change

Pulse-checking the living room

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, smart/connected TV, the downsides of how people use tech, 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

Also see:

Tagged with: 21st century • A/V • change • Daniel S. Christian • emerging technologies • human-computer interaction (HCI) • innovation • learning from the living [class] room • Smart/Connected TV • the downsides of technology

Dual transformation — a strategy for those of us working within higher ed to consider

On 12/13/2012, in business side of he, changing business models, dangers of the status quo, disruption, experimentation, game-changing environment, higher education, innovation, leadership, reinvent, staying relevant, strategy, surviving, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: business side of he • change • dangers of the status quo • disruption • experimentation • game-changing environment • innovation • leadership • new business models in he • staying relevant • strategy

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.

From DSC:
Congrats Burck & Co. on your continued innovative thinking and business models! Way to help keep a college education accessible to many!

Tagged with: adjunct faculty • change • cost of getting an education • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • digital learning • experimentation • faculty • future of higher education • game-changing environment • higher education • new business models in he • online learning • Walmart of Education

The unbundling of higher education seems to be taking another step forward…[Christian]

On 11/30/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, changing business models, Daniel S. Christian, disruption, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, more voice more choice more control, new business models, reinvent, staying relevant, by Daniel Christian

From DSC, some examples:

Unbundling and Unmooring: Technology and the Higher Ed Tsunami — from educause.org by Audrey Watters
Unbundling Higher Education | From the Bell Tower –– from lj.libraryjournal.com by Steven Bell
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
Recent events in higher education suggest a new trend — earning degrees by the course from multiple providers. Are we looking at the iTunes model of unbundled higher ed? Call it alt-HE.
Napster, Udacity, and the Academy — from Clay Shirky
Excerpt:
Once you see this pattern—a new story rearranging people’s sense of the possible, with the incumbents the last to know—you see it everywhere. First, the people running the old system don’t notice the change. When they do, they assume it’s minor. Then that it’s a niche. Then a fad. And by the time they understand that the world has actually changed, they’ve squandered most of the time they had to adapt.
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It’s been interesting watching this unfold in music, books, newspapers, TV, but nothing has ever been as interesting to me as watching it happen in my own backyard. Higher education is now being disrupted; our MP3 is the massive open online course (or MOOC), and our Napster is Udacity, the education startup.
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But who faces that choice? Are we to imagine an 18 year old who can set aside $250K and 4 years, but who would have a hard time choosing between a residential college and a series of MOOCs? Elite high school students will not be abandoning elite colleges any time soon; the issue isn’t what education of “the very best sort” looks like, but what the whole system looks like.

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • change • Daniel S. Christian • disruption • future of higher education • game-changing environment • higher education • more choice more control • new business models in he • reinvent • staying relevant • student-related

Breakthrough models in education — NGLC releases profiles of latest grantees [Page]

On 11/28/2012, in 21st century, change, education reform, higher education, innovation, K-12 related, leadership, strategy, by Daniel Christian

NGLC releases profiles of latest grantees — from nextgenerationlearning.com by Carie Page

Excerpt:

When we launched our RFP, we had a handful of names that we could use to exemplify breakthrough approaches in K-12 and higher education. Today, however, after announcing the last group of grantees for this wave in October, we aren’t just guessing at what a breakthrough model might look like. We now have 30 grantees actively developing and launching truly breakthrough approaches to education.

Explore the Portfolio

Tagged with: 21st century • change • education reform • higher education • innovation • K-12 • leadership • strategy

Excerpt:

With the public’s continued focus on value and affordability, higher education finds itself at a critical juncture. Cost pressures and increased global demand for access have given rise to innovations that have unleashed new delivery models into the education marketplace. Such innovation is required if universities are to thrive, compete, and bring new relevance and meaning to the value of college in the 21st century.

Also see:

Americans believe higher education must innovate — from Northeastern News
President: Witt must adapt to survive — from springfieldnewssun.com by Tom Stafford
Excerpt:
Liberal arts colleges that ignore market realities “absolutely won’t exist in the next decade,” Wittenberg University President Laurie M. Joyner told Springfield Rotarians on Monday. But the practical or applied liberal arts education that she predicts can sustain Wittenberg will encourage deeper connections with Springfield, she said while speaking at the Hollenbeck-Bayley Conference Center, because “our students learn better when dealing with real-world problems.” A shrinking pool of price-sensitive high school graduates has combined with a bad economy to produce “the equivalent of a perfect storm for some of us,” said Joyner, who succeeded Mark Erickson on July 1.
Surviving disruption — from hbr.og by Maxwell Wessel and Clayton M. Christensen
Excerpt:
…to meet disrupters with disruption of their own, but also to guide their legacy businesses toward as healthy a future as possible.
Sanjay Sarma appointed as MIT’s first director of digital learning — from MIT by Steve Bradt
Mechanical engineering professor will shepherd efforts to integrate elements of online education into traditional MIT courses.

