SREB Educational Technology Cooperative

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SREB Educational Technology Cooperative
Through a Mirror Digitally Adapting to a World
Altered by Technology

• Teaching Learning
• December 11, 2007

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We want postsecondary institutions to adapt to a
world altered by technology, changing
demographics and globalization, in which the
higher-education landscape includes new providers
and new paradigms, from for-profit universities
to distance learning, A TEST OF LEADERSHIP
Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education
Spellings Commission, 2006, p. xi
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Technology will give each individual the power
only available traditionally to nation-states,
superheroes, or gods. Glenn Reynolds Author
Instapundit bolg Quoted inThe Cult of the Amateur
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IntelliGirl - Sarah Robbins November 2007
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Mark Milliron, November 2007
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Are Gamers better prepared for the world of work
than Liberal Arts majors? John Seely Brown In
Got Game How the Gamer Generation is Reshaping
Business Forever
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Winning companies are a hub for innovation
and a magnet for uniquely qualified minds. They
focus oncapabilities to develop new kinds of
relationships, sense important developments, add
value, and turn nascent networked knowledge into
compelling value... Don Tapscott Anthony
Williams Wikinomics How Mass Collaboration Will
Change Everything
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It is this nascent community of students, the
uberconnected, amorphous mass of self-organized
individuals coming on to campuses with their
skills and expectations honed by a world of
massively networked gaming, iming, and
facebooking wherein the potential for tsunamic
change exists. Don Tapscott Anthony
Williams Wikinomics How Mass Collaboration Will
Change Everything Mash-up Quote
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Academia 2.0

• Open-source Learning Content
• Peer-Production
• Knowledge Transformation
• Networked Learning Ecosystems

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There is truly danger and opportunity
represented in the future of eLearning.
Oehlert, 2003 The Future of e-Learning Models
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In the digital world, decentralization will
continue to change the face of industry and
society. Fighting these forces of change is at
best futile and at worst counterproductive. The
Starfish and the Spider The Unstoppable Power
of Leaderless Organizations Ori Brafman Rod A.
Beckstrom (2006)
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Its ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste
meets mob ruleon steroids. Its a Brave New
World 2.0! Andrew Keen The Cult of the Amateur
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I think technology has created the greatest
productivity improvement in history over the past
20 years across every segment of our society
except in education. Robert
Mendenhall Western Governors University October
25, 2007 (EDUCAUSE)
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Everybody knows that information technology will
change the world, but nobody knows how. Phil
Agre Red Rock Eater, 1999
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Todays child is bewildered when he enters the
19th century environment that still characterizes
the educational establishment where information
is scarce but ordered and structured by
fragmented, classified patterns, subjects, and
schedules. Marshall McLuhan 1967
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To be uncertain is uncomfortable, but to be
certain is ridiculous. Chinese Proverb