25 trends disrupting education right now — from teachthought.com by Terry Heick
On 08/30/2012,
in corporate / business world, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, disruption, education technology, entrepreneurship, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, innovation, new business models, reinvent, staying relevant, student-related, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
![The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - The Siege of Academe [Kevin Carey]](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/TheSiegeOfAcademy-Sept2012.jpg "TheSiegeOfAcademy-Sept2012")
Excerpt:
The ongoing carnage in the newspaper industry provides an object lesson of what can happen when a long-established, information-focused industry’s business model is challenged by low-price competitors online. The disruptive power of information technology may be our best hope for curing the chronic college cost disease that is driving a growing number of students into ruinous debt or out of higher education altogether. It may also be an existential threat to institutions that have long played a crucial role in American life.
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From DSC:
If higher ed doesn’t respond more forcefully/significantly to the perfect storm it finds itself in, people will find other ways of getting employed and staying employed. The conversation continues to move away from institutions of traditional higher education (here’s but one example). Control is an illusion.
On 08/17/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, active learning, adult learning, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, Bring your own device (BYOD), convergence, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital textbooks, digital video, disruption, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, flipping -- inverted learning, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, homeschooling/homeschoolers, innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning spaces, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), online learning, online media, online tutoring, participation, passions, podcasting, reading, reinvent, second screen apps, smart classrooms, social learning / networks, strategy, streams of content, technologies for your home, telepresence, television, transmedia, trends, TVs, videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities,
by Daniel Christian
Your future TV is not about Tele-Vision — from FastCompany.com by Kit Eaton
Excerpt (emphasis below from DSC; also see the above categories to see how I see this as a highly-relevant component to our future learning ecosystems):
Then imagine what a hybrid of Apple’s tech and efforts like GetGlue, Shazam, and other interactive systems will be like when they’re more integrated into your 2017 smart TV. The big screen in your living room won’t be a one-way window into another world you can’t touch anymore. It’ll be a discovery engine, a way to learn facts, interact with the world, talk to people, find new and surprising content to absorb. Advertisers will love it, and companies like Nielsen–which largely has to guess all those stats about who watches which show at primetime nowadays–will be able to get accurate data…which may mean more appealing shows.
![The Living [Class] Room -- by Daniel Christian -- July 2012 -- a second device used in conjunction with a Smart/Connected TV](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian-July-2012.jpg "The-Living-Class-Room-Daniel-S-Christian---July-2012")
Also see:
- The future of Apple TV is every episode of every TV show on-demand using the cloud — from gizmodo.com
- Infographic: Connected TV Storm a’ Coming — from appmarket.tv by Richard Kastelein
On 08/16/2012,
in 21st century, business side of he, change, changing business models, corporate / business world, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, disruption, hearts -- matters of the heart, publishing, technology (general),
by Daniel Christian
Key quote/lesson from “How Barnes & Noble destroyed itself” — from fool.com by John Maxfield
An unnecessary tragedy
What makes B&N’s story tragic from a shareholder’s and book-lover’s perspective is that it wasn’t inevitable. The company would be in an entirely different position if its leadership hadn’t pooh-poohed online retail in the late 1990s, when the now-dominant Amazon was in its infancy. Consider this from its 1998 annual report: “Although it is clear the World Wide Web, with its profound possibilities, will become a major component of the future of bookselling and publishing, we believe retail bookstores will remain the foundation of our industry . . . shopping and browsing in a bookstore is an irreplaceable experience, and it is woven securely into the fabric of our American culture [emphasis added].”
From DSC:
I love going to B&N; sipping some coffee and reading a book. So don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy the physical experience of going to a bookstore. But the lesson for higher ed — as well as for the corporate world — is that technology cannot be pooh-poohed and shoved aside. Those who do so will be very sorry that they chose that route. There can be danger in pursuing the status quo.
How about your organization…is there solid representation of technology on your board/executive suite/leadership team?
My last thought here relates to my posting What happens in our hearts has very practical, relevant implications in our daily lives
In 2009, the company paid its chairman of the board, Len Riggio, nearly $600 million for B&N College, an amalgamation of campus-based bookstores that controlled the rights to the parent company’s trade name and was then owned by Riggio and his wife.
At the time, it looked like a classic covetous overreach by an executive to extract capital without selling shares. When all that’s left of B&N is a Harvard case study, however, my guess is that this blatant display of avarice and disregard for minority shareholders will be characterized more ominously as the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.
