Online Learning @ NLU: Conversation 2.0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nHJkAYdT7qo&feature=related Don Grady & Kathy Walsh / Summer 2008

Where are we headed…..

The Future is now http://ol.nl.edu/stardatenews.htm

We’ve come to ask you 5 3 questions

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What’s going on in the digital universe?

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What’s the matter with kids today?

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What could all of this mean for online learning at NLU?

There will be a quiz!

Question 1 What’s going on in the digital universe?

You say you want a revolution?

Ray Kurzweil: Revolutions happen fast

“The Law of Accelerating Returns”

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The Kurzweil Singularity (mid-21 st century): when “humans and / or machines start evolving into immortal beings with ever-improving software” Kurzweil bets that by 2029, a machine will pass the Turing Test: carrying on a conversation that is indistinguishable from a human being’s http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/science/03tier.html?em&ex=1212638400&en=5aae676fac 458197&ei=5087%0A

The web changes the way we think & behave

The digital divide is generational – not economic 3 years is a LONG time Viral growth Perpetual beta Cluetrain 95 Theses: http://www.clu

etrain.com/ book/95 theses.html

http://www.rossdawsonblog.com/weblog/archives/2007/10/extinction_time.html

2.0: “The soul of a new machine”

(Tracy Kidder, 1981 & lots of eds.) Is the hyperlink one of history’s landmark inventions?

Paul Otlet’s “réseau” (“network”) 1934: Linked documents & the possibility of social networks http://www.nytimes.com/2008 /06/17/science/17mund.html

The machine is us/ing us http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g Michael Wesch Kansas State University Digital Ethnography Project http://mediatedcultures.net/ Sandra Nelson, Wired for the Future: “Technology is a tool … it is only a tool.”

An architecture of participation

(Paul Miller, Talis)

CONTINUOUS PARTIAL ATTENTION

Linda Stone

HBR

“Breakthrough ideas of 2007”

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The wisdom of crowds (ex.: Wikipedia)

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James Surowiecki

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Radical trust (privacy? Ha!)

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Darlene Fichter (U. of Saskatchewan)

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The long tail (ex.: Amazon.com)

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Chris Anderson (not THAT one)

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Disaggregation & mashups (ex.: Google Maps)

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Experiments & “home-made” stuff

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Texting – not IM, not e-mail. But NOT text-based.

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“Finding others like me”: a universe of BFFs

2.0 approaches

Finding info http://msdewey.com

Marketing, communications, politics, etc.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TZ_ wzvwePL4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=pv5zWaTEVkI Enabling anyone to get creative & be seen everywhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns3 14ZNaJb4

2.0 incarnate

http://my.barackobama.

com TOP-DOWN CONTROL & GRASSROOTS FOUNDATIONS

IDEAS TALENT INSPIRATIONAL LEADERSHIP USER-GUIDED NETWORK OPEN PROCESSES THE NEW, NEW THING ALMOST FORGOT OBAMA GIRL: http://barelypolitical.com

Build community context first

It’s about five very specific user spaces: communities

Learning

Research Culture / entertainment Workplace

Neighbourhood

© Stephen Abram

2.0 tools: the basics

www.wetpaint.com

http://pbwiki.com

http://digg.com

www.flickr.com

http://youtube.com

www.ning.com

www.facebook.com

www.myspace.com

www.clubpenguin.com

www.linkedin.com

http://drupal.org

www.joomla.org

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Blogs

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Wikis

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RSS feeds & aggregators

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File-sharing

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Online communities

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Open source / open access

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Alternative communication technologies like Skype

Tagging, folksonomies, & knowledge mapping

http://deliciou s.com/ http://digg.co

m http://furl.co

m/ http://wordle.

net

The U.S. lags in broadband development

“Explaining international broadband leadership,”

Robert D. Atkinson, Daniel K. Correa, & Julie A. Hedlund, Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

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U.S. ranks 15 th of 30 developed countries , as measured by speed, price, & subscribers per household

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Protectionist trade policies impede U.S. r & d – not to mention import & sale of models in wide use elsewhere Happenstance : South Korea has relatively lots of urban apartment complexes, so 10x more wi-fi availability Cited in The Atlantic Monthly, July / August 2008, 28

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Policy : Swedish government has already invested $90 per citizen to encourage broadband development – a similar commitment in the U.S. would cost $30b

The real story isn’t PC vs. Mac.

