mobile innovations and evolutions in education ecosystem
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Paul KimEDEN Annual Conference 2011, DublinTRANSCRIPT
Mobile Innovations and Evolution in the Education
Ecosystem
Paul KimChief Technology Officer
Assistant DeanStanford UniversitySchool of Education
All living things evolve...
So do thoughts, values, practices, organizations, etc. Therefore, evolution is everywhere around us.
Let’s study some basic terms first.
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Darwin (1859) proposed the idea that organisms adapt and
evolve through natural selection, creating particular ecological niches and eventually resulting in the
emergence of new species.
Natural Selection
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article//evo_39
New change is introduced to the ecosystem. Predator is part of the ecosystem and it is certainly part of the environment the species interact with.No change means extinction. Better species = More competitive service, product, delivery, etc.
Artificial Selection Interactions and Influences
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Cornselection.jpg
Natural selection => Responsive or reactive
Artificial selection processes within organizations, models, etc. = Initiative or proactive
Try out and see what works better or becomes better; Identify best practices and eliminate bad features or procedures; keep what work best; and scale up your model.
You cannot expect a change if you just think about it and never try.
A business or industry, as a living organism, often must evolve (i.e., to overcome or even leverage changes) in order to seek higher efficiencies and ensure its long-term sustainability (Kim, 2010).
Let’s look at some evolution examples from the industries.
Evolving at a slower clock speed
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Boeing 747-100
Boeing 747-200
Boeing 747-400
Boeing 777-300
Take off…Land…The same wayNo faster
Value priority
Ticket Price Operation CostProfitable Routes
CallText messageTake photoEdit videoBrowseMobinarDo whatever
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Value priority
Expansion and Quality of User ExperienceWhen ICT is the main driver of evolution = faster clock speed
What can we learn?• If the external evolution rate exceeds the
internal evolution rate, extinction is eminent.• Adapt to the changing rules of the game. Or
die out.• We know it, but the knowing and doing gap
abounds.• Many organizations are not good at evolving
because they are busy putting out daily fires.• Organizational change requires organizational
cohesion through value alignment.Everyone is appreciating the same value.)
Education Ecosystem
New species
MYSPACE for Grand Canyon University - From “almost closing down status” in 2001. (1949-2003 / 2004-2010)Making it the first for-profit Christian college in the United States. IPO NASDAQ in 2008. As of Dec. 2009: 37,000. Major genetic mutation occurred in 2003: non-profit to for-profit. Hybrid: on-ground and online. Joined the major league http://finance.yahoo.com/
Founded in 1996Completely online. Started as non-profit and received accreditation in 2003.9000 students. 95% advanced degree seeking students. One 3-story building in the middle of desert in Arizona.Going for organic growth.
Where are all the traditional university features?
Convenient access (FlexNet, ALL-LINE)21st Century ERP system(Tightly measure all performance indicators. CRM - every interaction matters.)
Unbundled faculty rolesCloud services (Plug-n-Play) – buildings, online library DB, admission,
writing support center, IT support, everything that are not core competencies / Faculty contract by course – highly disintegrated model
Dynamically meeting the market needs
Common characteristics of emerging universities
DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
It’s a story about the communities of visionaries who are using new technologies to bring us a revolution in higher learning that is affordable, accessible, and learner-centered.
What’s for sure?
Although the clock speed is still slow, more artificial selections to be made in the education ecosystem.
Another interesting phenomenon in the education ecosystem.
http://twulibrarynews.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html / http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-5032663-exam-bubble-sheet-with-pencil.phphttp://ismartboard.com/
http://studenthacks.org/category/study-help/
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/04/iphonestanford/
Student Generated Inquiries in MobiSocial Learning Environment
Mobile Technology for
Innovative, Inclusive, Integrative, & International Education Ecosystem.
POMI 2020 Programmable Open Mobile Internet
The Stanford Clean Slate Programhttp://cleanslate.stanford.edu
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Stanford Faculty Team
Networking
Radio
Economics
Languages
OS
SecurityHCI
Applications
Architecture
Education
Dan Boneh
Monica LamDavid Mazieres
Mendel RosenblumPhil Levis
Scott Klemmer
Arogyaswami Paulraj
Nick McKeown
Ramesh Johari
John Mitchell
Christos Kozyrakis
Fouad Tobagi
Paul Kim
Distributed Systems
Guru Parulkar
Andrea Goldsmith
Last Alliance
Strike The Mouse
Global Partnership CETYS Universidad, Mexico
Migrant indigenous children from Oaxaca mountain regions
PocketSchool for those who have no access to schoolStoryReader coupled with paper stories!
