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This paper analyses the role of "disruptive" innovative technologies in higher education. In this country and elsewhere, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have invested significant sums in learning technologies, with Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) being more or less universal, but these technologies have not been universally adopted and used by students and staff. Instead, other technologies not owned or controlled by HEIs are widely used to support learning and teaching. According to Christensen's theory of Disruptive Innovation, these disruptive technologies are not designed explicitly to support learning and teaching in higher education, but have educational potential. This study uses Activity Theory and Expansive Learning to analyse data regarding the impact of disruptive technologies. The data were obtained through a questionnaire survey about awareness and use of technologies, and through observation and interviews, exploring participants' actual practice. The survey answers tended to endorse Disruptive Innovation theory, with participants establishing meanings for technologies through their use of them, rather than in keeping with a designer's intentions. Observation revealed that learners use a narrow range of technologies to support learning, but with a tendency to use resources other than those supplied by their HEIs. Interviews showed that participants use simple and convenient technologies to support their learning and teaching. This study identifies a contradiction between learning technologies made available by HEIs, and technologies used in practice. There is no evidence to suggest that a wide range of technologies is being used to support learning and teaching. Instead, a small range of technologies is being used for a wide range of tasks. Students and lecturers are not dependent on their HEIs to support learning and teaching. Instead, they self-select technologies, with use weighted towards established brands. The use of technologies

Technology and the many advances it creates are here to stay. As a teacher you will not be able to get away from teaching with and about technology. In addition, your students need you to do this because they will not be able to avoid the many technological advances surrounding them. The use of new kinds of technology will improve your teaching methods. It will serve to simplify the lesson planning process because you will have access to many new resources. Below are five ways you can include technological advances in your classroom:

I nternational leaders face an era of unprecedented change. The recession and  financial crisis that ended in 2009 caused a seismic shift that has reshaped  the global business landscape. The world economy is now characterized  by sluggish growth in the West, a shift in power to the East, and value-driven  customers and rising risks everywhere. At the same time, the downturn has  hastened the adoption of key technologies-mobility, cloud computing, business  intelligence and social media-that are transforming businesses and sparking a  new wave of wealth creation, particularly in the emerging world. Economic growth and technology are inextricably linked. Current economic  conditions are fostering investment in technology as emerging markets ramp up  their demand for technology to fuel growth, and advanced markets seek new  ways to cut costs and drive innovation. This becomes a virtuous circle as digital  technologies drive consumer income and demand, education and training, and  efficient use of capital and resources-leading to increased economic growth,  particularly in emerging markets. 

The TR10 represents the 10 most important technological milestones reached in the last 12 months. To compile the list, Technology Review selects the technologies we believe will have the greatest impact on the shape of innovation in years to come. This impact can take very different forms: one technology points toward a method of discovering better battery materials for mobile devices and electric vehicles; another offers a new way for entrepreneurs to fund the commercialization of emerging technologies. But in all cases, these are breakthroughs with the potential to transform the world.

Les nouvelles technologies : révolution culturelle et cognitive « Les nouvelles technologies nous ont condamnés à devenir intelligents ! ». C'est ce que postule Michel Serres... Visionner la vidéo - Durée : 1 h 04 min. Écouter la conférence en MP3. Le 11 décembre 2007, à l'occasion des 40 ans de l'INRIA, Michel Serres a donné une conférence sur la révolution culturelle et cognitive engendrée par les nouvelles technologies. Le célèbre académicien y explicite comment la révolution informatique change notre rapport au monde. Tout comme avant elle, l'écriture, puis l'imprimerie, ont profondément transformé nos modes de vie. Une conséquence inévitable de toute révolution. Le philosophe donne rapidement le ton et invite son auditoire à prendre conscience de la révolution cognitive générée par la révolution de l'information. Pour lui, les nouvelles technologies ont poussé l'homme à externaliser sa mémoire. Il nous faudra donc être inventifs, intelligents, transparents pour être des acteurs de cette nouvelle période de l'Histoire.

