What Does the 2020 Campus Look Like? or (Higher Education in 2020: In Perpetual Beta)
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Description
In the year 2020, eLearning is ubiquitous: all learning is connected. Higher education has finally accepted that all knowledge and idea transfer is public and that its role has changed from repository to guide and concierge. Institutions’ courses and degrees are openly shared under creative commons licenses. Everyone publishes in peer-reviewed, open content journals. Students learn everywhere on personal networked devices, in-world, online, and F2F. Constructivist pedagogies are buttressed with connectivism, a new approach that acknowledges that most knowledge is in the network, not the institution or the individual. Skunkworks spaces to test disruptive technologies and learning spaces becomes the primary mission of College IT departments as all commodity technical services have been outsourced. Students rate everything in an elaborate reputation system that covers content, faculty, courses, and student services. Students set their own tuition rates based on the perceived value of their education.
Colleges, faculty, and students are learning in constant change,
in perpetual beta.
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