Education in Exponential Times: How TechnologyEnabled Change is Reshaping Higher Education

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Education in Exponential TimesHow
Technology-Enabled Change is Reshaping Higher
Education

• October 15, 2007 Webcast
• Society for College and University Planning
• Michael Rogers, NYTimes Futurist-in-Residence
• Diana G. Oblinger, Vice President, EDUCAUSE
• Joel L. Hartman, Vice Provost Information
  Technologies and Resources, University of Central
  Florida

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Any space can be a learning space. By changing
spaces, we are changing how learning takes
place. Diana Oblinger Education in
Exponential Times 2007
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Students and Technology

• They are visually, not textually oriented.
• They are the first generation to be not just
  consumers, but also producers of content.

Oblinger Oblinger, 2005 Hartman, Joel L.
Education in Exponential Times 2007.
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Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants

• Todays students are native speakers of the
  digital language of computers, video games, and
  the internet.
• They process information and behave differently
  than previous generations.
• Digital immigrants (we) have had to adapt our
  accents are discernable.

Prensky, 2001 Hartman, Joel L. Education in
Exponential Times 2007.
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Hart, 2006 Oblinger, Diana. Education in
Exponential Times 2007.