1. 1. Prepare you to be released from value judgments about
your own experiences in the teaching/learning process2. Show that
new learning technology improves teaching/learning by saving time,
providing more and meaningful, timely feedback3. Illustrate the
ways in which teaching/learning are going beyond the conventional
boundaries in search of improvement
2. American families of 4 are considered impoverished if they
make less than $22,000 peryearIt is estimated that the poverty rate
for children willrise to 25% This is the largest generation to be
raised in hardtimes since the Great Depression 3. Hunger Disease
Global WarmingTerrorism K-12 EducationReligious StrifePopulation
GrowthEnvironmental Degradation Economic DevelopmentNatural
CatastrophesEnergy 4. Imagine a World Problem thatDoes Not Involve
Education 5. Imagine a World in Which 6. What Would They Do? How
Would They Spend Their Time?What Would Happen to Their Children? 7.
By 2025, 98 million graduates ofsecondary education WILL NOT beable
to attend college 8. To serve these students, 4 largecampuses,
serving 30,000students, would have to be builtEVERY WEEK for the
next 15 years 9. Imagine a world in which everyone could learn
anything anywhereanytime forfree 10. Education becomes ubiquitously
available at little or no cost Twoelements that are essential to
educationcontent and communication which are already commoditized
Thecommodification of education both threatens and provides huge
opportunities for universities 11.
Content/InformationWikipediaGoogle
iTunesYouTubeCommunication/Interaction (Web
2.0)SkypeFacebookTwitter Learning PathwaysFlat World KahnOCWCMerlot
ConnexionsKnowledgeAcademy 12. Threatened by New Competition
ManyAlternativeProviders FreeFree SupplementalInstruction Content
Traditional
HigherAlternativeEducationAccessibleStandardsRepositories &
ValuesProliferating LearningProjects 13. MOOCs 14. Harvard and MIT
are donating $30 million each to develop education via the
Internet. Online students will notearn credit, but the move is
still seen as bringing prestige tothe field. 15. C 16. Open
Education is an Imperative
