The midden

• • Half an Hour: The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On

  This posting by Stephen Downes provides a useful summary of where we are at now and how we got here. He re-visits a previous article written in 1998, noting that many of his earlier predictions have been remarkably accurate. The main areas he discusses include:

• new technologies in education - the teaching process remains relatively unchanged despite more than 10 years of the Internet
• online conferencing - becoming increasing important as a way of understanding communication in an online environment
• personalised learning - the importance of informal learning in the online environment is being increasingly acknowledged, where students are not restricted by the constraints of the traditional classroom model
• time and place independence - as small, lightweight wireless devices become the norm, online learning and mobile learning become the same
• learning communities - the internet has developed into an enabler of communities within which individuals can learn

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