Disruptive Technology UNB

That's just it: the fundamental problem with disruptive technologies is that leaders often ignore or disregard them at their peril and that of the institutions they lead.

Special Issue on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) edited by George Siemens

Really interesting perspective - faculty who want to reach the world. 15,000 students completed one of the MOOC's. That is pretty incredible.

Archive of a 2012 MOOC created by George Siemens in D2L about changes being faced in higher education. Use the "Content Browser" (lower left) to scan each week's topics.

"… potential driving research questions to position a MOOC initiative on our campus [i.e. UWM]. One of those was "Can MOOCs be offered within D2L to introduce and orient potential students to our online programs?"

"… students ... are concerned with getting the courses they need in the formats that fit their lifestyles … . The Sloan Foundation has dubbed this concept "localness," meaning that student access to education is always local to them, even if they do so through online learning.

How will disruptive technology change education?

"Ebooks are a sustaining technology that are being mismanaged into devaluing an entire industry (that mismanagement is a subject worthy of a series blog posts) while the true disruptors get to work in peace. (In the long run, Google is the real winner here.)"

" Open Educational Resources (OER)"

"bespoke"

UBC Report of MOOCs Pilot 2014.