What is of Instructional Technology

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What is of Instructional Technology?
EDIT 6100
Spring 2003
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The times, they are a changing.
Bob Dylan

• The period 2000-2002 will bring the single
  greatest change in worldwide economic and
  business conditions since we came down from the
  trees.

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Forget about it.
Robert DeNiro

• The problem is never how to get new, innovative
  thoughts into your mind, BUT HOW TO GET THE OLD
  ONES OUT.

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Take this job and shove it!
Johnny Paycheck

• The impact of the Net on higher education is
  almost certain to be very much
  greater than on any business. The average
  knowledge worker will outlive the average
  employing organization. This is the first time in
  history that this has happened.

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Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
Samuel Johnson

• The most profitable businesses in the future
  will act as knowledge brokers, linking insights
  into whats available with insights into the
  customers individual needs and preferences.

www.tompeters.com/
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to
authority is not using his intelligence he is
just using his memory.
Leonardo Da Vinci

• The Web enables total transparency. People with
  access to relevant information are beginning to
  challenge any type of authority. The stupid,
  loyal and humble customer, employee, patient or
  citizen is dead.

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Its true! Men are half-brains!

• New research suggests men really do listen with
  just half their brains. In a study of 10 men and
  10 women, brain scans showed that men when
  listening mostly used the left sides of their
  brains. Women in the study, however, used both
  sides.

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What are the Trends?

• Smaller
• Faster
• More Powerful
• More Connected
• Ubiquitous
• Transparent

The Future is NOW!
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The Internet is morphing into the Evernet!

• DoCoMo Japan is giving us our first real glimpse
  of what the age of the "Evernet" will look like
  in a developed society. The Evernet age is what
  comes after the Internet age. The Evernet age is
  when you will be able to be online everywhere all
  the time.

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Virtual Reality Changing the Way We Interact
with Data and Knowledge?

• The CAVE
• Automatic
• Virtual
• Environment

The Advanced Visualization Lab
http//www.avl.iu.edu/
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Former Secretary of the U.S. Air Force Dr. Sheila
E. Widnall

• The future of the Air Force is pilot-free
  aircraft.

Air Forces Predator drone - used in Afghanistan
and now deployed in Iraq
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Kevin Kelly Co-Founder Wired Magazine

• Technology succeeds when it becomes invisible.
• The most important overlooked new power is P2P
  (user-user client-client customer-customer
  peer-peer).
• The Napster model is not just about music its
  how we will move everything in the future --
  its unstoppable.

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Was Is in the New Economy

• Pine-paneled Office
• Address 1 Big Man Plaza
• Secretary
• Suit
• Formal
• Rank conscious
• Pretense (Failures are for fools.)
• I love Yes men
• Self-contained

• Seat 9B, UA233
• Address Rick_at_Corp.com
• Typing 60 WPM
• Casual M-F
• Approachable
• We are a HOT Team
• Screwing up is as normal as breathing
• I love Misfits!
• I love partners

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The supply of good women far exceeds that of the
men who deserve them.
Robert Graves

• New studies find that female managers outshine
  their male counterparts on almost every measure.

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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well
as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton

• Men and women dont think the same way, dont
  communicate the same way, dont buy for the same
  reasons. He simply wants the transaction to take
  place. Shes interested in creating a
  relationship. Every place women go, they make
  connections.

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Conventional Instruction

• Students come to campus
• Classes at times determined by institution
• Single institution provides all instruction and
  services
• Student affiliated with one institution at a time
• Learning objectives specified by faculty
• Terms of relationship defined by institution
• Program completion defined by credits earned

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E-Learning

• Students participate remotely
• Learns determine when to access instruction
• Educational services come from multiple providers
• Learners associated with multiple providers
  concurrently
• Learners define goals and seek learning
  opportunities
• Students design their own programs
• Program completion is defined by skills gained

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What will Higher Education look like?

• One of our most difficult challenges involves
  defining optimal roles for faculty and technology
  in the 21st Century.

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MacCollege
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Wired U.
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Outsourced Tech
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Warehouse A M
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Educational Maintenance Organization
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Prediction is very difficult, especially about
the future.
Niels Bohr

• What will your future be in five, ten, or twenty
  years?