It’s PC or Mac vs.

wireless handheld.

Gomez.inc

expects 95% of Web access to be via wireless handheld within 12-18 months.

I billion people have PCs or Macs.

3 billion have mobile phones.

That will grow to 4 billion by 2010.

CONVERGENCE: the holy grail

David Pogue’s iPhone: The Musical http://www.youtube.c

om/watch?v=v niMR6Ez9cE&e url=http%3A% 2F%2Fngalaxy %2Eblogspot% 2Ecom%2F200 7%2F07%2Fda vid%2Dpogues %2Diphone%2 Dmusical%2Eht ml David’s review of the iPhone G3 : http://video.on.ny

times.com/?f

r_story=61d 9c216653e0 7028702ee1 b3aada38bb f5980df

Surface computing

HP’s TouchSmart PC $1,349 http://www.p

opularmecha nics.com/tech nology/indust ry/4217348.h

tml

Ubiquitous computing

Storage decoupled from display

Yep, that’s a flash drive in a bowling ball.

Don’t drive – just download

Howard A. Smith’s

Gizmo

(1977)

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Google movies

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Roku Netflix player

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www.hulu.com

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TV, movies, etc.

http://video.g

oogle.com/vi deoplay?doci

d=55928020 7502451804 4

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Comcast plans 6,000 “On-Demand” flicks

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iTunes pricing & DRM

E-ink & Amazon’s Kindle

www.eink.com

Amazon’s Kindle

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Revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.

More than 120,000 books available, including more than 98 of 112 current New York Times® Best Sellers.

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New York Times® Best Sellers and New Releases $9.99, unless marked otherwise.

Free book samples. Download and read first chapters for free before you decide to buy.

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Top U.S. newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post; top magazines including TIME, Atlantic Monthly, and Forbes—all auto-delivered wirelessly.

Top international newspapers from France, Germany, and Ireland; Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, and The Irish Times—all auto-delivered wirelessly.

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More than 300 top blogs from the worlds of business, technology, sports, entertainment, and politics, including BoingBoing, Slashdot, TechCrunch, ESPN's Bill Simmons, The Onion, Michelle Malkin, and The Huffington Post—all updated wirelessly throughout the day.

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Holds over 200 titles.

Unlike WiFi, Kindle utilizes the same high-speed data network (EVDO) as advanced cell phones—so you never have to locate a hotspot.

Polymer Vision’s Readius

Currently available only in Europe – due in U.S. winter ’08-09

The first pocket-sized e-reader

€600 http://www.polymer

vision.com/site/pag e/49//

LiveScribe’s Pulse smartpen

http://youtube.co

m/watch?v=uJN WlOhSyhA http://gizmodo.co

m/349511/livescr ibe-pulse smartpen digitally-copies notes-records-3d audio 2 gig $249 1 gig $179

I-Tech’s Virtual Laser Keyboard

$199.99

Incredibly fast, powerful computing

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who know binary, and those who don’t.

http://www.t

hinkgeek.com

/tshirts/frustr ations/5aa9/

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Cloud computing

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2007/tc20071116_379585.htm

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Quantum computing

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/quantum-computer.htm

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Carbon nanotubes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube

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HP’s Memristor chip

http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-04/hp-discovers-potential-god-particle electronics

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Petaflop processing

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/technology/14email.html

Let’s talk about games. Here’s ours .

And here’s one of theirs.

MMORPGs massively multiplayer online role-playing games Everquest II 2 million players World of Warcraft 10 million players with “save” capability, the game can evolve forever

Not all games are for children.

They can teach deep lessons. Really.

http://www.nyti

mes.com/2008/0 6/04/arts/televisi on/04conan.html

Age of Conan

UIC uses sims for public health training

Sim: Pandemic flu outbreak UIC CADE (Center for the Advancement of Distance Education)

What makes rich media so compelling?

HARD FUN *

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* G. Sayeed Choudhury

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(Hodson Director, Digital Research & Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries) All about self-discovery & enlightenment Collaboration feels like real-life interaction Good narrative captures & keeps attention Upsets traditional age-related expertise & teacher / pupil relationships Builds in & on different cognitive abilities & different relationships to learning that upcoming generation(s) may have

Sorta-sensory experience

WiiFit from Nintendo http://www.you

tube.com/watch ?v=_iYBmAVuB ns Wii Sports Resort http://bits.blogs.

nytimes.com/20 08/07/21/its not-a-game console-its-a community/inde x.html

SecondLife ( © Linden Lab)

Virtual Starry Night http://www.y

outube.com/w atch?v=EfruH 02RD9M Tr3ssis Virtual Worlds http://www.tr

essis.nl/

Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope

www.WorldWideTelescope.org

O.K., I admit it – Microsoft can do some things well.

