve Jobs book:

One of Job’s business rules was to never be afraid of cannibalizing yourself. “If you can’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will,” he said.

Innovate. Reinvent. Staying relevant. This goes for the accreditation agencies as well.

Also see:

Bretford University

Staying Relevant

Tagged with: accreditation • career development • corporate / business world • corporate training / universities • cost of getting an education • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • future of higher education • game-changing environment • innovation • marketing/social marketing • online learning • professional development • real-world assignments • reinvent • social media • staying relevant • Walmart of Education

Is this where we want to spend a trillion $$?! What about if we invested it in high-end online-learning systems instead?!

On 03/01/2012, in budgets, online learning, personalized/customized learning, strategy, United States, by Daniel Christian

Pentagon: You know what’s cool? A trillion-dollar fighter — from cnet.com by D. Terdiman

From DSC:
Cool? Seriously?! Is this where we want to spend a trillion $$? On more instruments of death? Geez…

Instead, I wonder what the United States could contribute to the world by building multimedia-based, high-end, interactive, engaging, personalized/customized, online-based learning materials that are expensive to build, but inexpensive to access?
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Also see:

Cap and gown learning on a shoestring budget — from timeshighereducation.co.uk by Jon Marcus

Excerpt:

With novel credentials being developed and employers seeing the value of low-cost study based on open courseware, Jon Marcus asks if the bricks-and-mortar elite will end up on the wrong side of history

Cap and gown learning on a shoestring budget

Credit: Paul Bateman

Tagged with: budgetary • customized learning • Daniel S. Christian • leadership • legislation • online learning • personalized learning • strategy • United States • Walmart of Education

Some recent items relating to “learning from the living room” & convergence

On 02/23/2012, in A/V -- audio/visual, convergence, digital video, India, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, online learning, technologies for your home, television, trends, TVs, by Daniel Christian

Google to Launch TV Service — from Mashable.com by Todd Wasserman

100 million Americans watch online video every day — from sitetrail.com by Anthony West

How to build 50,000 new colleges — from Forbes.com by Michael Horn

Excerpt (with emphasis by DSC):

What this points to is disruption using the technology enabler of online learning. As the article says, “This means that India is not just trying to build thousands of American-style campuses with neat quads. Many of its new schools will be virtual, for-profit, and integrated closely with workplaces. It may, in fact, end up pushing the concept of online education further than any other country. As a result, what India comes up with will not only affect its economic competitiveness in the 21st century. It may become a petri dish for how to build an educational system in the Information Age.”

There is another dynamic pushing India to innovate in and improve online learning in some dramatic ways. According to the article, new schools face shortages of land and instructors. As a result of the first, constructing big campuses to fill the education gap is likely a non-starter. Online learning is critical. As for the second—the system is short roughly 1 million teachers the article says—this means that the country will almost certainly have to push the bounds of today’s online learning systems so that it can scale the impact of great teachers and built robust digital learning systems that embrace adaptive learning and other such advances. Given these pressures, the innovations that emerge from India could be stunning.

Tagged with: A/V • convergence • digital video • India • learning from the living [class] room • online learning • Smart/Connected TV • technologies for the home • trends • TV

Blackboard launches solution to improve developmental education
Fully online courses now include built-in assessment, analytics tools

Excerpt:

WASHINGTON – February 22, 2012 – Blackboard Inc. today announced the official launch of Blackboard Developmental Education™ (Blackboard DevEd), an innovative approach aimed at improving student outcomes and increasing completion rates in an area where many institutions have struggled. The solution, which was first piloted by several institutions in the fall, now includes built-in assessment and analytics tools that enable course instructors to further personalize their instruction.

