Also relevant:
- Unschoolers learn what they want, when they want — from CNN by Jacque Wilson
On 10/13/2011,
in blended learning, elearning, hybrid learning, instructional design, K-12 related, online learning, quality,
by Daniel Christian
Excerpt:
The mission of the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) is to ensure all students have access to world-class education and quality online learning opportunities that prepare them for a lifetime of success. National Standards for Quality Online Courses is designed to provide states, districts, online programs, and other organizations with a set of quality guidelines for online course content, instructional design, technology, student assessment, and course management.
On 10/12/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, new media literacies, online learning, online media,
by Daniel Christian
Michael Wesch: It’s a ‘Pull, Pull’ World — from The Journal by John K. Waters
Excerpt:
“We have to recognize in our society that the new media we see in our environment are not just new means of communication, not just tools,” he told attendees at the Campus Technology 2011 conference in July. “Media change what can be said, how it can be said, who can say it, who can hear it, and what messages will count as information and knowledge.”
Wesch compared the need to “re-inspire curiosity and imagination” in students with bridging the digital divide.
“We’ve talked for years about the digital divide and how, if you’re on the wrong side of that technology access gap, you get left behind,” he said. “I think there’s the potential now for a kind of curiosity gap. Consider how much further ahead a curious student will be, compared with a student who lacks curiosity, in an environment in which he or she can reach out and grab new knowledge anytime, anywhere on all kinds of devices. If you’re a curious person, you’ll learn and grow; if you’re not, you could just drift along while others race ahead.”
On 10/11/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, Apple, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, digital learning, digital textbooks, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning spaces, MBA, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multi-touch, multimedia, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, online learning, online media, open courseware and systems, personalized/customized learning, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
Apple University will train executives to think like Steve Jobs — from good.is by Liz Dwyer
Excerpt:
If you want to honor Steve Jobs’ life by following in his entrepreneurial footsteps, forget heading to business school. The Los Angeles Times reports that an Apple team has been working on a top-secret project to create an executive training program called Apple University. The goal? To train people to think like Steve Jobs.
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Apple refused to comment on the existence of Apple University, but the Times says that in 2008, Jobs “personally recruited” Joel Podolny, the dean of Yale Business School, to “help Apple internalize the thoughts of its visionary founder to prepare for the day when he’s not around anymore.” Apple analyst Tim Bajarin told the Times that, “it became pretty clear that Apple needed a set of educational materials so that Apple employees could learn to think and make decisions as if they were Steve Jobs.” Though the curriculum is still under wraps, Jobs himself oversaw the creation of the “university-caliber courses.” (emphasis DSC)
Also see:
Steve Jobs helped plan Apple University — an executive training program to help
Apple carry on without him. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times / October 6, 2011)
From DSC:
If Apple were to choose to disrupt higher education, several other pieces of the puzzle have already been built and/or continue to be enhanced:
- Siri — a serious start towards the use of intelligent agents / intelligent tutoring
- An infrastructure to support 24x7x365 access and synchronization of content/assignments/files to a student’s various devices — via iCloud (available today via iTunes 10.5)
- iTunes U already has millions of downloads and contains content from some of the world’s top universities
- The internal expertise and teams to create incredibly-rich, interactive, multimedia-based, personalized, customized educational content
- Students — like employees in the workplace — are looking for information/training/learning on demand — when they need it and on whatever device they need it
- Apple — or other 3rd parties — could assist publishers in creating cloud-based apps (formerly called textbooks) to download to students’/professors’ devices as well as to the Chalkboards of the Future
- The iPad continues to be implemented in a variety of education settings, allowing for some seriously interactive, mobile-based learning
At the least, I might be losing a bit more sleep if I were heading up an MBA program or a business school…
On 10/10/2011,
in accessibility / UDL, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, future of higher education, game-changing environment, innovation, leadership, legislatures / government / legal, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, reinvent, staying relevant, strategy, trends,
by Daniel Christian
Excerpt from their Value Proposition page:
The concept of a broad based, highly educated population began its journey to reality a 150 years ago, when Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. The Act called for the establishment of “at least one College in every state upon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to all, but especially to the sons of toil” (emphasis DSC).
…
Despite the unprecedented success of America’s public university system that is the envy of the world, reduced state and federal funding, almost a trillion dollars in student loans, tuition soaring out of reach for middle class families, stunning demographic changes and declining preparedness for college-level work, today’s public higher education is at a crossroads. Our old ways of doing business are no longer sustainable and the promise of the Morrill Act is in peril (emphasis DSC).
Also see:
On 10/07/2011,
in formal learning, informal learning, learning ecosystem, online learning, social learning / networks, streams of content,
by Daniel Christian
![Learnstreaming: Take control of your online informal learning experience [Callahan]](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Learnstreaming-DCallahan-Oct2011.jpg "Learnstreaming-DCallahan-Oct2011")
On 10/04/2011,
in business side of he, higher education, online learning, trends, using teams, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
We’ll take it from here — from InsideHigherEd.com by Steve Kolowich
Excerpt:
Yet the contradiction highlights a problem familiar to many traditional universities: On the one hand, they want to compete in the global market of online higher education. Even before 2008, many lacked the cash or expertise to build an online infrastructure from scratch. As a result, some have ceded their online development and recruitment to outside companies. A cottage industry of online firms — Bisk Education, Embanet-Compass, Deltak, 2tor, Colloquy and others — has emerged to meet this need.
