Future Trends, Opportunities and Challenges in Digital Learning

We can see today that the world is changing at a faster pace than ever before. Rapid change in technology, number of smartphone users, and evolving social media have changed the way people learn new things. Once thought of as just a part of resources, we have come to see how technology can be so much more than that. It can play a key role, and at times a leading role, in all elements of the teaching and learning environment. Traditional strategies such as "one size fit all" will not help anymore in our digital age.

It is interesting to predict what is going to be available for the next five or ten years! We are not only talking about hardware and software, it is also the science of learning and teaching from what I have read and which I believe that it is not simply knowing how to use technology that is important, in fact it is not even knowing how to teach with technology that we need - it is knowing how to teach effectively with technology.

I can see more virtual school will rise up to meet students where they are, wherever they are to provide appropriate learning environments for all learners using online platform, online collaboration tools, learning-management systems and enhanced video and presentation tools that would make the greatest contribution in improving educational quality over the next five years. 3D printers, sensor networks, virtual humans and other technologies that will drastically change our world in the decade to come.

In this audio link I will talk more about opportunities and challenges in digital learning, outlining a few possible technological changes that will impact education during our teaching career. How might this affect our teaching? The role of a teacher in general? The learning environment? School design and operation?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9QxvmWTovUobFVnczU2UjI1bnM

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