FIT School of Art and Design January 31, 2013
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
Christine Flanagan, Director Student Experience Lab
Business Innovation Factory
Edward L. AyersPresident of
University of Richmond
Clay ShirkyAmerican writerNYU Professor
Eliot MasieCEO
Masie Center
The Economic and Social Impactof the Internet
3 Big Ideas
1. Openness2.Collaboration
3. Disruptive Innovation
Openness
Just because software is not stamped approved for education does not mean
it does not have educational
value
Collaboration
It seems to me that, at least intheory, a different model could
work...anybody who had anything whatsoever to say
about the problem could chip in.
Massively Collaborative Mathematical
Research Projects
I would like to accept this paper as it deals with afundamental problem, identifies it natural restrictedversions and make interesting progress. The paper
however needs several modifications.
Finally the paper does not clear state who theauthors are! It does refer to a website detailing the Polymath project but, I think, a list of names who
contributed to the work should be given somehow.
One change requested is to add a list of participants to the project. In analogy with what we did for Polymath1, I therefore started a “signup sheet” on the wiki at...
The actual conversations havemoved outside of the traditional
peer-reviewed academic journals
Disruptive Innovation
Technology is changing the story of how things work
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Disruptive Innovation
An Innovation that helps create a new market and eventually goes on to disrupt an existing market (over a few years or decades), displacing an earlier technology.
The Music Industry
1990’s
MP3
Lost the battle, but won the war
MOOCS
MASSIVE
AND MULTIPLYING
160,000 students enrolled in the firstcourse offering - Artificial Intelligence
taught by Sebastian ThrunStanford University
A free worldclass education for
anyone, anywhere
200 Courses 33 Universities
1.3 million students
There are big changes coming in HigherEducation, it is not MOOCS or online
learning but howCollaboration
OpennessInnovation
will change the what we are doing
Dawn of a New Era in education
Thank you