What trends do you expect to have a significant impact on the ways in which colleges and universities approach their core missions of teaching and research?
- Timeshifting – technology is allowing us more and more freedom to choose when and where we want to have an experience (Diana Oblinger)
- Distributed Cognition/Social Networking (Diana Oblinger)
- Visualization – 3-D can hold more info than 2-D (Diana Oblinger)
- Increasing Individualization the explosive growth of self-publishing is just one example; Flickr and other online communities also encourage individualization of the experience; peer-to-peer has some interesting social dimensions that faciliate this as well (Diana Oblinger)
- Mobility – People increasingly want their technology to go (Diana Oblinger)
- IP again - see previous notes in Question 4 about walled gardens versus open content (Bryan Alexander)
- Mashups of Web 2.0 applications - Click here to view a Web 2.0 Mashup Matrix. A new (coalescing?) group of people are pushing the web and are arguably a 'small pieces, loosely joined' type of distributed 'group'. Mashups here refer to mixes of Web 2.0 applications such as Goodle Maps, MSN Earth and Flickr. I think this is important because it is the spread of the remix culture that John Seely Brown and others discuss moving pervasively into all forms of learning. (Nick Noakes)
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