This article is about participatory news but the analogy with education is so striking I am taking the liberty of recasting the major trends listed in the article. Here, then, ten trends that identify participatory education (clip and save):
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- Communication is king, not course content. CRLF
- Course content is a distant fourth - behind entertainment, communication and transactions - on the learner's hierarchy of desires.CRLF
- Learning evolves into collaborative, a participatory activity. Everyone is an instructor, or can be. Peer-to-peer learning will eclipse institution-to-learner learning.CRLF
- The expected synergies and efficiencies associated with consolidation, centralization, and clustering prove to be overrated.CRLF
- Convergence happens to learners, not to institutions.CRLF
- Every company becomes a learning company. They succeed or fail on the basis of their learning.CRLF
- Learning services replace learning products as the foundation of local, regional and global economies.CRLF
- The decline in the traditional markets for learning accelerates. As learning become ubiquitous and pervasive, fragmentation of markets also accelerates.CRLF
- A new group of learners - the Millennials - emerges. They have no loyalty to learning institutions. They don't read textbooks or journal articles. Their habits and behaviors have no context in traditional learning products. By sheer numbers, they have the power to transform consumer markets.CRLF
- The learning industry fails to innovate, to change, and to create catalysts for growth.CRLF
CRLFOur stories will take us beyond convergence to emergence. There, learning becomes the product of a universally distributed intelligence that develops from an interconnected society enabled by interactive media. It occurs in real time, self-regulating, constantly enhanced.CRLFThe connections enabled by media lead to mutual recognition and enrichment of individuals, rather than a cult of communities and institutions.
CRLFThis is network learning. In a nutshell.
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