Overview of the EDUCAUSE 2014 Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida

1. Professor Sandra Markus
School of Art and Design
EDUCAUSE
2014

2. WHAT IS EDUCAUSE?
EDUCAUSE is a non-profit
organization who mission is:
To advance higher education by
promoting the use of
information technology

3. WHO IS EDUCAUSE?
Membership is open to institutions
of higher education, corporations
serving the higher education
market, and related organizations

4. WHO ATTENDS EDUCAUSE?
Over 8,000 higher education IT
professionals attended

5. The Three Big Ideas
Disruptive Innovation
The changing landscape of LMSs
Wearables

6. Clayton Christensen:
Has the Disruption
Begun?

7. What is Disruptive Innovation?
Transforms an expensive product into
an accessible affordable product
The big companies in the center don't see
this disruption coming
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) 1970’s
Tesla—Will electric cars disrupt gasoline cars?

8. In 1988 Digital
was the 2nd largest
computer company
with $11.5 billion
in revenues,
121,000 employees

9. By 1991, Digital
posted its first
full-year loss.
It would go on
to lose money
5 out of the
next 7 years
So
What Happened?

10. The
microprocessor
Reduced the
cost and
increased
processing
speeds
Launched the
personal
computer
This Happened

12. Disruptive Innovation &
Higher Education
the best of the universities are facing huge
competition from schools that can assemble
hundreds of thousands of students

13. Technology now allows
us to deliver course
online and by
video conferencing.
Certificates are becoming
more prevalent.
Christensen asks us to “pray for Harvard”

14. Harvard agreed to let
University of Phoenix
to create an online course
with Christensen
Delivered the course to
135,000 business students
Harvard reaches 900
students a year
Hard to compete against that kind of scale for long

16. What will
Higher Education
look like in
2020?

17. The future of e-learning?

18. Student satisfaction with the LMS:
Percentage satisfied or very satisfied.
Student satisfaction with the LMS

19. Faculty satisfaction with the LMS:
Faculty satisfaction with the LMS

21. The education silo

22. New models of Learning
participatory design
authorize participants as co-instructors
community based participatory design
connectivist approach
social media sites
hacking

23. New models of Learning
Competency Based Education
(CBE)
The expanding use of network
analytics to predict
learning outcomes

24. Maya Georgieva
Associate Director
Center for Innovation in
Teaching and Learning, NYU
Craig Emory
Director of eLearning and
Instructional Technology
College of New Rochelle

25. Wearables - The next technology cycle

27. The Quantified Self
Tracking ourselves

28. Isabelle Olssen
Google Glass Then & Now

29. Wearables

30. The Face
meta-3D
glasses
augmented
reality
google glass
vuzix

31. Connected monitored bodies
Smart Fitness Wearable Devices in Use per Annum 2018: Over 70 million

32. “The whole sensor field is
going to explode. It’s a little
all over the place right now.
With the arc of time, it will
become clearer.”
~Tim Cook, Apple CEO

33. Wearables will be a fashion accessory
Bloom

34. Oculus Rift
Immersive
Reality

35. Wearables in the
Learning Environment

37. Ball State University-The Traveler

39. Tidal wave of data, images and information

40. The future is closer than you think

41. http://cit.duke.edu/blog/2014/08/google-glass-
teaching-learning-part-can-glass/
http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-
things-you-should-know-about-wearable-
technology
http://redarchive.nmc.org/publications/2014-
horizon-report-higher-ed
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/07/17/
wearable-learning.aspx?admgarea=News

42. Thank you