How does technology affect education? In what ways can technology advance education and make it more widely available in 2013?
Online Courses Float the Internet
A surge in online education courses available is expected in 2013. As more top class university enable online course education, more people will benefit from distance learning options, otherwise not available to them. Open source and paid courses will be more widely available, expanding at the same time the number and variety of disciplines offered online. MOOC, the Massive Open Online Course is definitely something will be seeing more of, as more educational organizations and universities want to be part of this phenomenon.
Will online course replace conventional residential university courses?
What this means for students is that the competition will grow and competition between companies, colleges and entrepreneurship are expected to liven things up, offering better, quality open courses.
Customized learning for all
Standardized teaching is no longer the case. Adaptive learning strategies are about to be shaped as we get to learn the multivalent advantages of an adjusted learning experience that suits a student’s need.
No more ignoring personal learning idiosyncrasies. All is take into account in order to provide efficient, cutting edge learning opportunities. The philosophy of adaptive learning is that it is shaped to fit one’s learning style rather than forcing the learner to adapt to the conventional learning method. This allows positive aspects and skills of that learner to shine through.
The learning experience will involve more than the conventional teacher-learner mode
Breakthroughs are expected in the instructional model of learning. As new technological aids are brought into the picture there will be a paradigm swift when it comes to how learning will take place in terms of location, teaching aids, participants and of course, outcome.
This will encourage a deeper exploration of the most efficient learning context which will be efficient at small and larger scale environments. We can no longer teach the way we used to, new technological advances need to be integrated in the new instructional models expected in 2013.
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