Future of Learning Technology – 2015. Predicts what the future holds for Learning Technology in the next 5 years.

1. Future of Learning Technology - 2015
7 Predictions
2015

2. FUNDAMENTAL
DYNAMICS

3. Pace of change of the digital infrastructure
Digital Power=
Computing Communication Storage Content
Moore’s Law Fiber Law Disk Law Community
Law
Doubles ever Doubles ever Doubles ever
18 months 9 months 12 months 2n
Where ‘n’ is the
# of people
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4. Pace of change of the digital infrastructure
Digital Power=
Computing Communication Storage Content
Moore’s Law Fiber Law Disk Law Community
Law
Doubles ever Doubles ever Doubles ever
18 months 9 months 12 months 2n
Where ‘n’ is the
# of people
Reference Article

5. Community Law gives
an astronomical
number as more & more
people join the community

6. COMPUTING
POWER

7. Computing Power that we will be able to buy for $1000
in the years to come :
CALCULATIONS PER SECOND PER $1,000
YEAR
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8. CALCULATIONS PER SECOND PER $1,000
By around 2025, $1000
should let us buy equivalent
of one human brain
YEAR
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9. CALCULATIONS PER SECOND PER $1,000
By around 2050, $1000 should
let us buy an equivalent of all
human brains
YEAR
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10. 5 TRENDS
FROM LAST
5 YEARS

11. 1 Acceptance of LMS systems
(rightly or wrongly) to be the central piece in
Workplace Learning strategy

12. 2
Establishment
of Flash as the
de-facto
development
platform for custom
eLearning creation allowing
use of streaming audio/ video
over the web

13. 3
Evolution of authoring
tools like Articulate to
become better & easier to
work with reducing the cost of
development

14. 4
Increase in capacity of mobile
phones and networks to make them
potent devices for learning

15. 5
Emergence of social media
(and revived focus on social
and informal learning)
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16. 7
TRENDS
TO WATCH OUT FOR OVER
THE NEXT
5 YEARS

17. 1
Mobiles will become the platform
of choice for workplace learning delivery
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18. 1
Mobiles will become the platform
of choice for workplace learning delivery
Just-in-time information (videos,
documents, or mini courses) for
learners accessible through
corporate information systems
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19. 1
Mobiles will become the platform
of choice for workplace learning delivery
Collaboration with colleagues
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20. 1
Mobiles will become the platform
of choice for workplace learning delivery
Learner generated content using
mobiles devices
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21. 2 Performance Support will
increase manifold

22. 2 Performance Support will
increase manifold
Lot of training will take the shape of performance
support

23. 2 Performance Support will
increase manifold
Learners will start accessing learning content just
when they need it through their mobile phones

24. 2 Performance Support will
increase manifold
Augmented Reality would also play an important
role in sophisticated advanced performance
support systems

25. 3 Tablets as support devices

26. 3 Tablets as support devices
Ideal as field staff’s support device for trouble shooting
problems by referring to product manuals and
operational procedures

27. 4 LMS will evolve to support (not manage) Formal
+ Informal + Social + Non-Formal learning components

28. 4 LMS will evolve to support (not manage) Formal
+ Informal + Social + Non-Formal learning components
This will bring about a big shift in the way
we see assessments

29. 4 LMS will evolve to support (not manage) Formal
+ Informal + Social + Non-Formal learning components
The ability to measure informal learning
may be done through the system itself

30. 4 LMS will evolve to support (not manage) Formal
+ Informal + Social + Non-Formal learning components
Constant tracking of some metrics will help learning
designers monitor the ‘learning/performance
health’ of the system and its users

31. 5 Games (and simulations) will become
integral part of workplace learning

32. 5 Games (and simulations) will become
integral part of workplace learning
The culture of gaming is becoming pervasive and the cost
of game development is decreasing, thereby increasing
the acceptance of games for workplace learning

33. 5 Games (and simulations) will become
integral part of workplace learning
As the focus of learning departments change to
being facilitators rather than providers of
training, engaging solutions like games will
become crucial

34. 6 Birth of new Authoring Tools

35. 6 Birth of new Authoring Tools
There will be new authoring tools which allow
designers to make application scenarios easily and
quickly

36. 6 Birth of new Authoring Tools
Tools like thinking worlds are great for quickly
creating 3D based decision simulations (or even
simple 3D games)

37. 7 Emergence of Personal Learning Agents

38. 7 Emergence of Personal Learning Agents
Intelligent personal learning software agents will
emerge as learning content mediators with the
emergence of Semantic Web

39. 7 Emergence of Personal Learning Agents
These agents, that run on a personal computing device and
constantly monitor content streams on the internet to provide
up-to-date information, will make a good performance
support and learning assistance system
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