Six Trends for 2007 and the 21st Century
Gregg Downey,
ZDNet Education,
Dec 26, 2006
The original eSchool News article is hidden behind a registration wall, but I will happily link to this open version on ZDNet to highlight the predictions: web 2.0, cloud computing, service-oriented architecture, the gathering SCORM, telepresence, and 21st century learning. A number of these trends, like web 2.0, are from last year. Things like SOA and SCORM will impact few people they haven't already impacted; there's no growth there. Telepresence will be pushed - hard - by the telcos, but until we have 6 foot screens in our houses it won't be much of a factor (the big screens make a big difference, though, so do keep an eye on this one). 'Cloud computing' is this year's 'grid computing', which the year before was 'shared computing', which was once SETI. Yawn. And '21st century learning' is all that n on-core soft skills stuff that business has rediscovered after a decade of trying to get it removed from schools.
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