LINKS TO TALK 06.28.08: The Flash talk cluster I used during the talk is here: Cloud Education, and the report of the conference here: Microlearning.
VIDEO OF THE TALK: With thanks to Teemu Arina, a video of my talk is online at his vimeo.com.
The image with this post is one I have prepared for my talk this Friday in Innsbruck, Austria at the Microlearning2008 Conference. I will seek to convince the audience that these two things are crucial to the future of learning:
Delivering the cloud to individual students is the key mobile role for education.
The node junction between web assets is the most important component of online learning.
As education now roars down the road into the dynamic cloud of open content, the proprietary aspects of learning can and likely will continue as underground enterprises. There will be confidential archives, some tutoring inside walled gardens, subscriptions journals (alas!), and distance learning for hire. I am not judging these – that is a separate issue. And surely, there are aspects of education that should and always will remain private.
Nonetheless, the vast new open network that cloud computing is billowing up makes the open-one-web a stunning opportunity to deliver and optimize open knowledge to billions of people. The new generations will visit the cloud through their mobiles. The optimization will be done at the micro level of the content – which is why at the node junction lies the most important opportunity to give juice and trust to educational enlightenment.
