According to author Chris Dede, higher education institutions can prosper by catering to what he calls "neomillennial learning styles." According to Dede, these styles consist of "fuency in multiple media and in simulation-based virtual settings; communal learning involving diverse, tacit, situated experience, with knowledge distributed across a community and a context as well as within an individual; a balance among experiential learning, guided mentoring, and collective reflection; expression through nonlinear, associational webs of representations; and co-design of learning experiences personalized to individual needs and preferences." In other words (in order): podcasts and games; blogs; web conferencing; wikis; and personal publishing. But all - in a thread that runs tacitly through the article - under the guiding hand of a benevolent administration. Indeed.
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