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Time Warner: Apple TV would ‘jeopardize’ shows — and how this relates to higher ed

On 10/01/2010, in disruption, future of higher education, game-changing environment, new business models, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Time Warner: Apple TV would ‘jeopardize’ shows — from news.cnet.com

From DSC:
Yes, yes, yes…all the incumbents out there who refuse to reinvent themselves will buck against tech-enabled, innovative companies that introduce new ways of doing things that disrupt their current business model. It’s possible Time Warner will make less, but they could make more depending upon how they play things.

I have it that the same is true for institutions of higher education. There already is — and will continue to be — disruption caused by technological changes and new business models. We can either reinvent ourselves or get our butts kicked.

Relevant examples:

The Khan Academy brings Disrupting Class to life — from Disrupting Class by  Michael Horn

If you haven’t yet seen it, there is a fascinating video of Sal Khan speaking at the Gel 2010 conference. For those who haven’t been following, Khan is the creator of the Khan Academy—a non-profit that has over 1,800 videos for free on the Web that teach topics in Math, Science, the Humanities, and so forth—and have attracted such an impressive following that they have more viewers than even MIT’s open courses on YouTube. The Khan Academy reaches people all over the world with these videos, and recently Google awarded it $2 million to create more videos and translate them into additional languages.

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University of Florida Considers a Flat Tuition Plan — from StraighterLine.com’s blog

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Nine important trends in the evolution of digital textbooks and e-learning content

On 09/17/2010, in digital textbooks, elearning, internet, new business models, open courseware and systems, publishing, by Daniel Christian

Nine important trends in the evolution of digital textbooks and e-learning content — from xplana.com by Rob Reynolds

Per Rob Reynolds:
I gave a presentation last week in which I talked about nine trends that we’re currently tracing with regards to digital content in Higher Education. These are the critical trends that we believe will determine both growth and innovation in this market. Here are the nine trends along with a brief comment on each.

  1. The increased disaggregation of content and the breaking up of the traditional textbook model
  2. A proliferation of e-content and e-learning apps that support content disaggregation and new product models
  3. A merging of the current rental market and the e-textbook market
  4. A wide range of license/subscription models designed to respond to consumer demands around price and ownership
  5. The growth of Open Education Resource (OER) repositories
  6. The development of a common XML format for e-textbooks, shared by all publishers and educational technology players
  7. The importance of devices and branded devices
  8. The development of e-commerce and new product ecosystems that challenge the traditional college bookstore
  9. A move from evolution to innovation and revolution

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Also see:
The vanishing line between books and Internet — from Forbes.com by Hugh McGuire 
The inevitability of truly connected books and why publishers need APIs.

But everything exists within the EPUB spec already to make the next obvious but frightening step: Let books live properly within the Internet, along with websites, databases, blogs, Twitter, map systems, and applications.

From DSC:
I’m about to take a class on the future of teaching and learning…and I have to tell you that I was very disappointed to be presented with a syllabus “featuring” a textbook from 2004…geez.


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Musopen raises $40,000 to set classical music “free” (via ars technica)

On 09/14/2010, in copyright/ownership/NFTs, music, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Setting Classical Music Free

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From DSC: Some of the elements of the perfect storm in higher ed

On 09/10/2010, in 24x7x365 access, budgets, business side of he, changing business models, cost of getting a degree, curriculum, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, disruption, education reform, education technology, engagement / engaging students, funding / grants, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, leadership, learning ecosystem, mobile learning, multimedia, online learning, open courseware and systems, strategy, student-related, surviving, traditional / tradition, ubiquitous learning, United States, by Daniel Christian

The perfect storm in higher ed -- by Daniel S. Christian

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iTunes U downloads top 300 million

On 08/24/2010, in Apple, game-changing environment, global / globalization, online learning, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

iTunes U downloads top 300 million — press release from Apple.com

CUPERTINO, California—August 24, 2010—In just over three years, iTunes® U downloads have topped 300 million and it has become one of the world’s most popular online educational catalogs. Over 800 universities throughout the world have active iTunes U sites, and nearly half of these institutions distribute their content publicly on the iTunes Store®. New content has just been added from universities in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico and Singapore, and iTunes users now have access to over 350,000 audio and video files from educational institutions around the globe.

“iTunes U makes it easy for people to discover and learn with content from many of the world’s top institutions,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “With such a wide selection of educational material, we’re providing iTunes users with an incredible way to learn on their computer, iPhone, iPod or iPad.”

Created in collaboration with colleges and universities, iTunes U makes it easy to extend learning, explore interests or learn more about a school. A dedicated area within the iTunes Store (www.iTunes.com), iTunes U offers users public access to content from world class institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, University of Melbourne and Université de Montréal. iTunes U gives anyone the chance to experience university courses, lab demonstrations, sports highlights, campus tours and special lectures. All iTunes U content is free and can be enjoyed on a Mac® or PC, or wirelessly downloaded directly onto an iPhone®, iPod touch® and iPad™.

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Also see the following graphic (from http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/24/itunes-u-enrollment-soars/)

http://fortunebrainstormtech.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/screen-shot-2010-08-24-at-10-10-09-am.png

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Udemy launches Udemy Academic with 600 courses – 12,000 video lectures

On 08/14/2010, in game-changing environment, new business models, online learning, online media, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Udemy launches Udemy Academic with 600 courses – 12,000 video lectures — from kirstenwinkler.com

According to an email of Gagan Biyani, Co-Founder of Udemy their platform is now even bigger than Academic Earth or VideoLectures.net.

