{"id":389,"date":"2015-05-11T12:14:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2015-05-11T12:14:56","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T00:14:56","slug":"waves-of-the-future-possibilities-for-higher-education-theta2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/waves-of-the-future-possibilities-for-higher-education-theta2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Waves of the Future: Possibilities for Higher Education #theta2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Waves of the Future: Possibilities for Higher Education<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/theta.edu.au\/program\/keynote-speakers\/keynote-2015-waves-of-the-future-possibilities-for-higher-education-bryan-alexander\/\">abstract<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bryanalexander.org\/\">Bryan Alexander<\/a> @bryanalexander<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now always need to assume possibility for a backchannel &#8211; need to be prepared to take advantage of this.<\/li>\n<li>Battle of the brands &#8211; the i-devices, Microsoft&#8217;s, Google&#8217;s, Amazon&#8217;s&#8230;  But humans like to cut across vertical stacks (giving IT departments many challenges)<\/li>\n<li>Post-Snowden: &#8220;Humanity has awoken to an Orwellian nightmare with a great &#8216;&#8230;Meh.'&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Smaller trends: digital video, cloud wars (a few years ago a frenzy of &#8220;What is it, what does it mean, is it dangerous&#8221; and then we all just moved there), augmented reality, automation and artificial intelligence. Social media (vs &#8216;anti-social media&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>More: crowdfunding\/crowdsourcing; copyright battles; Moore&#8217;s law continues to work; office vs web office<\/li>\n<li>Design for mobile first. PCs getting crowded out. Mouse and keyboard use declining. 3D printing enormous &#8211; may cause decline of shipping containers.<\/li>\n<li>Neat image of computing being broken into little pieces that we &#8220;smear around our bodies&#8221; &#8211; devices clipped on shoes, around wrists, in earbuds, glasses, &#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>Ebooks and print books existing side-by-side &#8211; don&#8217;t know if this is a plateau (e-textbooks haven&#8217;t taken over) or ebooks will continue to dominate <\/li>\n<li>Demographics shifting from pyramid (more young, few old) to stack (about the same number in each five-year slice). Economy changing from one job\/career to a series of gigs. Inequality on the rise again &#8212; huge impact on education.<\/li>\n<li>How do we respond to this? What do we prepare students for (other than student debt)?<\/li>\n<li>Teaching and learning and tech: blended classroom, gamification, companies starting up to make money in education (&#8220;which seems crazy but there it is&#8221;), growth of digital humanities research, MOOCs &#8211; gone through a media crash but still grow though we don&#8217;t know how to assess them or pay for them but we keep making them and people keep taking them. How much reading is being done; (how) are literacies changing?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which of these trends are most reliable? Which are most unpredictable?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What if Open wins? -> rise of the sharing mindset; gig economy, sharing labour as well as content; global conversations increase, more creativity, information cheap, academic content unleashed on the world, industries collapse, authorship mysterious. Some higher costs, tech challenges, outsourcing and offshoring<\/li>\n<li>What if Closed wins? (eg if user preference for simplicity and convenience; failure of open business models, closed source outperforms open) -> huge content industries; ferocious IP policies; surveillance and intrusion protection; simpler computational hardware; anti-hacking policies; elaborate identity mechanisms; widespread micropayments; on campus publishers are locked in and powerful, security protocols in place, large role of business<\/li>\n<li>What if automation wins? -> tutoring software, commodity AI, boom in CS\/robotics departments. News articles are being written by bots &#8211; what happens when they&#8217;re writing books? <\/li>\n<li>What if a renaissance? -> boom in creativity through storytelling, gaming, mobile devices. Games for teaching, game studies as academic field, libraries archive games, &#8216;gamification&#8217; is taken for granted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waves of the Future: Possibilities for Higher Education (abstract) Bryan Alexander @bryanalexander Now always need to assume possibility for a backchannel &#8211; need to be prepared to take advantage of this. Battle of the brands &#8211; the i-devices, Microsoft&#8217;s, Google&#8217;s, Amazon&#8217;s&#8230; But humans like to cut across vertical stacks (giving IT departments many challenges) Post-Snowden: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[246,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}