What is your perspective on the authors’ notions of how institutions and pedagogies must respond to emerging technologies and practices?

The components of the document that I find interesting are associated with collaboration. I find that collaboration is a huge indicator of my personal enjoyment in a class and in connection my engagement and commitment to learning. In order for collaboration to happen, multiple parties need to have a common place to work together on an idea. This is easily accomplished in a new web-based learning environment with many of the tech tools our class has access are specifically designed to facilitate collaboration. While I value and enjoy collaboration, there are personal values I  hold that can feel like a  contradiction to collaboration. I value internet privacy and realize that in order to collaborate, I have to give up a bit of privacy. The people I collaborate with will have a venue to contact me beyond the normal boundaries of a physical classroom. The boundaries of class hours and physical proximity are gone when collaboration online and the participants are constantly accessible.

Continuing to see collaboration through the lens of the author, there are risks associated with collaboration and publication. If one is creating content with the goal of monetizing the content there needs to be much thought to intellectual property and authorship. Collaboration is amazing when there is no need to identify ownership. When a single individual or entity wants to own a creation it gets exponentially difficult to assess ownership right when multiple unidentified collaborators add to the product. (P.S. I really do like collaboration)

What other changes do you think we, as educators and learners, should be attentive to with these emerging trends?

I’ve stated in a previous blog that net neutrality is a concern of mine. I believe that if learning can happen via the internet, then the access to the internet should not be restricted. I can’t fathom the idea that in the future I may not be allowed access to the best source of information because a private company chooses not to allow me access or routes me to a partner that paid for preferential treatment. I want knowledge to be accessible to those that seek it.

Also, ugh it was very difficult to stay focused on this article. I don’t know if it was the writing style or the length, or the end of the course, but man was I distracted.