A Firm Foundation
Building on sand
Long timeline of change...
Future university models
A rare opportunity
Reeves
Pew Internet
Bullen
Web 2.0?
Information needs of society determine types of institutions
Store=libraries
Dialogue=Academy/Lyceum
Transmit=universities
Explore=research labs & scientific method
What are we doing with information today?
What would an institution look like that was not antagonistic to today's information cycle?
cope=encylopedia
Peer review in decline
Universities map reality
Paul Bach-y-Rita
Mobiles
Do these provide a sufficient foundation for restructuring education?
Fragmented
Blended with physical
Context
Narrative of coherence
Different social cohesion
Participatory, social, fragmented, contextual
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May 11, 2009
Canadian Network for Innovation and Education
George Siemens
My bias: 
Education needs to be rethought and restructured
New Learners?
New Media?
Web 3D?
Pop-science
Contradicts existing (established) research
Expertise
Cognition
Learning
(Ericcson)
(Sawyer)
(Anderson, Sweller)
...that we are ignoring
We import ideas wholesale from other (often unrelated) disciplines
we are consumers, not producers (of our future)
Consider: Honest signals (Pentland)
Distributed research lab:

setting pace and direction for our field
Interdisciplinary
Intersection of technology, society
Direct application to teaching/learning
Outreach
Interactions: under learner control, global, networked
Visualization
(Veenhof, Wellman, et al)
(Frank and Gabler)
(McNeely & Wolverton)
(National Bureau of Economic Research) 
Interactions
Socialization is an information artifact
Enormous growth and hype