The document discusses several topics: 1) Edgeless cities that sprawl over large areas lack a clear unified identity. 2) Universities face challenges like meeting the needs of more diverse students with fewer resources. 3) Technology can help enhance teaching by supporting iterative learning processes, not replacing human interaction.

1. Edgeless Challenges and
Opportunities
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3. Stories have consequences, but stories
change, and how and why they do is the
heart of the human enterprise
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5. Edgeless cities extend over tens, if not hundreds of square
miles of urban space. Individual components of edgeless
cities often have an identity, but collectively these places
seldom strike a casual observer as unified in any
meaningful way.
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7. Universities:
Find themselves in a fragile state.
Are being asked to do more for less ...
from meeting the needs of a larger and more diverse
student population to withstanding increased
competition.
Current ways of working are unsustainable.
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8. Technology is a driver for change.
We should harness it as a solution, a tool, for the way we
want universities to support learning and research.
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9. Teaching is really about facilitating people coming to
understand different, difficult and new ideas.
All the iterative processes that can help this happen – can
be supported and developed through technology.
... activities that do not replace the need for real life
teaching but enhance how it happens.
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15. Google, YouTube, Facebook, MySpace – deal in pebbles:
they aggregate them, navigate you through them, link
them together.
Charles Leadbeater
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16. Beachcombers
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25. Everett Rogers (1962)
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29. We need to move beyond the idea that an education is
something that is provided for us, and toward the idea that
an education is something that we create for ourselves.
Shelly Wright, Reverse Instruction, quoting Stephen Downes
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31. Link
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33. Photo Credits
Student Amenity Centre http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonflowerdragon/1797202453/
Spotfires http://www.csiro.au/org/BushfiresOverview.html
Monga Tree http://www.flickr.com/photos/ozjulian/3307584961/
Dandelion http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcgraths/2664830874/
Pebbles http://www.flickr.com/photos/roger_gordon/427577944/
Beachcombing http://www.flickr.com/photos/fui/2262545538/
Synchronised Jumping http://www.flickr.com/photos/elvire-r/2451784799/
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34. Photo Credits
Reflecting http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyhall/3417886789/
Understanding the Concept http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/4270204779/
Looking for Gators http://www.flickr.com/photos/10233916@N03/3821674333/
Examining the Icons http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmorgan/2173938354/
Rainbow over the Innovation Park http://www.flickr.com/photos/imajin/2186106604/
Diffusion of Innovations http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/1342355056/
Looking into the Past http://www.flickr.com/photos/pnglife/4542281097/
SMB http://www.flickr.com/photos/moonflowerdragon/1797201005/
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