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08 May 09

Tom Vander Ark: 2020 Forecast: the Future of Learning

  • "You as a pupil will be placed in the centre. Personalised education means that the school and the teachers start from and adapt themselves to your goals, your ambitions and your potentials ....The fundamental principle behind our method of learning is the conviction that all pupils are different and that they learn in different ways and at different rates, and that it is the school´s task to meet these differences."
  • This quote is not from a future scenario planning exercise, it's a description of a school, actually 22 schools with 10,000 students, but as you may have guessed from the spelling, they're not in the US. The chain is Kunskapsskolan in Sweden where a national voucher system supports innovative schools. Their web site is a pretty good description of where learning is headed--at least in places where leadership is focused more on kids and the future than adults and the past.

e-learning 2.0 - how Web technologies are shaping education - ReadWriteWeb

  • The traditional approach to e-learning has been to employ the use of a Virtual
    Learning Environment (VLE), software that is often cumbersome and expensive - and which
    tends to be structured around courses, timetables, and testing. That is an approach that
    is too often driven by the needs of the institution rather than the individual learner.
    In contrast, e-learning
    2.0     (as coined by Stephen Downes) takes a 'small
    pieces, loosely joined' approach that combines the use of discrete but complementary tools and web services - such as blogs, wikis, and other social software - to support the creation of ad-hoc learning communities.
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