Imagining, seeking, inventing: the future of learning and the emerging discovery networks |
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| Authors: | Gary Natriello |
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| Institution: | (1) Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 W. 120th Street, Box 85, New York, NY 10027, USA |
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| Abstract: | Extrapolating from current developments in the study of learning and imagining how learning might be shaped moving forward,
this article considers 12 trends concerning the future of learning. Learning will become more diverse, more contextual, less
discipline-bound, and less institutionally-bound. It will span professional and institutional sectors, and move beyond national
borders. It will move increasingly online and extend beyond humans to encompass machines and machine/human blends. It will
become more interactive, more distributed, and more biologically connected. Drawing on an understanding of these trends, new
roles for teachers and for educational institutions are developed. The result is that learning is likely to occur through
multiple discovery networks that blend research and teaching to address real world problems in environments supported by robust
software infrastructures. Multiple nested discovery networks will operate on a global scale and be negotiated by individual
learners sometimes guided by teachers.
Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future—Niels Bohr
The future is already here - it’s just unevenly distributed—William Gibson
The best way to predict the future is to invent it—Alan Kay |
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| Keywords: | Future of learning Contextual learning Life-long learning Trans-disciplinary learning Trans-national learning Online learning |
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