Diana said that the network has changed everything…this is what is so different in today’s context. She says a 1% increase in tertiary educated workforce increases GDP by around 6%. Innovation drives economic success - entrepreneurship takes ideas and converts to commercial success. However, costs of education continues to grow…particularly if governments want % of all people to be better educated. Society can benefit from small, cumulative contributions of a large number of people.
Emerging educational ecology includes research and scholarship are more conversational, so is learning. Undergraduates spend only 7.7% of their time in formal learning environments. Anytime, anywhere, information and data is at their fingertips. Tim O’Reilly talks about Web 2.0 moving to web squared where the web is a platform and data is used in context aware applications…those people who have iphones know this only too well.
She says that many students are haptic learners…they learn by touch. Haptics augment the learning environment by touch, pressure and sound. She spoke about Virtual Worlds to experience tsunami’s and for role playing.
Adaptive testing (Knewton) responds and learns from each answer the learner provides…..I personally would rather see a debate about what we should actually be assessing..but I agree that we should be treating learners as individuals and testing them against their own learner goals.
She talked about StraightLiner and Peer to Peer Universities and other organisations like flatworld knowledge which is an open source authoring model for publishers. She says their are many new models that have become available because of the network and challenge traditional notions of learning.
I’ll post a link to the presentation when I get same…but worth having a look as she goes onto the impact in scholarship and research…and in Australia we seem to be aligning well to her call for action.
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