Going a little deeper …

Macaques can learn to control a robot arm with their thoughts http://www.boxx

et.com/Carnegie_ Mellon_Universit y/Monkey_contro ls_robot_arm_wit h_its_mind.21f07

p.d

Randy Pausch (1960 – 2008)

The Last Lecture (September 2007) http://youtub e.com/watch ?v=ji5_Mqicx So&feature=r elated

The print era, ca. 1450 - 2007

Q: Who will keep the print stuff?

From 2008 forward ….

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Google digitization + © lawyers A: Major libraries Q: The digital?

A: The Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine

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Soaring e-book sales Self-publishing & book ATMs Print newspapers on life support

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iTunes pricing & DRM models http://www.archiv

e.org

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New generations of visual learners

Publishers Weekly predictions for ‘08

“Open education” movement:

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Big growth in e-book sales

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All content Kindle-capable

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XML no longer optional

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Challenge: don’t forget other formats “Traditional textbook publishing opened up into a vast knowledge ecosystem”

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Publishers acquire specialized web sites to get content & target niche audiences

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Apple moves iPod & iPhone to book reader capability

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Many more large-print titles (for boomers)

The digital reformation in scholarship

NLU Digital Commons: http://digitalcommons.nl.edu

Mark Twain on copyright: Kathy’s conversion experience: The Dead Sea Scrolls

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http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/technologies/scrolls.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE1DA1239F931A35757C0A960958260 Only one thing is impossible for God: to find any sense in any copyright law on the planet.

- Mark Twain's Notebook, 1902-1903 http://www.twainqu

otes.com/Copyright.

html

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Works “ born digital ”

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Cyberinfrastructure issues FUBU approaches: LOCKSS, JSTOR, Muse, Portico, SPARC, etc.

Copyrights & copywrongs (Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia)

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Fair use (CFR 17 107-108)

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Infotainment & publishing vs. “the common good” Life + 75 years (thank you, Sonny Bono) Contract vs. license

Search: the quest for “intelligent information”

Information waits for you.

Intelligent information finds you.

Thomson Reuters ad campaign, summer 2008

Microsoft has tried its hand.

But MS Live Search isn’t, uh, dominant … so Microsoft is offering discounts on Live Search web shopping.

US market share Jan ’08:

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Google 68.6%

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Yahoo 16.7%

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MSN / Live 8.7%

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Ask 3.7%

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AOL 1.7% What’s new @ Google?

http://labs.google.co

m Step 1. Aggregate Step 2. Track usage Step 3. Mine the data Step 4.

ADD ADS

Don’t be evil

Ad Planner is free & in beta June ‘08 Step 5. Diversify (YouTube, Digg, wind energy, venture capital, etc. etc. etc.) Step 6. TAKE OVER THE WORLD!

Of course, there are still a few bugs ….

What’s “obscene”?

Will Google data determine the legal definition of community standards?

A Florida case could set the precedent.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/technology/24obscene.html?ex=12 14971200&en=0764835de4e5ab39&ei=5070&emc=eta1

Google Earth

http://earth.

google.com

Bowdoin College, courtesy Google Earth

Knol: Google’s answer to Wikipedia

http://knol.go

ogle.com

Signed articles only (with permission, Google will verify author’s identity) Each article is a “knol” Others can modify, comment, etc.

Lots of international / non-English content Google offers author compensation from ad revenues generated by their knol(s)

Move over, Google?

Here comes Cuil (“cool”)

www.cuil.

com Sample search Cuil & Google: spontaneous human combustion It’s brand new (July 20 or so) Created by Google alums “Magazine-style” display Fewer but possibly better results?

Nicholas Carr in The Atlantic

Monthly

July-August 2008: http://www.t

heatlantic.co

m/doc/20080 7/google

How we read online

http://www.slate.com/id/2193552/?from=rss

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Jakob Nielsen (usability expert): “users are selfish, lazy, & ruthless” & engaged in “information foraging”

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Eye-tracking studies: online readers skip large blocks of text

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Turn-ons: white space, bullets, visual & audio

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Turn-off: chunks of words

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Links suggest more authority

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Hard to come by: digital “ludic” reading (for pleasure)

Question 2

What’s the matter with kids today?

