The Future of Online Learning

by Stephen Downes
July, 1998

Today, and for the last century, education has been practised in segregated buildings by carefully regimented and standardized classes of students led and instructed by teachers working essentially alone.

In ten years, this model will be seen in many quarters to be obsolete.

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1. Introduction
2. Future Technology
3. New Technology in Education
4. Interaction and Online Conferencing
5. Personalized Education
6. Time and Place Independence
7. Learning Communities
8. The Triad Model
9. Accreditation
10. Modularity
11. Ownership and Copyright
12. Instructional Management Systems
13. The Economics of Online Learning
14. The Future

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