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Also relevant here:
- ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Barnes & Noble — from readwriteweb.com by Cormac Foster
On 07/16/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, adult learning, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, assessment, blended learning, business side of he, career development, change, changing business models, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, competency-based learning/education, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, digital learning, disruption, education reform, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, hybrid learning, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, multimedia, new business models, online learning, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, reinvent, social learning / networks, staying relevant, streams of content, tablets, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, technologies for your home, telepresence, trends, TVs, ubiquitous learning, videoconferencing, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, vision/possibilities, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
When the technologies behind IBM’s Watson and Apple’s Siri get perfected and integrated into products and services that will make up the near future “Learning from the Living [Class] Room” environment— there will be:
- A high degree of personalization and customization — available 24x7x365 on multiple kinds of devices
. - The option to turn on tracking and analytics — reporting from which can be moved into the learner’s cloud-based profile upon completion of the unit/activity/badge
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- Students of all ages will have access to their own virtual tutors so to speak
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- When a virtual tutor is unable to resolve or address the student’s issue to the student’s satisfaction, the student will be able to instantly access a human tutor (with the option of keeping the existing work/issue/problems visible to the human tutor)
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Addendums:
- Siri’s new cousin works as a bank teller — from The Future of Work section at TechnologyReview.com — by Tom Simonite
Spanish bank BBVA taps the team that invented the iPhone assistant to build technology that can converse with bank customers.
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- How Virtual Personal Assistants are changing consumers’ lives — from betakit.com by Gideon Hayden
. - A Siri for the Living Room — from businessweek.com by Kevin Fitchard
On 07/12/2012,
in business, change, changing business models, disruption, publishing,
by Daniel Christian
Investing in your own disruption — from edcetera.rafter.com by Kirsten Winkler
Excerpt:
What do you do when you realize that the business you have been building over the past decades, if not centuries, is toast? Well, you can entrench yourself and fight the last battle, trying to squeeze as much as possible out of what is left, or simply call it a wrap and move on.
Publisher Macmillan seems to have chosen the latter. PandoDaily published an interesting post about Macmillan New Ventures, a $100 million (or more) fund led by former Questia Media CEO Troy Williams. The task: invest in education technology startups that will eventually disrupt the publishing industry.
On 07/12/2012,
in disruption, entrepreneurship, health, nursing, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
With webcams and web-based collaboration tools becoming more sophisticated all the time, I wonder how this relatively new concept/service will do…? Perhaps well, if the price and quality are right. If it does succeed, I expect Ringalawyer.com won’t be far behind it.
On 06/29/2012,
in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, A/V -- audio/visual, adult learning, analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, business side of he, changing business models, cloud-based computing / apps / other cloud-related, collaboration, communities of practice, convergence, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, data related items, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, disruption, distance education, e-books, e-publishing related items (EPUB and more), e-readers, education technology, educational games / serious games, elearning, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future, future of higher education, game-changing environment, global / globalization, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, human-computer interaction (HCI), ideas, innovation, intelligent systems, intelligent tutoring, interactivity, internet, learner profiles, learning agents, learning ecosystem, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, lifelong learning, machine-to-machine communications, mirroring and/or multiple devices, mobile learning, mobile technologies, MOOCs -- Massive Open Online Courses, more voice more choice more control, multi-touch, multimedia, Near Field Communication (NFC), new business models, online learning, online media, online tutoring, open courseware and systems, participation, personalized/customized learning, platforms, reinvent, second screen apps, social learning / networks, staying relevant, strategy, streams of content, tablets, teaching & learning, technologies for your home, telepresence, television, transmedia, trends, TVs, user experience (UX), videoconferencing, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring, web-based collaboration,
by Daniel Christian
Addendum on 7/3/12 from an article I wrote for EvoLLLution.com (for LifeLong Learning):
Establishing better collaboration between the corporate world and higher education [Christian]
In the near future, perhaps we could have second screen-based activities whereby corporate leaders are giving TED-like presentations or expressing the current issues in their worlds via a program on Smart TVs, and the students are communicating and collaborating about these presentations via tablets or smart phones. Perhaps there will be electronic means whereby students could submit their ideas and feedback to the presenting companies (and whereby selected ideas could be rewarded in terms of free products or services that the company produces).