Saint Leo was one of the first to do this, 14 years ago. Now it may be at the front edge of another trend — that of universities that, having made the transition to online education, are dropping their for-profit partners and taking over themselves.
Also see:
- From the Desk of Jeff Borden: The Future of Online Learning — from Pearson
Excerpt:
Along with the benefits, the phenomenal growth of online learning also presents an uncharted set of challenges for academic institutions, most of which are much more familiar with the traditional classroom setting. Additionally, it has spurred a new set of demands and expectations from a range of stakeholders including students, instructors, regulatory institutions and advocacy groups. Given these new challenges, several factors are proving to be instrumental in shaping the way higher education institutions implement and improve upon the state of online learning.
…
Technology is transforming education and its impact just continues to grow. By creating and embracing a solid framework for online learning and employing cutting-edge learning management systems, higher education institutions are in a position to significantly improve student outcomes today and into the future.
NMC launches iTunes U site — from the New Media Consortium
Excerpt:
The NMC is pleased to announce the NMC iTunes U Collection. This site is home to nearly a decade’s worth of content — all of it completely free and easy to find. We’re utilizing iTunes U to package and distribute all sorts of NMC media in forms that are both familiar and useful for educators and students. For example, every NMC publication, every keynote from dozens of NMC events, every NMC Horizon Report, plus podcasts, webinar archives, workshops, papers, conference programs, and communiqués are now all available at iTunes U > New Media Consortium.
On 09/13/2011,
in 21st century, change, changing business models, digital learning, disruption, internet, new business models, online learning, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Yale pushes online frontier — from Yale Daily News by David Burt, Drew Henderson [originally saw this at Ray Schroeder’s blog]
Excerpt:
Three Yale Summer Session professors taught their course material not only to students in New Haven, but also to their classmates thousands of miles away.
For the first time this summer, Yale Summer Session offered three online courses, two of them for Yale credit, in which students watched recorded lectures and joined live discussion sections with their professors and online classmates via video chat. With “uniformly positive” feedback from students and faculty, the University is now looking to expand this summer’s program for next summer, though Yale Summer Session Dean William Whobrey said there are no plans to use the technology during the academic year.
On 09/07/2011,
in budgets, business side of he, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, elearning, higher education, instructional design, new business models, online learning,
by Daniel Christian
Resources for finding out how long it takes to develop eLearning — from kaplaneduneering.com by Karl Kapp
From DSC:
One resource mentioned was from the Chapman Alliance, from September 2010, of which these figures are from:
On 09/06/2011,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, Australia, digital learning, education technology, elearning, future, innovation, K-12 related, learning spaces, online learning, online media, smart classrooms,
by Daniel Christian
Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning (SCIL) and Northern Beaches Christian School (NBCS)
Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning actively promotes excellence in education by providing new learning opportunities for students and future-focused Professional Development for teachers. Established as the research and innovation unit of Northern Beaches Christian School (Sydney, Australia), SCIL runs a range of programs and research projects that seek to transform educational thinking and practice both at NBCS and in the wider educational community.
Also see:
On 09/06/2011,
in 24x7x365 access, dangers of the status quo, disruption, education technology, elearning, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, lifelong learning, New "Amazon.com" of Higher Education, new business models, online learning, online media, real-world assignments, reinvent,
by Daniel Christian
Great Big Ideas delivers the key takeaways of an entire undergraduate education. It’s a survey of twelve major fields delivered by their most important thinkers and practitioners. Each lecture explores the key questions in the field, lays out the methods for answering those inquiries and explains why the field matters. It is an effective introduction to thinking differently, and a primer in the diverse modes of problem solving essential for success in the 21st century.
A wide range of subjects are covered including Psychology, Economics, Biomedical Research, Linguistics, History, Political Philosophy, Globalization, Investing and more. Within each topic, we will discuss the most current, innovative ideas in the field, dissect them, and look at how they impact not only the world-at-large, but our own lives as well. How does Demography predict our planet’s future? How is Linguistics a window to understanding the brain? What are the fundamentals of successful Personal Finance and Investing? Each of these lectures will be presented by top experts from top institutions around the country.
Two example lectures:
From DSC:
I post this not because I believe they have the world’s best educators — they may or may not. But rather, I post this to:
- Provide a great resource for those who love to learn — i.e. lifelong learners
- To show another example of the disruption that technologies / the Internet bring to higher education. Such technologies bring affordable, new models and learning opportunities into the higher ed landscape in a big way.
Also see:
On 09/02/2011,
in Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, education technology, elearning, future, ideas, innovation, internet, IT in HE, learning ecosystem, learning theories, memory, online learning, online media, real-world assignments, social learning / networks, streams of content,
by Daniel Christian
Ignite Great Lakes – Maria Andersen: Where’s the “Learn This” Button? — my thanks to Mr. Paul Simbeck-Hampson for this resource
Dr. Maria H. Andersen is the Learning Futurist for the LIFT Institute and a Math Professor at Muskegon Community College, where she organizes Ignite MCC. She writes the “Teaching with Tech” column for MAA Focus and has recently published articles in Educause Review and The Futurist. Lately she has been spending a lot of time building games for teaching math and musing about the future of learning and higher education. You can find Maria blogging on the Internet at TeachingCollegeMath.com or on Twitter at @busynessgirl.
SOCRAIT — a new learning layer on the Internet:
- SOC for social
- AI for artificial intelligence
- IT for information technology