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Six Broad Trends Emerge For Future of Ed Tech
Credit: Campus Technology
People researching education technology and learning science — cyberlearning — populate the landscape. A new report from the Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning has sifted through their research to uncover the major trends and suggest where pre-K-12 and post-secondary education may be headed over the next decade or two.
According to "Cyberlearning Community Report: The State of Cyberlearning and the Future of Learning with Technology," six broad themes surfaced:
- Community mapping: The use of mobile, geospatial tools for learning in a local context, such as the immediate neighborhood;
- Expressive construction: Using technology to create and share and, while creating, to learn;
- Classrooms as digital performance spaces: Converting the typical classroom into a room where physical learning experiences take place;
- Virtual peers and coaches: Avatars and other forms of artificial intelligence that interact with the student and provide a "natural, welcoming learning environment";
- Remote scientific labs: Students control remote scientific equipment;
- Enhancing collaboration and learning through touchscreen interfaces: The expansion in the use of multitouch interfaces on tabletop, tablet, and mobile devices.
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