Design has emerged as one of the world’s most powerful forces. Our lives are intimately touched by architectural, environmental, industrial, and visual design. Most of the places and objects that shape our experience have been designed by intention. And the internet has created new frontiers for interaction, information, and communication design.
– Peter Morville / Ambient Findability, 2005.
Una afirmació clarament inspirada en la de Bruce Mau
Design has emerged as one of the world’s most powerful forces. It has placed us at the beginning of a new period of human possibility, where all economies and ecologies are becoming global, relational, and interconnected.
– Bruce Mau / Massive Change, 2004
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Dynamics shaping the 21st century educational landscape
- Where the traditional educational business model was fueled by content, the new educational model rests on mentorship
- Student-centered learning is moving from an abstraction to realty
- The role of educators is shifting beyond instruction to sense-making
Requirements to meet the educational demands of the next century
- New literacies will be needed
- Institutional approaches must respond to today’s challenges
- The educational community must reach for fewer, clearer and higher standards that translate across borders
Read the complete report here: http://www.uoc.edu/symposia/openedtech