Future Trends in Education

In past posts I have reported about the annual Horizon Reports that predict emerging technology trends in the education sector.The New Media Consortium Horizon Project which is responsible for the Horizon Reports have just celebrated their 10th anniversary.Over its decade of work,The Horizon Project has become the single most important body of research into emerging technology within the educational world.It celebrated its decade at a retreat where 100 thought leaders from around the world identified metatrends and actions.
Out of their discussions, the 10 most significant  trends are listed below:

Horizon Project 10th Anniversary Report:


1. The world of work is increasingly global and increasingly collaborative.
2. People expect to work, learn, socialize, and play whenever and wherever they want to.
3. The Internet is becoming a global mobile network — and already is at its edges.

4. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based and delivered over utility networks, facilitating the rapid growth of online videos and rich media.
5. Openness — concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information — is moving from a trend to a value for much of the world. .

6. Legal notions of ownership and privacy lag behind the practices common in society.
7. Real challenges of access, efficiency, and scale are redefining what we mean by quality and success.
8. The Internet is constantly challenging us to rethink learning and education, while refining our notion of literacy.

9. There is a rise in informal learning as individual needs are redefining schools, universities, and training.

10. Business models across the education ecosystem are changing.
These metatrends are the first of much yet to come in the next year. Watch NMC.org for news and more throughout the Horizon Project’s 10th Anniversary.
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