Early reflections from DSC:

First of all, my congratulations go out to Blackboard for innovating! Nice work.
This is another example of the innovation occurring in the online/digital learning world — yet more tools and diagnostic powers are being made available to online-based teaching and learning environments
This should be another shot across the bow of how institutions of higher education are training our future teachers — student teachers NEED to know how to teach online!!!
Too early to tell how such endeavors will affect career paths (for teachers, administrators, counselors, nurses, and such)

Also see:

Innosight’s Michael Horn on how ‘blended learning’ and technology can bridge the education gap — from knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

Tagged with: 1:1 • 21st century • 24x7x365 • analytics • Blackboard • career development • customized learning • disruption • e-learning • education • educational technology • emerging technologies • K-12 • leadership • online learning • organizational change • personalized learning • strategy • student teaching/teacher education • student-related • vendors • web-based collaboration

Announced today: Discover Living Actor™ Presenter V2 [Benoît Morel]

On 02/22/2012, in 24x7x365 access, 3D, animation, creativity, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, elearning, engagement / engaging students, Europe, innovation, multimedia, online learning, presentations, productivity / tips and tricks, by Daniel Christian

Per Benoît Morel:

We just launched a new release of Living Actor™ Presenter, a 100% online tool that generates video animations from an audio or text file, automatically animating a high quality 3D full body avatar. This new version is more powerful, offers more multimedia, and is faster to use.

Tagged with: 24x7x365 • 3D • animation • creativity • digital audio • digital learning • digital video • engagement • Europe • innovation • multimedia • online learning • presentations • productivity • tips and tricks • tools

University of California to start YouTube channel [Brown]

On 02/22/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, digital learning, elearning, innovation, online learning, online media, by Daniel Christian

University of California to start YouTube channel — San Francisco Business Times by Steven E.F. Brown, Web Editor

Excerpt:

On March 1, the University of California system will start its own dedicated channel on YouTube.

The UC system plans to run “15 minutes of fresh content” every week on the channel using San Bruno-based YouTube’s service. News on the channel will include documentaries, interviews, commentaries and video shorts based on events and research at all 10 university campuses as well as its medical schools like UCSF. Content may also come from UC-managed labs like Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • digital learning • e-learning • innovation • online learning • online media

Daniel Christian: Emerging Technologies & Trends [Presentation from 1/20/12]

On 02/08/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, Augmented Reality (AR), changing business models, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, convergence, Daniel S. Christian, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, education technology, emerging technologies, ethics, future, game-changing environment, innovation, internet, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, machine-to-machine communications, media/film, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, more voice more choice more control, multi-touch, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), new media literacies, online learning, online media, online tutoring, pace of change, personalized/customized learning, presentations, publishing, reinvent, relationships, robotics, social learning / networks, social media, society, staying relevant, tablets, teaching & learning, technologies for your home, technology (general), television, textbooks, tools, transmedia, trends, TVs, ubiquitous learning, user experience (UX), vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
In case it’s helpful, clicking on this link or on one of the images above will link you to a recent presentation that I did for an Interim course at Calvin College entitled, “Social Media for Business?” As the class had already covered a lot of the topics relating to social media, my job was to focus more on some of the recent emerging trends and technologies. I will continue to keep pulse checking on those technologies which will allow for ubiquitous, mobile (as well as from the living room), 24x7x365, multimedia-based learning.

NOTE:

Almost all of the images on the slides are linked up to web-based resources; so if you see something of interest, go ahead and click on that image/slide in order to learn more about that topic/article/etc.

Coursera

On 02/08/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, computer science, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, new business models, online learning, open courseware and systems, reinvent, staying relevant, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
I originally saw this at
Stanford Professors Daphne Koller & Andrew Ng
also launching a massive online learning startup [Watters]

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • computer science • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • digital learning • disruption • MOOCs • new business models in he • online learning • open • reinvent • staying relevant • Walmart of Education

Announcing the 2012 Media for eLearning – Top Tools Report [Floro; elearningguild.com]

On 02/08/2012, in digital learning, elearning, multimedia, online learning, tools, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: digital learning • e-learning • multimedia • online learning • tools

Digital learning: What kids really want [Riedel & Evans]

On 02/07/2012, in 21st century, digital learning, digital textbooks, education reform, expectations, K-12 related, online learning, online tutoring, social learning / networks, student-related, ubiquitous learning, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Digital learning: What kids really want — from The Journal by Chris Riedel

Excerpt:

According to [Project Tomorrow CEO Julie] Evans, the data from those surveys indicated that students:

Have a growing interest in social-based learning;
Want to connect with and develop a personal network of expert resources;
Are looking for tools that increase untethered learning; and
Want a digitally rich learning environment, unencumbered by traditional rules.