Born digital

So young, & so gadgeted http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/12/technology/personalt ech/12basics.html?ex=1229140800&en=ffea15b9a786ada4 &ei=5087&WT.mc_id=TE-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M048-ROS 0608-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click&mkt=TE-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD M048-ROS-0608-HDR

Digital natives, not immigrants

Michael Wesch: A view of students today http://youtube.co

m/watch?v=dGC J46vyR9o

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OMG! U.S. Navy calls MySpace kids “Alien Life Force” (Wired blog 9.28.07)

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They don’t read like we did. But they DO read – & learn – like crazy.

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Some research suggests their brains really are wired differently.

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Texting-syle lingo showing up in K-12 schoolwork

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Facebook manners & Facebook bullying

Busy, busy, busy

Select Multitasking Activities of U.S. College Students in the Past Month While Watching TV, by Gender, May 2007 (% of respondents in each group)

Talking on the phone Instant messaging online

Male Female Total

49% 75% 62% 33% 49% 41% Text messaging Surfing Web sites Doing classwork Researching classwork online Playing a game on a mobile device 24% 42% 41% 29% 12% 54% 26% 13% 9% 2% 39% 34% 27% 18% 7%

Note: n=1,200 full-time four-year college students ages 18-24 Source: Youth Trends, "The Lifestyle Report: Spring 2007," provided to eMarketer, June 2007

35782

www.emarketer.com

Our online community (8-10 p.m.)

http://www.y

outube.com/ watch?v=prX XgE5PIZc

Their online community (every waking moment)

It’s difficult to penetrate the Gen M universe

“Every generation of adults sees new technology – and the social changes it stirs – as a threat to the rightful order of things. Plato warned (correctly) that reading would be the downfall of oral tradition and memory.”

Time

March 19, 2006 Multitasking & continuous partial attention (remember that term?)

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Multitasking = rapid toggling, not simultaneous processing Normal brain development

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well young children & older adults don’t multitask

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“Habitual multitasking may condition the brain to an overexcited state, making it difficult to focus even when they want to.” Especially skilled with VISUAL learning Reading & writing in chunks Lack critical & analytical skills Are they less tolerant of ambiguity & complexity?

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“Belief in the simple answer, put together in a visual way” Online environment may suit adolescent developmental needs

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Less risky if you’re not yet comfortable with intimacy Allows lots of experimenting with identity But what are you NOT doing if you’re online all the time?

Question 3

What could all of this mean for online learning at NLU?

The world is in the early stages of the digital, media era ..

… but lots of higher ed institutions (including NLU) are still largely text-based & analog.

Why should we care?

Online students at NLU: 3,300 – 79% increase over FY2007 national: 3.5 million as of Fall 2006 – a 10% increase over prior year

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Online learning works.

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Strategic direction

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key programs & demographics lend themselves to digital

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We’re already seeing “millennial” students,

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but our faculty – student age gap is growing.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Vz0L8xWkqQ Accelerating explosion of stuff produced or available digitally

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(“Moore’s Law on speed”)

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Digital learning may give students a competitive advantage.

Online learning: Trends

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Earlier eras focused on MIS – now, IT increasingly often reports to Academic Affairs.

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EU: WebCT/Blackboard has 80%+ market share but criticism is emerging, faculty hate it, & open source systems are gaining ground

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Demand is increasing much faster than capacity to deliver, especially in EU

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“deep learning” / “immersive learning”

Online learning: Who’s got the market? The TOP TENs

The TOP 10’s in elearning and Web 2.0

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Top 10 eLearning Trends

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Top 10 Universities with FREE Online Courses

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Top 10 University Podcasts

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Top 10 Free Educational Software for Students

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Top 10 Web 2.0 sites for Educators

Online learning: Who’s doing good stuff?

Instructional Design using Web 2.0 FREE tools The Educational side of Second Life

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Bethany Bouvard, New Mexico State University -

http://tektrekker.pbwiki.com

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Sarah Robbins, Ball State University (co-author of “Second Life for Dummies”)

http://ubernoggin.com/archives/278

Key questions about Online @ NLU

What will be the digital impact for us?

 Teaching & learning  Research & scholarly communication  Academic & administrative policies  Business processes & competencies

What’s our responsibility to students?

