What do you get when you have Google, Microsoft, and Future Changes together? You get a way cool panel talking about how to stay abreast of technology.Julie Clow has three points from an instructional design perspective.
- Focus on the learner, not the technology, when you build your tool kit
- Launch and iterate to get input from users on how to improve it by thinking small and building on it
- Change the world and don't settle for technology to just make things faster and cheaper - how do you change how people learn?
- Wikis are much more efficient than emailing back on forth for collaboration (think friends you meet on a train versus driving your own car) and make better results.
- He started using wikis because of all the distinct Chem 101 courses taught by different faculty with different projects . . . this helped with consistency in curriculum and the wiki created 6 years ago is still being used and built upon.
- Unlike Wikipedia which is wide and flat and completely transparent, organizational wikis are used for meeting management, documentation, knowledge base, project management, tacit knowledge, and as an encyclopedia.
- The world IS flat, and we're being overshadowed by India and China in a competitive environment.
- 21st century needs critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, innovation, collaboration, communication.
- One example addressing this is CareerForward, out of the virtual university of University Blogger: Kollective Konsciousness of the AUCC - Create Postof Michigan and is used as a way to reach the changing demographic.
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