Educa Berlin Keynote Presentation 2013: Digital Learning: The 12,000 m/37,000 ft. View
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- 2. • Disruptive innovations are called disruptive because they disrupt the business model. • As a result of the disruption, the business model cannot sustain itself. • Disruptive innovation is not revolutionary; disruptive innovation disrupts the business model and kills the organization.
- 10. Edu-preneurs: Democratizing education, extending innovation and reach, venture funding.
- 12. Talent Cloud: Powerful personal brands, personal mosaic of skills, Individualized educational plans, Dynamic Lifetime Learning.
- 14. Integrated cities: Cities growing more dominant in most of world, more integrated. 51% of the World’s Population lives in cities today.
- 15. Economic Perfect Storm: the closing of universities or the opening of universities. Less money or more money.
- 17. Rick Van Sant, Ph.D. Frequent Flyer – Frequent Thinker rick.vansant@blackboard.com
- 18. Sources • Slide 1: Photo chicago: http://www.nemonic.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Chicago-view-from-an-airplane-Illinois-United- States.jpg • Slide 2: http://neilperkin.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341d4dc653ef0133f147f6f4970b-500wi • Slide 3: Photo Mac Air. http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/apple_macbook_air-8.jpg. Mac Iie: http://oldcomputers.net/pics/appleii-system.jpg • Slide 4: Photo: Modern Web: http://www.vlib.us/web/worldwideweb3d.html Old Internet: http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/05/13/telehack-a-retro-command-line-museum/ • Slide 5: http://www.bcm.edu/cain_foundation/noframes/html/pages/staff/robert_mcneil.html • Slide 6: http://www.bcm.edu/cain_foundation/noframes/html/pages/staff/robert_mcneil.html • Slide 7: http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzAxLzEwLzQ4L21pbGxlbm5pYWxzLjYzNzlkLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTEyMDB4NjI3IwplCWp wZw/f45f72cb/449/millennials-360.jpg • Slide 8: http://thenewinquiry.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/moocimage.png • Slide 9: zzz: http://www.serial-sticker.com/decoration-enfants/56-sticker-decoratif-zzzzz.html • Slide 10: http://edtechdigest.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/50-fascinating-eduprenuers.png • Slide 11: http://blog.newgensoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/big_data.jpg • Slide 12:http://www.organikconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Talent-Cloud-background.png • Slide 13: http://www.customerservice.ae/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/prosumers-and-customer-service2.jpg & http://cyber- kap.blogspot.ae/2012/02/top-10-sites-for-curating-web.html • Slide 14: http://www.stanza.co.uk/sensity/merged_cities_paris_london.jpg • Slide 15: http://www.who.int/gho/urban_health/situation_trends/urban_population_growth_text/en & http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-12/world/35443499_1_public-universities-private-universities-higher-education & http://pietistschoolman.com/2013/04/19/how-many-colleges-and-universities-have-closed-decade-by-decade-since-1900/ • & http://www.hindustantimes.com/hteducation/educationnews/200-universities-across-india-in-next-5-yrs-sibal/article1-846073.aspx • Slide 16: http://faststreamblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/traceyblogimage-meeting-small-size1.jpg • Slides 10 – 15: http://knowledgeworks.org/sites/default/files/Forecast3_0_0.pdf & http://www.universityventuresfund.com/UV- Newsletter-Holiday-Edition-Whitepaper.pdf
Editor's Notes
- What do you think of when you are looking out the window of an airplane at 37,000 ft.? I spend a lot of time on airplanes so I think about a lot of things. This last year I have spent a lot of time thinking about technology and its impact on education, teaching, learning, faculty, students, society etc. So here is a bit of what I have thought about over the last year as I looked down on the Landscape of Digital Learning
- One of the buzz words of the last ten years is “Disruption”. I am not so fond of the word ever since I read this definition and really thought about it. I have no desire to see Education die. Get better, more accessible, cheaper YES.
- Another favorite term are the terms “digital native and digital immigrant”. The implication being that digital natives are better at using technology for learning. I don’t think this is at all true. It may or may not be true that young people born with a computer in their hand can intuitively make it dance on the head of a pin, but they are no more skilled than anyone else when it comes to using technology to become more efficient and effective at learning. In fact, the “digital natives” in my classes are often not very good at the essential critical thinking aspect of research. They may type faster on the micro keyboards, but my older students are often better critical thinkers. Besides, I grew up every step along the way as technology grew up. Digital natives can’t say that.
