Anyone who works for an educational institution will recognize this large scale explanation of the tension between old style organizations and the new model of Internet bred collaboration.
The examples here should be familiar to you. What’s intriguing is that this TED talk took place 3 years ago and is fresh and on point right now. Shirky predicts a revolution based on free collaborative technologies that will lead to 50 years of chaos in communications communities. Based on what I saw at NECC 2008, the ideas are just beginning to trickle into institutionalized learning & we need a little chaos to break the logjam that is clogging innovation in education.
In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles…
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