 …who don’t have computers?

 …who will spend their lives in digital workplaces?

More specifically …

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Should we promote centralized learning platforms like CE6 & Centra? Or a portfolio of platforms, tools, networks?

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Do we train instructors to use specific tools, or point them toward trends & get them to continuously evolve on their own?

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What impact would we see on B2B relationships?

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Does “sharing best practices” still have any meaning? Are they obsolete by the time they’re communicated?

What are our expectations?

For ourselves?

For our students?

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Do we understand the web universe? (Does anyone?)

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Do we understand our soon-to-be students and faculty?

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What do we want?

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Do we have what it takes?

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strategy

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skills infrastructure & policies awareness & trendspotting the ability to innovate FAST

There are some real threats

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Cyberterrorism

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Bandwidth & “net neutrality”

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Equity of access

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We don’t know long-term effects:

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“crazy-busy”

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digital learning from the cradle

Web 3.0?

Some suggest it will be one super connected, worldwide computer.

Quiz time!

I have an account at these sites: (give yourself 10 points for every site)

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Delicious Digg YouTube Technorati World of Warcraft SecondLife LinkedIn Facebook Club Penguin Skype

Blogs & wikis

Blogs are (10 points):

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Read-only

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Read-write

Wikis are (10 points):

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Read-only

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Read-write

RSS stands for (10 points):

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railway switching systems

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really simple syndication

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right standard strut

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remote sequencing server

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robotic signaling sensor

E-mail & texting

E-mail ( lose 10 for each “yes”)

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I use more than one account

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I get more than 50 every day Texting ( add 10 for each “yes”)

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I use more than one account

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I get more than 50 every day

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I send more than 25 every day

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I send more than 25 every day

Gaming & the 3D web 10 points each:

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My SL avatar’s name is _______________________

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I play Everquest or WoW (any version) online

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In WoW III, my favorite character is _____________

Extra credit

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1 point: Google’s motto is: ___________________ 20 points: True or false: traffic at Wikipedia increased by 800% from April ‘03 to April ‘08 50 points: translate the following into English:

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omg rotflol pos ttfn grlbff 100 points: I have my own iPod (any model)

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500 points: I have my own iPhone 1,000 more points: I have my own iPhone G3 1,000,000 points: I’m having surface computing installed in my home tomorrow

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To recap:

What’s going on in the digital universe?

A LOT. AND THE PACE IS HUGELY ACCELERATING.

What’s the matter with kids today?

NOTHING. BUT THEY DO LEARN DIFFERENTLY THAN WE DID.

What could all of this mean for online teaching & learning at NLU?

LET’S FIGURE IT OUT & GET STARTED!

Thanks for listening!

From NLU’s Traveling Digital Evangelists

http://nludonsblog.blogspot.com/ (Don’s Blog site – feel free to contribute)

Kathy’s lifehacking

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INSERT PHOTO

My default browser is Firefox.

I use Microsoft stuff when I have to.

I homepage, bookmark, group up, email, & sometimes office @ Google.

I tag @ delicious OMG, I stay off Facebook & MySpace.

On various blogs & wikis, I mostly lurk.

I keep an eye on (mostly via RSS feeds):

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Whatever Ray Kurzweil is up to

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http://google.com/trends Research by Pew Internet & American Life & Sloan-C

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Developments in gaming & 3-D web Daily papers, esp. technology – including EU InsiderHigherEd.com & CHE for HE-specific news Wired.com

HERE

Kathy’s pet peeve: Can’t we please, please have email-free Fridays, just like Google does?

We also pay attention to …

anything these folks

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(in alpha order)

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are thinking, doing &

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saying. And there are many others.

     Stephen Abram (SIRSI/Dynix) John Perry Barlow (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Ross Dawson (Extinction Timeline & blog) Esther Dyson (EDventure Holdings) Kevin Guthrie (ithaka) Steve Jobs (Apple) Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) Kevin Kelly (Wired) Clifford Lynch (Coalition for Networked Information) Lee Rainie (Pew Internet & American Life Project) Marc Rotenberg (Electronic Privacy Information Center) Eric Schmidt (Google) Sherry Turkle (MIT Social Studies of Science & Technology)

Take a look / try these out!

