This document discusses how social media and data are transforming education into a social global classroom. It notes that improved communication and collaboration from social media could add $1.3 trillion annually to the economy by raising knowledge worker productivity 20-25%. It also discusses how a social learning environment allows for real-time, location-independent learning that is dynamic, data-driven, crowd-sourced, continuously innovative, and agile.

1. Transforming Education:
the Social Global
Classroom

6. ~ Brian Solis, Principal at Altimeter Group
Author, The End of Business As Usual

7. “Nothing has changed.
Everything is different.”
~ Stefan Olander, VP Digital Sport for Nike
co-author Velocity -

8. “Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion
bytes of data -- so much so that
90% of the data in the world has
been created in the last two years
alone.” ~ IBM

9. Improved communication and
collaboration from social media could
add $1.3 trillion annually in value to
the economy and raise
knowledge worker productivity
20-25%.
2012 Study

10. “I would rather hire a high-level
World of Warcraft player than a
MBA from Harvard.”
~ John Seeley Brown Co-Chairman of Deloitte
Center for the Edge

11. Past
Present
Data
Topic Topic
Data
Passive Active
Traditional Classroom Social Learning:
Location & Time Specific Real-time, Anywhere

14. Social Global Classroom
Outcomes
Data
Dynamic
Dynamic
Real-time
Real-time
Crowd-sourced
Collaboration
Continuous Innovation
Multi-directional Agility
Continuous Innovation
Multi-directional Agility