From DSC:
Experimentation. Innovation. Experimentation. Innovation. Fail. Fail. Succeed. Fail. Succeed. Fail.

Tagged with: 21st century • change • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • disruption • economics/business • experimentation • future of higher education • game-changing environment • higher education • innovation • leadership • new business models in he • perfect storm • reinvent • staying relevant • strategy • surviving

Learning Insights Report 2012 [Kineo and elearningage.co.uk]

On 11/28/2012, in 21st century, change, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, formal learning, informal learning, training / L&D, trends, UK, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Learning Insights Report 2012 — from Kineo and elearningage.co.uk

Actual report here:

Tagged with: change • corporate / business world • corporate training / universities • e-learning • formal learning • informal learning • UK

McGraw-Hill to sell education business to Apollo for $2.5 billion [gilfuseducationgroup.com]

On 11/27/2012, in change, publishing, by Daniel Christian

McGraw-Hill to sell education business to Apollo for $2.5 billion — from gilfuseducationgroup.com

Excerpt:

McGraw-Hill’s education print revenues have been rapidly declining while the company has had great difficulties and political infighting about evolving to digital products and services. Essentially the education division needs a “change of control” to help get its act together. Can a change of control help?

The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) (“the Company”) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its McGraw-Hill Education business to investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC (NYSE: APO) (collectively with its subsidiaries, “Apollo”), for a purchase price of $2.5 billion, subject to certain closing adjustments. As part of this transaction, McGraw-Hill will receive $250 million in senior unsecured notes issued by the purchaser at an annual interest rate of 8.5%. The transaction, which is expected to close in late 2012 or early 2013, is subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.

Tagged with: change • publishing

The education giant adapts — from MIT Technology Review by Jessica Leber
Pearson is the world’s largest book publisher. Now it wants to be a one-stop shop for digital education.

Excerpt:

Pearson pulled this off with a decade-long string of acquisitions that helped it shift its emphasis from selling books to selling education services. The London-based company styles itself as the “world’s leading learning company,” even if that learning isn’t delivered through traditional books. These days, Pearson is more like an IT department for classrooms and schools. It sells technology infrastructure, software, and consulting services to schools—services that in turn help deliver the vast stock of textbook content Pearson owns. The company says its revenue from online content and services will surpass those of the traditional publishing business this year.

From DSC:
I congratulate Pearson on reinventing itself. The words of Steve Jobs ring in my mind…something about cannibalizing one’s business before someone else does it for you. Several other words and phrases come to my mind after seeing the above article — that regular readers of this blog and my archived website will instantly recognize:

Dangers of the status quo
Staying relevant
Survival
Disruption/change
New business models
Game-changing environment
Using teams of specialists

Also relevant here/see:

Three big changes ahead for higher education — from onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com

Tagged with: CFHE12 • change • disruption • e-books • e-publishing related items (EPUB and more) • e-readers • educational technology • game-changing environment • higher education • innovation • IT • new business models • new publishing models • online learning • online media • publishing • staying relevant • surviving • Using teams

How to disrupt yourself [Satell]

On 11/21/2012, in change, corporate / business world, disruption, experimentation, higher education, innovation, leadership, using teams, by Daniel Christian

How to disrupt yourself — from innovationexcellence.com by Greg Satell

Excerpts:

However, disruptive innovation happens in the face of no such threat, but when things are going great. Operations are profitable, the needs of the most demanding customers are being met and the business press applauds the company’s thoughtful and visionary leadership.

Then comes along something like Google or Netflix or social media and everything is turned upside down.

That’s what makes disruptive innovation so dangerous and so interesting. It upends an existing order that seems to be working well. The reality is that incumbent firms tend to get better and [better] at things people care less about. Eventually, the basis of competition will change and old metrics of success become useless.

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The biggest innovation pitfall is falling into the myth of the mad scientist. People often assume it comes from the work of a lone genius – a Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison – who works behind closed doors and then one day comes out and shouts “Eureka!”

