Road to horizon in elearning

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Road to horizon in e-learning

• Wlodzimierz Sobkowiak
• IFA, 15/3/2007

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Summary

• Status quo Online education in the US, 2006
• Road ahead The horizon report, 2007
• Technologies to watch
• User-created content
• Social networking
• Road beyond horizon

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Making the GradeOnline Education in the United
States, 2006
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Has the growth of online enrollments begun to
plateau?

• Nearly 3.2 million students were taking at least
  one online course during the fall 2005 term, a
  substantial increase over the 2.3 million
  reported the previous year.

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What types of institutions have online offerings?

• More than 96 percent of the very largest
  institutions have some online offerings.

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What are the barriers to widespread adoption of
online education?

• Nearly two-thirds of the academic leaders cite
  the need for more discipline on the part of
  online students as a critical barrier.
• Faculty issues, both acceptance of online and
  the need for greater time and effort to teach
  online, are also important barriers.

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THE HORIZON REPORT

• The environment of higher education is changing
  rapidly. Costs are rising, budgets are shrinking,
  and the demand for new services is growing.
  Student enrollments are declining. There is an
  increasing need for distance education, with
  pressure coming not only from nontraditional
  students seeking flexible options, but from
  administrative directives to cut costs. The
  shape of the average student is changing, too
  more students are working and commuting than ever
  before, and the residential, full-time student is
  not necessarily the model for todays typical
  student. Higher education faces competition from
  the for-profit educational sector and an
  increasing demand by students for instant access
  and interactive experiences.

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Technologies to watch (1)

• The technologies featured in the 2007 Horizon
  Report are placed along three adoption horizons
  that represent what the Advisory Board considers
  likely timeframes for their widespread adoption
  on university campuses. The first adoption
  horizon assumes the likelihood of broad adoption
  within the next year the second, adoption within
  two to three years, and the third, adoption
  within four to five years.

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Technologies to watch (2)

• User-created content (adoption horizon 1 year)
• Social networking (adoption horizon 1 year)
• Mobile phones (adoption horizon 2/3 years)
• Virtual worlds (adoption horizon 2/3 years)
• The new scholarship and emerging forms of
  publication (adoption horizon 4/5 years)
• Massively multiplayer educational gaming
  (adoption horizon 4/5 years)

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User-created content

• Its all about the audience, and the audience
  is no longer merely listening. User-created
  content is all around us, from blogs and
  photostreams to wikibooks and machinima clips.
  Small tools and easy access have opened the doors
  for almost anyone to become an author, a creator,
  or a filmmaker. These bits of content represent a
  new form of contribution and an increasing trend
  toward authorship that is happening at almost all
  levels of experience.

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Social networking

• Increasingly, this is the reason students log on.
  The websites that draw people back again and
  again are those that connect them with friends,
  colleagues, or even total strangers who have a
  shared interest. Social networking may represent
  a key way to increase student access to and
  participation in course activities. It is more
  than just a friends list truly engaging social
  networking offers an opportunity to contribute,
  share, communicate, and collaborate.

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Road beyond horizon
"This Polish syndrome gets worse with age. With
growing age young Poles trust each other and
cooperate less and less. Current research
demonstrates very well that the level of trust,
to be followed by readiness to common activity,
is impressive with younger teens, but with older
teens goes down gradually to that of adults"
(Szkola bez przemocy project, November 2006 -
March 2007, prof. Janusz Czaplinski)
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Thank you!

• This presentation is available at
• http//ifa.amu.edu.pl/swlodek