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Are we approaching a mutation in higher education?

On 09/17/2010, in dangers of the status quo, disruption, future of higher education, game-changing environment, by Daniel Christian

Are we approaching a mutation in higher education? — from changinghighereducation.com by Lloyd Armstrong, University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Southern California
As mass consumption gives way to the wants of individuals, a historic transition in capitalism is unfolding.

So begins an interesting article in a recent McKinsey Quarterly written by Shoshana Zuboff. Zuboff’s premise is straightforward:

Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can’t meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a premium under the old institutional regime—a condition I call the “premium puzzle”—the ground becomes extremely fertile for wholly new classes of competitors that can fulfill the new demands at an affordable price.

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The Ed Tech Journey and a Future Driven by Disruptive Change

On 09/17/2010, in dangers of the status quo, disruption, education, education technology, future, game-changing environment, by Daniel Christian

The Ed Tech Journey and a Future Driven by Disruptive Change — from Campus Technology.com by Mary Grush
Teaching and learning in higher ed have advanced incrementally alongside rapid changes in technology. Is it time for some radical shifts?

As the closing keynote speaker at Campus Technology 2010, Josh Baron, director of academic technology and e-learning at Marist College (NY) and chair of the Sakai Foundation board of directors, scanned emerging technologies and trends to identify the future potential for fundamental, revolutionary change in higher education. The following is based on excerpts from his hour-long talk. (A recording of Baron’s keynote is available at campustechnology.com/summer10; click on Recordings. Or click below graphic.)

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The Wild World of Massively Open Online Courses

On 09/02/2010, in Canada, disruption, higher education, innovation, personalized/customized learning, by Daniel Christian

The Wild World of Massively Open Online Courses — from unlimitedmagazine.com by Emily Senger
Would you participate in a class with 2300 other online students?

In a traditional university setting, a student pays to register for a course. The student shows up. A professor hands out an outline, assigns readings, stands at the front and lectures. Students take notes and ask questions. Then there is a test or an essay.

But with advancing online tools innovative educators are examining new ways to break out of this one-to-many model of education, through a concept called massively open online courses. The idea is to use open-source learning tools to make courses transparent and open to all, harnessing the knowledge of anyone who is interested in a topic.

George Siemens, along with colleague Stephen Downes, tried out the open course concept in fall 2008 through the University of Manitoba in a course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, or CCK08 for short. The course would allow 25 students to register, pay and receive credit for the course. All of the course content, including discussion boards, course readings, podcasts and any other teaching materials, was open to anyone who had an internet connection and created a user profile.

“The course was the platform, but anyone could build on that platform however they wanted,” says Siemens. “There’s this notion that technology is networked and social. It does alter the power relationship between the educator and the learner, a learner has more autonomy, they have more control. The expectation that you wait on the teacher to create everything for you and to tell you what to do is false.”

More here…

Also see:

Wendy Drexler’s final project for Connectivism and Connective Knowledge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA

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California State University to license content from major college publishers

On 08/30/2010, in digital learning, digital textbooks, disruption, game-changing environment, multimedia, new business models, publishing, using teams, by Daniel Christian

California State University to license content from major college publishers — from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home by Paul Biba

The Digital Marketplace, an initiative of the California State University Office of the Chancellor, announced plans today to launch a pilot to license digital course content from Bedford/Freeman/Worth, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill Education, Pearson, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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College journalists: Master new media or disappear

On 08/30/2010, in digital audio, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital video, disruption, journalism, multimedia, new media literacies, by Daniel Christian

College journalists: Master new media or disappear — from USAToday.com

Last month, a college newspaper adviser from Florida, writing in the Huffington Post, took student journalists to task for failing to exploit their multimedia savvy. He’d been judging a contest and concluded that, except for some clear standouts, most of the stories on college newspaper websites looked like they were “tossed online without much thought. Or pictures, graphics, or video.”

