Technology and the Future of

Education, Learning and Knowledge

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You aint seen nothing yet!

TECHNOLOGY
EDUCATION

Huge opportunity threat

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A big challenge for universities: the framework is changing

Technology changes how we perceive the world

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If you measure the wrong thing you

do the wrong thing: GDP & GPA?

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Education may just become like this shoe

CUSTOMIZATION

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BRAND BECOMES CRUCIAL

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The future is already here!

Everything:
Connected
Intelligent
Real-time
Personalized
Cross-platform

ONLY THE BEGINNING

SCREENIFICATION OF EDUCATION

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5 Billion...soon

A Kodak Moment for Universities?

not really BUT.

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The Digital Default is near

Exponential growth of technology

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...

1 2 4 8 16 32 64

Now, many things will

happen a lot quicker
than we think!

! Dramatic impact on Education !

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The education sector has a lot in common

with the music, media & content business

Cable & Sat

Locked

Broadcast

Loose

Cloud
SoLoMo

Liquid
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Digitization and Virtualization of Education:

following music industry, publishing, newspapers

BUSINESS AS USUAL IS DEAD

UNIVERSITY AS USUAL IS THE PAST

Image of BP platform via US Coast Guard

E-M-P-O-W-E-R-M-E-N-T

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A common feeling these days

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The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the

turbulence, itself, but to act with yesterdays logic

*Peter Drucker

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Discover, co-create, imagine tomorrows logic

The Future is no longer a zero-sum game

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http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2012/05/inventing-our-next-great-scarcities/

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the

turbulence, itself, but to act with yesterdays logic
*Peter Drucker

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As educational content becomes abundant, experience is the new scarcity

Abundance

Scarcity

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Mobile devices have already become our external brains

Next: new extensions of man that change us

Search engines wont wait for you to ask for

information.They will know you like a friend, aware of
your concerns and interests at a detailed level
Ray Kurzweil

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The stuff of science fictionno longer

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The coming Global Brain is a huge opportunity for universities

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GLOBAL PARADIGM SHIFT

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Equal access to digital resources will become a human right

Interdependence is inevitable

Business
Technology
Politics
Culture
Europe
EDUCATION

Information Tsunami

Overload Everywhere

Learning: from copy & paste & memorize and

downloads to flows, from ownership to access

The rise of OTT education and learning platforms will dramatically

accelerate hyper-fragmentation, resulting in masses of niches and nichehits, hyper-globalization - and very fast-changing windows of monetisation

The future is already here!

Education, Learning, Training:

dramatically increasing fragmentation,

unbundling, splintering, personalisation

THE FUTURE ISNT EITHER/OR

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Its not an either/or world - its an and world

Image thanks to http://www.beachandisland.net/destinations-in-hawaiian-islands/

New Content
Interface Technologies &
Screenification: were only at
the very beginning!

Human-only tasks on-top of big data, smart machines, AI

Video Source: Cisco via Youtube

Video Source: IBM Future Scenarios, Youtube

Knowledge 2.0: Wisdom. Learnings. Relevance. Depth.

http://pinterest.com/pin/197876977350036245/

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

Knowledge is not merely about

information, data, facts and numbers....
Learn wisdom...?

http://conniecrosby.blogspot.it/2013/01/david-weinberger-on-nature-of-knowledge.html

BUT IS THIS THE LEARNING WE NEED?

The appeal of amazing free stuff paid largely with attention

& personal data is mostly (but not entirely) temporary:

If you dont pay you are the content

Image via Popsci.com

Formal
Authority

Peer Networked Self-made Earned-

Authority

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Thanks for your attention!

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