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By directly defining in plain language what people will get out of your Experience and how it will make them smarter, more interesting, survive in the Amazon, increasingly witty, or a more competitive athlete in the title of your Experience, you are one step closer to creating a compelling Experience

This video was produced as a contribution to the EDUCAUSE book, The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud Computing, edited by Richard Katz and available as an e-Book at

To understand this brave new classroom, we can learn from the library. For years librarians have grappled with their own version of this inversion, seeing library functions migrate beyond physical walls. Indeed, a slogan coined in 2005, around the same time Web 2.0 started growing into a planetary force, spotlighting not library as place, but (every) place as (a) library.11 Libraries facilitate access to patrons anywhere. Similarly, teachers increasingly make learning experiences available to any connected learner, willingly or not. Thus education needs all kinds of professional and policy responses to support the classroom. We can imagine changes to teacher training in graduate school, new professional development content, increased campus media capture support, new privacy policies, intellectual property policy revisions, reinterpretations of FERPA, and new licenses and negotiations for non-OER materials. And that’s just for starters.

for the most part, knowledge created by academics is placed mostly in outlets that can be accessed only by “the knowledge elite.”

I have become so used to publishing directly to the Web that I felt shackled by the constraints of the print medium.

open access and peer-review are NOT mutually exclusive

Perhaps more important for education, Internetcapable mobile devices will outnumber computers within the next year.

This shift in the means of connecting to the Internet is being enabled by the convergence of three trends: the growing number of Internet-capable mobile devices, increasingly flexible web content, and continued development of the networks that support connectivity.

The content of electronic books and the social activities they enable, rather than the device used to access them, are the keys to their popularity;