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Mark Greenfield Higher ed web professional, consultant, keynote speaker, futurist, uwebd overlord, lacrosse coach, tennis player, music lover, dog rescuer markgr.com twitter.com/markgr delicious.com/markgr
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Five Themes The Singularity Everyware Ambient Findability The Live Web Ambient Connectivity
Moore’s Law transistor density on integrated circuits doubles about every two years
computer
A Keyboard and a Mouse that’s so 1970’s
The End of Print Millennials and their love of technology
Web 2.0 The Social Web Connecting People
Web 3.0 The Internet of Things Connecting Devices
Improving services for students
The amount of data created by humans in 2009 exceeded that of all data created by humans prior to 2009
Findability precedes usability in the alphabet and on the web. You can’t use what you can’t find
the end of the web page paradigm
Understanding the content lifecycle Content Curation
the live web
Balancing speed with accuracy Emergency notifications Live event coverage
Ambient Connectivity
24/7 the internet is always in your pocket
mobile is as different from the internet as tv is from radio
hyper-local
Our education system was built for a world that no longer exists
Flattened When the impact of the internet and globalization render and industry unrecognizable, and in many cases, obsolete
Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won't survive.... Such totally uncontrollable expenditures, without any visible improvement in either the content or the quality of education, means that the system is rapidly becoming untenable. - Peter Drucker (1997) - Peter Drucker (1997)
The question isn’t should be laptops in lecture halls The question is should there be lecture halls in universities
“Most institutions can no longer afford to be what they’ve become”
Concluding Thoughts
new technology is overhyped in the short term but underhyped in the long term
Concluding Thoughts In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
12/21/2012 Its easy to get stuck in the past when you are trying to make a good thing last -Neil Young
Thank You mark a greenfield markgr.com twitter.com/markgr delicious.com/markgr