Here, Jerod Jarvis, a senior majoring in journalism at Whitworth University in Spokane, Wash., challenges aspiring scribes everwhere to “be on the forefront of this revolution” and “move the industry forward.” Take it away, Jerod:

Also see:

http://www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.php/blog/college-journalists-master-new-media-or-disappear

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Well…there goes another one who discounted the impact/value of technology…

On 08/27/2010, in disruption, education technology, game-changing environment, innovation, internet, leadership, staying relevant, strategy, by Daniel Christian

Blockbusted: A Netflix Knock-Out, Bad Metaphors on the Path to the Movie Monster’s Bankruptcy — from Fast Company – Technology by Austin Carr

The Blockbuster age is fading, and at last the company is preparing for bankruptcy. In the past two years, the shrinking video-rental store has struggled to stay afloat with $920 million in debt, drowning all the while in revenue losses of $1.1 billion. The LA Times reports that Blockbuster executives and senior debt holders have entered discussions with major movie studios for a “pre-planned” bankruptcy mid-September.

But for everyone other than Blockbuster’s sunny faced spin masters, bankruptcy was about as surprising as another Rocky comeback. Blockbuster’s brick-and-mortar business was unviable in the digital world, and competitors Netflix and Redbox took every advantage to pick apart the dinosaur’s carcass. The company’s numbers have signaled extinction, too, with value withering from $8.4 billion when Viacom purchased it in 1994 to total market value of $24 million today. Continuing the Mesozoic metaphor, here’s why bankruptcy hit Blockbuster like a surprise asteroid.

Netflix Who?

From DSC:
And I would add the questions:

“Who cares about the iPod?”
“What does Internet-related technology have to do with our business anyway?”

In a presentation I created last year (see Section II), I used Blockbuster as an example of an organization who completely discounted the disruptive impact of technology..and now they are paying the price (along with much of the newspaper industry).

There IS a lesson here for those of us in higher ed.

I’ll end this posting with the following quote/excerpt:

“This is a pattern we see over and over,” he said, of the many parallels he could draw to Blockbuster’s financial troubles. “If a company is not able to keep up with the changing needs of its customer, it will become irrelevant,” he said.

Ultimately, it was these words which may have saved the company. Blockbuster was not able to keep up with the changing needs of its customers.

Blockbuster has become irrelevant.

Relevant addendum:

I just ran across this posting on educationstormfront — What Blockbuster Can Teach Higher Ed

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Advanced personal learning — from Engineering’s Grand Challenges

On 08/23/2010, in change, disruption, education technology, engineering, intelligent tutoring, learning ecosystem, learning preferences, learning theories, personalized/customized learning, by Daniel Christian

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innovations.helixhighered.com

On 08/23/2010, in change, changing business models, disruption, future of higher education, higher education, leadership, strategy, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

HELIX Innovations Collection Press Release

A NEW, CROWDSOURCED RESOURCE FOR HIGHER EDUCATION PRACTITIONERS, RESEARCHERS, AND POLICY MAKERS HIGHLIGHTS POSTSECONDARY INNOVATION
The Higher Education Leadership and Innovation eXchange Launches the HELIX Innovations Collection

Boston, Massachusetts – August 19, 2010 – The Higher Education Leadership and Innovation eXchange announces the launch of their online, crowdsourced resource HELIX Innovations Collection at http://innovations.helixhighered.com. The Innovations Collection is intended to spark conversation about new ideas and promising practices for the next generation of higher education.

“The Collection invites higher education practitioners, researchers, and policy makers to make their voices heard and speak out about potential solutions to the challenges faced by the education field today,” said Jim Woodell, HELIX co-founder. “True innovation is open. We created the HELIX Innovations Collection to allow everyone concerned with improving higher education to share and comment on innovative solutions.”

Applying the interactive potential of Web 2.0 technologies to problems in higher education provides the opportunity to share innovations quickly, identify their potential, and refine them with the help of peers worldwide. Visitors to the Collection can suggest innovative solutions, comment on suggested ideas, and rate an idea’s potential to influence the field along several ‘innovation dimensions’.

“It is our hope that the innovations which receive broad support and fine-tuning by the ‘crowd’ will be picked up by practitioners in the field and discussed, piloted, and perhaps even implemented by their home institutions. We hope that true linkages between and among research, policy, and practice will be forged from such collaborative efforts,” said HELIX co-founder Greg Lamontagne.

