More interestingly, Ilkka Tuomi has written a paper on The Future of learning in the knowledge society: disruptive changes for Europe by 2020. Tuomi describes the ongoing socio-economic transformation, presents scenarios of future educational settings and reviews examples of innovative uses of information and communication technologies in education and learning.
In this paper, to outline the emerging landscapes for learning, as they will be seen from within educational institutions, Tuomi develops short scenarios for an International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) for the year 2020, based on the UNESCO scheme designed in the early 1970s.
In a related paper, Learning in the age of networked intelligence, to make its narrative more concrete, Tuomi presents ten theses on the future of education. The value of the theses, as Tuomi suggests, is that they can be read as topics for further discussion. They are:
- Education becomes global;
- New disabilities become challenges for pedagogy;
- Blogs become more important than formal certificates;
- Demographic change leads to slowdown in the growth of human capital in Europe;
- Home becomes the classroom;
- Immersive social games replace the textbook;
- Audio makes education portable;
- Products become pedagogic;
- Informal social learning becomes the key to competence development; and
- Educational programmes become integrated with real social change.
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