Also:

Other things students at all grade levels are looking for include access to online tutoring, the ability to take online classes, access to real-word data and databases, greater access to teachers using SMS/text messaging, education-based virtual reality and games, and increased access to digital collaboration tools.

Tagged with: Connectivism • digital learning • digital textbooks • online learning • online tutoring • personal learning networks (PLNs) • social learning • student expectations • student-related • ubiquitous learning • virtual reality / worlds / learning • web-based collaboration

Reimagining the classroom teaching and learning environment — from NewClassrooms.org

On 02/02/2012, in analytics, blended learning, education reform, face-to-face, hybrid learning, K-12 related, online learning, pedagogy, personalized/customized learning, reinvent, strategy, teaching & learning, vision/possibilities, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 1:1 • analytics • blended learning • customized learning • education reform • educational technology • face-to-face • hybrid learning • K-12 • online learning • pedagogy • personalized learning • reinvent • strategy • teaching & learning • vision

The Virtual World of Learning — Ed Week Special Report

On 02/02/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, changing business models, digital learning, elearning, global / globalization, online learning, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 24x7x365 • digital learning • distance ed • e-learning • game-changing environment • global • Global learning • new business models • online learning • videoconferencing • web-based collaboration

Another steps towards “learning from the living room”

On 02/01/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, analytics, business side of he, changing business models, collaboration, convergence, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, education reform, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, innovation, interactivity, K-12 related, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, multimedia, new business models, online learning, online tutoring, open courseware and systems, reinvent, social learning / networks, social media, tablets, teaching & learning, technologies for your home, telepresence, television, transmedia, trends, TVs, ubiquitous learning, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Living room video calling users to surpass 16 million in 2015 — from instat.com

Excerpt:

The video calling market can be divided into three sub-markets depending on the device which is being used to make the call: PCs, Mobile, and living room (digital home) devices. Living room video calling is a nascent market and currently has a relatively small user base. New NPD In-Stat (www.in-stat) research forecasts that total users will increase from 1.5 million in 2011 to 16.4 million in 2015. Asia Pacific will be the largest market for living room video calling by a significant margin as this is the region with the highest video calling enabled device shipments.

From DSC:

The massive convergence of the TV, the computer, and the telephone continues
The current model of higher ed has run it’s course — the model is breaking down
The cost of obtaining an education must decrease; new business models are and will continue to come to fruition
One of those business models is what I call “The Forthcoming Walmart of Education“
One of the pieces of this “Walmart of Education” will involve “learning from the living room“
“Students” will be able to watch one device while interacting with another device (though I could also see everything happening via one device as well)
Learning will likely be more interactive, multimedia-based, available 24x7x365, personalized, customized and backed up by some serious social networking/learning, analytics, artificial intelligence, learning agents, and online-based tutoring
“Textbooks” will flow into the living rooms as well as to tablets, smart phones, and other devices; but they will be more like apps where updates will occur as necessary
Rock-star profs are likely to emerge
Anyway…”stay tuned”

Also see:

A Disrupted Higher-Ed System — from The Chronicle by Jeff Selingo

Excerpt:
Just look at the last month:

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that it would create MITx, a self-service learning system in which students can take online tests and earn certificates after watching free course materials posted by the university.
StraighterLine, which offers self-paced introductory courses online, said that it would give students access to the Collegiate Learning Assessment and other similar tests, allowing them to take results to employers or colleges to demonstrate their proficiency in certain academic areas.
Apple introduced three free pieces of software that allow students to download or create textbooks, and that permit instructors to create a digital curriculum in iTunesU.

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Instruction for masses knocks down campus walls [Lewin]

Is this where we want to spend a trillion $$?! What about if we invested it in high-end online-learning systems instead?!

Some recent items relating to “learning from the living room” & convergence

Announced today: Discover Living Actor™ Presenter V2 [Benoît Morel]

University of California to start YouTube channel [Brown]

Coursera

Announcing the 2012 Media for eLearning – Top Tools Report [Floro; elearningguild.com]

The Virtual World of Learning — Ed Week Special Report

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