Educause 2014

Professor Sandra MarkusSchool of Art and Design

EDUCAUSE  2014  

WHAT IS EDUCAUSE?EDUCAUSE is a non-profit

organization who mission is:To advance higher education by

promoting the use of information technology

WHO IS EDUCAUSE?

Membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations

serving the higher educationmarket, and related organizations

WHO ATTENDS EDUCAUSE?

Over 8,000 higher education ITprofessionals attended

The Three Big Ideas Disruptive Innovation

The changing landscape of LMSs

Wearables

Clayton Christensen:Has the Disruption

Begun?

What is Disruptive Innovation?

Transforms an expensive product intoan accessible affordable product

The big companies in the center don't see this disruption coming

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) 1970’sTesla—Will electric cars disrupt gasoline cars?

In 1988 Digitalwas the 2nd largestcomputer company

with $11.5 billion in revenues,

121,000 employees

By 1991, Digital posted its first full-year loss.It would go on to lose money

5 out of the next 7 years

So What Happened?

The microprocessor

Reduced thecost and

increasedprocessing

speeds

Launched thepersonal computer

This Happened

Disruptive Innovation & Higher Education

the best of the universities are facing huge competition from schools that can assemble hundreds of thousands of students

Technology now allows us to deliver course

online and by video conferencing.

Certificates are becoming more prevalent.

Christensen asks us to “pray for Harvard”

Harvard agreed to let University of Phoenix

to create an online course with Christensen

Delivered the course to 135,000 business students

Harvard reaches 900 students a year

Hard to compete against that kind of scale for long

What willHigher Education

look like in 2020?

The future of e-learning?

Student satisfaction with the LMS:

Percentage satisfied or very satisfied.

Student satisfaction with the LMS

Faculty satisfaction with the LMS: Faculty satisfaction with the LMS

The education silo

New models of Learning

participatory designauthorize participants as co-instructors community based participatory design

connectivist approach social media sites

hacking

New models of LearningCompetency Based Education

(CBE)The expanding use of network

analytics to predictlearning outcomes

Maya Georgieva Associate Director

Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, NYU

Craig EmoryDirector of eLearning andInstructional TechnologyCollege of New Rochelle

Wearables - The next technology cycle

The Quantified SelfTracking ourselves

Isabelle Olssen

Google Glass Then & Now

Wearables

The Face

meta-3Dglasses

augmentedreality

google glass

vuzix

Connected monitored bodies

Smart Fitness Wearable Devices in Use per Annum 2018: Over 70 million

“The whole sensor field is going to explode. It’s a little all over the place right now. With the arc of time, it will become clearer.”~Tim Cook, Apple CEO

Wearables will be a fashion accessory

Bloom

Oculus RiftImmersive

Reality

Wearables in the Learning Environment

Ball State University-The Traveler

Tidal wave of data, images and information

The future is closer than you think

http://cit.duke.edu/blog/2014/08/google-glass-teaching-learning-part-can-glass/

http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-wearable-

technology

http://redarchive.nmc.org/publications/2014-horizon-report-higher-ed

http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/07/17/wearable-learning.aspx?admgarea=News

Thank you