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5 Trends Guiding Future ‘Changemaker Universities’

May 7, 2013 by rustybo1 Leave a Comment

This is a great article. What is your university doing to be a “Changemaker” in Education?

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Innovators in education, those leading universities and those working at the fringe to disrupt them, have been debating the future of higher education. That future was at the heart of discussion at the at the 2013 Ashoka U Exchange at the University of San Diego, which featured presidents and provosts from four countries representing a dozen diverse universities.

Five broad themes are expected to be relevant to future entrepreneurship education models and university curricula: open systems with continuous access, blended boundaries, human connectivity, integrated wholeness, and a focus on solutions.

What follows is a synthesis and further reflection on what we can expect from the universities of tomorrow.

Open Systems with Continuous Access
Future educational models will focus on providing both quality and scalability of learning resources by adopting open systems designs. Universities will increasingly become more accessible to underserved students both locally and globally. Universities will also become more flexible and agile in allowing students to leave and re-enter the system, and there will be the same intentionality placed on attracting students to return to school as there is on attracting first-time students.

Learning will incorporate new tracking mechanisms that document educational outcomes throughout individuals’ lifetimes from pre-school to workforce and beyond.

Blended Boundaries
Tomorrow’s education system will recognize and respect that our human endeavors and life stages have moved from discrete to blended. Play-learn-work are still segmented activities, but not for much longer. Not only will we increasingly be learning while playing and working, we also will conceptualize less and less that our life span is segmented into four segments: play (childhood), learn (childhood to adult), work (adult), and play (retirement).

Universities have focused the largest portion of their educational resources on the learning phase from childhood to adulthood. However, with longer life spans and improved health outcomes, universities are increasingly seeing a demand for education preparation for a second phase of work, or the “encore years.” Career and work choices at this time are likely to be less driven by livelihood factors and more likely to be driven by passion and perceived impact. Thus, there is a large and growing interest in “encore” careers in the social sector.

Today, older college students stand out like a streaker on campus, but future changemaker educational models will find ways to tap into and connect the rich, real-world experiences of encore learners with the creativity and spirit of younger learners. Universities will increasingly become age-free as they develop and facilitate peer-to-peer learning and teaching across generations.

Human Connectivity
Embracing technological advances will not devalue, but rather redefine the human value component of learning and teaching. Students often learn most from teaching their fellow students. The old adage, “The best way to learn something is to teach it,” remains true. In a world where humans across the planet are increasingly connected to each other through technology, peer-to-peer learning takes on an added dimension of scalability and potentially effective crowd-based learning.

The future role of the professor in the changemaker university classroom setting may increasingly revert back to the personal tutor and mentor roles of the earliest university professors. More knowledge dissemination will effectively occur outside the classroom, and a greater degree of knowledge integration and personalized tutoring likely will occur within the classroom.

Integrated Wholeness
While technology and open access can provide a proliferation of discrete educational opportunities, the changemaker university of the future will play a role in designing and providing the meaning and purpose to the education experience. This will occur by ensuring that individual skills like leadership and empathy, and the realignment of values from profits or products to people, are integrated into curricular and experiential learning opportunities.

See Full Article (Forbes): Here

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Filed Under: Education, Featured Tagged With: college, hied, higher education, leadership, technology, trends, universities

Tablet ownership skyrockets among college students

March 16, 2012 by rustybo1 Leave a Comment

The number of college students who say they own tablets has more than tripled since a survey taken last year, according to new poll results released today. The Pearson Foundation sponsored the second-annual survey, which asked 1,206 college students and 204 college-bound high-school seniors about their tablet ownership. The results suggest students increasingly prefer to use the devices for reading.

One-fourth of the college students surveyed said they owned a tablet, compared with just 7 percent last year. Sixty-three percent of college students believe tablets will replace textbooks in the next five years—a 15 percent increase over last year’s survey. More than a third said they intended to buy a tablet sometime in the next six months.

This year’s poll also found that the respondents preferred digital books over printed ones. It’s a reversal of last year’s results and goes against findings of other recent studies, which concluded that students tend to choose printed textbooks. The new survey found that nearly six in 10 students preferred digital books when reading for class, compared with one-third who said they preferred printed textbooks.

The new survey results arrive as several new tools have emerged this year to simplify digital publishing, including Apple’s self-publishing software and Inkling’s enterpriseplatform for large companies.

Harris Interactive, the same firm that conducted last year’s survey on behalf of the Pearson Foundation, conducted the poll in January. Figures for age, sex, household income and other factors were weighted to be representative of the U.S. population of college students.

See full Article (Chronicle of Higher Education): Here

Filed Under: Education, Technology Tagged With: ereaders, higher education, iPad, technology, textbooks, universities

iPads used to bolster physician training, speed up patient care

March 14, 2012 by rustybo1 Leave a Comment

Providing personal mobile computers to medical residents reduces delays in patient care, enhances their access to electronic records and helps them to train, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine .

When researchers surveyed the residents in 2011, three out of four said that the iPads allowed them to finish tasks faster, gave them more time for direct patient care, and helped them participate in educational activities. The hospital spent about $650 on each iPad, including insurance, protective covers, straps, and software. The tablets had access to the hospital’s wireless network but were not allowed to store records. They were also password-protected.

