July 10, 2002

Trends

Being on vacation (and having no life), I've had the opportunity to dig through elearning files and folders. Reviewing months worth of links and articles in several days affords a more "global" view of elearning trends versus reading the articles on a daily basis. So, here is a list of some of the emerging/expanding "big trends" (as measured by amount of articles on each subject over the last several months)"


  • Knowledge management
  • Community
  • Learning objects
  • Web services (XML, SOAP, UDDI, .NET)
  • Wireless (WAN, PDA's)
  • Standards
  • Instructional design
  • Integrating technology and education
  • Copyright/ethics/plagiarism
  • Return on investment (ROI)

Reflecting on the list, I see two main issues:

  1. Connectivity and capacity to share information/knowledge (wireless, web services, learning objects, knowledge management, community)
  2. Issues surround the creation, structure, and nature of the information to be shared (instructional design, integrating technology, copyright, ROI)

Links and information on each of these areas is/will be available at www.elearnspace.org

Posted by gsiemens at July 10, 2002 06:43 PM