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increasingly digital literacy is vital for learning itself.

It goes beyond IT skills, a complete culture change is required to live fully within the modern digital society, from understanding how to communicate ideas effectively in a range of media to managing digital reputation and history.

it's easy to overstate the digital competence of today's undergraduate students and even postgraduate researchers.

Integration is a matter of design, and produces considerable cognitive load on a learner. And in light of APIs, social media, and an array of smart mobile devices, is a kind of digital strategy

When the standard says “digital media,” it might as well say social media as it continues “to add interest,” a side-effect of making something non-social, social. students,” but rather requires learners to make complex decisions about how, when, and why to use technology–something educators must do as well.

But I think there are two important things that online universities bring to the table: (1) Broadening access to higher education, and (2) Leveraging technology to explore new approaches to learning.

For this reason I think that replacing live courses with videotaped lectures is not going far enough (and may in fact be detrimental).

Education should give everyone the opportunity to succeed, but the ultimate responsibility (and raw ability) comes down to the student.

Yet undergraduate education changes remarkably little over time.

Education will be more about how to process and use information and less about imparting it.

An inevitable consequence of the knowledge explosion is that tasks will be carried out with far more collaboration.