Do you believe sesame street was helpful for children to learn? How about mobile sesame street? More important matter is that smartphones of today are going to be much better than just mobile sesame street.
Never owned a book in his life.
• Pocket school: Exploring mobile technology as a sustainable literacy education option for underserved children in Latin America. International Journal of Educational Development. 28(4), pp. 435-445.
• An action research for the development of mobile learning system for the underserved. Educational Technology Research & Development. 57(3), pp. 415-435.
• Socioeconomic Strata, Mobile Technology, & Education: A comparative Analysis. Educational Technology Research & Development (DOI: 10.1007/s11423-010-9172-3.
Global Partnership Universidad Technologia, El Salvador
Global Partnership Universidad Technologia, El Salvador
Mrs Erlinda Hándal VegaVice Minister of Science & Technology
Global Partnership BIRZEIT University, Palestine
No computer no Internet No LibraryExtremely underserved school 2hr/day electricity.ard to receive external aids
Mrs. Lamis Al-AlamiMinister of Education
• Digital storytelling among Israeli and Palestinian Children in the Era of Mobile Innovation. (To appear in Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, Volume 36.)
• Creativity Gap in the Global Era: Using Mobile Devices to Assess and Develop Critical Thinking Skills Among Palestinian Youth. (Forth coming).
Global Partnership Tumba College of Technology, Rwanda
Dr. GatareMinister of ICT
Civic engagement, Genocide victims with HIV/AIDS/ Micro-business-based women empowerment / Entrepreneurship & Mobile Storytelling
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Raising HIV Awareness
Counter the mis-conceptionCompetition game basedLearning HIV/AIDS & TrackLearning entrepreneurship
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Content Management and Tracking System
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PocketSchool
Do you remember why pocket-size mobile technology is different from desktop or even notebook computers?
PortabilityLess electricity consumptionEase of implementationEase of maintenancePerformance trackingIndividualized interventionThe list goes on…
Contextualized innovation vs. Reverse innovation - Much more energy efficient device. Alternative energy option for developing countries is green ideas for developed countries. Must be game-based/ activity-based in developing countries.
Value-centeredEducation Ecosystem
• Service Learning Model• Relevant and Meaningful Experiences
for everyone• Global Partnership for Global Causes• Sustainable Education Ecosystem
• Mobile technology makes a bottom up approach actually possible.
• Easier to implement in a much shorter time.• Leverage widely available cellular networks.• Equalize access to educational development
opportunities for all.• Strategic value alignment to cause evolution in
the education ecosystem (University students + Faculty + Children + Real world problems )
Really?For all?At least we are trying our best…
Alberto in a rural village school in Baja California, Mexico
“I want to study with the mobile computer, too!”
Mobile Exam and Audio Games for the blind. (Dominican Republic)
We always look for partners!
From device recognition to problem solving through collaborations.
Response tracking log
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ROSE Series – specifically covering scientific phenomena linked to climate change, alternative energy, and natural disasters.
Last-mile education solution
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PSILANon a Plug computer
Competition gamesMobile learning assessment
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Day time peak hours
Night time off-peak hours
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• Remotely Operated Science Experiment - A new approach to supplement real-time collaboration and online learning. (Forth coming).
• Stanford Mobile Inquiry-based Learning Environment (SMILE): using mobile phones to promote student inquires in the elementary classroom. (To appear in the Proceedings of World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. July, 2011)
• Exploration of a Self-Directed Mobile Learning Model for the Extremely Underserved Communities. (International Journal of Educational Development. 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2011.05.008).
• PocketSchool Interactive Learning Ad-hoc Network and HIV/AIDS Education in the Developing Region. (Forth coming).
What have I learned about sustainability?
21st Century Value-Centered Education Ecosystem
PEDAGOGY
NEW POSSIBILITIES
VALUE
APPLICABLE
CONTEXTUALIZED
NURTURE
CATALYZE
ENABLING AGENTTECHNOLOGY
CONTENT
Shared peace & prosperity, mental & physical wellbeing, unity (Afghan refugee, Uganda refugee, Nomadic Indian tribes, HIV/AIDS victims of the genocide, children in Qalqylya, Palestine, students with disabilities, Ashram Ghandi, etc.
ANSWERS “WHY?”
MOTIVATE CONSTITUENCIES
IGNITE PASSION
VCEEMust continue to evolve
The Future is Here; It's Just Not Widely Distributed, Yet.
- William Gibson
The Future is Not Widely Distributed. Therefore, It is Not Here, Yet.
- Paul Kim
Evolution never stops. Life is just a dash.What will you cause in your life?
Let’s remember Dr. Kim Foreman, Professor of Education, San Francisco State University,who died on a jungle road while striving to educate and empower future leaders of Rwanda