Trends And Drivers

Preetam Rai

Nanchang, Jiangxi province of China, 2006

Airport employee is happy to answer people’s questions. When she does not know the answer she consults her colleagues on chat. The

chat window is always running.

No Email. Chat preffered

Chinese university lecturers using camera as a note-taking device

Phone as a note taking device

Factory worker - always on - on QQ

Shenzhen, Guangdong province of China

Virtual knowledge assistants for hire

Africa-China summit, New Delhi 2006

DriverInformation and technology are both getting more and more accessible everywhere. In many developing economies, people don’t look at technology as something extra to learn, they internalize it and exploit it at workplace and to make professional connections among other things.

Are our students capable of competing and collaborating with the rest of the world?

Trends

Gadgets? Are they the main drivers of future ed?

Community Learning Spaces, Free, Open to all

who to learn

Community Learning Events, Free, Open to all.

Are schools only for the students and lecturers?What about the knowledge in the community around us?

Much of the knowledge and business intelligence will be tapped in the Chinese/Regional language web

Profeciency in translation tools, and the ability to collaborate with people around the world will be very important

Trends

Open community driven learning spaces

Less emphasis on certification (rather than collecting certificates, we will try to get accepted in multiple professional communities)

The world is our school (expertise in using translation tools, multiple languages)

Technology becomes transparent. No one talks about a tech workshop.