Trends in Online Learning

1. Trends in Online Learning
• Personal Learning Environments
• Informal Online Learning
• Social Networks
• Technology

2. Personal Learning Environments
• Allows learners to take more control
and management of their own
learning.
• Allows a learner to set his/her own
goals, manage content, and define
his or her own learning process.
• Multiple learning sources are
available to the learner.

3. Levels of Personal
Learning Environments
• Grades K-12
• Students at these grade levels are becoming more and more tech savvy and
technology skilled every year.
• Educators need to capitalize on this to increase success in the online
learning format using Web 2.0 tools and social networks.
• College
• Students at this level can develop a mindset which allows them to manage
their time better and can grasp concepts on a deeper level.

4. Benefits of
Informal
Learning
 Promotes life-long
learning
 Encourages
collaboration
through blogging and
social networks
 Promotes
instructors to use
multiple sources of
learning within a
network

5. Trends in Social Networking
From 2005 to
2013, there
has been a
dramatic rise
in the use of
social
networking in
the United
States.

6. Trends in Social Networking, cont’d
Nearly three
quarters of all
internet users use
at least one social
network

7. Technology and Social Networking
Social networking technologies
combined with various learning
tools will create an effective use
of technology in the future.

8. Technology and Social Networking
• Grades K-12
• Teaching will become more outcome-based and student-centered
• Application of knowledge will be stressed
• College Level
• Content driven learning management systems will be enhanced
• Expansion of online resources as a result of technology
• Corporate Environment
• Developments in technology allow for reduced travel time and expense and
decreased costs for training

9. How will the trends in
online learning affect students?

10. • Personal Learning Environments
• The course will become more student-
centered rather than driven by the
instructor
• Informal Online Learning
• Informal learning will become more of
the norm and more widely accepted
• Social Networks
• Social networks will allow for more
collaboration among students which will
lead to a more student-centered course
• Technology Development
• As technology becomes more
widespread and students have more
access to technology in the mobile
world, educational opportunities will
increase.