Mega trends in emerging learning technologies

Greg CareyCanberra: ACTSeptember 2008

Links and references

See www.educationwithbyte.net (Virtual Worlds)

There is no longer a font of knowledgebut a cloud of data

that must be seeded to give up life giving rain

Where from ?

Where are we?

Where to?

Impact on teaching and learning

Megatrends

Part the 1st (with apology to Handel)

Where from ?

Impact on teaching and learning

Ages of Education (Jones 1996)

Four stages of education in the Western World:

• Universal Primary Education 1870-1900

• Universal Secondary Education 1945-1990

• Universal Tertiary Education 1970-2010

• Lifelong Education 1990-2030

Where have we been? Pre-Industrial Industrial Information

Language Latin and Greek Native languages English

The learners Young of the rich Young people Everyone

Age of the learners 6 to 20 years 6 to 16 years Any age

Who pays Parents Through taxes User pays

Providers Church State Corporations

Where available Sites of knowledge Towns and cities Anywhere

When available Arranged times Set times Anytime

Economic system Traditionalism Taylorism Neo-liberalism

Source of curriculum Teacher State Learner's needs

(Tiffen and Rasingham, 1995, p 85)

The Dream

• If the processing of data results in an

Information Age

• And the processing of information results in a

Knowledge Society

• Will the processing of knowledge result in the

Age of Wisdom ?

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rear view mirror . Herb Brody

The Horizon Report

The New Media Consortium

eduCause Learning initiative

(an eduCause Program)

There is no longer a font of Knowledgebut a cloud of data

that must be seeded to give up life giving rain

Technologies Time to Adoption

Trends

Mega trends

• The COLLECTIVE sharing and generation of knowledge

• The CONNECTION of people through the network

• The computer is moving into THREE DIMENSIONS (3D).

Megatrends

Part the 2nd

Where are we?

Impact on teaching and learning

Is the future of teaching and learning :

• developing COLLECTIVE knowledge

• through the CONNECTION of people

• in 3 DIMENSIONS?

This is a future offered by Virtual Worlds

Generations of e-learning1st Generation (1G)

Shovel-ware -Simple uploading of prepared course notes Saving documents in html using MS Word has been most popular.

2nd Generation (2G)Simple Comprehension/ Quiz/ Cloze activitiesPrograms such as Hot Potato are useful.

3rd Generation (3G)Simple Scenario basedPrograms such as ARED and Quandary are useful.

4th Generation (4G)Currently under developmentIncludes Avatars as personal guides and multi user potential.

Carey, 2001

Some examples

“All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts.”

(William Shakespeare As You Like It 2/7)

56.7m users

155.31m users

4.3m users*does not include War games etc

13m users

Megatrends

Part the 3rd

Where to?Impact on teaching and learning

The Future ?

EDUCATION

I0 year olds

20 year olds

30 year olds

4th Generation e- learning

Second Life is not the only Virtual World

Why is SL the most well known?

SEX

Educational Uses of Second Life

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Education in SecondLife

Training in SecondLife

Virtual worlds and LMS

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Some Caveats

1. While progress is being made,issues of intellectual property and copyright continue to affect how scholarly work is done.

2. All education sectors are facing a growing expectation to deliver services, content and media to mobile and personal devices

Challenges(Identified from the Horizon Reports)

Scholarship: Significant changes in scholarship, research and creative expression need innovation and leadership at the highest level to address the areas of academic work practices, intellectual property and copyright.

Assessment and Delivery: Education is being forced to develop new forms of interaction and delivery services that include mobile technologies, and to develop assessment strategies that embrace the

new technologies.

New Literacies: Educators are facing the need to explicitly address the need to provide explicit instruction in the use of tools for media creation and meaningful content as well as formal instruction in information, visual and technological literacy.

Mega trends

The COLLECTIVE sharing and generation of knowledge

The CONNECTION of people through the network

Moving into

THREE DIMENSIONS.

Is the future of teaching and learning :

Developing COLLECTIVE knowledge

through the CONNECTION of people

in THREE DIMENSIONS ?

• There is a skills gap between understanding how to use tools for media creation and how to create meaningful content.

• The renewed emphasis on collaborative learning is pushing the educational community to develop new forms of interaction and assessment.

• The academy is faced with a need to provide formal instruction in information, visual and technological literacy as well as how to create meaningful content in today’s tools.

• Assessment of new forms of work continues to present a challenge to educators and peer reviewers.

• There are significant shift taking place in scholarship, research, creative expression and learning, and a profound need for leadership at the highest level of the academy that can see the opportunities and carry them forward.

Challenges(Identified from the Horizon Reports)

Greg CareyCanberra: September 2008

We know where from ?

We know where they may be heading?

But the what will the impact on teaching and learning be?

MEGATRENDS IN EMERGING LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES

Are we replacing the 3 Rs with 5 Cs?

3 Rs

Reading wRiting

aRithmetic

5 Cs

Connectivity Community Creativity Construction Collaboration

(Small 2006)

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rear view mirror . Herb Brody

Links and references

See www.educationwithbyte.net (Virtual Worlds)

There is no longer a font of knowledgebut a cloud of data

that must be seeded to give up life giving rain