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Six key technologies that will impact K-12 education
Posted June 8, 2014
According to the 2014 NMC Horizons Report, there are six emerging technologies that will have a serious impact in how education is transformed in the next five years
IProduced by the New Media Consortium (NMC), a not-for-profit organization of post-secondary institutions, museums and companies, and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), a group serving higher education IT, the report’s findings are drawn from an international panel of education and tech experts.
The panelists identified six key trends in education technology “likely to have a large impact over the coming five years in education around the globe.”
The trends are as follows:
- No. 1: Growing ubiquity of social media
- No. 2: Integration of online, hybrid, and collaborative learning
- No. 3: Data-driven learning and assessment
- No. 4: Shift from students as consumers to students as creators
- No. 5: Agile approaches to change
- No. 6: Evolution of online learning
Read more about the trends, challenges and important developments here. Which trend do you think will have the biggest impact in K-12 education in the next five years? Share with us on Twitter or Facebook.
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Bruce McAskill, PhD, is an educational consultant and a high school math and science teacher in Victoria BC. He is currently
developing solution sets in his spare time for more textbooks!
