Educational

Evolution vs. Creationism

Rory McGreal

LINQ 13

Rome

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (some images fair dealing)

AU

The Felt Source

Linaria designs

Accelerating

Evolution

Emilie Ogez

Ancient Learning

Medieval University

From Joi Ito’s Web

What technology has

done more to destroy

human community

than any other?

Could it be the portable book?

Community or accessibility?

Aldus Manutius 15th Century

Portable

Book

Evolution: FREE Education

COSTS

Evolution: FREE Education

An asymptotic curve

COSTS

Zeno’s

dichotomy

paradox

Evolution: Free Education

Growth of the

WWW

http://www.anywhere.com

Reach an infinite audience

Tim Berners-Lee

Evolution: Free Education

“Death of Distance”

• Global

telecommunications

• Satellites

• Wireless

• Internet Atlas of Cyberspaces

Why OER?

• DRM (digital rights management) • Digital licenses

DRM (Digital Rights

Management) You CANNOT • Copy & paste, annotate, highlight • Text to speech • Format change • Move material • Print out • Move geographically • Use after expiry date • Resell

Swiss-copyright.ca

Digital Licenses •Copy & paste, annotate, highlight • Text to speech or hyperlink • Format change • Move material to another computer • Print out • Move geographically • Use after expiry date • Resell

• Prohibited to show your content to others • Must accept that you have NO rights

• Owners have NO liability even if product doesn’t work • Owners can “invade” your computer without permission • Collect & use personal data • User has a “privilege” to use the product not own it

Open ETextbooks

•Copy & paste, annotate, highlight √ • Text to speech or hyperlink √ • Format change √ • Move material to other computer √ • Print out √ • Move geographically √ • No expiry date √ • Reuse/Remix/Mash √

•Retain privacy and digital rights √√

Access Rights? Vendors can control how,

when, where, and with what

specific brands of

technological assistance

audiences are able to access

content

ITC 23%

Arts 28%

2007:

The Wiley Wiki

http://www.opencontent.org/wiki/index.php

?title=Intro_Open_Ed_Syllabus

An Open Course

based in a wiki

Participants from

around the world

contributed to the

creation of the course

2007: Alec Couros

Social Media and Open Education

Open online course sessions with guest experts

from around the world

http://eci831.wikispaces.com/Session+List

2008: CCK08

Stephen Downes, George Siemens

The First Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)

http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism_2008

Why is CCK08 the First MOOC?

It combines open content (Wiley)

and open teaching (Couros)

But also…

http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism_2008

AI-Class: Redefining Massive

More than 100,000 people signed up for pre-

registration

http://www.ai-class.com/

OER Quality:

Number of Learners

20 or 2 million?

The view from an OERu partner

Traditional model Traditional model OERu model

learners

The Anti-MOOC Friesen & Murray

MobiMOOC

http://mobimooc.wikispaces.com/

Supporting Mobile Learning Technology

Inge de

Waard

Free Education

Wireless Access

Mobile learning?

+2 billion Internet connexions World population: 7 billion

¼ of the world’s population

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Global Internet usage

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Individuals using the Internet per 100 inhabitants

Global numbers of individuals using the Internet, total and per 100 inhabitants, 2001-2011

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Global Mobile phone subscriptions

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Global mobile-cellular subscriptions, total and per 100 inhabitants, 2001-2011

Source: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database

Internet Users 2006

Developed

Developing

Developed

Developing

2011

Developed

Developing

International Telecommunications Union 2012

Web usage worldwide

3.81% Worldwide

Chad 29% Nigeria 25% Sudan 22%

Mobile Signal Coverage

Percentage of the world's population covered by a mobile cellular signal,

2003 compared to 2010

2003

39% not covered

61% covered

Source: ITU World Telecommunication /ICT Indicators database

2010

10% not

covered

90% covered

Mobile Telephony

2000

Total 719 million

Developed

Developing

The developed/developing country classifications are based on the UN M49, see: http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/definitions/regions/index.html Source: ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators database

2005

Developing

Developed

Total 2.2 billion

2011

Total 6 billion

Developing

Developed

Mobile learning

4.5 billion mobile subscriptions

1.5 billion mobile internet users

1/3 only access

internet via mobile

90% of world population is covered by cellular

More time

spent on

Internet

with

Mobile

than with

desktops

The world is going mobile

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Design for Mobile

FIRST

4G Mobile Phones

• Computer in your phone

• Phone in your computer?

Motorola Droid Samsung Galaxy Iphone 5

Tablets

Google Android

iPad Mini Samsung

Tablets

Shenzhen Tablet <$75

Aakash India <$50

Ypy Brazil <$75

Sakshat $20 laptop

Affordable Computing

India to unveil the £7 laptop

Government hopes its mini-computer, the world's

cheapest, will bridge the digital divide between rich

and poor

One Tablet per Child

Negroponte et al.

E-Books

Free Education

Digital convergence:

TV

Email

Electronic book

Computer

Telephone

Radio

WWW

Fax

Clock

Camera

Handy 21 Oxygen project MIT

PDA

Nokia

5510

Game player

Toys? Sony’s PSP GO

Mobile phone

CD Shape

Gizmondo

• Each team faces a fast-paced, complicated series of

obstacles called quests, and each player, via his online

avatar, must contribute to resolving them or else lose his

place on the team

• "It takes exactly the same skill set people will need

more of in the future to collaborate on work

projects”

» Rob Carter, CEO FedEx

= 2 jiffies or 200 milliseconds

Free Education

Gilder’s Law

Bandwidth grows at least three

times faster than computer power

Free Education

Moore’s Law:

Accelerating reduction in the cost of

computer power

1980 1990 2000 2010 2020

Computers Paper

Free Education

2030

Digital paper

Rollable display

Phillips

Mobile Learning requires OER

OER •Copy & paste, annotate, highlight √ • Text to speech or hyperlink √ • Format change √ • Move material to other computer √ • Print out √ • Move geographically √ • No expiry date √ • Reuse/Remix/Mash √

•Retain privacy and digital rights √√

The restriction of the commons by patents, copyright, and databases [right] is not in the interests of society and unduly hampers scientific endeavour.

“On the part of rich

countries there is

excessive zeal for

protecting knowledge

through an unduly rigid

assertion of the right to

intellectual property . . .” - Pope Benedict XVI

“On the part of rich countries

there is excessive zeal for

protecting knowledge

through an unduly rigid

assertion of the right to

intellectual property . . .”

- Pope Benedict

XVI

"Let's put all this hype about change and

transformation in perspective. It's underhyped."

"There's something

coming after us, and I

imagine it is something

wonderful.” " Danny Hillis, Wired

Change

General Eric Shinseki, retired Chief of Staff, U. S.

Army

So, let’s wake up and smell the coffee

rory@athabascau.ca