About the Higher Education Leadership & Innovation eXchange (HELIX)
HELIX is a networking and information sharing resource for Higher Education research, policy, and practice. Founded in 2010 by Jim Woodell and Greg Lamontagne, HELIX is located in Boston Massachusetts. More information is available at http://www.helixhighered.com.

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EducationInnovating.org

On 08/16/2010, in dangers of the status quo, disruption, education, education reform, education technology, future, innovation, K-12 related, leadership, strategy, by Daniel Christian

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Also see:

Innovation-based Systemic Reform

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Buffett, Gates persuade 40 billionaires to donate half of wealth — from OregonLive.com

SEATTLE — Forty wealthy families and individuals have joined Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and billionaire investor Warren Buffett in a pledge to give at least half their wealth to charity.

Those who have joined the Giving Pledge, as listed on its website, are: Paul G. Allen, Laura and John Arnold, Michael R. Bloomberg, Eli and Edythe Broad, Warren Buffett, Michele Chan and Patrick Soon-Shiong, Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg, Ann and John Doerr, Larry Ellison, Bill and Melinda Gates, Barron Hilton, Jon and Karen Huntsman, Joan and Irwin Jacobs, George B. Kaiser, Elaine and Ken Langone, Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest, Lorry I. Lokey, George Lucas, Alfred E. Mann, Bernie and Billi Marcus, Thomas S. Monaghan, Tashia and John Morgridge, Pierre and Pam Omidyar, Bernard and Barbro Osher, Ronald O. Perelman, Peter G. Peterson, T. Boone Pickens, Julian H. Robertson Jr., David Rockefeller, David M. Rubenstein, Herb and Marion Sandler, Vicki and Roger Sant, Walter Scott Jr., Jim and Marilyn Simons, Jeff Skoll, Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor, Jim and Virginia Stowers, Ted Turner, Sanford and Joan Weill and Shelby White.

From DSC:
This is fantastic news! Excellent. I’m a big supporter of various charities myself — albeit with far fewer O’s ($$) behind the amounts of my checks than what these folks are able to provide! 🙂 But it got me to thinking…

If the United States government — or the government from another interested nation — could even get 1-2 billion of this enormous accumulation of wealth, think what could be done to create interactive, multimedia-based, engaging, customized/personalized, online learning-based materials that could be offered FREE of charge to various age groups/cognitive levels. Creative simulations and animations could be built and offered — free of charge — to students throughout the world. The materials would be available on a variety of devices for maximum flexibility (laptops, notebooks, iPads, iPhones, tablet PCs, workstations, etc.)

An amazing amount of digital scaffolding could be provided on a variety of disciplines. THIS could represent the Walmart of Education that I’ve been talking about…wow!

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eMedia Vitals.com — for taking a pulse check on digital media strategies

On 08/11/2010, in Apple, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, e-books, e-readers, innovation, journalism, new business models, new media literacies, publishing, trends, by Daniel Christian

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Murdoch says iPad is a game changer

On 08/09/2010, in Apple, digital audio, digital learning, digital photography, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, education technology, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, game-changing environment, multimedia, new business models, trends, by Daniel Christian

Murdoch says iPad is a game changer — from PadGadget.com

News Corp announced their 4Q numbers [August 4] and during the earning call News Corp CEO, Rupert Murdoch, said the iPad was a “game changer” for the media industry.

News Corp has eagerly embraced the iPad and was one of the first media companies to launch a newspaper title for Apple’s new device. The Wall Street Journal app quickly shot to the top of the apps charts and has been a top download since the launch of the iPad back in April.

News Corp management is very excited by the tablet format with Chief Operating Officer Chase Carey saying the iPad has “transformed people’s expectations and the opportunities around mobile.” Carey went on to say “it is also a device that for the first time really starts to deliver on the promise of multimedia, where you can see how you could…go between what traditionally would be video content, printed content, advertising that really is attractive that you could penetrate through and engage with.”

Also see:
New online business model will succeed, says Rupert Murdoch

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Another example of convergence and change…

On 07/23/2010, in Apple, convergence, disruption, usability, user experience (UX), user interface design, by Daniel Christian

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Original posting from:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/abc-digital-releases-abc-news-for-ipad/

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