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Makale Özeti:
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Strategic plans for teaching and learning are essential, however, they tend to focus on
moving a mass of stakeholders along an agreeable path. The strategy is necessary and
sensible, although many times, these plans miss a key audience important to the future
of education, the eager adopters. Previously, this group was called “early adopters”,
however, I believe that the time in which educators become involved is not as important
as their eagerness. This philosophy follows Thoreau's notion that, "If a man loses pace
with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.” It is those,
who hear different drummers that may appear to be tangent to institutional missions,
although they may actually be leading initiatives, which the institution may eventually
adopt. Some of the eager ideas which will be shared in this paper include Social
Emotional Competency, Digital Content Creation Ecosystems, MOOCs, play with purpose
maker economy fabrication labs, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, big data learning
analytics, wearable technology, the quantifiable self, the internet of things, and mobile
learning. The paper describes these eager adopter ideas aligned to the 2014 NMC Horizon
report; eager adopter philosophies; and eager adopter questions to help initiate and
guide strategic planning discussions.
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