iPads getting productive in heavy duty use, take a look at this link:
http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/hospital-purchases-100-ipads/

On the Videolectures.net-site I found a a video containing one minute presentations, and that would be a pretty neat way of promoting NKW-media in the future. Take a look, the content itself is interesting…

http://videolectures.net/mum09_all_madness/

Jeg oppdaget via det svenske nettstedet LearningNet, at Horizon Report 2010 Preview nå er tilgjengelig. Rapportene til New Media Consortium er interessante siden de forsøker å se inn i fremtiden og hvilke teknologiske trender de tror vi vil komme til å se.

• Innen 1 år mener de vi vil se enda mer av såkalt Mobile Computing og Open Content
• I et lengre perspektiv (2-3 år) peker de på: Electronic Books, Simple Augmented Reality
• Ser vi enda lenger fra (4-5 år) kan vi forvente å se  mer av: Gesture Based Computing (se film under) og Visual Data Analysis

Jeg opplever det vel slik at dette er trenger man vil se internasjonalt, men ikke noe vi kan forvente i stor skala her i landet.

I tillegg pekes det på noen kritiske utfordringer:

• Rollen til høyere utdanning, og måten vi forbereder studenter for det fremtidige arbeidsliv er i endring
• Det utvikles nye nye former for skriving,  publisering og forskning, mens de tradisjonelle målekriteriene ikke passer.
• Digital dannelse fortsetter å bre om seg som et viktig kjerneområde, men lærere henger fortsatt etter mht kompetanse og ferdigheter
• Institusjoner fortsette med å fokusere mer snevert på noen hovedmål som et resultat av dårligere budsjett.

Lawrence Lessig er jussprofessor ved Stanford. Han har tidligere holdt en TED Talk om opphavsrett. Nå har han holdt et nytt foredrag som du kan se her.

According to Helsingin Sanomat (major newspaper) the proposal of copyright legislation concerning employer and employee, should be ready by spring. Until now the employer has got all rights to material produced at work, and includes everything from Powerpoints to any artform. That has been an issue for many teachers that I have personally been talking to. Another issue has risen concerning material that a teacher has produced in his or her leisure time, and whether that should also be owned by the employer.

The proposal contains following:

1. copyright belongs to the employee as always

2. the employer will gain rights to utilize and resell the material done by the employee

There are, as I’m concerned, two different scenarios; some teachers will immediately stop producing material that can be sold and utilized by the employer; and some teachers could actually renegotiate their contract in order to produce material within their work tasks. I think the latter is a really small minority, but the e-learning business might welcome this opportunity because there is a possibility to buy material directly from a university (as all becomes companies by the end of the year) instead of individual teachers.

When there aren’t any problems, we all live happily ever after, but when something occurs there are lot of questions: in what way can the employer keep track of what a teacher/employee has produced without breaking the integrity of that person? What happens if a teacher has produced and sold a book and the university demands royalties after the book has been published? What happens to a material when it is sold by the university, and the author renews and sells the new one-will the recent buyer accuse the author for copying?

One would hope that the employer, university, will support productive employers, and accept that those can cash in some pocket money. Or, deal with certain persons that they write, and figure out a contract that states that the teacher works partly as a writer and they split the income of that book/video lecture series/e-learning material.

Where would the university e-learning stratetgies end up if the most creative and eager persons would leave for private companies? Nothing right now, but in 10 years it is not a privilege to study at a university that is 100% on-campus….

There are a lot of resources on the web that could be utilized, and a lot that shows how not to record knowledge. By far the worst example of a web lecture looks like this:

Camera angle sucks, image quality sucks and audio double sucks…