2. Future of Education Distance education trends Education and uses of social media Post Secondary Curriculum Globalization Positives, Negatives Classroom in Future
3. Future Education Social media plays an important role in the future education Along with advanced technologies, education restriction by time and location were no longer exist Distance learning and asynchronous learning were become more popular
4. Trends More courses, degrees, and universities are available for distance-education The distinction between distance and local education is disappearing The percentage of adult, female, and minority learners is increasing Distance Education
71. In Latin America and Caribbean have achieved universal education
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73. Delivery of lectures on powerpoints; less use of whiteboards. Internet used for sharing lectures and materials. Less time on research. E.g. Wikipedia as a digital library Effective use of new innovation(laptops for PowerPoint, sound system for audio delivery, etc.) Social medias like msn, facebook, myspace used for forming educational groups. Availability of online course ultimately reducing time. Colleges are famous for providing practical education. Current Education
74. There will be increase in online courses.(Deutsch, 2004) Teachers will deliver soft skills rather than academic/technical expertise. (Deutsch, 2004) All future courses might have internship and co-op. Computer courses might be a compulsory course in high school. Courses might be 80 % practical and 20% theory . Social medias like YouTube, blogging, FaceBook, etc. might be alternate way for delivering lectures. Both teachers and students would work on new technologies. Future Education Trends
75. Smart phone applications according to the subject that will be taught Windows 7, Microsoft Words and new innovations to save time Hi-tech sound system, LCDs screen in a big lecture room to give comfort in education Reference to Cyberspace as researches Blogging and social media used as showing knowledge Web seminars in order to strengthen communication Touch screen innovation to feel comfortable towards getting education Technologies On Education
76. Saves time. Students would get enough subjective materials. Students will have quick adaptability on any working situation. Education will be focused upon practical world. Digital library will be interestingly filled up with videos, podcasts, research papers, etc. than traditional library. There will be choice over extensive educational courses and fields. Quality manpower would be produced in a long run. Positives
77. Student might get lower grades as online materials can be edited by anyone. E.g. Wikipedia’s content. Online exams are based on open book. Parents might not like their children sitting on their laptops or PC everyday. Facebook, MySpace, etc. might distract student from subject materials. Student might lack discipline because parents when busy rely on school to make their children disciplined. (Carter, 1999) Student’s will loose interest on reading real books, newspaper, etc. in a long run. Negatives
78. Keeping in touch with each students will be stressful to teacher Guiding parents on behalf of their children’s online performance is hard. Moving forward to latest technology will be expensive. Learner’s might not get enough materials from teacher. Teacher might not know what their student’s like. It might be hard for an international student from Third World Countries in North America to adapt into modern computing learning. Challenges
79. Colleges/universities will provide options for classroom or online course depending on the course. Classroom would be equipped with computers, comfortable chairs and table as in Sheridan. Classroom will focus on new innovations, hands-on-experiments so students will gain experience for future jobs. Online courses might be fully online or might be combination of class and online. If a class is missed by a student, materials will be posted on institutional website. Future Classroom
80. Dirk Van Damme (2008, December 9) OECD/CERI/France Conference www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/22/41889307.ppt Martin Carnoy (2005) OSI Education Conference: Globalization, educational trends and the open society : http://www.soros.org/initiatives/esp/articles_publications/articles/globalization_20060217/carnoy_english.pdf Scott L, Howell, Peter B. Williams & Nathan K. Lindsay (n. d.) :Thirty-two Trends Affecting Distance Education: An Informed Foundation for Strategic Planning http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall63/howell63.html Video Conferencing in K-12 Education ( n. d.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuJ8A74hH-s Mobile learning (iPhone) (2008, Nov 11) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7bsOdbhZWI Bibiliography
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82. ShaiReshef (2009, July 26): In the Future, the Cost of Education Will Be Zero. http://www.futureofeducation.com/profiles/blogs/mashablecom-in-the-future-the?xg_source=activity
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