Exploring the futures of Learning & Higher Education
Welcome PS 545 students!
Until we can get you added to the course Evernote Notebook, I wanted to provide you with a copy of the syllabus and a link to this Friday’s readings. Please remember to sign up for an Evernote account (free!) as soon as possible so that you may access the course Notebook. For course updates, please remember to check the #ps545 hashtag on Twitter regularly.
Once again, I’ve been given the privilege of attending the Business Innovation Factory’s Collaborative Innovation Summit, affectionately known as BIF-8. Once again, as happened the night before BIFs 5 & 6, I can’t sleep. I’m too excited. You see, I’ve been looking forward to this two-day summit for months. The energy, the sheer delight of [...]
ContinueI’m beginning to suspect the ecosystem of online course production will end up looking something like this: The chart also needs additional axes to capture social layer, enrollment size (small/traditional or full-on MOOC), and whether learning is meant to be formal or informal. iTunesU certainly looks to be shaping up into a lower-right quadrant offering, [...]
ContinueThe following is a fictionalized scenario, a day of a life of a teaching and learning center based on some futuring work I did for an internal planning retreat for the Center for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching (CELT) in Summer 2012. I wrote up this scenario based on the outputs of several workshop exercises designed [...]
ContinueOver at The Next Web, Paul Sawers discusses the findings of a recent O2 survey that indicate that our phones really aren’t thought of as (primarily) voice communication tools anymore: “Smartphones are now being used like a digital ‘Swiss Army Knife’, replacing possessions like watches, cameras, books and even laptops,” says David Johnson, General Manager [...]
ContinueI was fortunate enough to have someone pass on to me this video by Michael Marantz this morning: “The Future is Ours.” Take a quick look (it’s only 2:14): The Future is Ours from Michael Marantz on Vimeo. It was a very welcome reminder on a Monday morning that in the end, those of us [...]
ContinueCross-posted from the Experience Design Works blog: Last month I had the opportunity to speak at the Pearson CiTE 2012 conference about my use of OpenClass – Pearson’s new LMS/Learning Platform – in the course I taught at the University of Kentucky this semester. Pearson CiTE 2012 OpenClass Presentation View more presentations from Christopher Rice [...]
ContinueThis post by John Timmer on “How to run a successful research lab without having a lab” at Ars Technica really got me thinking this morning. One of the real difficulties with online or distributed higher education in the sciences is the problem of lab spaces. How, other than using an online simulation, do you [...]
ContinueSecond Life has been an important part of my teaching at the University of Kentucky. You can see the course wikis recording my students’ adventures here and here. Second Life was always a great way for me to bring my personal interest in digital ethnography into my political theory courses to help the students to [...]
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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. is a futurist, social technology strategist, ethnographer and political theorist exploring the intersections of technology, learning and society. His current work focuses on scenario forecasting and "ethnographies of the future" that explore the futures of postsecondary learning and teaching as well as innovative
