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Future of Digital Networked Technologies & Learning:WWCC in Perpetual Beta
Cable GreeneLearning Director
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The Future of Digital Networked Technologies?
I haven’t the slightest idea…
But we can talk about the trends & how to prepare for
inevitable change & what YOU can do now…
Hold On!
“We are in the midst of a technological, economic, and organizational
transformation that allows us to negotiate the terms of freedom, justice, and productivity in the
information society”Yochai Benkler
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lonewolf23/1570632701/
Yes… We Really are Networked… seamless connection of
people, resources & knowledge
digitization of content mobile, personal global platform for
collaboration outsourcing Anyone notice our
global economy?
"According to an IBM study, by 2010, the amount of digital
information in the world will double every 11 hours."
And we can makeall of our “digital stuff”available toall people…and most of itwill get used...by someone.
“Long Tail” of Publishing
long tail
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HarryPotter
Hyper-geometricpartial differential
equations
http://wiki.elearning.ubc.ca/ComingApart
We All Get to Participate
In a flat world, the artists, the synthesizers of ideas will rule.
And they will use web 2.0 software standards, and practices to distribute their ideas.
And they are not afraid to:
And they want services
like this:Backup
How do we Deal with This?
We are preparing students for
jobs that don’t yet exist, using
technologies that haven’t been
invented, to solve problems we
don’t even know are problems yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHWTLA8WecI
(1) Engage Participatory /
“Web 2.0+”
Tools & Practices
- JSB
“Welcome back to humanity. Some technologies take us away from ourselves and others bring us back. Web 2.0 is helping us rediscover our naturally cooperative, creative, and gregarious nature.
Don't think, therefore, of Web 2.0 as something foreign or hyped-up or all about geeks; Web 2.0 is the rebirth of teaching and learning that fits what we are as a species.”
Why is Web 2.0 Important to Higher Education?
RSS
Social Networking
Share Video
Online Meetings, Conferences…
Elluminate• 1,500+ faculty & staff accounts• 11,300+ rooms created• 2,250+ meetings have taken place• unlimited license, hosting, training• 24/7 help desk• unlimited license, hosting, training
Blo
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http://www.blogger.com
Tweet
http://twitter.com
Useful or Stupid?
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(2) eLearningWhy call it
“eLearning?”
“Distance” is about geographic separation.
“eLearning” is about leveraging the unique affordances of digital, networked technologies to support new ways of learning in new spaces. Online, Hybrid, Enhanced
“eLearning”
Ongoing Online Learning Growth
Over 83,000 students learn online each year
eLearning enrollments up more than 41% (Winter 08 – Winter 09)
11 percent of community and technical college courses are fully online
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Ongoing Online Learning Growth
45% of all CTC graduates earn 15 or more credits online or hybrid
23 colleges offer 86 different degrees and certificates online
16 colleges offer an AA degree online Community and Technical Colleges
teach over 80+% of all online [state supported] FTE in WA
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What’s Happening @ WWCC?
eLearning FTEs Academic Year: 2007-08Annualized Counts as of: 09/6/2009
Going to Web and Mobile
1998-99 1999-00 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-080%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
51%
4%
Telecourse as Percent of Total eLearning FTEs
Why does this growth matter?
Educate More Citizens
HECB Master Plan I. Raise educational attainment to
create prosperity, opportunity Policy Goal: Increase the total number of
degrees and certificates produced annually to achieve Global Challenge State benchmarks.
By 2018, raise mid-level degrees and certificates to 36,200 annually, an increase of 9,400 degrees annually.
2008 Online + Hybrid LearningGas / Carbon Savings
1.9M round trips avoided = reduced traffic
congestion
2.1M gallons of gas saved
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(3) Open Educational Resources
Because when we cooperate and share, we all win – exponentially.
Reedʼs Law: Networks grow [in value] exponentially by the number of nodes.
It’s a social justice issue: everyone has the right to access global knowledge.
