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Twitter Search in Plain English - Common Craft - Our Product is Explanation
This video uses a metaphor of “Twitterville” to illustrate the opportunities to use the Twitter Search feature to find people and information, read news and discover emerging information.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
Future of education lies online
Very insightful commentary from Matt Culbertson at ASU. Here are some excerpts...
Future of education lies online | ASU Web Devil - ASU's Online News Source
The role of the information gatekeeper isn’t what it used to be. There’s a diminished role of authority regulating the flow of information and decided what content passes forward —and anyone can be a mass-communicating producer and consumer of content.
Every industry and institution that functions as an information provider is facing more competition than ever before.
In some ways, the same forces driving newspapers and more isolated cases of traditional media bankrupt threaten the university model.
An April commentary article in the Chronicle of Higher Education pointed out that universities have a weakness with large, low-level undergraduate classes. An increasing number of online classes from for-profit groups threatens that revenue source.
The author cited the regulatory wall of college accreditation to bar competition, but private sector competition to the university environment is on a growth trend — more students than ever take classes with for-profit institutions like Kaplan University and the University of Phoenix.
A 2008 study by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation found that 22 percent of American college students took at least one online class in the fall 2007 semester.
But universities should be wary of the Internet’s tendency to kill business models — newspapers, recording labels and soon maybe the rest of traditional media demonstrate that lesson.
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Future of education lies online | ASU Web Devil - ASU's Online News Source
The role of the information gatekeeper isn’t what it used to be. There’s a diminished role of authority regulating the flow of information and decided what content passes forward —and anyone can be a mass-communicating producer and consumer of content.
Every industry and institution that functions as an information provider is facing more competition than ever before.
In some ways, the same forces driving newspapers and more isolated cases of traditional media bankrupt threaten the university model.
An April commentary article in the Chronicle of Higher Education pointed out that universities have a weakness with large, low-level undergraduate classes. An increasing number of online classes from for-profit groups threatens that revenue source.
The author cited the regulatory wall of college accreditation to bar competition, but private sector competition to the university environment is on a growth trend — more students than ever take classes with for-profit institutions like Kaplan University and the University of Phoenix.
A 2008 study by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation found that 22 percent of American college students took at least one online class in the fall 2007 semester.
But universities should be wary of the Internet’s tendency to kill business models — newspapers, recording labels and soon maybe the rest of traditional media demonstrate that lesson.
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Monday, June 01, 2009
The End in Mind » I’ve Seen the Future and the Future is Us (Using Google)
The End in Mind » I’ve Seen the Future and the Future is Us (Using Google)
From Jon Mott at BYU, a discussion of the new search and semantic web tools put well into context. Of particular note:
From Jon Mott at BYU, a discussion of the new search and semantic web tools put well into context. Of particular note:
As we adopt and adapt tools like Twitter and Google Wave to our purposes as learning technologists, we have to change the way we think about managing facilitating learning conversations. We can no longer be satisfied with creating easy to manage course websites that live inside moated castles. We have to open up the learning process and experience to leverage the vastness of the data available to us and the power of the crowd, all the while remembering that learning is fundamentally about individuals conversing with each other about the meaning and value of the data they encounter and create. Technologies like Google Wave are important, not in and of themselves, but precisely because they force us to remember this reality and realign our priorities and processes to match it.
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