“Information Technology will really reshape learning when enough people will have grown up playing with it”

Jan-Martin Lowendahl (Gothenburg) was impressed by the reaction of a teacher as he was explaining the Hype Cycle, which is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and application of a technology. The teacher saw it as a "tsunami", an image that, according to Lowendahl, shows how some educators may feel about all these new technologies hitting the classroom: a big opportunity that is also putting a lot of pressure on them. As a Research Director in higher-education technology strategies at Gartner Research, Lowendahl helps higher education institutions to translate their real needs into services that will eventually help professors and researchers. He visited the UOC to give the talk "The Future of Higher Education Technology".