Future Trends in Education
1 March 2012
I. Sir Ken Robinson Lectures on Education
RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms
This animate was adapted from a talk given at the RSA by Sir Ken Robinson, worldrenowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA's Benjamin Franklin
award.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an
education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY
II. On-line Open Lecture Video Libraries
The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by American
educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT. With the stated mission of "providing a high
quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of
more than 3,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching
mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology,
astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history,
microeconomics and computer science.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
A World-Class Education for Everyone on Earth
Academic Earth was founded with the goal of extending high-quality online learning
opportunities to people around the globe.
http://academicearth.org/
VideoLectures.net is a website for academic talks launched February 6, 2007. It is based
at the Jozef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, Europe. It functions as a training portal for many
Networks of Excellence, Integrated Projects and STRePs. All content is released under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 and offers to the
scientific, research, business and general public the largest collection of content quality,
peer-reviewed videos that are enriched with slides. In 2009 it has won the World Summit
Award in the category of e-Science and Technology.
http://videolectures.net/
NalandaU.com is an aggregation of educational videos and online lectures. It aggregates
videos provided by universities worldwide and stitches them with open text materials to
build comprehensive courses.
http://www.NalandaU.com/
Provides 800+ Online Courses, 19000+ video lectures from 30+ best colleges and
universities. Subjects include computer science, web design, psychology, ...
http://freevideolectures.com/
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III. Articles and Publications on Future Trends in Education
(in reverse chronological order)
Future Of Education Is Mobile, Social, and in the Cloud: Lessons from EduCause
(25 October 2011)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesmarshallcrotty/2011/10/25/future-of-education-is-mobilesocial-and-in-the-cloud-lessons-from-educause-part-one/
What's Involved In Reinventing Education?
(4 August 2011)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/04/whats-involved-in-reinventingeducation/
Are "Teacherpreneurs" the Future of Education?
(15 July 2011) (includes 'Teaching 2030' video)
http://www.good.is/post/are-teacherpreneurs-the-future-of-education/
Three Trends That Define the Future of Teaching and Learning
(5 February 2011)
http://mindshift.kqed.org/2011/02/three-trends-that-define-the-future-of-teaching-andlearning/
Top Education Trends for 2011
(3 February 2011)
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2011/02/03/education-trends/
The Role of the Educator
(5 December 2010)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephen-downes/the-role-of-the-educator_b_790937.html
From “Sage on the Stage” to “Guide on the Side” Revisited:
(Un)Covering the Content in the Learner-Centered Information Systems Course
(8 November 2008)
http://proc.isecon.org/2008/3114/ISECON.2008.Saulnier.pdf
Economist Intelligence Unit
The future of higher education: How technology will shape learning
(2008)
http://www.nmc.org/pdf/Future-of-Higher-Ed-(NMC).pdf
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