In actuality, innovation is combination. It most often arises through active collaboration among people with diverse skills and perspectives. That’s why so few enterprises can do it effectively. Large organizations breed conformity, strong leaders encourage a singular vision and don’t like to incorporate ideas that are off-script.

Tagged with: change • corporate / business world • disruption • higher education • innovation • leadership • Using teams • workplace

Current/Future State of Higher Education — from Educause Live by George Siemens, Andy Caulkins, Malcolm Brown

Change drivers

Globalization
Commercial/entrepreneurial activity
Funding cuts
Online learning
Unbundling of education systems
Technology advancement (mobiles)
Employment-oriented education
Big data and analytics

Net Pedagogies: New Models for Teaching & Learning

New pedagogies emerging from:
- Concerns about how well institutions are meeting their mission, on behalf of students they serve
- Pressures resulting from feeling constrained within the “Iron Triangle” of costs, access, and quality
- New technologies
How to balance personalization with competency-based pathways
How to build community among students who are geographically distant and proceeding at different rates (a different cohort dynamic taking place here)
Personalized learning divisions/groups
Innovation labs <– From DSC: This lines up nicely with my posting here

Entrepreneurship

Deborah Quazzo, GSV Advisors
Velocity of change
e-books up
200K education apps
98% of students own some sort of device
Coursera — 33 partners, 1.7 million students
13% of students now at for-profits
The Bear Story
- Readiness — freshmen often needing remediation
- Completion rates
- Cost
- Career
Venture capital and startups increasing
What’s driving investment
- Funding issues
- Accountability
- Technology
- Consumer choice
Waves of HE innovation
“Traditional institutions are not standing still”
Higher ed arms race — online program delivery (tuition-based) / MOOC (free)
Growth in MOOC students — .51 in Fall 2011, 2.79 in Fall 2012; 447% growth rate
Need to increase learning outcomes, access, capacity, and decrease costs

Big Data & Analytics

Erik Duval, Simon Buckingham Shum, Caroline Haythornthwaite
State of learning analytics
- Open analytics
- Standards
- Methods and metrics
- Impact on learner success
- Early risk detection
- Common language
- Institutional use of analytics
- Planning and deployment of LA
- Move from concept to application
Participation wall seems to be occurring 30-40% of the time into the course
762 tweets, 305 links, 172 RTs, 244 Unique Twitter accounts

Leadership in Education

James Hilton
- Characterizing change
- Not a linear system often times; instead, an emergent change; not always orderly and linear
- Unknown end point
- Adjust as you go
- Adjust fundamental conditions
  - 2 fundamental forces in HE
  - Commoditization
  - Unbundling
- “Find your North Star”
George Mehaffy
- Challenge and change article
- Massive change and great uncertainty
- Technology changes everything
- Traditional institutions loss of control
- Students abilities to interact and learn without mediating
- “Outsiders” becoming players
- Venture capital
- Models of college changing
- Course models
- Data analytics
- Cost discrepancies
- Measuring success
- Loss of credentialing monopoly
- Leadership vacuum
- Change is rapid, profound, emergent
- We need to rethink HE leadership model
- We need to rethink HE in many fundamental dimensions
- Now is the time for bold, imaginative, entrepreneurial leadership

Distributed Research

Traditional methods of sharing research, established centuries ago
Need to re-imagine those methods and generate higher, faster, better outcomes from research
Challenges: pace, dissemination, incentive to collaborate
Opportunities: immediacy, openness, new/richer tools and indicators, unprecedented progress

Still some challenges in offering a MOOC-based course:

Skillset development
Getting participants orientated to the course
Technological glitches

Other resources/links:

How to Succeed in a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) — from learningsolutionsmag.com by Apostolos Koutropoulos & Rebecca J. Hogue
Mindmap of course — from Claudia Scholz
NextGenLearning.org
Mark Hahnel — figshare.org — research
altmetrics.org/manifesto

Tagged with: business side of he • change • colleges • community college • experimentation • future of higher education • game-changing environment • higher education • innovation • internet • learning ecosystem • MOOCs • new business models in he • online learning • pace of change • social learning • twitter • universities • Walmart of Education • web-based collaboration

The need for “Centers of Innovation” within each institution of higher education [Christian]

On 11/19/2012, in change, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, experimentation, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, organizational change, reinvent, social learning / networks, staying relevant, strategy, surviving, by Daniel Christian

