Actually I don’t really know but I know that it will reflect everything else around us as we move forward into the future. Unfortunately education and training are highly reactive. They both respond with a fairly large time lag to a multitude of other factors that have already changed. Education and training are typically the last to change. Is that true? Just look at what is happening with technology. As technology changes teaching scrambles after it always two steps away from the cutting edge. The environment becomes a concern and about ten years later teaching incorporates sustainability issues. We rapidly increase immigration and about fifteen years later decide that it would be a good idea to teach Asian languages in school. We have a current shortage of trades people which actually started a few years ago. In a few more years we will see an increase in interest and funding to trade related training. So if you want to know what the future of education, training, teaching and learning will look like, look around you now and add at least five years and those factors will just be having their effect. This is pretty stupid when you think about it. Why don’t we, right now, plan and implement the most effect training and education that we can have rather than being influenced by factors that changed years ago and are already starting to move in another direction. Check out this website which is planning to expand over time. It consists of video interviews of experts in a multitude of fields providing their predictions of the future (2020). In particular the section, Growing up digital, is of special interest to trainers. This is the sort of information that we should be building the future of education and training on. What do you think it should look like?
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