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