Moodle and the Future of Learning discusses how Moodle and online learning is changing and some possibilities for the future. It provides statistics on current Moodle usage and upcoming features. It also explores broader trends like increased computing power, globalization, and the age of participation that provide context for changes in learning. New approaches like content networks, analytics, personalized instruction, and augmented reality could shape learning over the next decade.

1. Moodle and the Future of Learning Jason Cole NITLE Moodle Workshop October 4, 2007

11. Exponential Times

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22. The Moodle Hub

26. Analytics for Learning

29. Personalized Learning

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31. Personalized Support

32. Towards 2 Sigma

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37. Augmented & Virtual Reality

38. Emotiv Systems

39. Learning for Development

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44. Most campuses have simply bolted new technologies onto a fixed plant, a fixed faculty, and a fixed notion of classroom instruction. Under these circumstances, technology becomes part of the problem of rising costs rather than part of the solution. – Carol Twigg, Congressional Testimony

45. Change Happens “… it is well to remember that the comprehensive world economics are going to force vast economic reforms of industries and nations, which incidentally will require utter modernization of the educational processes in order to be able to compete and survive.” “ We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.” -RBF

46. “ Revolutions tend to suck for ordinary people” – Paul Saffo, Institute for the Future Photo by: Keso http://www.flickr.com/photos/keso/59940663/