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Chronicle Tech Trends: After a Year of Disruption, What Now? Educause 2012
Panelists:
Chronicle of Higher Ed Jeff Young, @jryoung Marc Parry, @marcparry
SHIFT 1: Profs Bring Their Own Classroom
“This was their baby, they did it. They told us about it—central
administraOon and also their own dean—only when the project was
well advanced.” -‐-‐ George Mason’s provost
Companies Go Directly to Faculty
Pooja Sankur, Piazza
She intenOonally avoids deals with campus technology offices… Argues that type of tool to use should be le^ up to individual professors.
Types of Textbooks Sold by College Stores
Source: Data from 940 college bookstores run by Folleb Higher EducaOon
TradiOonal Print
Custom Print
Bundle
E-‐book/Digital
Tablet Ownership by Students Triples
0 5 10 15 20 25
2011
2012
Percentage of students who say they own tablets, per Pearson FoundaOon
Object Formerly Known as the Textbook
Modules
Learning Fractals Chunks
Nuggets Share your suggesOon! What should these new advanced e-‐textbooks be called?
Tweet @jryoung or with tag #newtextbook
Story of Luke Thomas
In a 250-‐person introductory English course called "The Nature of Story” at U. of Maine.
Story of Luke Thomas
In a 250-‐person introductory English course called "The Nature of Story” at U. of Maine.
Course syllabus said textbook is required to get to class discussion (10%) of grade.
Story of Luke Thomas
In a 250-‐person introductory English course called "The Nature of Story” at U. of Maine.
Course syllabus said textbook is required to get to class discussion (10%) of grade.
Price for book + textbook $150 (originally not sold separately).
Publishers As Software Companies?
Pearson recently paid $650-‐million for EmbanetCompass (helps move colleges online)
Publishers As Software Companies?
Pearson recently paid $650-‐million for EmbanetCompass (helps move colleges online)
John Wiley & Sons bought Deltak.edu for $220-‐million to jump-‐start move into online ed
Shift 4: Need for ‘Responsible Tech Use’
Because of "always on" culture of constant checking of e-‐mail messages and Facebook updates has appeared so quickly that we haven't yet developed ways to balance our networked and physical lives.
Shift 4: Need for ‘Responsible Tech Use’
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology tried a ‘week without social media.’
Sept 2011 – Network overloaded due to record # of wireless devices.
Total of 8,000 devices online, compared to 900 previous year.
Tech Overload Not Just For Students
“It’s causing me to dig deeper and deeper into the evening hours and since everyone else is using technology more and is expecOng immediate responses.”
“I think I’m reaching the limits of what I can do.”
Tech Overload Not Just For Students
“It has become a part of my life that I am connected to this device for communicaOon in the same way that I am connected to my mind. I’m constantly expressing or receiving.”
Take-‐Aways
Professors increasingly ‘hacking the academy’
Students (and others) overdosing on tech
Outsiders demanding more data and jusOficaOon for what colleges do