Download - Tradition And Emergence
Tradition and Emergence:Finding new points of balance in the
educational use of technology
COHERE Blended Learning Conference
George SiemensOctober 3, 2008
Tiers of change pressures
Tier 1: Global
Tier 2: Technological/Societal
Tier 3: Educational
Global
Economic
Global Warming
Population growth
...relocation
1800: 3% of population in large cities
2050: 75%
http://www.192021.org/
Healthcare...epidemics
Technological/Societal
Need for advanced learning
2 of every 3 new/replacement jobs require post secondary education
Canadian Council of Learning (2006)
Networked Workers
• 93% own a cell phone, compared with 78% of all American adults.
• 85% own a desktop computer, compared with 65% of all adults.
• 61% own a laptop computer, compared with 39% of all adults.
• 27% own a Blackberry, Palm or other personal digital assistant, compared with 13% of all adults.
Pew Internet
Access
70+% level in many countries (Net)
Mobile/PDA (21%) web access – doubled in 2003-2005-2007
88% have mobile
Steep decline after age 55
Oxford Internet Institute
3.3 Billion Mobile accounts
Informa, 2007
Our relationship to content/information...
We’ve pulled it apart…
Fragmentation
Educational
Bigger shift that that from a Ptolmeic to Copernican view of the solar system…
Self-organization is the way the relevant sciences are heading.
Carl Bereiter (2002)
“Tectonic shift that will transform the map of higher education worldwide—the growth of universities in the developing world”
Daniel, Kanwar, Uvalic-Trumbic (2006)
Education’s future will be shaped in developing
countries
China: HE enrolment doubled, 2000 – 2003 16 million. Exceeds US
India: by 2010, 40% of all
HE education will be distance
Carnegie Foundation (2006)
China: 800 new institutions in higher education since late 90’s
China: doubled scientific article output between 1997-2004 (rest of world declined %)
Threats to university
Borderless education
Private for-profit
Corporate universitiesPeter Scott, 2002
Response: Triple-helix Etzkowitz & Leydesdorff, 1999
Trends in Online Education
• 2/3 plus of all Higher Education institutions offer online learning
• 3.5 million students taking online course (in fall 2006)
• 20%+ percent annual growth rate since 2003
Online Nation (Allen & Seaman, 2007)
Online Nation (Allen & Seaman, 2007)
Participatory Pedagogies(Collis & Moonen, 2008)
(Askins, 2008)
(Harvard Law School, 2008)
Open Educational Resources
Open Teaching
Alec Couros Stephen DownesLeigh BlackallDavid Wiley
Three tiers of change generate tension points...
Emerging tension points
1. Education/business
3. Accreditation/reputation
5. Transformation/utility
7. Research/responding
9. Formal/informal
Emerging tension points
1. Open/Closed
3. Expert/Amateur
5. Hierarchy/Network…Command/Foster
7. Pace/Depth
9. Epistemology/Ontology
Given the changes in how we interact with content and each other, how should we change the educational process?
Skills learners and educators need...
Digital literacy
Information literacy
21st century skills
Harvard curriculum
Play, performance, networking,
distributed cognition (Jenkins)
Learning design?
Thin walls
Where is the strategy in the change?
Websites and Newsletters
www.elearnspace.orgwww.knowingknowledge.com
www.connectivism.cahttp://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wordpress/
gsiemens AT elearnspace DOT org