Will education be more about community?

1. Preetam Rai

2. 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.

3. No Email. Chat preffered

4. Chinese university lecturers using camera as a note-taking device

5. Phone as a note taking device

6. Shenzhen, Guangdong province of China
Factory worker - always on - on QQ

7. Virtual knowledge assistants for hire

8. Africa-China summit, New Delhi 2006

9. Driver
Information 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?

10. Trends

11. Gadgets? Are they the main drivers of future ed?

12. Community Learning Spaces,
Free, Open to all who to learn

13. Community Learning Events,
Free, Open to all.

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

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

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

17. 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.