Category Archives: Trends

Video: Make the future

By Jay Collier | Published: March 3, 2010
A video from FutureLab looking at “ideas drawn from research commissioned under the Beyond Current Horizons programme, which considers the future of education in the light of social and technological change.”
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Video: Social Media Revolution

By Jay Collier | Published: November 30, 2009
“Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the Industrial Revolution? This video details social media facts and figures” through June 2009. More about the video
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Bates and the Social Web

By Jay Collier | Published: October 30, 2009
Yours, Mine, and Ours – Redux The World Wide Web was conceived, from the start, as a social medium: as a space for virtual collaboration. Although it was dominated, during its early years, by the one-to-many broadcast model which preceded it, the Web has been evolving toward its potential as a social space for meaningful interaction.
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One Bates, many journeys

By Jay Collier | Published: September 1, 2009
As we prepare to release our new Home site — which presents the essence of Bates’ approach to liberal arts and sciences education — I’m sharing the current draft of a vision paper on ways such an education might be expanded through online collaboration. [Note: this paper is now available as a printable Web page here.] It’s [...]
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