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Title: Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?
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Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death?
With a tip of the cap to Neil Postman
Adult Student Recruitment and Retention Conference – March 2011
Barry Dahl dot com
Clicker Time
• Grab your clicker
• First, some demographics.
Your Job at a College/University
Facu
lty
Staff or A
dmin...
Not a
t a co
lle...
6% 1%
93%1.Faculty2.Staff or
Administrator3.Not at a college
Gender & Life Experience
Female, <
40 y...
Female, 4
0 + y...
Male, <
40 yrs..
.
Male, 4
0 + yrs..
.
33%
12%
3%
52%1. Female, < 40 yrs.2. Female, 40 + yrs.3. Male, < 40 yrs.4. Male, 40 + yrs.
Self-evaluation: Tech Savviness
Technophobe/ N
...
Perfectl
y norm...
Propelle
r-head...
11% 15%
74%1. Technophobe/Newbie
2. Perfectly normal3. Propeller-head/
Gadget-geek
Faculty Perspective• For the next two clicker statements –• Put on your faculty hat, regardless of
whether you actually have one
Entertaining Students is NOT my Job
56%
44% 1. Fact2. Whack
Engaging Students is NOT my Job
92%
8% 1. Fact2. Whack
Not this kind of entertainment
More like a Bridge Party
Who said this?“Anyone who tries to make a
distinction between education & entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.”
and now this …….
1%
12%
9%
48%
74%
62%
Which of the following do you do?
1. File income taxes online (e-file)2. Use online banking services3. Check email on 3 or more diff. accts4. Have an avatar in Second Life5. Were born in 1980 or AFTER6. None of the above
6%
24%
6%
63%
48%
45%
Choose each true statement
1. You own an iPhone, Droid, Blackberry2. Prefer online news over newspapers3. You consider yourself to be creative
4. You have more than 5 cloud documents5. You can define the term “Web 2.0”6. None of the above are true
What is Web 2.0?
Select each site where you have an account.
15%
25%
16%
62%
26%
82% 1. Facebook2. Twitter3. LinkedIn4. MySpace5. YouTube6. None of the above
Team Scores
185.71 Propeller-head/ Gadget-geek148 Faculty133.31 Female, < 40 yrs.116.36 Male, 40 + yrs.
116.3 Staff or Administrator110 Male, < 40 yrs.109.93 Perfectly normal
106.95 Female, 40 + yrs.
78.44 Technophobe/Newbie
60 Not at a college
The most wired are
There has been a large increase in the use of Web 2.0 tools in higher ed.
35%
65% 1. True2. False
Web 2.0 Users
Frankly my dear, most people just don’t give a damn
Millions of users
Billions of non-users
1 million on Facebook
1 million Haters on Facebook
< 1 million on Facebook
Who said this?
“I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.”
and now this …….
Speaking of Twitter …….
Twitter is Stupid!!!
37%
63% 1. Twue2. False
Team Scores100 Not at a college100 Technophobe/
Newbie67.44 Female, 40 + yrs.63.64 Male, 40 + yrs.61.9 Perfectly normal61.04 Staff or Administrator59.26 Female, < 40 yrs.40 Faculty33.33 Male, < 40 yrs.30.77 Propeller-head/ Gadget-geek
Twue Enough
Twitter makes me like people I’ve never met and Facebookmakes me hate people I know in real life. @shaylamaddox
Adult Students Enroll in Distance Education (Online) Courses
Primarily Due to …
93%
4%
1%
2% 1. cost savings2. learning style preferences3. distance from campus4. time flexibility
Why do Adult Students Not Persist?
• From the Maricopa CC System:– 10% due to academic reasons such as course
too hard or too heavy a load.– 65% due to life interruptions (includes the
normal things of family or job issues, illness, etc. etc.)
Source: Ron Bleed, CIO of Maricopa CC (retired)
4 weeks 8 weeks
Psychology
Humanities
Biology
History
12 weeks
Example of Life Interruption
Psychology
Humanities
Biology
History
4 weeks
12 WeeksInvested,12 CreditsPaid For,
No CreditsEarned,
With LittleIncentiveTo Return
4 weeks
Psychology
Humanities
Biology
History
8 weeks
Alternate Outcome
Psychology
4 weeks
Humanities
8 weeks
Biology
12 weeks
12 WeeksInvested,12 CreditsPaid For,9 CreditsEarned,
With MoreIncentiveTo Return
History - No
Flexible Learning Options
Adult Learners Tend To …
• Focus more on convenience and price• Pay more often with personal money• Place greater importance on technical help• Find tutoring services to be more critical• Be more satisfied with their online college
experiences• Be more willing to accept “alternative
educational opportunities” … such as
StraighterLine
StraighterLine
StraighterLine Data
• 1) About 60% of courses started are successfully completed.
• 2) Students spend about 45 days per course.• 3) About 90% of students say they would
recommend the courses to their friends.• 4) The cost per success and the cost per failure are
much lower than traditional offerings.• 5) 20 colleges award credit for StraighterLine courses
directly. Hundreds more through the ACE Credit Recommendation process.
and now this …….
Neil Postman
• Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business• Published 1985
Prezi
Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Many of the remarks he made about television can be made today about computers and social networking
My Take on Postman
• Web 1.0 was just another one-way distraction device, very TV-like.• However, Web 2.0 goes beyond
amusement by bringing people together and encouraging creativity.
Legit Questions• Is online learning a serious
endeavor, or just a dumbing down of education?• Is the use of emerging technologies
just an attempt to be more cool?• Where’s the beef?
Hard Questions• Shortly after Postman’s
death, Web 2.0 started to develop and began feeding what Huxley called “man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”
Hard Questions• What is happening to
deep reading?• Do hypertext sidetracks
add or subtract from our learning?
• How do we develop the proper discipline on the net to not be so easily distracted?
and now this …….
Is this Innovation or Insanity?Culture, Gender, and Identity – taught with World of Warcraft
CC Flickr photo by glenn.batuyong
Take Your Pick
28%
72% 1. Innovation2. Insanity
Team Scores55.56 Technophobe/Neo-Luddite55 Male, 40 years or more54.29 Propeller-head/Gadget-geek51.61 Administrator45 Staff44.44 Not at a college44.19 Faculty44.19 Female, 40 years or more42.86 Female, less than 40 years40.63 Male, less than 40 years
Who said insanity?
Is this Innovation or Insanity?History of Rock-n-Roll Music course – taught with Guitar Hero
CC Flickr photoBy 5th Ape
Who said this? “All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values.”
and now this …….
Some people are great multi-taskers
No! Multi-tasking is a Myth• Great Book• Brain Rules,
by Dr. John Medina
Who said this?“We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.”
and now this …….
DIY U• Anya Kamenetz• Edupunks,
Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
DIY U – Ch. 1 - History• Single biggest recipient benefactor
of federal financial aid is ______________• University of Phoenix• Does it seem odd that a private, for-
profit university gets the most public funds?
and now this …….
Who said this?“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.”
Marshall McLuhan
Higher Ed Moves Slowly