1. The Shifting Education Landscape:
Networked Learning
Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet Project
3.26.12
Monterey Institute
Email: Lrainie@pewinternet.org
Twitter: @Lrainie
PewInternet.org

3. Broadband
facilitates
networked
information

4. Social media
aids peer-to-
peer learning
by doing

5. Mobile
connectivity
alters
learning
venues and
expectations

6. New kinds
of learners
emerge

7. Digital Revolution 1
Internet (80%) and Broadband at home (66%)
71%
66%

8. Internet users – 80%

9. Broadband at home – 64%

10. Networked creators are everywhere
(two-thirds of adults; three-quarters of teens)
• 66% of int. users are social networking site users
• 55% share photos
• 37% contribute rankings and ratings
• 33% create content tags
• 30% share personal creations
• 26% post comments on sites and blogs
• 15% have personal website
• 15% are content remixers
• 14% are bloggers
• 13% use Twitter
• 6% location services – 9% allow location
awareness from social media – 23% maps etc.

11. 56% of adults own laptops –
up from 30% in 2006
52% of adults own DVRs –
up from 3% in 2002
44% of adults own MP3 players –
up from 11% in 2005
42% of adults own game consoles
19% of adults own e-book readers - Kindle
19% of adults own tablet computer - iPad

12. Broadband Pervasive
facilitates media
networked
information
Links and
multimedia
Self-paced
learning
Analytics

13. Digital Revolution 2:
Mobile phones – 88% of adults
327.6
Total U.S.
population:
315.5
million
2011

14. Digital devices
Younger Older Silent G.I. All online
Millennials Gen X
Boomers Boomers Generation Generation adults
(18-34) (35-46)
(47-56) (57-65) (66-74) (75+) (18+)
Cell phone 96% 94% 87% 84% 77% 52% 88%
Desktop
computer 55% 67% 62% 61% 48% 29% 57%
Laptop
computer 70% 63% 58% 49% 32% 14% 56%
iPod or MP3
player 69% 57% 36% 24% 10% 5% 44%
Game
console 63% 63% 38% 19% 8% 3% 42%
e-Book
reader 19% 25% 18% 12% 9% 5% 19%
Tablet, like
iPad 23% 23% 16% 14% 8% 3% 19%

15. Smartphones – 46%

16. Changes in smartphone ownership

17. Cell phones as connecting tools
% of cell owners
• 64% send photo or video
– Post video 25%
• 55% access social net. site
• 30% watch a video
• 11% have purchased a product
• 11% charitable donation by text
• 60% (of Twitter users) access
Twitter
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19. Texting takes off and talking slips

20. Apps – 50% of adults

21. Mobile Augmented
connectivity reality
alters
learning
Attention
venues and
zones morph
expectations Pervasive,
New access Real-time perpetual
points to sharing, just- awareness
knowledge in-time of social
(AAA) searching networks

22. Digital Revolution 3
Social networking – 52% of all adults
% of internet users

24. Social media Facilitates rise of
aids peer-to- amateur experts
peer learning
by doing
Elevates DIY
learning in
soc.nets
Changes
Increases the role of character of
social networks in soc.nets

25. In the midst of all
this, what’s
happening with
learning?

26. Teacher research
• Teachers are teched-up personally and in class
– Bloggers, SNS, Twitter users, Wikipedia
• Divided about their aptitude vs. students
• Tech makes students fundamentally different
now in capacities and learning styles
• Tech has good/bad impacts on students’ lives
– Media savvy / sharing / immersive / broadening
– Distracted / less-info savvy / prone to shortcuts

27. Good news for new methods
Presidents Predict the Future of Online Learning
% saying more than half of their undergraduate students have taken/will be taking an
online class

28. Not-so-good news
Public Views on Learning Online vs. in the Classroom
In general, do you think a course taken only online provides an equal educational value
compared with a course taken in person in a classroom, or not? (%)

29. College presidents weigh in
Presidents’ Views on Learning Online vs. in the Classroom
Generally speaking, do you believe a course taken online provides an equal
educational value compared with a course taken in person in a classroom, or not? (%)

30. More oriented
New kinds towards being
of learners nodes of
emerge production
More reliant on feedback
and response
More self-directed More inclined to
Better arrayed to collaboration
capture new info

31. What is the future of learning/knowledge?
-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”
Old: New:
Learning as transaction Learning as a process
Knowledge is Knowledge is
objective and subjective and
certain provisional

32. What is the future of learning/knowledge?
-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”
Old: New:
Learning as transaction Learning as a process
Learners receive Learners create
knowledge knowledge

33. What is the future of learning/knowledge?
-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”
Old: New:
Learning as transaction Learning as a process
Knowledge is organized Knowledge is organized
in stable, hierarchical “ecologically”-
structures that can disciplines are
be treated integrative and
independently of one interactive
another

34. What is the future of learning/knowledge?
-- Shana Ratner (1997) “Emerging Issues in Learning Communities”
Old: New:
Learning as transaction Learning as a process
Our “intelligence” Our “intelligence”
is based on our is based on our
individual learning
abilities communities

35. Your map is wrong

36. Thank you!

37. • Stanford CS221 – Introduction to Artificial
Intelligence
• Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig
• Google X, a lab created to incubate the
company’s most ambitious and secretive
projects. He was also free to pursue outside
ventures.
• In a few slides, he’d spelled out the nine essential
components of a university education:
admissions, lectures, peer interaction, professor
interaction, problem-solving, assignments,
exams, deadlines, and certification.