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Taking your first steps into 2.0: http://our23things.infopeople.org/ AND http://our23things.infopeople.org/the_23_things/ http://lingo2word.com/translate.php

(translates texting into English) http://twitter.com

(“what r u doing right this second?”) The Webby awards: http://www.webbyawards.com/ http://snopes.com

(urban legends, etc.) http://ringsurf.com

(webring directory / all topics) http://hubblesite.org/ (Hubble Telescope home page – incredible photos & stuff) http://realclimate.org

(“climate science from climate scientists” worldwide) http://maps.google.com

AND http://earth.google.com

(Google Maps and Google Earth) http://ratemyprofessors.com

(not all faculty are in love with this site) http://theonion.com

(“America’s finest news source”) http://www.craigslist.org

(buy / sell / rent stuff) Craigslist Chicago Missed Connections (“are you the guy who made eye contact with me at Whole Foods last Wednesday?”): http://chicago.craigslist.org/mis/

More stuff to check out / try out

News aggregators & news blogs

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http://newsgator.com

all categories) (lots of people like this best – lots of tech updates plus other news /

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http://google.com/reader (very hip, very powerful, integrates with your google mail, etc.) http://wonkette.com/ (DC daily gossip)

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http://icerocket.com

(entertainment, new vids, etc.) Running your own blog or wiki

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http://www.wetpaint.com/ (incredibly easy wiki & social site setup) http://bloglines.com

(open source blogging central: publish, share, search) https://www.blogger.com/start a little less fancy) (incredibly easy blog setup; open source; works great but http://wordpress.org

(free) or http://wordpress.com

(commercial) (“state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability”) http://vox.com

(blogging software / links to MSN) http://nludonsblog.blogspot.com/ (Don’s Blog site – feel free to contribute)

And still more to check out / try out

Sites about technology

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http://google.com/analytics (“re-designed to help you learn even more about where your visitors come from and how they interact with your site”)

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http://boingboing.com/ (gadgets, stupid videos, tech news) http://slashdot.org/ (“News for nerds. Stuff that matters.”) http://www.techcrunch.com/ (focuses on business / industry / company news) http://technorati.com

(tech business news & blogs) http://gizmodo.com

(“so much in love with shiny new toys, it’s unnatural”)

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http://TechSoup.org

(“the technology place for nonprofits”) http://www.davidpogue.com/ (Pogue’s Pages – tech reviews, comments, & everything else by NY Times columnist David Pogue)

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http://blog.wired.com/gadgets (Wired Gadget Lab blog) http://searchenginewatch.com

(developments in search technology) http://iSuppli.com

(applied tech market intelligence & tech research watch) http://ambientinsight.com

(market forecasts & e-learning, mobile learning, etc.)

Really fundamental reading

 David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity (2001)  Chris Anderson, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More (2006)  Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (1999) and The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (2006)  Rick Levine, The Cluetrain Manifesto: the End of Business as Usual (1995) 

and its offspring: http://www.cluetrain.com/

(1995)  Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital (1995)  James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies, and Nations (2004)  Don Tapscott & Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything (2006)  Sherry Turkle, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit – 20

th

Anniversary Edition (2005)

More about what’s going on in the digital universe

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Pew Internet & American Life Project: http://www.pewinternet.org/ MIT Media Lab: http://www.media.mit.edu/ Internet Archive ( & the Wayback Machine): http://www.archive.org

Brown, Griffiths, Rascoff, & Guthrie. Ithaka Report: University Publishing in a Digital Age. July 26, 2007. http://www.ithaka.org/strategic-services/Ithaka%20University%20Publishing%20Report.pdf

(5.19.08) Clifford Lynch, The shape of the scientific article in the developing cyberinfrastructure (CTWatch Quarterly, Aug 2007): http://www.ctwatch.org/quarterly/print.php?p=79 Library Use of E-books, 2008-09 Ed. Primary Research Group http://www.primaryresearch.com/ Siva Vaidhyanathan, The Googlization of Everything (forthcoming) http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/ http://gametab.com

(reviews) http://gamefaqs.com

(help & hints) http://esrb.org/ratings/index.jsp

(Entertainment Software Rating Board – for anxious parents, etc.) Wikipedia traffic 4.03 – 4.08 increased 8,000% (that’s right) – OCLC Abstracts 6.9.08

Britannica to follow modified Wikipedia model – NYT 6.9.08

More from Michael Wesch: Information r/evolution http://youtube.com/watch?v=-4CV05HyAbM OK Go sales & other revenue following YouTube video going viral: http://www.coolfer.com/blog/archives/ok_go/ Military supercomputer passes petaflop milestone – NYT 6.9.08

