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Though the title of this article I wrote says 10 years, it may be more or less (and given the pace of change, I would lean towards sooner rather than later).
If you haven’t read Christensen’s/Horn’s/Johnson’s work re: disruption — such as Disrupting Class and/or The Innovator’s Dilemma — it would be worth your time to do so.…
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I appreciate Kevin Wheeler’s comment on Jay Cross’ posting entitled “A Solution to the College Crisis” (emphasis below from DSC)
In response to Jay Cross:
Higher education in the United States is broken. Costs are ouf of control.
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Some very frustrated reflections after reading:
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It would appear that the learning rhizomes are spreading uncontrollably—which, for any trainer-teacher-learner, is a wonderfully positive phenomenon.
Having been introduced recently to what Dave Cormier calls rhizomatic learning—a connected learning process that mirrors the spreading of rhizomes so there is no center, just a wonderfully ever-expanding network of learning connections rooted in creation, collaboration, and the building of communities of learning—I now am seeing this connected learning phenomenon nearly everywhere I look.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...College branding: The tipping point — from forbes.com by Roger Dooley
Excerpt:
Change is coming to this market. While there are multiple issues of increasing importance to schools, two stand out as major game-changers.
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Important notes for the boards throughout higher education to consider:
Your institution can’t increase tuition by one dime next year.…
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As a team of us have been charged with putting together a new collaborative workspace/conference room, I’ve been thinking about some ideas for a new type of interface as well as some new types of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to be used in group collaboration/web-based collaboration. I was thinking it would be good to not only display files from various devices but also to be able to share files/URLs/other resources with each other. (Some type of storage device that processes files — and scans them for viruses would be needed in addition to a large display or an interactive multitouch surface/wall.)
People within the same room could contribute files/items to a variety of “areas” — and so could others who joined in via the Internet.…
(-1 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...There’s so many things I want to do, the type of person I want to be. All I have to do is remind myself of my New Year’s Resolutions less than a month ago:
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I’ve sifted through bits and pieces of the #etmooc universe, sporadically over the last couple of days. I managed to miss all of the synchronous sessions this week – but next week I will fully jack in to the flow of the #etmooc learning network.…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...I am glad to be on holidays, as there are so many blogs and intros and stuff to read…. Got the gmail/google+ thing sorted out so I am able to keep better track of what is coming into my mailbox.
Already I have picked up new followers on Twitter, and found many new and inspiring people to follow back on Twitter and in Google+, as well as adding blogs to my RSS feed.…
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