Trends in e-Learning: A Meta-Analysis of Reports from 2006-2012

2012
Crystal Ball
Gazing:
Meta-Trends
&
The Future of
Learning

Introduction

Director Graduate Program
Instructional Technology Management
La Salle University
1900 W. Olney Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19141
215-500-3166
baggio@lasalle.edu

© Bobbe G Baggio 2012

What exactly is e-Learning any?

Elearning
E-learning
elearning
e-Learning
e-learning Learning is Learning
Online learning
Web-based learning
Distance learning
Technology based learning
Ubiquitous learning
M-learning
B-learning
What is this stuff anyway?


Meta Analysis of Meta Analyses

Some Major e-Learning Reports
 The Horizon Reports 2006 to 2012
 Online Nation
 Class Differences Sloan C 2011
 Learner Use of Online Educational Resources for Learning
(LUOERL)


What are the trends effecting learning?

A Meta-Analysis of e-Learning Reports
We also still have a long way to go!



Features of e-Learning
Research to practice…where
is the breakdown?



MIT
Harvard
Stanford
Rice
U Michigan…….U2?



All reports
agree:

That a paradigm
shift in the way
education is viewed &
delivered has occurred.

What is perceived as
learning has
undergone radical
change.



“While there is a growing recognition of & attention to distance learning
in higher education, its growing inclusion in academia significantly
changes the educational environment & experience…”



The Horizon Reports 2006 -2012
The New Media Consortium & EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative

What do they
have in common?



Trends…that keep showing up
Social
Mobile & personal
Individualized
Collaboration



Technologies that just keep showing up
Social computing
Personal broadcasting
Educational gaming
Augmented reality
Context-aware environments & devices
Tablets & More Phones



1 for
every 2
people on
the planet
2006

7 for
every
person
on the
planet by
2009



Major Trends that just keep showing up…
Higher education is changing rapidly
Increasing globalization
Collective intelligence
User Created Content
Social Networking
Mobile Phones
Virtual Worlds
New Scholarship & Forms of
Publication
Massively Multiplayer
Educational Gaming



Mobile Broadband

5 of the 6 billion people on Earth do not have access to computing
technology.

In Africa, mobile phone subscribers jumped from 10 million to 400
million between 2004 and 2009.


Collective Intelligence: Mashups
A mashup is an application that combines data from more than one source into a
single integrated tool. (API Application Programming Interface)

Examples:
youMashTube

Digg

Flickrvision

Google Maps

Radioclouds



Social Operating Systems
Organization of the network around people rather than content.
Implicit connections & clues we leave everywhere as we go
about our daily lives…use them to organize our work and our
thinking



More Technologies to Watch

Mobiles

Cloud Computing

Geo-Everything

The Personal Web

Semantic-Aware Applications

Smart Objects



Cloud Computing

Large scale data farms

Large clusters of networked servers

Power & storage cheap



Geo-Everything
Physical
Coordinates
Geo-tagging
Tracking



The Personal Web
Reorganize online content

iGoogle

AIM Dashboard

Customize environment



Web 3.0 Semantic-Aware Applications

Gather content

Extract meaning

Shape meaning



Smart Objects

Internet of things

Recognize physical location

Connect with other objects

Sensors

Identifiers

Applications


What is the impact?

Online Nation: How Many Learners Are Online?
More…& more & more…..everyday…..



The Horizon Report 2010: 4 Major Trends
• Rethink what education is & how it is delivered, emphasis on
mentoring & preparation for the workforce & world.
Credentialing is changing.

• Expectations have changed. People expect to work, learn & study
anywhere & time. Informal learning.

• Cloud based technologies and decentralized IT.

• Work of students is collaborative by nature.



2010 Technologies to Watch

Mobiles

Open Content

Electronic Books

Augmented Reality

Gesture Based Computing

Visual Data Analysis



• Abundance of resources & relationships easily accessible make
traditional educator roles challenging…how can we best serve?

• People expect to work, learn & study anywhere & time. When
they can’t they are frustrated.

• World of work is increasingly global & collaborative gives rise to
reflection on how student projects are structured.

• Technologies are increasingly cloud based, and IT
decentralized.



Electronic Books

Mobiles

Augmented Reality

Game Based Learning


Learning Analytics http://cain.blogspot.com/2012/03/tapping-power-of-analytics.html



• People expect to work, learn & study anywhere & time. When
they can’t they are frustrated.

• Technologies are increasingly cloud based, & IT decentralized.

• World of work is increasingly collaborative driving changes in
student projects.

• Abundance of resources on the internet is forcing us to
reexamine our role as educators.

• Education paradigms are shifting to include online, hybrid &
collaborative.

• New emphasis on challenged-based & active learning



Mobile apps

Tablet computing

Game-based learning

Learning analytics

Gesture-based learning

The Internet of Things http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfEbMV295Kk


Mobile Computing

Japan’s Fukuoka University

North Carolina State library

University of Utah human anatomy

San Francisco art museum tours


Augmented Reality

http://www.hoppala-agency.com/


Game Based Learning
Frequency 1550

Explore!

Alien Contact!

Environmental Detectives

Charles River City



Medical applications

CMU snow ball fight

Sign Language


Learning Analytics


What do we really know?

Government think tank….Dr. Traci Sitzman


ADL Co-Lab Network - U.S .
• ADL Co-Laboratory Hub
Alexandria, Virginia

• Academic ADL Co-Lab
Madison, Wisconsin

• Workforce ADL Co-
Lab Memphis, Tennessee

• Joint ADL Co-Lab
Orlando, Florida

ADL Global Partnerships

Canada United Kingdom In negotiation
ADL Partnership Lab ADL Partnership Lab
(Ottawa - DND) (Telford, England) Korea
ADL Partnership Lab
(MOCIE)

NATO/
PfP
(26 + 20)

Taiwan
Latin America
Singapore
ADL Partership Lab
ILCE – (13 Latin American countries)

Australia
DEST Department of Education, ADL Partnership Lab
Science and Training (DEST)
ILCE Instituto Latinoamericano
de la Comunicación Educativa KOR Ministry of Commerce, Industry, & Energy
TWN Ministry of Economic Affairs
NATO NATO Training Group
SGP Singapore Armed Forces
PfP Partnership for Peace/ADL THAI Ministry of Science and Technology
Working Group

What do we really know?

Are we providing access to the highest quality education & training,
tailored to individual needs, delivered cost effectively, anywhere and
anytime?

Web-based
Learning
Home Field

Online Distributed
Gaming Simulation

School In
Transit

Embedded Content
Office
Training Repositories


7 Meta-Trends of Meta-Trends

7 Trends
2012
To
2017



1. Open Source Everything Open Educational Resources (OER)



1. What we call learning is dramatically changing.



• Learner participation, Web 3.0 tools, grassroots video or
virtual communities…. Active authentic connection is
extremely important.

=


1. Our boundaries are going away….blended everything.



1. Mobile everything

4g
2011



1. Augmented Mobile Reality



1. Visual Analytics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i3xbitEVfs



Thanks for joining me….

2013?


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