Sloan-C Emerging Technologies Symposium presentation by Matt Crosslin and Harriet Watkins of University of Texas at Arlington entitled Will Web 3.0 Make Us Change the Way We Educate?  About 46 in attendance.  A good presentation. Main points include:

• Web 2.0 started a move away from "siloed information".
• Analogy
  • Moving away from Tupperware's "shape ball" to Tupperware's open-topped
  • Turning the "walled garden" inside-out
• Web 3.0 concepts include:
  • Semantic Web
  • Cloud Computing
  • Virtual Worlds
  • Mobile Web
• Some brainstorms of what participants want from their LMS that doesn't yet exist:
  • Game-based learning with in-game assessment
  • Multi-sensory (beyond sight and sound)
  • Pre-built tools that can easily be dropped into any course by non-technical
• A New Vision for LMS Software
  • Student goes out to any place on the Web (rather than an LMS) and sends findings back to instructor to review.
  • Students log in to see what other students are doing and learning, rather than contralized content.
  • Sounds like Student Generated Content on steroids!  :-)
  • Students share objects (YouTube videos, blog post, Facebook post, etc.) with each other, instructor, and/or e-portfolio).
• They also have a Facebook group.
• Potential problems and concerns?  Thoughts from the room:
  • FERPA concerns: only grades cannot be posted to public; activities may be okay.
  • Accessibility and support of external technologies.
• Replace the name "Learning Management System" and current ID process
  • Connectivism Instructional Design Method (CIDM), focus on the activities you want students to do, not the content.
  • "Micro lectures" with 3 minutes of content to get students started
  • May not apply to as much to purely linearly-oriented content such as algebra (but that's only limited by the instructional designer's creativity)