Here’s food for thought: 15 years ago, a current high school student and Google were born. Fifteen years! Time flies, eh?
The way we use technology has completely evolved over the past decade and a half, and the rate of change is only increasing. The article “30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education By 2028” provides a technological forecast for the next fifteen years, and how these changes may impact education. Some highlights from the article:
2014
- Smarter MOOCs slowly correct the crude whenever, wherever models of the past, beginning to improve the credibility of eLearning.
2015
- Apps will continue to supplement textbooks in some districts, replace them in others.
2018
- Custom multimedia content is available as the private sectors create custom iTunesU courses, YouTube channels, and other holding areas for content that accurately responds to learner needs.
- Open Source learning models will grow faster than those closed, serving as a hotbed for innovation in learning.
- Visual data will replace numerical data as schools struggle to communicate learning results to disenfranchised family and community members.
2020
- Cloud-Based Education will be the rule, not the exception. This will start simply, with better aggregation of student metrics, more efficient data sharing, and more visual assessment results.
- Schools function as think-tanks to address local and global challenges such as clean water, broadband access, human trafficking, and religious intolerance.
- Self-Directed Learning studios and other alternative methods of formal education for families.
2024
- Dialogic learning through digital media will have learners responding to peers, mentors, families, and experts in a socially-embraced collaborative pattern.
- Truly mobile learning will support not just moving from one side of the classroom to another, but from a learning studio to a community, whether physically or through a Google+ or Skype-like technology.
- Personalized learning algorithms will be the de facto standard in schools that continue the traditional academic learning approach.
2028
- Schools as we know them will now be outnumbered, no longer just supplemented by eLearning, blended learning, and self-directed learning platforms, but incredible learning simulations and full-on virtual worlds.
- Seamless Heads-Up Displays will equip learners with information, feedback of performance, and social data in real-time.
- New certificates of achievement and performance that are social, portfolio-based, and self-selected will begin to replace institutional certificates, including college degrees.
Full article here.
Do you agree with any of these predictions? Feel free to share your thoughts and feedback in the comments.