"ere is a summary of the Gartner Hype Cycle for "Emerging Technologies" for 2012 - what is stated explicitly, what can be inferred. This Hype Cycle is suppose provide insight into emerging technologies that have broad, cross-industry relevance, and are transformational and high impact in potential. Most crowded hype cycle on emerging technologies in last 10 years 48 technologies are listed in this year's hype cycle which is the highest in last ten years. Last year they had 42 - year 2008 was the lowest (27) - year 2005 was the previous highest (44)."

Watch out! Internet connections worldwide may have been slower past weekend! Last weekend hundreds of hackers, programmers, designers and anti-corruption experts and activists in Bogotá, Budapest, Casablanca, Jakarta, Moscow and Vilnius gathered last weekend to develop new ICT tools that can help citizens monitor government and report corruption. Websites like ipaidabribe.com in India and use of twitter in events like the Arab Spring have shown that technology can be a powerful vehicle for people power. Hacks Against Corruption (HAC) is Transparency International's first attempt to bring together technology and anti-corruption specialists to use technology to come up with some of the challenges we face in fighting corruption: visualising the cost of corruption, monitoring complex, massive public budgets and allowing citizens to safely report corruption in their life.

t's spring break and summer is just around the corner, which means vacation season is upon us. From mobile apps to deal sites, people use technology more than ever to help find places to go. Technology also helps vacationers enjoy themselves after they reach their destinations. But just how much is technology changing the way we travel? Nearly one-third of social media users have used a mobile app to find good prices for flights and hotels, and 15% have downloaded an app specific to a certain trip, according to a survey by the market research company Lab42. And just because people are on break, they aren't necessarily taking a break from their devices. More than 80% of international vacationers use their smartphones while abroad. About 70% post photos to a social network while on vacation, and 46% use services like Facebook and Foursquare to check in to restaurants and other places they visit. For the full picture of how technology and social media are changing our travel experiences, check out the Lab42 infographic below. What role do tech and social media play in your trips? Let us know in the comments.

Connect2Compete is a national nonprofit organization bringing together leaders from communities, the private sector, and leading foundations. Through our programs and the power of technology, we will improve the lives of Americans - regardless of their age, race, geography, income, or education level. The use of technology to access educational content is necessary to ensure future generations can compete in the global economy and to prepare them for the 21st century workforce. Connect2Compete will help Americans access technology through three exciting offers: free digital literacy training, discounted high-speed Internet, and low-cost computers. To promote the work, Connect2Compete will create a national outreach campaign focused on the importance of technology to develop digital skills and find new opportunities.

L'IRI explore en premier lieu le champ des digital studies, au sens où une nouvelle "organologie des savoirs" apparaît avec le numérique, qui requiert des concepts et des études spécifiques, et qui bouleversent l'ensemble de l'épistémè contemporaine, au sens où Michel Foucault entendait ce mot. Et il investigue plus précisément le champ des technologies culturelles et cognitives du point de vue des digital humanities,qui sont appréhendées ici comme un secteur spécifique des digital studies. L'Iri a pour ambition de participer ainsi à l'élaboration de nouvelles formes d'adresse au public et de contribution, de dispositifs critiques collaboratifs et de technologies éditoriales et relationnelles dans les domaine de la culture et des savoirs, à la fois en théorisant et en formalisant les technologies concernées et les pratiques sociales qu'elles suscitent, et en développant les applications culturelles et scientifiques, notamment dans le domaine muséal et plus généralement comme technologies destinées aux amateurs.

