{"id":3432,"date":"2010-04-06T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2010-04-06T16:34:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T20:34:20","slug":"gartner-on-higher-education-a-conversation-at-georgetown-university-a-guest-post-by-paul-heald-on-michael-feldsteins-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/04\/06\/gartner-on-higher-education-a-conversation-at-georgetown-university-a-guest-post-by-paul-heald-on-michael-feldsteins-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Gartner on Higher Education: a Conversation at Georgetown University &#8212; a guest post by Paul Heald (on Michael Feldstein&#8217;s blog)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mfeldstein.com\/gartner-on-higher-education-a-conversation-at-georgetown-university\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gartner on Higher Education: a Conversation at  Georgetown University<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; a guest post by Paul Heald on Michael Feldstein&#8217;s blog<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quotes include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The major higher education trend he identified was the conflict between  IT\u2019s role in promoting organizational efficiency versus its role in  promoting personal productivity. Organizational efficiencies often come  at the expense of the administrative freedom of students and professors.  As a result, these groups, whose buy-in is essential to the realization  of organizational efficiencies, have a cultural bias against such  organizational efficiency when it affects their personal productivity  tool choices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In addition, the presentation included the identification of several  \u2018megaforces\u2019 critical to higher education. These included<strong><em> (emphasis DSC):<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The death of distance<\/strong> \u2013 in an increasingly connected world, physical  distance becomes ever less relevant to the choices we make.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The removal of time constraints<\/strong> \u2013 with 24\/7 access to learning,  administrative systems, etc., the time constraints once associated with  working are no longer as pressing. Conversely, this suggests that  students now expect university services to be available 24\/7.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Web 2.0 and the use of social software<\/strong> \u2013 the role of collaboration  and the web being a two-way medium.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Segregation through world communities <\/strong>\u2013 while old forms of  segregation collapse under the force of the networked world, newer forms  of separation evolve among world communities.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Organization-centric versus people-centric consumerism and the  proliferation of free services<\/strong> have changed the balance of power.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gartner on Higher Education: a Conversation at Georgetown University &#8212; a guest post by Paul Heald on Michael Feldstein&#8217;s blog Quotes include: The major higher education trend he identified was the conflict between IT\u2019s role in promoting organizational efficiency versus its role in promoting personal productivity. Organizational efficiencies often come at the expense of the [&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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,3,64],"tags":[566,47],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-higher-education","category-higher-education","category-it-in-he","tag-higher-education","tag-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","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=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}