Socialnomics

Here is another interesting video that talks about the explosive growth of social media. The message is more for businesses, but I think it has applicability for those of us in higher education as well. I'm seeing a rising level of consciousness on this topic in higher ed, but I don't think we've really caught on yet how much the world has changed around us. Enjoy.

I Think I'm an Edupunk

Just ran across a new term - "edupunk" in an article in Fast Company magazine. The article is entitled Who Needs Harvard and it discusses how the new open source model of technology is being applied to education. The article raises some great issues about the relevance of the traditional higher education model in a new world of distributed knowledge.

While Googling edupunk I ran across this video which I think does a really nice job illustrating the challenge we face in higher education. Not so much a challenge as a complete and total shift in how knowledge is acquired and disseminated. It's changing everything about the way education should work - but are we ready for it?