On 06/28/2012,
in 21st century, A/V -- audio/visual, analytics, convergence, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, disruption, education technology, educational games / serious games, game-changing environment, human-computer interaction (HCI), interactivity, internet, online learning, personalized/customized learning, second screen apps, transmedia, trends,
by Daniel Christian
Videos from Qualcomm Uplinq 2012 show the future of Smart TV
— from hexus.net by Mark Tyson
Excerpt:
Here are the feature highlights of these “redefined” Smart TVs:
- Console quality gaming
- Concurrency of apps
- Miracast wireless technology allowing smartphone and tablet screens to partake in multi-screen interactivity
- Personalisation and facial recognition
- Gestures
- HD picture quality
- HD video calling
From DSC:
…and add to that list the power of customized learning and analytics!
On 06/28/2012,
in disruption, game-changing environment, new business models, nursing, online learning, trends,
by Daniel Christian
Penn launches its first free online classes via Coursera — from the University of Pennsylvania
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
PHILADELPHIA — This week, the University of Pennsylvania launched three free courses via Coursera, an online educational platform designed to make Web-based classes available more widely.
With the capacity to reach millions of people simultaneously, Coursera has a design inspired by educational research on effective learning practices and creates an interactive learning experience for the course offerings.
So far, more than 50,000 people from around the world have enrolled in these three online courses, all stemming from Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine:
- Fundamentals of Pharmacology with Emma Meagher, an attending physician in preventive cardiology at Penn Medicine and the director of Penn’s four-year pharmacology curriculum.
- Vaccines with Paul Offit, a professor of pediatrics in the Perelman School and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who has made it his life’s work to educate both the medical profession and the public on the value of vaccinations.
- Health Policy and the Affordable Care Act with Ezekiel Emanuel, the vice provost for global initiatives at Penn and the chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy. He is also a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor in the Perelman School and the Wharton School.
On 06/25/2012,
in disruption, higher education, innovation, new business models, online learning,
by Daniel Christian
Online education startups: A field guide — from gigaom.com by Ki Mae Heussner
On 06/11/2012,
in cost of getting a degree, dangers of the status quo, Daniel S. Christian, disruption, future of higher education, game-changing environment, higher education, leadership, legislatures / government / legal, staying relevant, strategy, surviving, United States,
by Daniel Christian
Book Description
Publication Date: June 26, 2012
America is facing a higher education bubble. Like the housing bubble, it is the product of cheap credit coupled with popular expectations of ever-increasing returns on investment, and as with housing prices, the cheap credit has caused college tuitions to vastly outpace inflation and family incomes. Now this bubble is bursting.
In this Broadside, Glenn Harlan Reynolds explains the causes and effects of this bubble and the steps colleges and universities must take to ensure their survival. Many graduates are unable to secure employment sufficient to pay off their loans, which are usually not dischargeable in bankruptcy. As students become less willing to incur debt for education, colleges and universities will have to adapt to a new world of cost pressures and declining public support.
About the Author
Glenn Harlan Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. He writes for such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, Forbes, Popular Mechanics, The Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Examiner. He blogs at InstaPundit.com.
Also see:
- Subprime college educations — from washingtonpost.com by George Will
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From DSC:
Note many of the relevant categories and tags I put this under — items I’ve been covering for years:
- Walmart of Education
- Cost of obtaining a degree
- Reinventing oneself
- Dangers of the status quo
- Game-changing environment
- Future of higher education
- Leadership
- Strategy
- Staying relevant
- Disruption
- Surviving
Doctors on demand: 5 startups wiping out the waiting room — from gigaom.com by Ki Mae Heussner
On 06/08/2012,
in 21st century, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, disruption, emerging technologies, future, human-computer interaction (HCI), machine-to-machine communications, multi-touch, personalized/customized learning, UK, user experience (UX), user interface design, virtual field trips, virtual K-12 schools, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, virtual tutoring,
by Daniel Christian
Contents
- Virtual assistants: four generations in 20 years
- The evolving VA technology landscape
- The VA Competitive landscape
- VA business models: Revenue share rather than paid app downloads
- Leaders and challengers in the VA value chain
- Beyond Siri: What’s in store in the VA market
Behind this report
- Lead researcher: Marlène Sellebråten
- Project lead: Michael Vakulenko
- Marketing lead: Matos Kapetanakis
- Editorial: Andreas Constantinou
