Also see:
- The NMC Announces New Horizon Report Series of Regional Analyses
Under the umbrella of the NMC Horizon Report, The NMC has launched the Technology Outlook, a new series of regional analyses aimed specifically at understanding both local and global differences in technology uptake, as well as the current and future state of education in different parts of the world. These publications are a product of collaborations between the NMC and innovative organizations across the world that seek to leverage the well-known medium of the NMC Horizon Report to bring important research, trends, and challenges in their regions to light. The Technology Outlook series furthers the NMC’s goal of driving innovation in every part of the world.
MIT launches Center for Mobile Learning with support from Google — from readwriteweb.com by Jon Mitchell
Excerpt:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced the creation of a new Center for Mobile Learning. The center will be housed at the MIT Media Lab. Google supported the creation of the center with a grant from Google University Relations. The center’s first project will be the adoption and further development of App Inventor for Android, a do-it-yourself tool for building apps for Google’s Android mobile OS with no programming skills required.
From the announcement
The Center, housed at the Media Lab, will focus on the design and study of new mobile technologies and applications, enabling people to learn anywhere anytime with anyone. Research projects will explore location-aware learning applications, mobile sensing and data collection, augmented reality gaming, and other educational uses of mobile technologies.
Reinventing the Technology of Human Accomplishment — by Gary Hamel; from the University of Phoenix Distinguished Guest Video Lecture Series.
From DSC:
No matter whether you agree with what Gary is saying or not, can you imagine if every lecture contained this type of team-based assistance in creating the motion graphics, recording the video, editing the video, executing proper sound design principles, etc.? Most likely such an endeavor would be more achievable/successful when producing content in a controlled, studio type of environment — and then presenting it online (vs. trying to do this in front of a live classroom/audience/face-to-face.)
Anyway, very powerful communication channels here! Excellent use of motion graphics to backup his message. A transcript with bolded headings and colored main points would be great too. By the way, wouldn’t it be cool for “call outs” to appear — somewhat in an augmented reality sort of way — when a main point was just made?!
Description of video:
Watch Gary Hamel, celebrated management thinker and author and co-founder of the Management Innovation eXchange (MIX), make the case for reinventing management for the 21st century. In this fast-paced, idea-packed, 15-minute video essay, Hamel paints a vivid picture of what it means to build organizations that are fundamentally fit for the future—and genuinely fit for human beings. It’s time to radically rethink how we mobilize people and organize resources to productive ends. Here’s how we start.
This video is an excerpt from the University of Phoenix Distinguished Guest Video Lecture Series.
Sample screen shots:
From DSC:
Again, can you imagine the bump in engagement/attention spans if a faculty member could be backed up by these types of motion graphics!?
From DSC:
I realize that many of the for-profits are already using teams of specialists…but many others are not.
–Originally saw this at the
Higher Education Management blog by Keith Hampson
- An Average Day with Mobile Technology — by Jason Maseberg-Tomlinson
- Mobile Teaching Versus Mobile Learning — by Rochelle Rodrigo
- Augmented Reality and Geotagging in Japan — by Ryan Burke and Todd Bryant
- Mixable: A Mobile and Connected Learning Environment — by Kyle Bowen
- Using Google Forms for Student Engagement and Learning — by Dong-gook (DK) Kim
- Supporting Students’ Connectedness via Texting –by Dominic Mentor
- Going Mobile with a Web-Based Strategy — by Rosemary A. Rocchio
- Creating a Mobile Community of App Developers –by Cassandra Carson
- Loyola University Chicago: There’s an App for That — by Susan Malisch and Bruce Montes
- Digital Texts and the Future of Education: Why Books? — by Michael Mayrath, Priya Nihalani, and Scott Perkins
- Mobile Global Health — by Faina Linkov, Eric Marler, Bill French, Meredith Hennon, Kyle Freese, Francois Sauer, Eugene Shubnikov, and Ronald LaPorte
New way to learn with AR — from edlab.tc.columbia.edu by Pengfei Li
Addendum later on 5/17 — also see:
- Augmented reality has potential to reshape our lives — from USAToday.com by Edward Baig