It’s not just these guys in suits who react this way when they learn about Twitter and Facebook… Most of the university administrators around the globe who hear my talks react the same way! =)
About the Author
To learn more about David Wiley, visit http://davidwiley.org/. David also leads the Access to Knowledge Initiative in Brigham Young University's David O. McKay School of Education.
Recent Publications
- Overcoming the Limitations of Learning Objects
- Using Weblogs in Scholarship and Teaching
- The Four R?s of Openness and ALMS Analysis: Frameworks for Open Educational Resources
- Psychologism and American Instructional Technology
- The Open High School of Utah: Openness, Disaggregation, and the Future of Schools
- Openness, Dynamic Specialization, and the Disaggregated Future of Higher Education
- Open Source, Openness, and Higher Education
- Open Educational Resources: Enabling universal education
- Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network
- Collecting, Organizing, and Managing Resources for Teaching Educational Games the Wiki Way
- The Creation and Use of Open Educational Resources in Christian Higher Education
- A Unified Design Framework for Learning Objects and Educational Discourse
So, how do we help them see the value of technology while the technology is still current? It seems like at BYU we adopt something about the time it becomes out-of-date (e.g. Blackboard). We always seem to be behind the curve.
Wow. Good question. Bring it up in Louisville.