From DSC:
Mr. Rob Bobeldyk and I were brainstorming last week about the need to create A Center for Innovation — a smaller organization within our overall organization — that can be far more nimble and responsive. Such a Center could be:

Constantly pulse-checking the relevant landscapes (technological, pedagogical, business models, other)
Researching potential approaches
Experimenting
Innovating
Failing
Succeeding some of the time — and handing off/transitioning the projects that gain traction to others in the larger organization (which may require building some new groups and/or departments at that point)

As I discovered HBR’s interview with John Kotter today, I felt our idea/direction/brainstorming is heading in the right direction!

That is, we are trying to keep the plane in flight while making some significant changes. Put another way, we are trying to keep the bread and butter in tact while experimenting with new business models and/or new products and services.

Kotter’s “Dual Operating System” affirms that a new/smaller/more nimble organization is appropriate. Here are some graphics of Kotter’s “dual operating system”:

The work of Christensen, Horn, and Johnson is highly-relevant here as well:

Disrupting Class
Disrupting College
The Innovator’s Dilemna

Addendums on 11/20/12:

TEDx Mid Atlantic

Tagged with: CFHE12 • change • dangers of the status quo • Daniel S. Christian • experimentation • future of higher education • game-changing environment • higher education • organizational change • reinvent • social networking • staying relevant • strategy

How Google TV is setting the expectations of future students [Andrew Barras]

On 11/16/2012, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, change, education technology, expectations, Google, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, more voice more choice more control, multimedia, online learning, smart/connected TV, student-related, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Tagged with: 21st century • 24x7x365 • A/V • change • learning from the living [class] room • learning spaces • online learning • smart classrooms • Smart/Connected TV • student expectations • student-related • web-based collaboration

The training world is changing [Jarche]

On 11/13/2012, in Canada, change, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, lifelong learning, social learning / networks, training / L&D, workplace, by Daniel Christian

The training world is changing — from Harold Jarche

Excerpt:

Open online courses, talent management, social collaboration: The training world is changing. Traditional training structures, based on institutions, programs, courses and classes, are under pressure. One of the biggest changes we are seeing in online training is that the content-delivery model is being replaced by social and collaborative frameworks.

Here are just some of things happening now that trainers should be prepared to tackle in the new year:

Tagged with: Canada • change • corporate / business world • corporate training / universities • Lifelong learning • social learning • social networking • training • workplace

Reflections on “Race against the machine” [Brynjolfsson]

On 11/08/2012, in 21st century, business, change, computer science, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Daniel S. Christian, economics, emerging technologies, engineering, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, pace of change, programming, reinvent, robotics, by Daniel Christian

Digital Revolution’s Winners And Losers — from Information Week by John Foley
Workers with in-demand digital skills benefit most as computers increasingly take over
everyday tasks. In this InformationWeek 500 video, MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson discusses
how this trend could affect your enterprise.

From DSC:
I agree with Erik that a large swath of people are being left behind, mainly because of technological changes and the pace of those changes. Again I ask, can you hear the engines roar? How can we re-train folks to take advantage of the 3+million open jobs out there? How can we reinvent ourselves as quickly as possible?

The pace has changed -- don't come onto the track in a Model T

Addendums:

Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?
Robots and algorithms are getting good at jobs like building cars, writing articles, translating — jobs that once required a human. So what will we humans do for work? Andrew McAfee walks through recent labor data to say: We ain’t seen nothing yet. But then he steps back to look at big history, and comes up with a surprising and even thrilling view of what comes next.
America’s jobs gap: 9 million — from cnn.com by Tami Luhby

Tagged with: 21st century • CFHE12 • change • computer science • Daniel S. Christian • economics/business • emerging technologies • engineering • future of higher education • game-changing environment • global • Global learning • pace of change • programming • reinvent • robotics • society • The Singularity

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Learning Ecosystems

Pulse-checking the living room

Dual transformation — a strategy for those of us working within higher ed to consider

Are we moving more towards a world where professors represent their own brands…?

Innovation Imperative: The Future of Higher Education [Brookings]

Learning Insights Report 2012 [Kineo and elearningage.co.uk]

McGraw-Hill to sell education business to Apollo for $2.5 billion [gilfuseducationgroup.com]

How to disrupt yourself [Satell]

Reflections on “Race against the machine” [Brynjolfsson]

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