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Brainstorm About Learning |
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Written by Jeff Faust - Director of Product Development
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 In looking forward to this year's Learning 2009 conference, I have been actively participating in the discussions and social networking opportunities which abound under the Elliott Masie and Masie Center umbrellas. In the past, my participation in these networks has helped to enhance and maximize my potential as a learner and participant in this unique and opportunity-filled conference.
Recently, Elliott Masie posted the following discussion topic to facebook:
Take a few moments to free-form brainstorm about Learning in the year 2019. It is 10 years away - so, have fun thinking about the nature, structure, experience or technology of Learning in 2019.
(http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/topic.php?uid=49826095913&topic=9365)
In watching the responses coming in from around the world, it is obvious that no one is sure what the future of Learning will look like, but there are certainly common themes presented across all posts and respondents.
Many of the posts present the idea that Learning will be viewed and appreciated as continuous and ubiquitous and trending towards individualized autonomous and constructivist methodologies that are nearly impossible to achieve in the current constructs of formal learning models.
There was an overwhelming emphasis on the importance of how to use information tools and that the importance of information processing will usurp the importance of memorization. One individual went so far as to predict that Liberal Arts education will emerge as paramount because of the need to not only acquire information, but also to process and comprehend the abundance of data which we will all have at our fingertips.
Several posters suggested an emergence of trends emphasizing collaboration. Taking advantage of improved access to the internet and shared resources across previously insurmountable geographic barriers, businesses will open the doors to smaller, highly skilled, regionally disparate teams using technology to solve problems on the other side of the world while operating more nimbly, training more effectively, and problem solving instantaneously.
One poster (Kanchan Shine from India) shared her thoughts in saying that we will see a change in the educational construct and embrace the following motto:
"The more you share, the more you learn."
Our challenge is to figure out what we can do to support our partners (existing and future) in this changing landscape as we continue to provide services and a technology platform embracing the latest trends in learning. |
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