Clark sets the cat among the pigeons with this post arguing that Moocs are the best thing since sliced bread. He's always prepared to mix it up and there are some astute observaions in here. What is missing is what the landscape will look like in 1 or 2 years.
Look around the next time you’re sat on a crowded city bus during commuting hours. Most people’s headphones are now plugged into their phones. If by some chance they’re not listening to music then they’re reading the paper, a book, checking twitter, posing on facebook, writing an email, updating their diary or taking a photo and sticking a vintage filter on it while on their phone, or tablet, or e-reader. And they probably are listening to music while doing all the above.
Excellent piece on the changing digital landscape and what it means for content.
"Look around the next time you're sat on a crowded city bus during commuting hours. Most people's headphones are now plugged into their phones. If by some chance they're not listening to music then they're reading the paper, a book, checking twitter, posing on facebook, writing an email, updating their diary or taking a photo and sticking a vintage filter on it while on their phone, or tablet, or e-reader. And they probably are listening to music while doing all the above."
George Siemens "shares some Elgg love": "When I survey the landscape of educational tools, I come to the following conclusion: Elgg is the most important tool, currently available, in shaping the future of learning."
Two Potential Futures
Our forecast suggests that the learning ecosystem
is going to diversify, and indeed has already
started to do so. At the American Alliance of
Museums' convening on the future of education
Glimpses of the Future of Education
By Katherine Prince, Senior Director, Strategic Foresight, KnowledgeWorks
A detail of a KnowledgeWorks infographic on the future of learning. For the complete infographic go to knowledgeworks.
org/strategic-foresight.
1
®
Glimpses of Future Educationin September, I had the pleasure of
sharing two plausible scenarios for
how the future may take shape. We
could find ourselves living in:
* a vibrant learning grid in which
all of us who care about learning
create a flexible and radically
personalized learning ecosystem
that meets the needs of all
learners, or
* a fractured landscape in which
only those whose families have
the time, money and resources
to customize or supplement their
learning journeys have access to
learning that adapts to and meets
their needs.
Run your browser as a server, a platform, a service. Unite looks like a radical departure in the web landscape. Will be interesting to see the reality and how it pans out.