Education And Emerging Trends
The Horizon Report 2011 reports several emerging trends affecting the way we live and how we learn. Digital literacy is on the rise as digital media, the Internet and social networking has fueled the drive for more ways to communicate with those locally and abroad. Although the efforts of individuals will not go away, businesses, learning environments, and non government agencies are much more reliant on the collaborative efforts as a product of emerging technologies.
The Horizon Report 2011 reports several emerging trends affecting the way we live and how we learn. Digital literacy is on the rise as digital media, the Internet and social networking has fueled the drive for more ways to communicate with those locally and abroad. Although the efforts of individuals will not go away, businesses, learning environments, and non government agencies are much more reliant on the collaborative efforts as a product of emerging technologies.
The internet is the basis
for supplying distributed education anywhere in the world at the convenience of
the user. No longer are students bound by the traditional brick and mortar
institutions. Besides location freedom, in some cases, content is also
boundless as well with books delivered as active server pages or e-books. The
classroom is synchronous, asynchronous, or blended in their approach for
conducting classes. There isn't a need to beat the traffic to get to the campus
for higher learning. All one requires is an Internet connection and client
computing device.
With children growing up in an all digital age,
their understanding and ease of use in digital media is a much more natural
affair than those who are compelled through force integration in the work place
or simply keeping up with the new demands place on communicating in rich media
and flexible world. In the near future, it will seem inconceivable that an
individual in not digital media savvy.
The Delphi method use in
this report capitalized on a panel’s expertise and gaining consensus in the six
identified areas. The process used both quantitative and qualitative
methodologies to reach a decision about educational emerging trends. The range of experts aggregates trends seen
all over the United States and seek to understand current and growing trends.
This potentially allows for educators or other interested parties to tailor
resources or develop products which are much more suited to their user base
rather than supporting an outdated model that does not capture what is happening
in the world today.
Consortium, T. N. (2011). http://www.ctudoctoral.net/.
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