Wednesday, October 24, 2007
EDUCAUSE's Annual Conference and Technologies to Watch
The annual EDUCAUSE conference is being held this week in Seattle (for updates on what's happening, you can visit The Chronicle's Wired Campus blog). Each year, in conjunction with the conference, EDUCAUSE's "Evolving Technologies Committee" releases their findings on which evolving technologies they believe will have the most direct impact on Higher Education. Here' s their summary.
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Educause's "Imagining Tomorrow Today" is a digital playground for the future of higher education. I've been a long-standing critic of simplistic applications like "distance education," which usually meant recording tired lectures and posting "discussion questions," much like what the coach/"teacher" did in my high school American history class. He'd assign the chapter and assign the questions. The only significant cognitive activity involved writing enough to get credit (in my case an "A+"), no matter what the answers actually said. In sharp contrast, I see the possibilities for many of the applications described--not just as stimuli for rote activity--but as new ways of thinking and collaborating. Nonetheless, I want to retain my status as critic. We'll see. Thanks for the links.
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