- Another favorite term are the terms “digital native and digital immigrant”. The implication being that digital natives are better at using technology for learning. I don’t think this is at all true. It may or may not be true that young people born with a computer in their hand can intuitively make it dance on the head of a pin, but they are no more skilled than anyone else when it comes to using technology to become more efficient and effective at learning. In fact, the “digital natives” in my classes are often not very good at the essential critical thinking aspect of research. They may type faster on the micro keyboards, but my older students are often better critical thinkers. Besides, I grew up every step along the way as technology grew up. Digital natives can’t say that. Slide on Computers, slide on Web
- Millenials or Generation Y. “They are different”. “They learn differently”. “They are motivated differently”. Nope – not buying that either. The human brain still learns the way it always has. By forming new neural connections. It always has and probably always will Get Good at What it Does”. Good education remains good education. That we can now effectively deliver the learning experience while displacing time and location are great things. But it doesn’t change what takes place fundamentally at the neural level. “Garbage in – Garbage out” does not just refer to technology. Ask any student who has had a poor teacher.
- At the root level – learning is simplly neural growth. When you learn, you physically alter your brain. This is a slide of a brain neuron growing in response to stimulus, reaching out to make a new connection..
- Success – connection made. Tens/hundreds/thousands/millions of these new connections = learning. This is why building on previous knowledge is so much easier than learning something completely brand new. It is also why at their core- learners remain the same. NOTE: by the way – much has been said about the Gen Y being such great multitasker. Our ability to “multitask” is the same for all of us… you can do one or more associative tasks but only one cognitive task at a time. You can watch TV and brush your teeth… You can drive and talk on the phone…. But none of us can do two cognitive tasks. What you are really talking about is the ability to do rapid sequential tasking. Unfortunately that comes at the price of lack of depth in thinking.
- MOOCs. OK Van Sant, surely this one is a game changer. Let me be clear – I am not against MOOCs. I just finished teaching a six-week MOOC on increasing technology adoption. It went great. 335 enrolled, a little over 30 finished, close to the industry standard 10% completion rate. Those who finished had really great things to say. The problem with MOOCs is that we have hardly begun to figured out the angles yet. No stable business model. Simultaneously driving fantastic content and dumbing down the experience to resemble 19th century passive learning. But I am sure there will be many sessions by more learned colleagues than I so… moving on,
- So what does the digital learning landscape look like then? OK, if you are Type A, see me after the show and we will do boxes and org charts… but you buy the coffee OK? So what is the landscape. Here are 6 forces that will create more change faster than ever before in education:
- For a long time, education has been a mostly democratic institution… that is to say that everyone is a critic. I cannot think of another profession where everyone thinks they are such an expert. This is because almost everyone in the developed world has gone to school. But now that has changed from sideline critics to people with the means to “do” what they only used to think. Venture funding for education has already surged, having grown from $59 million in 2001 to $334 million in 2011. democratized access to investment capital and startup know-how has the potential to turn any teacher, parent, or student into an edu-preneur. Transformational investment strategies and open access to startup knowledge, expertise, and networks will seed an explosion of disruptive social innovations Demystifying Startups Matchmaking Networks Transformational Capital Shift from ROI to IOB
- After months of reading hundreds of documents, webposts, emails, journals etc. There is only one BIG IDEA that comes up everywhere… Big Data. The revolution that is already here is the application of the kind of algorythmic, analytic data to focus the relationship between the provider and customer – between the university and the student.
- A reality in the business and IT sector For faculty - Rapidly becoming a reality in Online Learning. Starting now in major international universities who need diversification of faculty (Russia) What does this mean for future employment of students and the educational curriculum that prepares them to participate. One third of Americans report they are “Freelancers” or “Self Employed”
- Technology is rapidly transforming “Learning” but it is not necessarily transforming “Schooling. While I noted that Gen Y are not necessarily different learners at their core – they do want to engage information differently. Passive is out – Active is in Note the explosive growth of “curated” sites. (Pinterest, Huffington Post etc.) This is proving a challenge for Tablet Devices (Ipad – UAE) This also requires new instructional methodologies
- Urban education will transition from a disjointed district, or state-run school system that is largely separate from other social and economic institutions to an urban service layer that will be networked across city spaces and organization. Some of this is visible in the alternative education “shopping mall” portals. Already seeing “shared services” such as contracted administration, shared purchasing and multi use facilities, but economics will require a radical new look at physical interactions in light of virtual space.
- In mature markets: we are seeing the closing of Universities. UK Ed leaders forecast 20- 30 Universities could become non-viable in next few years. On average in the US, more than 50 Universities close of merge each Decade Hundreds of new ones have opened in China in the last Decade India anticipates 200 new universities in the next 5 years New business markets for “exporting” university degrees. (UAE already has branches or campuses of at least 20 international universities)
- Are there more… Guess you will have to come see me in person at the Blackboard Pavilion.