Why is “Open” Important?
Institute for the Future whitepaper: Technologies of Cooperation
Definition of OER
Digitized materials, offered freely and openly for educators, students, to use and re-use for teaching, learning and research.
The Old Economics
Print, warehouse,
and ship a new book for every student
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The New Economics
Upload one copy, and everyone uses
it simultaneously
http://cnx.org/content/col10522/latest/
Making copies, storage, distribution
of digital stuff = “Free”
OpenLearn (UK) - DEMO OCW – MIT (MIT HS)
China Open Resources for Education has translated 109 MIT OCW courses into Simplified Chinese.
Rice Connexions
(a few) Open Content Repositories
Lenses @ Rice Connexions
social software for peer review & quality control
CaliforniaCommunity
CollegesWashingtonCommunity
Colleges
OhioCommunity
Colleges
and there is this smallcollection of articles:
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
2005 GAO report: College textbook prices have risen at twice the rate of annual inflation over the last two decades
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05806.pdf
Why do we Need Open Textbooks?
The College Board reported that for the 2007 through 2008 academic years each student spent an estimated $805 to $1,229 on college books and supplies…
http://www.collegeboard.com/prod_downloads/about/news_info/trends/trends_pricing_07.pdf
Why so urgent?
Consider One High Enrollment Course: English Composition I 37,226 enrollments / year X $100 textbook = $3.7 Million + (cost to
students) What if we looked at 100, 200,
300 high enrollment courses?
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Work longer hours
Additional debt
Credit card debt
Not purchase textbooks
Impact on Students?
Math in Society (Open Textbook)
David Lipmann, Professor @ Pierce College
3,972 annual enrollments Textbooks savings to
WWCC students? List of open and free textb
ooks that may be suitable for use in community college courses
Redesigning 81 System Courses High enrollment, gatekeeper and pre-college courses Not mandated curriculum (choice) Faculty centered – faculty will redesign courses Low cost instructional materials Improve course completion rates Digital (remix, take chunks, online) Lower textbook, time, and travel costs for students
use open educational resources, library resources and other high quality, low cost instruction materials that will reduce textbook costs for students.
Open CC Licenses (culture of sharing)
We must get rid of our “not invented here” attitude regarding others’ content move to: "proudly borrowed from there"
Content is not a strategic advantage
Nor can we (or our students) afford it
Hey Higher Ed!
“As uncomfortable a proposition as this new openness may be for some, I believe it is the future of higher education.”
In web 2.0, everything is public & higher education needs to
get used to it.
Future of Openness in Education
David Wiley 2006. Open source, openness, and higher education.
What Happens if weDon’t Change?
Google, Amazo
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Open Content, O
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Harder to catch-up …
Or even understand.
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How is the fiscal healthof your local newspaper?
http://techplan.sbctc.edu
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System Strategic Technology Plan Access for all students and all colleges Single, centrally funded solutions for
common systems Rule of 1: do it once Rule of 0: don’t do it
Don’t build software, don’t host servers Retain local branding and admin control All instructional technologies are architected
to make it easy to share content.
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NEW HE Models are En Route
Choices:
(1) Open up andleverage global input
OR
(2) close up shop
Think Big Crazy Ideas…. We could share all of our instructional digital
resources including: courses, textbooks and library resources with the world… and, more important, use global digital materials.
We could use common teaching & learning, student services, and administrative technologies and support services.
We could design courses that enable and encourage students to contribute, change, remix course content.
Parting Thought…
Is the network to the point where we can challenge traditional models of pedagogy, publishing, student services, and our existing administrative business processes?
If so, what would you change in your department? How would you use digital technologies to help students learn and accomplish their dreams?
Want to talk more aboutthis stuff and/or Open
Educational Resources?
…come join usthis afternoon!
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Slides @ http://www.slideshare.net/cgreen
Dr. Cable GreeneLearning [email protected]
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