The consequences of the democratization of IT for education.

1. Opening the Gates
The consequences of the democratization of IT for education
https://beeldbank.rws.nl Rijkswaterstaat
EUNIS-Rectors 2012, May 24-26, Prague
Dr. L.A. Plugge, Scientific Technical Council, SURF

2. What is SURF?
Initiator and incubator of innovation in higher education and
research in The Netherlands.
It unites
•14 research universities;
•40 universities of applied sciences;
•8 academic medical centers;
•7 education & research institutions.
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3. SURF activities, since 1987
Platform Platform Platform
ICT and Education ICT and Research ICT and Business Management
Together we
Address the challenges of technology-enhanced Learning
& Research
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4. So, what are these challenges?
May 2003 January 2009
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5. Only recently, IT was for the happy, nerdy few
Data terminals in the 80’s
IBM System/360, 1964
64K memory
>$133,000
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6. Now, IT is for everyone, everywhere, anytime
We went from isolation to connected Applications are everywhere
Information is everywhere
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7. We get our services anywhere from the cloud
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8. We get our services anywhere from the cloud
But not from our institution
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9. Top 10 Learning Tools
Rank Application
1 Twitter (Microblogging tool)
2 YouTube (Video sharing site)
3 Google Docs (Office collaboration suite)
4 Skype (Instant Messaging and Voice)
5 WordPress (Blogging tool)
6 Dropbox (File synching software)
7 Prezi (Presentation software)
8 Moodle (Course management system)
9 Slideshare (Presentation sharing site) Centre for Learning &
Performance Technologies
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11. There’s a radical shift going on
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12. There’s a radical shift going on
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13. IT matters more than ever – but
differently
It is high time to rethink
which services
a higher education
institution
should provide,
why, how and for whom
Edwards, C. & Peppard, J., 1997
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14. ‘Reinventing the Ivy League’
By Dan Primack, CNN Money, April 3, 2012
Can an online, for-profit university
become education's gold standard?
The Minerva Project (CEO Ben Nelson)
"the first elite American university launched in a century”
‘Not elite cost, but elite criteria for admission’
• academically-rigorous admissions criteria;
• online courses with limited class sizes;
• reinvented teaching responsibilities;
• global campuses;
• significantly lower tuition than traditional institutions of higher learning
Will it work?
Maybe, but see it as a wakeup call for the rest of us.
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15. Example steps taken by SURF
• SURFfederation:
• access external information and services with your institution credentials;
• SURFconext:
• Portal to internal and external services and information;
• Form teams to collaborate;
• Access collaboration tools;
• National infrastructure for Digital Online Testing:
• Sharing test applications;
• Sharing test item banks;
• Sharing author tools for testing;
• Developing sourcing strategies:
• Conditions, agreements, privacy, etc.;
• Collaborative Procurement of Services;
• Document sharing;
• Open Access:
• Support for Open Access publications including data.
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16. Remember, they choose with their feet and leave
you with underused expensive facilities!
Don’t sell them ice when they have refrigerators.
Open the gates to integrate the outside world
and allow freedom of choice.
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