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What are the future trends in education. I like to think of people increasing turning towards communities to learn.
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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.