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.
Most learners use only basic functionality and are reluctant to explore the capabilities of technology, preferring to passively consume content rather than create or curate it.
This is an extremely important key concept in regard to thinking about where tech belongs and what kind of skills are important to emphasize within the context of curriculum
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.
Evaluation is near the top of Bloom’s taxonomy for a reason, necessitating that students make critical judgment calls about how information is presented and shared.
Collaboration forces students to plan, adopt, adapt, rethink, and revise, all higher-level practices.
demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of one page in a single sitting.
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.
New technologies will profoundly alter the way knowledge is conveyed.
As articulated by the Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman in “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” we understand the processes of human thought much better than we once did.
And yet in the face of all evidence, we rely almost entirely on passive learning.
This makes it essential that the educational experience breed cosmopolitanism — that students have international experiences, and classes in the social sciences draw on examples from around the world.
Courses of study will place much more emphasis on the analysis of data
A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.
Here is a bet and a hope that the next quarter century will see more change in higher education than the last three combined.