Information Bombardment

A documentary featuring various viewpoints on how technology has impacted us in the knowledge economy.

This documentary is one of Ryerson University's online learning tools, used by instructors to spark discussion in the online student forums.

Produced By: Digital Education Strategies at The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education, Ryerson University
© 2008 Ryerson University. All rights reserved.

Contributors: Richard Malinski, Jason Nolan, Dr. Nick Bontis, Greg Ioannou, Melissa Abramovitz, Wayne Gendel, Andrew Keen, Michael Gayner

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ryerson University
• Chang School
• continuing education
• CE
• Digital Education Strategies
• information bombardment
• online learning/e-learning
• community
• knowledge
• economy
• discussion
• forums
• social media
• user experience
• digital
• internet
• power learning

[mheaddem]

Great info; however, wondering if codified information doubling every 7 years includes all the duplication (primarily syndication) of the same content online and the junk content generated for search-spam linking purposes? Picking any specific topic there may be tens of thousands of items posted to the web daily, but perhaps only 5 - 10% of that is unqiue authored content and/or real sensical content. The "amplification" (added commentary/ value) of that content may be another 30%...

[ainala1]

Very interesting topic

[bnammari1]

excellent documentry, i recommend