Understanding where technology is heading is more than guesswork. Looking at emerging trends and research, one can predict and draw conclusions about how the technological sphere is developing, and which technologies should become mainstream in the coming years. Envisioning technology is meant to facilitate these observations by taking a step back and seeing the wider context. By speculating about what lies beyond the horizon we can make better decisions of what to create today

And why not? IBM's products are more akin to a fine wine than to a canine commodity. "IBM itself deploys our technologies for our own business purpose," says Schick. "We're a user of Sametime, we're a user of Lotus Notes, we're a user of IBM Connections. We use all of our collaboration technology across the 430,000 employees and another 75,000 contractors that are inside of IBM at any given moment." Schick has been pivotal to IBM's work in social technology for decades. He's been a developer, he's been in the field working with clients, he has run lines of business like enterprise content management, he's the creator of IBM Connections, and now he's in charge of the company's entire collaboration space, including messaging, unified communication and office productivity technologies overall.

In 2001, when the World Economic Forum first published  The Global Information and Technology Report (GITR),  the dot-com bubble had just burst; there were fewer than  20 million mobile phone users in all of Africa; and Apple  Inc.'s product line was confined to Macintosh computers.  That Report presented an optimistic view of the future,  highlighting the transformational potential of information  and communication technologies (ICT) in advancing the  progress of global society and business. In the decade  that followed, Booz & Company has witnessed firsthand  the realization of that potential in its work with clients and  communities worldwide and through its long-standing  involvement with the GITR. Today there are more than  500 million mobile phone subscribers in Africa, and  Apple is the world's largest company in market capitalization, producing iPhones, iPods, and iPads along with  Mac computers. Despite the strides the sector has made  since the technology bust in 2001, however, we believe  we are only just beginning to feel the impact of digitization-the mass adoption by consumers, businesses, and  governments of smart and connected ICT. Success in the digitization world-where competitors from Shenzhen to Schengen can emerge seemingly  overnight-requires policymakers and business leaders  to go back to the drawing board to identify and build  "right-to-win" capabilities in their spheres of influence.  Digitization is more than a matter of access. Our recent  research shows that digitization multiplies the impact of  connectivity, creating substantial incremental value in  terms not only of job creation and economic growth, but  also of societal well-being and government transparency.  Today, more than 70 percent of the world's citizens live in  societies that have just begun their digitization journeys.  As the individuals and enterprises in these societies  continue to progress in developing their own digitiza

Les activités de l'Institut Technologies de l'information et Sociétés (ITIS) répondent à quatre grandes priorités : Valorisation et diffusion des connaissances Diffuseur de connaissances, l'ITIS met en valeur les travaux de recherche menés sur le campus de l'Université Laval, auprès de clientèles ciblées autant que du grand public. Convergence et accessibilité Agent de liaison et carrefour de convergence, l'ITIS favorise les interactions entre les chercheurs de l'Université Laval, l'industrie des TI et la communauté. Il encourage et développe la mise en commun des expertises internes et externes dans la mise en place et le développement de projets innovants en technologies de l'information. Développement des occasions d'affaires Levier stratégique, l'ITIS cherche à créer des occasions d'affaires et des partenariats dans les domaines de la formation et de la recherche en TI. Il utilise donc ses ressources à des fins de conseil, de vigie, d'accompagnement et de développement. Relève et formation Ressource de référence, l'ITIS organise des activités visant à attirer de nouveaux étudiants ou professionnels dans les domaines liés aux technologies de l'information et participe à la création de programmes de formation rattachés à la sphère des TI.

Technologies Sensio obtient un placement de cinq millions de dollars de la part de la firme de NCP Northland Capital Partners. L'entreprise montréalaise Technologies Sensio, qui conçoit des technologies pour la diffusion de contenu télévisuel en trois dimensions sur des canaux traditionnels, obtient ce placement de cinq millions de dollars de la part de la firme NCP Northand Capital Partners en échange d'actions ordinaires

The eight articles that the New York Times published this week in a special Science series on health information technology called "The Digital Doctor" covered everything from advances in imaging technology to the psychological impacts of a wired society. The articles are well worth a read. One story, on the "ups and downs" of electronic health records (EHRs), examined doctors' and nurses' experiences as EHRs become more wide-spread because of the U.S. government's multi-billion dollar EHR adoption incentive program. What I found interesting in the Times story was the admission by some of the fiercest advocates for EHRs, like Dr. David Brailer, the first national coordinator for health information technology, that, "The current information tools are still difficult to set up. They are hard to use. They fit only parts of what doctors do, and not the rest."

