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The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education
By: Curtis J. BonkeBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
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Discover the dramatic changes that are affecting all learners
Web-based technology has opened up education around the world to the point where anyone can learn anything from anyone else at any time. To help educators and others understand what's possible, Curt Bonk employs his groundbreaking "WE-ALL-LEARN" model to outline ten key technology and learning trends, demonstrating how technology has transformed educational opportunities for learners of every age in every corner of the globe. The book is filled with inspiring stories of ordinary learners as well as interviews with technology and education leaders that reveal the power of this new way of learning. Captures the global nature of open education from those who are creating and using new learning technologies Includes a new Preface and Postscript with the latest updates A free companion web site provides additional stories and information
Using the dynamic "WE-ALL-LEARN" model, learners, educators, executives, administrators, instructors, and parents can discover how to tap into the power of Web technology and unleash a world of information.
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| Title of eBook: The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education | |
| Release Date: 07-06-2009 | |
| Publisher: Jossey-Bass |
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The World Is Open: How Web Technology Is Revolutionizing Education
Chapter One
We All Learn
I USTREAMED YOUR USTREAM: NOW THAT'S A TWITTER OF AN IDEA!
As someone who is used to giving over a hundred talks each year and whose blog is titled TravelinEdMan, my schedule in early November 2007 was part of a routine I had come to expect. First, there was a trip to Washington, D.C., to present some of the ideas for this book at the University of Maryland, followed by a presentation at a public health conference in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center a couple of hours later. I flew home the next morning only to return a few days later for a similar sequence of events; this time to keynote a disabilities-related conference, followed by a talk at Northern Virginia Community College, which my friend Nantana Wongtanasirikul had arranged.
As that session ended, a couple of monitors two feet behind me switched from my presentation slides to my Monday night Web 2.0 graduate class back at Indiana University (IU). Within seconds I could view my students back in their Indiana classroom from this classroom in northern Virginia via free Internet-based videoconferencing. They presented to me and I to them. It was the Internet2 at its finest. I could attend a conference in D.C. all day and not miss my class back at IU. In a couple of hours, I thought to myself, I would get a break.
This time I would get a day at home before traveling to the Atlanta Convention Center for a set of four talks at the Georgia Educational Technology Conference (GAETC). Flying back from D.C. the second time, however, I realized two things: fi
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