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This article was originally published in the ASTD eLearning newsletter in June 2007. The information in the article is based on the report, "The US Corporate Market for Learning Services: 2007-2012 Forecast and Analysis." There are now waves of new learning products hitting the global education and training industry. On the surface it appears like open source technology is the most significant wave. It is certainly getting the most attention. Yet, a "big-picture" analysis reveals that open source products are just part of the story. There are larger socio-economic trends at work that transcend open source. These trends can be conceived as a concurrent series of innovation waves that go beyond the concepts and business models of open source software licenses. In each of these waves there are several layers of paradigm shifts that change the way we view technology, business models, learning design, and the needs of the learners. Viewed in this perspective all of these waves are necessary and are all contributing to a profound evolution of the industry. These waves of innovation represent a shift from centralized sources of learning technology to widely distributed peer-to-peer learning communities.

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"This JISC funded study aimed to identify and review the tools, methods and frameworks used to evaluate technology supported or enhanced physical learning spaces. A key objective was to develop the sector knowledgebase on emerging practice in the evaluation of learning spaces, identifying innovative methods and approaches beyond traditional post-occupancy evaluations and surveys that have dominated this area to date. The study found that less than a third of evaluations studied made use of any sort of baseline data, therefore limiting the extent to which impact could be fully assessed. It also found that a tension existed between evaluation studies and research into student learning. However it did find pockets of good practice, and these are detailed in the report."

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"The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)’s Horizon Project, a long-running qualitative research project that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, research, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations. The 2009 Horizon Report is the sixth annual report in the series. The report is produced again in 2009 as a collaboration between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program."

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