The document discusses the future of learning and education. It notes that computer processing power and data are growing exponentially and will continue to do so. This will enable new approaches to personalized learning pathways centered around the student. Emerging technologies can support immersive learning on any device and interconnected learning communities. Successful education systems will adopt student-centric processes and promote open standards. The educational continuum from primary to higher education and workforce skills will be transformed by these trends.

1. Executive Insights 22-8-2012
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING
Smarter Education
Kees Donker
Executive Innovation, Technology & Government
IBM Benelux
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2. In 2001, there were 60 million transistors for every
human on the planet ...
….in 2012 there are around 1 billion transistors for every
human on the planet ..… each costing 1/10 millionth of a
cent.
… in 2035 there will be 100 billion transistors per
human…
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3. Huge amounts of data
It took 4 million years to
create all data until the
year 0
This amount doubled
in the next 1500 years
(until the Renaissance)
When we look at the sixties
of last century we have a
doubling of data every 6 years
Now around 2012 we see
a doubling every six months
And it keeps growing !!!
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4. For our Smarter Planet strategy we need 2 things
1. Computer Power
2. Calculation methods
As people in business you know
its going well with computer power!
IBM is ranked #1
with a Petaflop computer.
Petaflops??
1 Petaflops
= 1.000 Teraflops
= 1.000.000 Gigaflops...
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5. In other words: the computer
power of 6 Billion people,
making calculations for
24 hours a day for 46 years
You can compare
it with a pile
of laptops with
a height of 2 km
Oh yes: FLOPS stands for
FLoating point OPerations per
Second, the sizing to determine
computer power
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6. In 2015 the available
computer power will reach
10 Petaflop!
As much brainpower
as the human brain.
In comparison chess player
Gary Kasparov lost in 1997 from
IBMs Deep Blue (with the
brainpower of a lizard),
a Playstation you can
buy in any store now for
€300 has already 10x
the calculation power of
Deep Blue.
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7. What could you do if all objects were intelligent…
…and connected?
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8. Could you predict the path of a storm
down to the square kilometer?
Could you identify another 20% of proven
oil reserves without drilling one© hole?
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9. …or with a billion-
person workforce?
What could you do
with a million-person
product development lab…
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10. It’s time to take advantage of….
smart objects
the connectedness of everything
supercomputing for everyone
information put to work
collaboration & co-creation
the marketplace for expertise
the virtual corporation
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11. The open innovation process
IBM Research
IBM
Business Lines
Clients & Partners
Explorative & Ideas for Incubate the Generate
Assess the
Applied complex most new revenue
relevant ones
Research challenges promising
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12. Innovation Lifecycle
Innovation at the intersection of business and technology
Industry
Solution
Technology Labs
Trends
Industry
Trends
Idea Prototype
Trend Scan
3-10 years out
Pilot
Research Deployment /
FOAK Productization
Social FOAK
Trends
Patents Academic ODIS
ODIS
Papers Research
Solution Experience Papers
Centers
Ideas management
Business management
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13. Our world is becoming …
INSTRUMENTED INTERCONNECTED INTELLIGENT
We now have the ability People, systems and We can respond to changes
to measure, sense and objects can communicate quickly and accurately,
see the exact condition and interact with each and get better results
of everything other in entirely new by predicting and optimizing
ways. for future events
WORKFORCE SUPPLY CHAIN TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES
MANUFACTURING IT
CUSTOMERS
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14. Are we in the worst of times………
Economic Recession…
Global Competition…
Problems around Greece ,
Italy, Spain ……
Another financial crises???
What will be the effect on
education ??
Bangalore has 150,000 IT engineers
Silicon Valley has 130,000
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15. …the best of times?
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16. Five Signposts for the future signal significant
changes for education
Today’s generation of
TECHNOLOGY IMMERSION
“digitally native” students
PERSONAL LEARNING PATHS Individualized and varied
learning paths
21st century skills for
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS service-based economies
Global integration of systems,
GLOBAL INTEGRATION
resources, and cultures
Education’s critical role in
ECONOMIC ALIGNMENT a 21st century economy
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17. Students and parents are demanding a more
personalized educational experience.
