
On Saturday, April 4, Curt Bonk will join Learning Irregulars in Berkeley to celebrate the publication of his forthcoming book, The World is Open.
From the publisher’s PR department:
Web‐based technology has opened up education around the globe to the point where anyone can learn anything from anyone else at any time. You see it every time you Google something, find information in Wikipedia, read the results of an online survey, or watch a YouTube video. To help explain this highly complex situation, Curt Bonk employs his ground‐breaking model, “WE‐ALL‐LEARN,” to outline ten key technology and learning trends and shows how technology has transformed educational opportunities for learners of every age and from around the world. The book and its free companion web site are filled with the stories of ordinary learners, as well as of well known technology and education leaders, that reveal the power of opening up the world of learning.
From Jay:
Curt Bonk is most energetic person I’ve ever met. I’ve seen him suit up to run in Abu Dhabi in the middle of the summer when it was 110 Fahrenheit outside. His thinking matches his physical energy. This time around, Curt has mashed up Tom Friedman’s eye-opening The World is Flat with transformational educational technology he summarizes as “WE-ALL-LEARN:”
- Web Searching in the World of e-Books
- E-Learning and Blended Learning
- Availability of Open Source and Free Software
- Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare
- Learning Object Repositories and Portals
- Learner Participation in Open Information Communities
- Electronic Collaboration
- Alternate Reality Learning
- Real-Time Mobility and Portability
- Networks of Personalized Learning
We’ll webcast an interview and a small F2F gathering at Internet Time Studios around 2:30 pm on Saturday the 4th. More information to follow.