Revisiting old posts and checking on updates, I searched for the 2011 report on the Horizon Project . This has been an ongoing longitudinal research since 2002 by New Media Consortium and its research partners. I first encountered the Horizon Project in 2009, in watching trends for e-learning that may be applicable in the Philippines set-up.
The Horizon Project is a comprehensive research venture established in 2002 that identifies and describes emerging technologies likely to have a large impact over the coming five years on a variety of sectors around the globe.
Though this speaks more about key drivers of educational technology, these validate what we already are experiencing in the era of the rising prominence of social media. E-books, augmented reality, mobile learning, game-based learning, gesture-based learning and learning analytics are key trends that are expected to be adopted into the online learning space within the next five years.
For us, there are two trends that would work for e-learning for continuing professional education in Philippine real estate. Most familiar to us are the use of electronic books (e-books) , which have been widely used to date for circulating anytime-anytime referencing. This is specially so when training, knowledge exchange and even marketing promotions need a bit of ‘e’ and ‘tech’ in their endeavors. But what’s exciting is not the text, nor the device that’s used to access it with, but the quality of reading experiences made possible thru new reading interfaces and rich media collaborative elements.
As for mobile in learning, a recent study report from mobile manufacturer Ericsson shows that by 2015, 80% of people accessing the Internet will be doing so from mobile devices. Perhaps more important for education, Interne-capable mobile devices will outnumber computers within the next year. In Japan, over 75% of Internet users already use a mobile as their first choice for access.
This shift in the means of connecting to the Internet is being enabled by the convergence of three trends: the growing number of Internet-capable mobile devices, increasingly flexible web content, and continued development of the networks that support connectivity.
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