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/14/technology/14email.html

About e-ink: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9091118

There’s too much going on to fit on one slide

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Bruce Schneier: I’ve seen the future, & it has a kill switch: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/06/securitymatters_0626

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(Microsoft “Digital Manners Policies” = Selective Device Jamming, largely determined by infotainment co’s re © ) Get ready for .Smith -- .Sports – or .Love on the web: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-internet names.html

Google wins the reputation sweepstakes: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/08/google-wins-the-reputation sweepstakes/ Tracking viral videos: http://www.viralvideochart.com/

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Matt Harding dance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlfKdbWwruY Pew Internet & American Life Project report: The Internet and the 2008 election (June 15, 2008) - http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_2008_election.pdf

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46% of Americans have used the internet to get political news and share their thoughts about the campaign. Online video and social networking sites have taken off, especially among Obama supporters.

Could Google monopolize human knowledge? http://abcnews.go.com/Business/CSM/story?id=5357748 James Grimmelmann, “The Google dilemma” - http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=james_grimmelmann Broadband boom may be over: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/07/the-broadband-g.html

Road trip! Young Republicans blog and twitter their way across the U.S.: http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/07/the broadband-g.html

Common sense about copyright: making the punishment fit the crime: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7493365.stm

More about what’s wrong with these kids today

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NEA Report: To Read or Not to Read: A Question of National Consequence.

http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead.PDF

Joan K. Lippincott, Student content creators: convergence of literacies (EDUcause Review, Nov/Dec 2007) http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/StudentContentCreatorsCon/45230?time=1211472906 Joan K. Lippincott, Net Gen students, learning, and information literacy (LOEX Conference 2006) http://www.cni.org/staff/joan-pres/2006/0605loex.lippincott.pdf

Students and Information Technology: Today’s Undergraduate Student: Wired and Wonderful. EDUCAUSE: ECAR Research Study 7 (2006).

Claudia Wallis, “The multitasking generation" (Time, March 19, 2006): http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1174696,00.html

Christine Rosen, “The myth of multitasking” – http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-myth-of-multitasking Edward M. Hallowell, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Handling Your Fast-paced Life (2007) Walter Kirn, “The autumn of the multitaskers” (Atlantic Monthly, Nov. 2007) JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Report: Google Generation http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/resourcediscovery/googlegen.aspx

Kansas State U. digital ethnography (Michael Wesch):

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http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

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http://www.ksu.edu/sasw/anthro/wesch.htm

U. of Rochester millennial ethnography: http://docushare.lib.rochester.edu/docushare/dsweb/Get/Document-27287/chapter_eleven.pdf

UCLA (Sloan) Center on Everyday Lives of Families (Elinor Ochs): http://www.celf.ucla.edu/ Beloit College Mindset List: http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/ The fate of the sentence: is the writing on the wall? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp dyn/content/article/2008/06/12/AR2008061202258.html?referrer=emailarticle Stoooopid .... why the Google generation isn’t as smart as it thinks [The Times] http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article4362950.ece

Neil Howe & William Strauss, Millennials go to college: strategies for a new generation on campus (2 nd ed., 2007) One subpoena is all it takes to reveal your online life: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/the-privacy-risk-from-the-courts/index.html

More about what all this might mean for NLU

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Campus Technology Magazine online: http://campustechnology.com/

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Campus Technology April 2008: theme issue: “It’s a Web 2.0 world. Are you ready for it?” Wimba: “accessible, cross-platform virtual classroom”: http://www.wimba.com/ University Web Developers (a 2.0-style site): http://cuwebd.ning.com/ U of I Global Campus offers online M.Ed. With concentration in online learning: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2263/big-illinois-online-degree-program-gets-thumbs-up

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Grad cert in e-learing: http://global.uillinois.edu/education-programs/graduate-certificate-in foundations-of-e-learning/ The New Media Consortium. The Horizon Report, 2008 Edition: A Collaboration Between The New Media

Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative. http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2008-Horizon-Report.pdf

Matt Villano, “Taking the ‘A’ out of Asynchronous” (Campus Technology 7.1.08): http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/64817/ Google Education Apps video: http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/edu/cust_videos.html#whygoogleapps What works (and what doesn’t) on the mobile web: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/What_Works_(And_What_Doesn_t)_on_the_Mobile_Web