The future of digital learning?

We asked Helena Bijnens, Eurupace what the future of digital learning looks like.

She says that the future of digital learning is facing some challenges. One of those challenges is copyright and legislation in different countries …

 

The media Zoo

In this film Twofour Communications and The Beyond Distance Research Alliance based at The University of Leicester presents The media Zoo - an immersive teaching and research environment in Second Life. Gilly Salmon, Professor of E-learning & E-learning Technologies at Leicester gave us this film at the conference Online Educa in Berlin, november 2007.

Do you have any experiences of learning in Second Life? Can you tell us about it?

 

Learning in a 3D environment and the future

Education in Second Life is in many ways a mirror of the real world with classrooms et cetera. But says, Olle Wästberg, General Director of the Swedish Institute, education in Second Life has spotlight possibilities for education on the web and in social medias. And it´s a way to gather people from different parts of a country.

How do you think learning in 3D environmnets will look like in the future?

 

How do we capture the next generation´s ideas on learning?

We interviewed Gilly Salmon, professor of E-Learning and Learning Technologies at the University of Leicester about how we can capture the next generation´s ideas on learning.

Gilly Salmon is experimenting with this, but of course, she hasn´t got the final answer yet … But she is telling us a little bit about it in this film.

How do you think we can capture the next generation´s ideas on learning?

 

The future of digital learning …

We asked David Kernohan from JISC eLearning, UK about his opinion of digital learning in the future. He thinks the future of elearning is going to be based around particular applications and networks. And he also talks about a flow between institutions and different methods of learning.

Do you agree with him?

 

What about the balance of power?

Will future teaching enviroments change the balance of power?

No, not really, says Bas Cordewener from Surf Foundation, Nederland. But he thinks that the ways we act are going to be less structured in the future.

Hear him speak and tell us what do you think? Will future teaching enviroments change the balance of power?

 

The future of eLearning

Meet Graham Attwell from Pontydysgu, Wales. They are supporting the Bazaar project, developing and promoting Open Content and Open Source in education. He speaks about the future of elearning. His main opinion is that we have to stop replicate traditional education! But he is optimistic. Think about the social networking, Facebook et cetera - here is the potential.

 

What pedagogical challenges are we about to face?

We met drs. Christien Bok from Surf Foundation in Nederland. She says that we have been inovative and now it´s time to ask ourselfs what has been succesful and why we are using these tools and what the impact will be.

 

Virtual communities

The future of digital learning is in virtual communities. The new knowledge borns with people interacting with the resources of the community, both human and material. E.g. Jaiku www.jaiku.com is a brilliant channel for micro blogging and being in contact with your peers. Jaiku is originally finnish, but now part of Google programmes. You can instantly share your ideas with your colleques, students, friends.

Best regards

Irma Mänty, Development Manager (eLearning) Laurea University of Applied Sciences

 

moving forward with the use of on line technologies

The use of technology and access to information is moving at a rapid pace to meet the needs of the “learners” in many ways.. I believe many problems will exist from the “teachers” role in keeping up with the use of the latest developments. Due to the set up of Universities it will also be difficult to provide standardisation across faculties and depts, providing a consistent approach in line with methods to evaluate and make the necessary assessments.

Change implementation will be vital for many “teachers” being used to tried and tested methods, to which change to certain individuals can be quite a daunting experience. Particularly when it comes to technology when a lot of words formulate a completely new language…wikkis, blogs. web 2.0 etc…

There will be more changes and faster than ever, the difficulty lies with keeping up to date and moving in the same speedy direction, together.

Tom Sutton
Account Manager, iProspects