PROGRESSING ENROLLING
at a rate that recognized in concurrent programs
individual learning styles at multiple institutions
MEASURING
progress against SHARING
individual learning experiences with
learning objectives peers, mentors and
teachers
CUSTOMIZING
Learning materials for UNDERSTANDING
unique student needs
options and alternatives for
learning paths
BENEFITING
from an interconnected ACCESSING
educational team courses that are not
available locally
ENGAGING
in self-directed
independent learning
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18. Personal Learning Paths put the Learner in
the center of the educational experience
Traditional Emerging
Teacher/
Content External
Institution Professor
Creator SME
Parent Mentor
Teacher Professor Learner
Special
Institution
Programs
Learner Learner Learner Content Peer
Creator Learner
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19. Global Integration presents opportunities and
challenges to education systems
Technology and connectivity has raised awareness of the potential for
greater outcomes
networks introduces new competitors to traditionally stable education
environments Global
Innovative institutions have defined unique value that they can provide to a
global classroom
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20. Five Signposts point to Transformative
Strategies
TECHNOLOGY IMMERSION Consumer devices represent
diverse learning opportunities for all
Any Device Learning students
PERSONAL LEARNING PATHS Aborative models for education systems
put students at the center of processes
Student-Centered Processes
and services
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS Comprehensive, multi-faceted student
learning and collaboration
Learning Communities
environments promote 21st c. skills
GLOBAL INTEGRATION Shared services allow economies of scale
Services Specialization while specialization promotes
differentiation
ECONOMIC ALIGNMENT Education programs and economic
initiatives align for long term
Systemic View of Education
sustainability and growth
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21. Vision for the Educational Continuum
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22. The Educational Continuum is enabled by
emerging technologies
TECHNOLOGY IMMERSION Integration of Consumer IT
Any Device Learning devices into learning
environments through
standards, repositories and
PERSONAL LEARNING PATHS
transformation technologies
Student-Centered Processes
Communities are developing open
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS standards and open source
Learning Communities applications to allow for full
interoperability, interconnection and
GLOBAL INTEGRATION seamless services to students.
Services Specialization
Cloud Computing delivers on
ECONOMIC ALIGNMENT the promise of “utility
Systemic View of Education
computing”, allowing for dynamic,
low cost IT resources to be
provided as required.
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23. Successful education systems in the next decade will
share a number of strategic policy actions
Adopt and Promote a vision of Personalized Learning encouraging
better use of data to manage and tailor learning services to individual
students
Establish Student-Centric versus Institutionally-Centric
Processes to provide better insights, interventions and opportunities
to improve outcomes
Promote Open Standards and Open Platforms in Technology to
enable a broad set of providers to contribute to a rich, diverse world of
learning
Consolidate Services across Institutions and Agencies to realize
the benefits of cloud computing and shared services
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24. We are experiencing the reality of global integration
The world is connected
ECONOMICALLY.
SOCIALLY.
TECHNICALLY.
A series of shocks:
Climate change Energy Global supply Financial Crisis
geopolitics chains
Plus rapidly evolving and ongoing significant trends:
Changing Empowered consumers Impact of technology
demographics and citizens
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25. What is Watson?
A computing system named after our founder Thomas J. Watson.
Rivals a human’s ability to answer questions posed in natural
language with speed, accuracy and confidence.
Leverages the power of IBM Content Analytics to perform lexical
analysis as part of natural language processing.
Harnesses a cluster of IBM’s commercially-available POWER7
system optimized to process thousands of simultaneous tasks at
rapid speeds.
Incorporates a number of IBM exclusive technologies for the
specialized demands of processing an enormous number of
concurrent tasks and data while analyzing information in real
time.
This is not search, where a query retrieves a list of links to
potential answers based on popularity and page ranking.
Watson’s ability to understand the meaning and context of human language, and
rapidly process information to find precise answers to complex questions, holds
enormous potential to transform how computers can help people accomplish tasks in
business and their personal lives.
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27. Thank you for your attention
Kees C. Donker
Executive
Innovation, Technology & Government
Johan Huizingalaan 765
Amsterdam
Tel 06 5341 4314
kees.donker@nl.ibm.com
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