Beyond The Walled Garden:New Possibilities With Learning Platforms

Presented at ITC eLearning ConferenceFebruary 18, 2015

Presented by: Phil Hill@PhilOnEdTech

MindWires Consulting and e-Literate blog

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New Market Entries

Source: ECAR LMS Report https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers1414.pdf

Source: ECAR LMS Report https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ers1414.pdf

On One Hand . . .

• Still a landscape of ~5 LMS solutions

• LMS Core Functions: Rosters, Grades, Assignments, Submissions, Class Messages / Discussions

• What’s the big deal?

"There's a tsunami coming. [But] I can't tell you exactly how it's going to break."

John Hennessy, Stanford

"We are at the beginning of a technology-led revolution in pedagogy: Our innovation is not the blackboard, but instead an evolving suite of tools that allows interactive learning online"

Drew Faust, HarvardL. Rafael Reif, MIT

Source: Grade Level Report http://onlinelearningconsortium.org/read/survey-reports-2014/

Fall 2013 IPEDS Data

On the Other Hand . . .

• Everything has changed

Good Lens

• Everett Rogers wrote the origin of much of technology adoption concepts

• S-curve, categories of adopters

Two Sides of the Chasm• Innovators & Early Adopters: Willing to take risks, influential

• Early Majority: Much slower adoption, need holistic solutions

• Late Majority: Approach an innovation with a high degree of skepticism and after the majority of society has adopted the innovation

From an organizational change perspective, we are just

starting with online education & application of educational

technology in the mainstream

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Counter-example

• Walled gardens will still have a place, but no longer in broad sense (this is what we support for whole school) and instead for specific academic programs

This Won’t Be Easy

Source: New York Times, Feb 12, 2015 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/13/education/harvard-and-mit-sued-over-

failing-to-caption-online-courses.html

Bottom Line

• Apparent dilemma: Frustration, slow change vs. Everything is changing

• Best understood by Straddling the Chasm

• Move away from walled garden is biggest trend to allow service of both sides of Chasm

Phil Hill: phil@mindwires.com

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