Before getting the iPads, the residents reported that increased workloads and limited work hours created work compression and competition between work and their education goals. In particular, they reported spending most of their time updating medical charts, documentation, and ordering tests—at the expense of direct patient care or education.

Medical residents at the University of Chicago using iPads

The research also showed that the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs) actually increased time away from a patient. Interns spent more time searching for a computer or working on the computer at the expense of time at the bedside.

“Residents face a vast and increasing workload packed into tightly regulated hours,” said the study’s first author, Dr. Bhakti Patel, a pulmonary critical care fellow at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. “They spend much of their time completing documentation and updating patient charts. This study indicates that personal mobile computers can streamline that process.”

When residents were asked how their work was affected by having an iPad, nearly 90 percent said they routinely used it for clinical duties; 78 percent said it made them more efficient; and 68 percent reported that it averted patient care delays.

Researchers also collected data from the hospital’s EHR system, comparing intern order placement for a three-month period prior to issuing the iPads and after. The iPads helped residents submit 5 percent more orders before 7 AM rounds, when they update senior physicians about overnight admissions. And they placed 8 percent more orders before handing off their responsibilities and leaving the hospital by 1 PM, as required by duty-hour rules.

See Full Article (MacWorld): Here

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The Flipped Classroom [Infographic]

February 23, 2012 by rustybo1 Leave a Comment

A new method of teaching is turning the traditional classroom on its head.

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Filed Under: Education Tagged With: classrooms, education, hied, learning, retention, teaching, technology, universities

Apple: iTunes U tops 600 million downloads

September 9, 2011 by rustybo1 Leave a Comment

In researching my recent story, iTunes U: Educating the world, Apple provided me with some updated figures for its free education portal on iTunes.

According to Apple, iTunes U has had more than 600 million downloads since it first launched in 2007. What’s even more impressive is that they’ve had more than 300 million in the last year alone — a testament to the growing popularity of the service.

Currently, iTunes U boasts more than 1,000 universities with active accounts. Schools contributing to the program range from big to small and include some of the world’s most prestigious institutions like Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Oxford, University of Melbourne and University of Tokyo.

As you would expect, a number of universities have a large amount of downloads. Emory University, Harrisburg Area Community College, Ludwig Maxmillians University (Germany) and Oxford University have all surpassed 10 million downloads on iTunes U. Yale University, MIT, University of California Berkeley and University of South Florida have more than 20 million downloads.

Topping the list of universities in downloads are Open University and Stanford University, each with more than 30 million downloads.

While many of us think of iTunes U as being a part of the desktop experience, 30 percent of iTunes U traffic comes from iOS devices.

See Full Article (The Loop): Here

Filed Under: Education Tagged With: apple, education, higher education, iTunes U, mobility, universities

Could Steve Jobs’s Stepping Down as Apple’s CEO Affect Higher Education?

August 25, 2011 by rustybo1 Leave a Comment

Much is being written about whether Apple can retain its edge now that Steve Jobs, its visionary chief executive, has announced his departure from that post for health reasons. For colleges, the question is whether the company will remain as attentive to higher education, given that Mr. Jobs has long sought the advice of higher-education officials and encouraged colleges to use the company’s technology in new ways for teaching and research.

Campus officials say that Mr. Jobs has long shown a personal interest in higher education and played a personal role in the company’s education strategy. From the early days of the Macintosh, the company ran what it called the Apple University Consortium, an advisory panel of top college officials who got early looks at products and a chance to influence design. The group is now called the University Executive Forum, though the company applies its trademark secrecy about who is involved and what they do.

Martin Ringle, chief technology officer of Reed College, remembers being at a meeting about 10 years ago when Mr. Jobs gave officials a sneak peek at the iPod.

“People around the table said, Well, what does that have to do with higher education?” Mr. Ringle remembers. “He said, Use your imagination. It probably has lots of things to do with education. That’s what you’re here for.” Several university experimented with iPods, which led Apple to create a free service for colleges called iTunesU, designed to store and stream audio and video files for university courses and make lecture recordings available to the public.

Other college officials say that Mr. Jobs’s strength has been challenging officials to, as the company’s motto once went, “Think Different.” “He gets people to think about excitedly and in more visionary ways what could be done with a product,” said Larry Levine, chief information officer for the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The last time Mr. Jobs left Apple, after being forced out in 1985, the company faltered—and paid less attention to colleges. He went on to start a company called NeXT, which focused much of its attention on building high-end computers for research.

One thing Mr. Jobs did upon his return to Apple in 1997 was to restore the company’s education advisory board. At about that time, I interviewed Mr. Jobs about whether he thought the company could make a comeback in education, where its market share had fallen drastically. He expressed frustration with what he saw as the negative tone of the questions.

“It doesn’t keep me up nights,” he said. “What keeps me up nights is, How do we make the best stuff? I think that Macs will be the coolest computers for kids in another year or two, and I think that’s very important. And I think that we’re going to definitely see stabilization and then improvement.”

Though many in higher education were skeptical at the time, he pulled it off. Many college officials say that they see at least as many Apple computers as PC’s on their campuses, and students are snatching up iPhones and iPads as well.

See Full Article (Chronicle of Higher Ed): Here

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