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15 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest –10

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The past weeks have seen a flurry of Web activity – bloggers making predictions for the coming months; retrospections on the year gone by; new product releases; top lists, summary posts being pulled up, and more. Many analysts are predicting 2011 will be the year of the tablet. Is This the Year of the Educational Tablet?

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How Accurate Were Our Predictions on Future of Learning Technology – 2015

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In 2010 we attempted to look into the future, predicting the key trends in 2015, in a blog […]. “Such is the pace of change and the need to adapt to changing situations that the practices of yesterday will not help us meet the demands of today” – Alvin Toffler Learning Technologies have evolved and how!

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Where are we at?

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Explaining the present, let alone predicting the future, is challenging. Never predict anything, particularly the future!”) While them getting their mind around learning would be a good step, I fear that too many see it as just management & leadership, not domain knowledge. Which, reliably, doesn’t work.

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The Future of Microlearning

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Beyond that, as has been famously attributed to various individuals: “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.” In the other, the context is about time and there are definite entailments. We don’t yet know of a platform that elegantly does both. As such, we prefer to suggest what we’d like to see.

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Designing for Learning Impact

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These models give us the ability to predict the outcomes of decisions we make, to give us a good basis to make the right decision. One is mental models that explain how this particular part of the world works, like dealing with customers or the chemical properties of this particular manufacturing process.

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2024 Trends We’d Like to See

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Yet, it’s also been said “Never predict anything, particularly the future”. When it’s about learning, the science tells us to focus on the performance objective, align meaningful practice, guide decisions with predictive models, and illustrate those models in context via examples. How do we reconcile these disparate trends?

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2024 Learning and Development Trends We’d Like to See

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Yet, it’s also been said “Never predict anything, particularly the future”. When it’s about learning, the science tells us to focus on the performance objective, align meaningful practice, guide decisions with predictive models, and illustrate those models in context via examples. How do we reconcile these disparate trends?

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