Notes from Educause Webinar

These are the notes I captured from the Educause webinar about:

6 emerging technologies through 5 questions.

The trends are towards

- More into the Cluod and Decentralization

- More Collaboration

MetaTrends from 2007-2010:

• More Collective/Collaborative/Team


• More mobility and cloud technology


• More gaming, virtual worlds

Challenges 2007-2010

• Supporting Learn whenever and wherever they want


• Engaging information from anywhere


• Move from Print to Digital t0 Networked education

Mobile Learning

• The trend to move into bigger than mobile phone to smaller than laptop (like Skyped laptop, iPad)


• Used for short duration information (FaceBook, news, Twitting, Texting). Still, long duration information depends on laptop/PC.


• Challenges: cost, ownership, spread (some students do not have it).

EBooks

• Example: Kindle, iPdas


• eBooks will become the new trend to read.


• Allows rich contents to students


• Reduce carrying heavy books.

Read the Horizon Report

Use CampFire discussion approach.