2010 Annual Conference Presentations — from The Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA)
On 03/24/2010,
in global / globalization, higher education,
by Daniel Christian
On 03/24/2010,
in cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, future, future of higher education, global / globalization, higher education, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, pace of change, strategy, UK,
by Daniel Christian
Becta is Fit for the Future (March 2010)
This project will identify opportunities that technology will bring to education over the next few years…
Fit for the future is an exciting new project which aims to identify the opportunities and challenges that technology will bring the education and skills sectors over the next 5-6 years and work with leaders, practitioners and the technology industry to develop practical, real-world solutions.
The rapid pace of change and innovation in technology means that the education and skills sector constantly needs to adapt to the technical and social impact of new developments. Fit for the Future is about looking several years ahead and making decisions today that will make us ready for tomorrow’s world (emphasis DSC — and a quick comment: this is a very smart strategy).
The project began in Autumn 2009 and will run until Summer 2011. Becta is currently working with key leading educationalists, technologists, thinkers and experts to develop propositions in response to the key trends identified in the DCSF-funded programme Beyond Current Horizons.
Focusing on five themes, the ideas that these response groups generate will then be tested in real-world situations to assess if and how they could work on a wider scale.
The five themes are:
Theme 1 – Learners’ personal cloud: this theme explores the capacity of learners to constantly connect or engage with a network or school at any time or place and investigates their experiences and expectations of personal virtual environments and personalised data.
Theme 2 – Learning beyond a single setting: this theme looks at how learning is increasingly taking place across multiple institutions or places (school, home libraries, museums, employers) and explores how technology can support this in a revised 14-19 curriculum.
Theme 3 – Making the most of data: looks at how technology can be used to make better use of the huge amount of data that is constantly generated in the life of a learner and increasingly being used to build profiles about them.
Theme 4 – New Knowledge Skills: Our future economy will be heavily reliant on innovation, research and development, problem solving and digital capability. This theme aims to better understand what competencies, skills and knowledge will be required of both students and teachers, particularly in relation to STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths).
Theme 5 – Education across borders: Learners and educators now have access to resources not just from their immediate surroundings but from across the globe. This theme explores the potential creation of educational franchises across national boundaries supported by technology-based resources and networks.
On 03/17/2010,
in blogs / blogging / vlogging, global / globalization, languages and translation,
by Daniel Christian
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On 03/06/2010,
in disruption, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, hybrid learning,
by Daniel Christian
ENABLING WORLDWIDE LEARNING – THE “MULTI-VERSITY” — from Changing the Education Equation (part 3) – My Reflections on the 2010 HP Innovation in Education Worldwide Summit
This hybrid and distributed approach we used in our summit has wonderful (and challenging!) implications for how we think about “the learning institution” (universities, colleges, school systems), and there are many institutions already seeing the “disruption” at the end of the tunnel.
Ray Schroeder, one of our presenters on the panel, “Learning without Limits…” sent me a post-summit email in which he shared one example of the changing education institution, which he calls the “Multi-versity”:
“…following on Michael Horn’s predictions that community colleges and online universities are the delivery platforms in higher education today and tomorrow, [I believe] that the “day-after-tomorrow” will be the advent of the multi-versity. That is, colleges and universities collaborating in offering a vast range of interconnected classes from which students will select to fulfill degree requirements that allow for nearly unlimited emphases and specializations. The motivation for these multi-versity collaborations will be both push and pull – the economy is pushing higher education to become more efficient through sharing resources and the students are pulling universities to be more responsive to their individual needs for access to a wide range of classes. This, I believe is the true potential of [Google] Wave as a Web 2.0 platform, to enable and facilitate inter-institutional class collaborations that provide a diversity of perspectives and a rich breadth of information sharing.” (emphasis DSC)
From DSC:
I don’t mention this to support or plug Google Wave. Rather, I mention it because the idea of a multi-versity is a model that could easily happen (and, in fact, is already occurring to some degree).
On 03/04/2010,
in Augmented Reality (AR), disruption, education technology, elearning, emerging technologies, Europe, global / globalization, higher education, K-12 related, mathematics, social learning / networks, training / L&D, videoconferencing, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
On 03/03/2010,
in creativity, digital storytelling, global / globalization, K-12 related, multimedia,
by Daniel Christian
ToonTastic is a storytelling and animation tool that empowers 5-10 year-old children to create their own cartoons and share stories with other kids around the world. Using a multitouch screen, kids can draw characters, objects, and settings and then animate their creations through simple gestures and real-time audio recording. The system is designed to not only scaffold the storytelling process, but to seamlessly capture the visual and narrative nature of play – thereby enabling even the youngest computer users to share ideas, art, and stories with friends and family worldwide on our “Global Storytelling Network – for Kids, by Kids”.
On 02/01/2010,
in global / globalization, Uncategorized, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
The 4C Initiative is a series of projects aimed at increasing digital content capacity for education on a global scale.
Content. Capability. Connect. Collaborate.
On 01/20/2010,
in Daniel S. Christian, learning ecosystem,
by Daniel Christian
My objective with this blog is to provide you with a broad-range of insights and resources regarding some tools, technologies, and strategies that help people learn and communicate. I address elements that relate to the worlds of higher education, K-12, and the corporate training/development. I seek to identify and relay patterns and trends in the quickly-changing landscapes out there, helping folks keep a pulse check on such items as:
- 1:1 computing, AI, personalized learning
- “The Forthcoming Walmart of Education”; changing business models, opportunities, and threats within the world of higher education
- The disruptive power of technology
- What elements should be in your learning ecosystem
- “Learning from the Living Room”
- Keeping students engaged
- Digital storytelling
- Multimedia (tools, techniques, trends, other)
- Mobile learning
- Building your global network
- Instructional design
- Web design and production
- …as well as other educationally-related topics.
To get an idea of my views on the above topics — along with some of the other topics I’ve covered in the last 3 years — please feel free to review my personal site at Calvin College. Here’s an example archives page covering all of 2009: http://www.calvin.edu/~dsc8/announcement_archives_2009.htm
I look forward to our future discussions as we try to make our individual and corporate contributions to the worlds of education…thereby making the entire world a better place.
Sincerely,
Daniel S. Christian