Udemy Academic features courses from 18 institutions, including UC Berkeley, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, Yale, Columbia, Khan Academy, and more. In total, there are nearly 12,000 free video lectures on Udemy organized into courses – sequential, on-demand content collections that allow anyone to take a University class online.

The most interesting part about this project is that Udemy will be giving away the course creating tool to all major universities which are interested in building their own OpenCourseWare but don’t have the funds or technical skills to do so (emphasis DSC).

OpenCourseWare can cost thousands of dollars per course, and Udemy wants to minimize those costs.

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Udemy launches Udemy Academic with 600 courses – 12,000 video lectures

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If the U.S. government could even get/set aside a billion or two…wow! An incredible ROI could be had.

On 08/13/2010, in budgets, business, business side of he, disruption, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, engagement / engaging students, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, innovation, internet, K-12 related, leadership, learning agents, learning ecosystem, legislatures / government / legal, mobile learning, multimedia, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, open courseware and systems, strategy, by Daniel Christian

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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Knotebooks — multimedia for physics and math

On 08/06/2010, in collaboration, mathematics, open courseware and systems, physics, social learning / networks, web-based collaboration, by Daniel Christian

Knotebooks.com -- multimedia for physics and math

— original resource from Teachers as Technology Trailblazers by Kristen Nicole Swanson

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July/August 2010 Educause Review

On 08/06/2010, in education technology, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, online learning, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

July/August 2010 Educause Review: The Open.

David Wiley
As institutions and as individuals, we seem to have forgotten the core values of education: sharing, giving, and generosity.
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Vicki Davis
Open content is not yet changing students’ lives because there are questions that should be answered first.
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Dave Cormier and George Siemens
Online open courses can leverage communications technologies and open the door to learners to fully engage with the academic process.
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Maria H. Andersen
Open digital faculty do more than just share and participate in open resources; they transfer their approaches to the teaching space.
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Brian Lamb and Jim Groom
Has the wave of the open web crested? What does “open educational technology” look like, and does it stand for anything?
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Carolina Rossini
The right to be a creator, the right to govern and develop one’s own knowledge, and the right to share with others are fundamental freedoms for the Internet age.
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U People partners with Computer Exchange to support worldwide schooling

On 08/04/2010, in education, global / globalization, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

U People partners with Computer Exchange to support worldwide schooling — from CampusTechnology.com by Dian Schaffhauser

An online university that offers tuition-free education is teaming up with an organization that works to make computer labs available to young people in developing countries. The University of the People will work with the World Computer Exchange with the goal of enabling qualified people without computers to become students within U People.

The Computer Exchange is a grassroots network of volunteers in 71 countries that provides logistics for finding and deploying computers, materials, and services; training partners and maintaining networks; and building partnerships between universities in rich and poor countries. The organization estimated that, currently, its partners run 2,650 computer labs. As part of the new agreement, the Exchange will promote U People to prospective students using its services.

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Educational and Cost Effectiveness: OER vs Traditional Textbooks

On 07/21/2010, in K-12 related, open courseware and systems, science, textbooks, by Daniel Christian

…BYU has just received a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The pilot project will examine the deeper learning and cost savings that can be achieved when open textbooks replace traditional, expensive textbooks in public high school science classrooms.

15-20 public high school science teachers in Utah will replace their expensive, traditional textbooks with open textbooks from CK12.org for the 2010-2011 school year. Approximately 2,000 students will be impacted by the changes. Most will use printed versions of the books, while a few hundred students in one-to-one schools will use the online versions of the books on netbooks or iPads. Teachers will continue to supplement the CK12 books with additional resources and activities just as they have historically supplemented expensive, traditional textbooks.

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Watch and Learn: 20 Free Educational Video Sites

On 07/20/2010, in digital video, online learning, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Watch and Learn: 20 Free Educational Video Sites — from blog.curriki.org

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How to get started with open source in K-12 — from The Journal

On 07/16/2010, in K-12 related, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

How to get started with open source in K-12 — from The Journal by Natasha Wanchek

Open source has proved attractive for K-12 school districts for any number of reasons, from upfront cost savings to freedom from cumbersome restrictions to the quality of the software itself. But how does a school or district get started with it? Three K-12 IT directors shared their experiences with THE Journal–the good and the bad, as well as the lessons they’ve learned in the process.

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Links and reactions from my Bb DevCon presentation — from Anya Kamenetz

On 07/13/2010, in cost of getting a degree, disruption, game-changing environment, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Links and reactions from my Bb DevCon presentation — from Anya Kamenetz

Here’s the links from my presentation:

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Free Online Journalism Classes Begin To Gain Ground

On 07/09/2010, in future of higher education, game-changing environment, journalism, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, online learning, open courseware and systems, by Daniel Christian

Free Online Journalism Classes Begin To Gain Ground – from Media Shift via Ray Schroeder:

The CEO of Creative Commons, Joi Ito, is currently teaching a free online journalism class through Peer 2 Peer University, an online community of “open study groups for short university-level courses.” The online class syncs with a graduate-level class Ito teaches at Keio University in Japan, and features a UStream presentation and IRC chat once a week. IRC chat? Yes, the class glues together tools like UStream and IRC, and the platform, which was built on a Drupal base, continues to evolve. P2PU’s organizers make it clear they know the tools aren’t perfect, so they’re using feedback from participants to refine things as they go.

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