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Thursday, March 28, 2002
http://sstweb.open.ac.uk:8282/oubs/gilly/download/Hearts3.htm Hearts, Minds and Screens: Taming the Future Dr. Gilly Salmon, Centre for Innovation, Knowledge & Enterprise, Open University Business School Keynote Speech, EduCAT Summit, Innovation in e-Education, 3rd-5th April 2002, Hamilton New Zealand We have reached a state of flux as the 21st Century gathers speed. Many futurists write about four key discontinuities that we will experience in this Century. They are time and space, mind and body, real and virtual and humans and technologies . Their influence on educational institutions is still incalculable but there is a serious shake-up going on! We know that in education we must move forward slowly- real people and real life chances are involved. However we are currently in a position where terrific opportunities associated with new technologies for learning may pass us by in a haze of commercialism or a flash in the pan of new initiative exhaustion. Throughout the 1990s, I have been working with large numbers of online explorers, educators and learners to try and make choices about the future for online education....
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