An insight on how future education would be like. How will future generation study? What technologies will they use?

1. Future of Education

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

5. Tools Video conferencing Mobile learning Internet online learning Distance Education

6. Typical websites: Canada distance education website: www.elearnnetwork.ca Worldwide classroom: http://www.worldwide.edu/category_search/index.html Global development learning network: http://www.gdln.org/services/design Distance Education

7. Huge Growth in Social Mediahttp://www.isprouts.com/2009/04/huge-growth-in-social-media-marketing-predicted-by-forrester

9. Social bookmarking - Digg, Delicious

10. Photo sharing - Flickr, Photo bucket

11. Video sharing - YouTube, i-Memories

12. Blogs – Wordpress, Type Pad, Blogger

13. Wikis - WikipediaSocial Media in Education

15. Teaching students how to learn in an information economy

16. Providing students with access to professional networks

17. Modeling Life-Long learning practices

18. Education cost will obviously drop down

19. Free College Education---Open Course Ware

20. The University of the People

21. Lower cost or free text book download –Flat world; Learn out loudSocial Media in Education

22. Top 10 Learning Tools http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/index.html

24. 46% Canadians believe changes are necessary. However a remainder is split between 21 and 27%

26. This revealed challenges for Post secondary were beyond financial resources

27. Key Findings

28. There is a lack of mechanisms

29. High tuition costs

30. Access to benefits are not distributed equally to Canadians

31. Data tracking process are incomplete

32. Goals

33. Life learning

34. Affordable post secondary education

36. This cost will generate $2 billion for campuses

37. Students who are attending paying tuition are paying $2,500-$8000.

39. Sixty percent of people

40. with low earnings do not have more high school education

41. In the US a private college tuition costs $34,132.

43. Students will be able

44. To think

45. Use knowledge for problem solving

46. Attain the level of wisdom approciate

47. Future of curriculum

48. Virtual classes will allow students to access classes

49. Students will be a community of smaller numbers . This will support more adult and student connection

50. Students will be engaged in learning groups

52. Multi-culture education in a global environment

53. Study abroad booming

54. 60 % increase studying outside their native country since the year 2000.

55. The number of U.S. students going abroad increased by 150%

57. The study found that from 1980-1990 a fall was in demos tic product

58. $2.8 billion live less $2.00/day

59. South Asia has the highest number of poor people

60. 552 million of South Asians live less $1/day

61. Debt service

63. In 1950-1970 people were enrolling in school rose

64. This also included literacy rates as well

65. However women were still missing out from the opportunities

66. Access to Education would lead to benefits

67. skilled work force

68. national unity

70. Number of children in school have risen 599-681 million

71. In Latin America and Caribbean have achieved universal education

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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83. Open Course Ware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

84. University of the People: http://www.uopeople.org/

85. Flat World: http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/

86. Learn Out Loud: http://www.learnoutloud.com/

87. Jane Hart ( 2009, Nov 15): Top 100 Tools for Learning: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/Bibiliography

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