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Tony Searl

elearnspace › The urgent need for education/learning tech entrepreneurs - 3 views

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elearnspace learning

shared by Tony Searl on 27 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • existing organizational structures are generally too inhibiting to permit broad scaling. Change must come from the outside
  • entrepreneurs as risk takers who take ownership of an idea or concept and strive to produce systemic impact.
  • I don’t see suitable or viable models for new idea generation and broad implementation outside of entrepreneurship
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  • There is a great need for educators to be part of the process from the bottom up, not as add ons and hired guns.
Tony Searl

elearnspace › Well Played, Blackboard - 0 views

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LMS Moodle Elluminate Blackboard

shared by Tony Searl on 09 Jul 10 - Cached
  • To counter this view, the edupunk/DIY approach to learning has produced an emphasis on personal learning environments and networks. To date, this movement has generated a following from a small passionate group of educators, but has not really made much of an impact on traditional education. I don’t suspect it will until, sadly, it can be commoditized and scaled to fit into existing systemic models of education.
  • Adobe Connect has somewhat of an academic presence, but it has seen far more success in corporate settings, similar to WebEx and GoToMeeting.
  • Integration, not the platform itself, is now the critical focus
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  • Which means that decisions makers are motivated (partly out of fear of appearing ill-informed, partly out of not wanting to take risks) to adopt approaches that integrate fairly seamlessly across the education spectrum. Why buy an LMS when you can buy the educational process?
  • shift from LMS-as-platform to LMS-as-integration
  • Blackboard did not buy into the synchronous education market with the Elluminate and Wimba purchase – they bought the market
  • In the mean time, well played, Blackboard! Your acquisition will have a far greater long term impact in educational technology than most people realize…
  • trust in Blackboard is low – partly due to their lawsuit and partly due to chaotic integrations with their previous purchases.
  • Tony Searl on 09 Jul 10
     
    Some universities are beginning to focus on a big-picture view of technology: making learning resources available in multimedia, integrating technology from design to delivery, using mobile technologies, and increased focus on network pedagogy. Blackboard (and LMS' in general) have been able to present the message that "you need an LMS to do blended and online learning". To counter this view, the edupunk/DIY approach to learning has produced an emphasis on personal learning environments and networks.
Tony Searl

elearnspace › web 3.0/xWeb - 2 views

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connectivism xweb web2 web3 nbn future trends

shared by Tony Searl on 01 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • Tony Searl on 01 Oct 10
     
    Web 2.0 is about participation. Web 3.0 is about linked data and the semantic web. The xweb will have a far greater impact on individuals than web 2.0/3.0. Not everyone is a blogger or contributes videos to youtube or edits wikipedia. However, a growing percentage of the population uses the mobile web. Web 2.0/3.0 are a promise of change. The xweb is an instantiation of change, an expression of how technology can alter how people relate to each other, to information, and how the physical world becomes yet another domain for technology to dominate.
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