Undecipherable Notes: CES 2010 Higher Education

Higher ed tech pt.2

Will anyone ever go to class again

***follow-up: Dreyfus initiative for civics, is it possible to consider that former ideals of citizenship, nationalism and patriotism are based on printing press techonology?

Followup: m2kidz, anytime, anywhere learning, Arizona state university using google suites throughout campus

Followup: John katzman, 2tor
Eduardo Moura, cengage learning (formerly thomson media)

***key takeaways: more time spent in online environment = more time on task and greater success. UofPhoenix assigns three staff to each cohort in a TA role, because students need feedback and guidance (always, eh?)

***LMS puts emphasis on teacher, social networks on students, and virtual worlds highlight community


How disruptive innovation will change the way college students learn?

Michael Horn, innosight institute, harvars book I read,
Suggests that higher education institutions like harvars centraliZed
Access to knowledge in one place. The rise of state colleges was a decentralizing act, furthered by the development of community colleges.
***the Internet has decentralized things even more, by changing the locus of information access from institutions to my pocket

Peter smith, kaplan higher education
University graduation process is based on training (and weeding) students based on the premise that the jobs they are preparing for are scarce. However, given and environment of
Global mobility, the scarcity of such jobs drops dramatically.

The locus of the higher Ed experience will become the governing architecture of the course, no simply the physical architecture of the campus.

Followup: kaplan higher education looks to translate existing student experiences and learning into portable course accreditation

Christopher dede wants accreditation to be based on compentency not seat time (Carnegie unit)

***key to disruptive succeses is to setup shop on the borders of existing regulations, on areas where the market is non-existent, gather market growth and then chip away at existing regulations as regulators take notice of your activity
***so what are the borders of the k-12 system?

Followup: high tech back pack companies