What is the future of education?

Martin WellerEdtechie.net

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The future of education is…

Aggregation

i.e. Taking this stuff

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And making this

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The future of education is… Abundance

i.e. a shift from this

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To this

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The future of education is… Frictionless creation

I.e – all the stuff we used to create specific content for…

Public engagement

BBC/OU Coast TV series

Specific audiences

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Teaching

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Academic output as ‘collateral damage’

(thanks to @jjsanderson)

Is now just a by-product of what scholars do

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The future of education is… Social

(It always was, we just didn’t recognise it)

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We built spaces for it

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Now we encourage learners to be a part of a network

Building a network, contributing to it, and getting it to work for you will be the key skill for future students

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The future of education is…

Multi Media

The future of education is… Open

The future of education is…

Informal

The future of education is…

Networked

The future of education is…

This Presentation

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George Siemens

Dave Cormier

I created this presentation for:

Who I have never met

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I live here:

They live here somewhere:

So why make this for them?

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Because it’s easy

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Because I have a social/professional connection via twitter and blogs

Because it’s fun and creative

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Because I can easily share it

Because it’ll be part of an open course

Because lots of people might see it

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Because you’re looking at it and we’ve probably never met

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In a way – all that’s kind of amazing isn’t it?

Music: Daisy by Karine

Polwart