{"id":635,"date":"2007-05-22T01:19:11","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T01:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=635"},"modified":"2016-07-01T09:29:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T01:29:45","slug":"trends-in-learning-with-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learning\/trends-in-learning-with-technology-635","title":{"rendered":"Trends in learning with technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2007 Horizon Report (from Educause and New Media Consortium) provides interesting insights into developing trends in educational technology.<\/p>\n<p>Things are changing so quickly - and many educational institutions are not even aware of what is happening, let alone being ahead of the game, where they should be.<\/p>\n<p>The 6 highlights of this year's report revolve around Web 2.0, which is not surprising.<\/p>\n<h2>User-Created Content<\/h2>\n<p>Thinks blogs, wikis, Flickr, YouTube, etc etc. Has your school done something effective with these today?<\/p>\n<h2>Social Networking<\/h2>\n<p>Amazon was among the first with this concept. The \"user review\" proved to be a powerful sales technique and spawned a huge social network that is unstoppable. <\/p>\n<p>An interesting example in the education sphere is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratemyprofessors.com\/\">RateMyProfessor.com<\/a>, which gives an insight into who relates best to students, and why.<\/p>\n<h2>Mobile Phones<\/h2>\n<p>In Japan, it seems mobile phones are more pervasive than PCs, especially for Web connectivity. Think \"just in time\" learning.<\/p>\n<h2>Virtual Worlds<\/h2>\n<p>This has huge implications for education. I remember hearing that 10 years ago, but the technology wasn't up to it then. The potential for simulation-based learning now is big.<\/p>\n<h2>New Scholarship<\/h2>\n<p>The students are more familiar with Wikipedia than Britannica. Now that anyone can publish, skills in determining validity become essential.<\/p>\n<h2>Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming<\/h2>\n<p>As for virtual worlds, there is huge potential - especially across institutions, across countries and across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The 2007 Horizon Report is worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>So students, how do you feel about all this? Do you still prefer lectures?<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\"><a href=\"#respond\" id=\"comms\">Be the first to comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2007 Horizon Report points out where technology in learning is going. Is your institution listening?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}