Slides for a presentation given at a NERCOMP SIG on October 9, 2009.

1. Malcolm Brown Director, Educause Learning Initiative mbrown@educause.edu October 2009

2. Original content © Malcolm Brown mbrown@educause.edu Side designs © Sarah Horton sarah.horton@dartmouth.edu

3. “The future of higher education lies outside the classroom.” from Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999 “…the concept of the classroom as the center of learning interaction and engagement is not going away anytime soon.” Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness, October 2005

4. Thesis Our challenge lies much more in design and less in technology

5. Thesis Our challenge lies much more in design and less in technology future

6. Exploration

7. <Harry Potter illustration here>

8. Wait!!! What about all the predictions?

9. Utopian

15. Digital facelifts

17. “Even the revolutionaries can’t predict what will happen.”

18. Predictions

19. Questions?Comments?

20. Heading Bearings a sense of direction where we are now

21. Bearings: Students Desktop down 71% to 44% Laptops up from 65% to 88% More than 90% use: library web site presentation software social networking sites text messaging Within a year 63% will have a smart phone

22. Bearings: pace

23. What’s in a second? 1,157 videos uploaded 7 computers sold 2 new blogs 520K links clicked 2.2M emails sent 31K txt msgs

24. Facebook 250,000,000

25. 34,916,000,000 = 10% of all minutes spent online in January 2009 = minutes spent on social networking sites by U.S. users = 66,430 years

26. Bearings: the cloud

27. Bearings: higher education paradigm under pressure

28. Bearings: higher education paradigm under pressure “Undergraduate education is on the verge of a radical reordering… The business model that sustained private US colleges cannot survive.” “The typical 2030 faculty will likely be a collection of adjuncts alone in their apartments, using recycled syllabuses and administering multiple-choice tests from afar.”

30. “The whole setup would run like iTunes and sessions would be recorded for later review.” “This could happen tomorrow, the pieces are all there ready to be put together.”

32. “PBS and NPR are now posting taped interviews and videos of lectures by academics, adding to the growing number of free lectures online.”

33. Learning environments

34. Classrooms

35. Scroll ahead 70 years…

36. Smart classrooms

37. formal Learning spaces virtual informal

38. formal Learning spaces virtual informal

39. Drivers Technology Constructivism Ubiquitous Internet

40. New drivers Mobile technology Cloud technology NetGens read/write Web (aka Web 2.0)

41. formal Learning spaces virtual informal

42. formal virtual informal Learning environments

43. What is an environment?

44. What is an environment? Sense of place and purpose Anywhere anytime any place Mix of planned and unplanned Range of participants, systems, forces Dynamic flux of roles

47. Personal goals Campus culture Personal learning styles read/write culture Personal context Peer culture Personal technology Learning resources Learning practices Internet technology Learning spaces Campus technology People Campus orgs Support

48. The classroom is no longer a box

49. Traditional classroom Chalk boards Overhead

50. read/write classroom read/write class

51. The classroom today Dynamic Connected: intra-connected inter-connected aka: read/write, import/export Participatory Unpredictable in part

52. The classroom today Dynamic Connected: intra-connected inter-connected aka: read/write, import/export Participatory Unpredictable in part • Participatory • Unpredictable

53. Questions?Comments?

54. Headings

55. What’s ahead? Trends Human factors Verbs, not nouns Community infrastructure Multipurpose rooms Participation-enabling design Tech outfitting Challenges Design Perception Cost Support Distraction Assessment

56. Human factors source: Prof. Scott Pobiner, Parsons New School for Design

57. Verbs, not nouns Projector Chairs Wires Podiums Lights Computers etc. Connect Build Discuss Annotate Analyze Design

58. Multipurpose rooms Lecture Critique Studio Meeting Seminar Workshop

59. Technology trends Presentation capture Video conferencing Display technology

60. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_LED

61. Challenges #1 Good design

63. Whenever the number of possible actions exceeds the number of controls, there is apt to be difficulty. –Don Norman

66. Norman’s criteria 1 Visibility “by looking, the user can tell the state of the device and the alternatives for action”

68. Norman’s criteria 2 Good conceptual model “consistency in the presentation of operations and results and a coherent, consistent system image”

70. Norman’s criteria 3 Good mappings “possible to determine the relationships between actions and results”

72. Norman’s criteria 4 Feedback “full and continuous feedback about the results of actions”

75. #2 Perceptions “No kindergarten classrooms!” Stanford professor

76. Support challenges Gear Operational Real time support Effective pedagogy Community design, planning etc. Community of practice

77. #4 Cost challenge

78. #5 Distraction challenge

79. Distraction challenge

80. #6 Assessment: is it working?

81. “The future of higher education lies outside the classroom.” from Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999 “…the concept of the classroom as the center of learning interaction and engagement is not going away anytime soon.” Alliance for Higher Education Competitiveness, October 2005

82. Thank you! mbrown@educause.edu