{"id":2832,"date":"2015-08-27T16:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T16:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.efrontlearning.net\/blog\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2017-03-24T09:24:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T09:24:29","slug":"the-future-of-elearning-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.efrontlearning.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/the-future-of-elearning-part-2.html","title":{"rendered":"The future of eLearning, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"The-future-of-elearning-part-2\"<\/div>\n

In this series of posts we stroke our elaborate moustaches, straighten up our turbans, and look into our crystal balls to determine the future of eLearning in 10\u00a0years time.<\/p>\n

In our last future-telling session<\/a> we discussed how mobile learning, MOOCs and gamification are only going to get bigger in the coming years.<\/p>\n

In this post we\u2019ll be examining a few more eLearning trends that will play an important role, namely Instructor-Led Training (ILT) and social learning<\/a><\/strong>. We\u2019re also going to tell you what\u2019s probably going to happen with virtual reality technologies and wearables.<\/p>\n

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Instructor-Led training<\/h2>\n

You might be wondering how come \u201cInstructor-Led Training\u201d is part of the future of eLearning. It does seem more like a throwback to the past with its demands of physical attendance, traditional classrooms and actual teachers telling you to keep quiet.<\/p>\n

Maybe you are forgetting, but that\u2019s actually how the majority of education is currently run \u2014 in every school, college and university worldwide. Physical classrooms, teachers and whiteboards rule the day.<\/p>\n

Instructor-Led Training, in that aspect, far from a step back represents a step forward: it\u2019s all about the incorporation of eLearning into all of our traditional educational institutions.<\/p>\n

Whereas in the past you had traditional schooling and eLearning, and the two did not meet, in the future no actual school and no physical classroom will be considered complete if it doesn\u2019t incorporate an eLearning element.<\/p>\n

Social learning<\/h2>\n

Social networking is not some new category of computer use that Facebook (or Friendster\/MySpace\/Twitter\/etc) invented.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just humans communicating over a computer network, something that we have been doing ever since there was a public internet (through BBS systems, AOL, CompuServe and what have you).<\/p>\n

Still, for it to really catch on it needed the capabilities of the modern web (circa 2005) and a good enough implementation.<\/p>\n

In the same vein, humans have also been communicating, exchanging ideas and making friends while studying since forever, which makes \u201csocial learning<\/a><\/strong>\u201d something that will inevitably catch on. It just needs the right platform and the right technical capabilities (e.g. effortless tele-conferencing through our\u00a0browser, something that still has modern CPUs spiking).<\/p>\n

Whether social learning hits the big time sooner or later we don\u2019t know, but we do know that it will be increasingly more popular in the upcoming years.<\/p>\n

Virtual Reality and Wearables<\/h2>\n

Virtual reality sounds so good in theory. It\u2019s even impressive as a demo.<\/p>\n

But, at least in its current state (and including much touted products like the Oculus Rift), it\u2019s not really gonna fly outside of small (but important) niches.<\/p>\n

There are several technical limitations with how convincing (or nauseating) the \u201creality\u201d part in VR is. Those will probably be overcome with time, but at least for the next few years, you won’t want to be wearing a VR headset for prolonged periods of time.<\/p>\n

Another major issue to the adoption of VR for eLearning will be the lack of content. There hasn\u2019t been any great re-imagining of educational content for VR \u2014 it\u2019s all about virtual tours and game-like experiences.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also expensive to produce quality VR educational content (it\u2019s like making your own mini Pixar movie or AAA game title). It surely won’t be something that a small or medium educational institution will be able to slap together (not to mention that the tooling to do so isn\u2019t really here either).<\/p>\n

As for wearables, they\u2019re too limited by their small (or no) screens, lack of input methods, inefficient speakers, battery performance, etc. to be actually useful in eLearning (besides supplementary and novelty use).<\/p>\n

Back to the present<\/h2>\n

\u201cThe future is here\u201d, famous sci-fi author William Gibson once said, \u201cit\u2019s just not evenly distributed\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is very much true for eLearning\u2019s future, as all of these trends and technologies we mentioned are already available in one form or another. They are just not prevalent or mass-market enough yet.<\/p>\n

That said, they are quite mature already, which means that you don\u2019t have to wait for 2025 (or even 2020) to begin incorporating them in your eLearning offerings.<\/p>\n

While most competitors are satisfied with bread-and-butter solutions, your early adoption of future eLearning trends will ensure that as these grow stronger you\u2019ll be along for the ride.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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