Online Learning: Trends, Models And Dynamics In Our Education Future - Part 2

How are you going to certify your knowledge in the near future? While it is unlikely that general educational degrees will maintain their value and business currency, it is increasingly probable that your "value" will be in good part vouched for by the "portfolio" of your online experiences, social reputation and past Internet learning-related activities.


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In the future, what you will learn outside of school, through your other experiences, the connection with your peers, the projects you participate in will be fully acknowledged, recorded and even credited. Your key life experiences will be recognized as being one of the key components of what will be seen as a lifelong personal learning path. Your Flickr photo-stream, your blog writings, your videos on YouTube, and like these many other significant activities you will take online, are going to determine your public learning persona and educational profile.

In Part 2 (Part 1) of this exploratory voyage in the future of learning, Stephen Downes shares an accurate analysis of the trends and dynamics driving our relationship with institutional and informal learning, and allows you to assess and anticipate how education and our perception of it is going to be deeply transformed in the coming years.