Unit 8 Open Learning
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Q1. After exploring all of the open resources from this unit, what is your overall opinion?
Q2. If you were a college administrator and wanted to make sure your institution was viable for the long term, what changes would you be making now, if any?
Q3. If you were a legislator getting ready to fund public education (both K-12 and college/university level) in your state, what would you do based on this new information?
Q4. What will learning look like in the next 5 years? 10 years?
Q4. What will learning look like in the next 5 years? 10 years?
Learning in 5 to 10 years will be a very different thing from what is happening now. At a recent TED talk, Nicholas Negroponte (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., founder of the One Laptop per Child Association (OLPC), suggested that knowledge may in fact be ingest - in the form of a pill. Larry Page (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., founder of Google, said that Google will be in your head by 2020.
I like the early videos this summer that projected a more seamless world of knowledge transfer for the future. One thing that puzzles me is why the education system still looks basically the same as it did when I was in college 25 years ago - still have classroom, still have centralized, authoritarian teachers, still have the "pitcher to vessel," "sage on a stage" pedagogy.
After having studied Sugata Mitra (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. (School in the Cloud (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.) & Jane McGonigal (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.(How Games Can Make Us Better (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.), as well as plenty of my own experimentation around the planet for the last decade, I've come to strongly agree with the concepts of Self Organized Learning Environments (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and gamification. But, I don't see teachers adopting or implementing - quite the opposite - I resistance at the chagrin of the students (our customers).
And, of course, I believe that much of what goes on will be in virtual reality environments.
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