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Mr Shirky lets it all hang out. Good read.

Napster lost the battle but won the war - changing the story and disrupting the cost models; in higher ed our MP3 is the MOOC and our Napster is Udacity...

Napster did lose. What won was DRM-laden iTunes, then Amazon. What lesson will higher education draw from that?

Six Core Challenges lie at the core of the innovative disruption facing higher education: University Model; Structural Model; Funding Model; Cost Model; Business Model; Success Model Seven Areas of Change - The six core challenges noted above are driven by seven areas of rapid change, primarily technological change: The Players; The College Models; The Course Models; Data and Learning Analytics; The Cost: Reduced and Free; Measuring Success; Threats to the Credential

This paper explores the impact of communication media and the Internet on connectivity between people. Results from a series of social network studies of media use are used as background for exploration of these impacts. These studies explored the use of all available media among members of an academic research group and among distance learners. Asking about media use as well as about the strength of the tie between communicating pairs revealed that those more strongly tied used more media to communicate than weak ties, and that media use within groups conformed to a unidimensional scale, showing a configuration of different tiers of media use supporting social networks of different ties strengths. These results lead to a number of implications regarding media and Internet connectivity, including: how media use can be added to characteristics of social network ties; how introducing a medium can create latent tie connectivity among group members that provides the technical means for activating weak ties, and also how a change in a medium can disrupt existing weak tie networks; how the tiers of media use also suggest that certain media support different kinds of information flow; and the importance of organization-level decisions about what media to provide and promote. The paper concludes with a discussion of implications for Internet effects.

93 profiles of companies poised to take advantage of disruption of education globally, includes history with company info, the 4 Ps (people, product, potential predictability) ... which one is your fav and why?

Technology in Education can be used to facilitate instruction and realise many long-standing and sound goals around personalised learning, and clear learning outcomes, on campus and in online education.

Challenge: The Completions Priority "The completions marketplace should be redesigned to improve overall scalability, measurable impact, mutual affordability, and sustainability. To do so while avoiding intrusive government regulation and retaining local autonomy will require voluntarily confirmed "rules of the road" that enable effective completions practices at autonomous micro levels to be rolled up collectively into mutually affordable common-good macro solutions." Solution: Economic Governance for the Completions Marketplace - a common good critical to economic and social progress "The wisdom of a crowd willing to inform and support adaptive change leadership might help create common ground in a nonprofit, non-governmental global Education Leadership Commons (ELC) formed for the purpose of developing and evolving open interoperability of common educational services, processes, and accountability metrics, all at a minimally intrusive, trusted level of economic governance. Modeled along the lines of the Internet Society's so-far successful governance mechanisms, the ELC could be operationalized through standing working groups, their advisory or governance committees, and other nested and loosely-coupled, efforts to advance and sustain educational attainment within and across the three dimensions of the completions marketplace." - Completions Productivity Task Force - Economic Governance Council chart on page 6: Governance Matrix of Rights and Responsibilities in the Completions Marketplace student, assessment provider, education provider, government (other other funding source) 8 possible outcomes, including accreditation's formative peer-review process is retained "to create "trust-but-verify" economic governance collaborations" "If government can't provide the leadership and funding stability required for victory, then we the people should do so through a social networking micro-contribution mechanism, not unlike the micro-loan infrastructure cr

addressing humans' "essential conservativism" in the face of radical change - and lessons she learned from studying Abraham Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War

flipped his machine learning class in Spring 2012 using online lectures from the F2011 Stanford MOOC (an inclass "wrapper" around a MOOC - online discussion and grading with additional requirements from the onsite instructor, e.g., add'l readings, small group discussions, final project) "I now view MOOCs, and the assessment and discussion infrastructure that comes with them, as invaluable resources that I embrace and to which I add value. I, and I am guessing many others, are short steps away from full-blown customizations of individual courses and even entire curricula, drawing upon resources from around the world and contributing back to those resources."

national initiative to re-imagine and then to redesign undergraduate education for the 21st century