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What would e-learning look like in the future? |
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In order to meet the needs of the changing world noted above, future learning must take on more of the following qualities:
Time flexible
- Geography independent
- Competitive cost / value
- Learner-centered
- Technology embracing
- Ethnically diverse
Organizations that deliver learning will need to consider these issues and more:
- Realize what market they serve
- Be responsive to learner needs
- Prove their value to learners
- Listen closely to the needs of business
- Remove some of the massive burdens on instructors
- Look for partnerships with other complementary organizations
- Find creative ways to certify learning credentials
- Be prepared to compete globally with a variety of learning providers
As a result of all of those factors we may see some of the following predictions come true in the next decade:
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Corporations will compete directly with colleges and K-12 schools.
- Partnerships and mergers between learning institutions, publishers, technology companies, learning providers will consolidate the marketplace.
- Many schools and colleges will be taken over or will go out of business
- A much greater % of learning (formal and informal) will take place online.
- The massive role of instructor will be broken down into multiple positions: curriculum design, content delivery, classroom facilitator, learner support, etc.
- Top instructors will be hired by the private sector for all the positions stated above.
- Fewer students will get the traditional on-campus degree, and most will get at least a portion of it online and off-campus.
- Learning providers will compete over learners especially those that are highly motivated and able to pay the most.
- Learners will complete degrees and certificates made up of courses and experiences from a wide range of learning providers.
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