{"id":7740,"date":"2010-08-05T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T13:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=7740"},"modified":"2010-08-05T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T13:30:45","slug":"why-ones-learning-ecosystem-will-need-to-constantly-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/08\/05\/why-ones-learning-ecosystem-will-need-to-constantly-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Why one’s learning ecosystem will need to constantly change…"},"content":{"rendered":"

From DSC:
\nTwo items I read this morning remind me of the need to be very flexible — as the world is full of change:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. RIP Google Wave
    \n<\/strong><\/a>NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google’s attempt to reinvent e-mail has fizzled. The company said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on Google Wave, a collaborative tool that drew intense attention when it debuted last year. “Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked,” Urs H\u00f6lzle, Google’s senior vice president of operations, wrote in a post on the company’s blog. “We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.”<\/li>\n
  2. Apple will be phasing out the ALI website<\/strong>
    \nOn September 3, 2010, Apple will be phasing out the ALI website and folks are encouraged to visit iTunes U instead.\u00a0 Apple believes that iTunes U is the best way to meet the growing needs of teachers and students demanding flexible access to world-class curriculum and learning resources.     <\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    From DSC:<\/strong>
    \nThese two items are in addition to the fairly recent announcement that NING-based groups would be charged for services that were previously free of charge.<\/span><\/p>\n

    As an instructional technologist, these waters are rough. Picking the right vendor and the right product is not easy — but one develops some principles over time. As an example:\u00a0 For best adoption, follow the “KISS principle.” Google Wave floundered because it was too complex — it was understood by the programmers at Google who were joined by a very limited # of folks after that…but the product was not comprehended by the masses.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Furthermore, this move by Google to pull the plug here is troubling for various types of institutions — whether they be in higher ed, K-12, or in the corporate world — as we look towards cloud-based applications to help serve the needs of our organizations. If those apps have a life span of 12-18 months…that’s not going to cut it. We need greater stability than that.
    \n<\/span><\/p>\n

    But we may not get it…so how do we respond? We need to be able to change — quickly; and we don’t implement a product without having an escape plan\/backup plan in place.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

    <\/span><\/span>I wonder…will organizations take more of a “wait and see” approach before implementing cloud-based apps? Perhaps.
    \n<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Further info on iTunes U<\/strong><\/a>:
    \nThere are over 800 universities with active iTunes U sites. Nearly half of these institutions \u2014 including Stanford, Yale, MIT, Oxford, and UC Berkeley \u2014 distribute their content publicly on the iTunes Store.\u00a0 In addition, cultural and education institutions such as the Library of Congress, public broadcasting, and state departments of education also contribute to this growing educational content repository which now includes over 325,000 free lectures, audiobooks, lesson plans, and more. iTunes U is the ideal resource for educators who want to gain insight into curriculum being taught world wide, get access to primary resources, and find inspiration for enhancing teaching and learning with technology.<\/p>\n

    A sampling of the amazing resources available for both K12 and HIED on iTunes U include:<\/div>\n
    QUEST: Science and Nature<\/a><\/div>\n
    KQED<\/div>\n
    Ask a Biologist<\/a><\/div>\n
    Arizona IDEAL<\/div>\n
    Teaching Mathematics<\/a><\/div>\n
    Virginia Department of Education<\/div>\n
    Lit2Go<\/a><\/div>\n
    University of South Florida<\/div>\n
    Three Countries You Ought to Know About<\/a><\/div>\n
    Virginia Department of Education<\/div>\n
    Wired Study Tips<\/a><\/div>\n
    Texas A&M<\/div>\n
    Roy’s Writing Tools<\/a><\/div>\n
    Poynter Institute<\/div>\n
    Edutopia<\/a><\/div>\n
    The Library of Congress<\/a><\/div>\n
    MIT OpenCourseware<\/a><\/div>\n
    UC Berkeley<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From DSC: Two items I read this morning remind me of the need to be very flexible — as the world is full of change: RIP Google Wave NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Google’s attempt to reinvent e-mail has fizzled. The company said Wednesday it is pulling the plug on Google Wave, a collaborative tool that […]<\/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":[139,86,208,32,63,7,44,20,195],"tags":[639,614,19,56,602,590,579,670],"class_list":["post-7740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-change","category-cloud-based-computing-apps","category-education-technology","category-google","category-learning-ecosystem","category-pace-of-change","category-strategy","category-tools","tag-apple","tag-change","tag-cloud-computing","tag-educational-technology","tag-google","tag-pace-of-change","tag-strategy","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740","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=7740"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7746,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7740\/revisions\/7746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}