Presentation for CITI State of Telecom 2011 Columbia University October 14, 2011 Erik Bohlin Division of Technology and Society  Department of Technology Management and Economics Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden The results reported here are based on a collaborative proj

The European Commission is preparing a review of the present Broadband Guidelines by September 2012. This early revision reflects the fact that at the time of passing the Guidelines there was only limited experience at the European Commission regarding State aid notifications dealing with NGA networks. Moreover the revision has to take into account a number of specific questions related to technology which came up with the decision making in the context of public funding of NGA networks. The core objective of the present study is to support the revision process by drawing lessons from the implementation of past decisions and by clarifying a given set of technological issues.  Against this background the purpose of the study is twofold.   According to the Terms of Reference the study should   * assess the functioning of the existing framework by assessing the implementation of a selected sample of projects in the broadband sector. Such projects should include both European and non-European ventures, when the latter can provide useful insights due to their possible more advanced stage of implementation. The assessment should focus on an analysis of the potential difficulties experienced with the implementation of the conditions set out in the European Commission authorisation decision as well as on potential implications for the review of the Broadband Guidelines.  * give advice to the European Commission services regarding a limited number of technical issues which are relevant for the implementation of the Broadband Guidelines. The main issues to be addressed are:   (a) Technological solutions for NGA networks;   (b) Granting wholesale access to competitors on the subsidized networks  and different "open access" products;   (c) Separation.   The two objectives of the study are intertwined, and at the end lead to consistent recommendations for the upcoming revision of the Broadband Guidelines.

SFI External Professor W. Brian Arthur argues in the Santa Fe New Mexican, in a reprint of an essay recently published in McKinsey Quarterly, that a deep, slow, and silent transformation of our economy is taking place today as a second digital economy supplants the physical one we know. Every 60 years or so, he writes, a technological innovation comes along that slowly alters the economy. In the late 19th century it was the railroads linking east and west, goods and labor, and eventually fueling the industrial revolution.  Information technology is that technology today -- vast, interconnected, and extraordinarily productive. "Processes in the physical economy are being entered into the digital economy, where they are 'speaking to' other processes in the digital economy, in a constant conversation among multiple servers and multiple semi-intelligent nodes that are updating things, querying things, checking things off, readjusting things, and eventually connecting back with processes and human in the physical economy." Previously, humans were responsible for these processes. "Physical jobs are disappearing into the second economy, and I believe this effect is dwarfing the much more publicized effect of jobs disappearing to places like India and China," Arthur writes.

Dans les dernières années, différentes technologies ont fait leur apparition et se sont développées à l'échelle planétaire, entrainant des bouleversements importants dans le monde des communications, dans les sciences, les industries, etc. Internet à lui seul apporte des changements si importants que plusieurs le comparent à l'apparition de l'imprimerie. Plusieurs secteurs de l'industrie sont touchés par ces bouleversements, notamment celui des arts et de la culture. Apparition de nouveaux acteurs, transformation de la chaine de production traditionnelle, augmentation importante des possibilités de diffusion, redéfinition de la notion de droits d'auteur ne sont que quelques-unes des questions nouvelles qu'introduit le développement des technologies numériques. Des possibilités émergent, des enjeux se dessinent et poussent les acteurs du milieu à réfléchir et à s'adapter à cette nouvelle donne. C'est dans cet ordre d'idée que le Conseil de la culture de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue (CCAT) a d'abord sondé le milieu culturel régional concernant son utilisation des technologies numériques pour ensuite colliger ces données dans un portrait. Le colloque AVANTAGE NUMÉRIQUE auquel ont participé plusieurs intervenants du secteur culturel s'est ensuite tenu le 20 février 2012.