{"id":14282,"date":"2011-01-26T19:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T00:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14282"},"modified":"2011-01-26T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T00:36:23","slug":"revolution-or-evolution-social-technologies-and-change-in-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/26\/revolution-or-evolution-social-technologies-and-change-in-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Revolution or evolution? Social technologies and change in higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/profhacker\/revolution-or-evolution-social-technologies-and-change-in-higher-education\/29304\" target=\"_blank\">Revolution or evolution? Social technologies and change in higher education<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212;\u00a0 from The Chronicle by guest bloggers Derek Bruff, Dwayne Harapnuik, and Jim Julius<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Have you ever heard about a clever and effective use of some new educational technology (blogs, wikis, Twitter, smart phones, whatever)  and thought to yourself, \u201cWow, that\u2019s a great idea, but I\u2019m pretty sure  that I have a few colleagues who wouldn\u2019t be able to make heads or  tails of it\u201d? New social technologies, along with the easy access to  information that the Web provides, can open up new avenues for learning  that have the potential to revolutionize higher education. Some have  argued that higher education must be radically transformed or it will  face extinction. But is revolution possible in an environment where  evolution\u2013in fact, slow evolution\u2013seems the norm?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We explored this question during <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/podnetwork\/pod-2010-conference\/presentations-1\/bruff\" target=\"_blank\">an interactive session<\/a> we led at the <a href=\"http:\/\/podnetwork.org\/conferences\/2010\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">recent annual conference<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/podnetwork.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professional and Organizational Development (POD) Network<\/a> in St. Louis&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/myhrbkl079_e\/revolution-or-evolution-pod10\/\" target=\"_blank\">Their Prezi on this.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolution or evolution? Social technologies and change in higher education &#8212;\u00a0 from The Chronicle by guest bloggers Derek Bruff, Dwayne Harapnuik, and Jim Julius Have you ever heard about a clever and effective use of some new educational technology (blogs, wikis, Twitter, smart phones, whatever) and thought to yourself, \u201cWow, that\u2019s a great idea, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,3,166,105,293],"tags":[614,566,179,623,714],"class_list":["post-14282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-change","category-higher-education","category-social-learning-networks","category-social-media","category-sociology","tag-change","tag-higher-education","tag-social-learning","tag-social-media","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14282"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14285,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions\/14285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}