We-Learning Alan Marshall

Post-secondary, quality education will beavailable to ALL worldwide. Nicole Gillis

Virtual classrooms that include studentsfrom around the world that share perspec-tives on their country. Resources that canbe easily translated from one language toanother. Evan MacDormand

Information on demand, anyplace, any-time, accessible to all. Kim Baril

�Classroom �Internationalization/ &Globalization John Lawrence

More interaction between students acrossCanada, or even across the world. SamuelTse

Each Moodle user (institution) sponsor anew Moodle user in developing countries.Like a mentorship for new Moodler. Fran-coise De Pauw

Have students here in Canada create aMath 8 course for students in anothercountry - kind of like tutoring Grannies. Thestudents create the content & structure.Wanda Dechant

Online courses and communities will buildlocal capacity by openly sharing knowl-edge and experience on a global level - e-community development. Valerie DePauw

Anywhere, anytime learning. David Hinser

Global

Allow to “friend” courses on different sites.Forums messages could be shared by sim-ilar courses across the world.

Make learners into prosumers of theirlearning, giving them the tools, techniquesand attitudes to be life long learners andteachers. Terry Anderson

Students are co-creators of the coursewhere they are the ones making definitionsin the glossary, entries in the wiki, submitideas fro the course. Jeremy Wiebe

Online courses will be the product of stu-dent collaboration and contribution to thepedagogies of the course. Orville Andrews

Students are involved in the establishmentof the parameters for evaluation and as-sessment, and tools allow the instructor toreadily incorporate this input into the evalu-ation. Scott Delinger

Elearning is diverse and flexible. Studentswill be able to pick and choose what theytake and the manner they take the coursein. Triva Emter

Find a way to include and embed studentsupports. Many of our students have diffi-culty working on their own, so there is aneed to have support tools for the stu-dents.

Students will each have their own learninganalytics dashboard that shows themprogress, status, and suggests strategiesfor success. Paul Stacey

Students who successfully complete anonline course can tutor currently enrolledstudents as part time work. Paul Stacey

Courses of study will be planned and as-signments inter-related so that programsprovide a more holistic approach to learn-ing allowing students to see the connec-tions between multiple areas of study.

Students will be engaged in self-directedlearning activities focused on outcomesand applied knowledge, not content. DavidHinser

Course participants are given learning ob-jectives for the course/unit from the outsetand then they decide how they will learnand demonstrate (or give evidence) of hav-ing acquired the knowledge and skills pro-posed David LeBlanc

Student support in terms of personal learn-ing plan combined with e-portfolio/compe-tencies profile which then are applied tochallenge learning goals/objectives ofcourses at all levels. Michael Cenkner

Encourage students to do self-testing. En-courage students to do course evaluation.Adaptive e-learning based on learningstyles and learning performance. Get stu-dents really engaged in online learning.Need tools that can easily implement inter-active media based ideas. Hongxin Yan

Student led learning. Students are self-di-rected and determine where they aregoing. Ted Owens

Dynamic class the student teaches him-self.

Courses will have LESS emphasis on con-tent and more emphasis on skills and toolsof learning - content will be the “on the sidevehicle for acquiring those skills. The con-tent each student accesses in order tomeet outcomes and acquire skills may bequite different for each student dependingon their interests, learning style, passions,etc. Mary Sobbe

Not fixed or tied to a particular resource or“canonical” body of knowledge. Collabora-tively designed and tied to current researchin learning. Doug

Complete dynamic creation of learningplans and resources based on your e-learning and social activities. Mike Church-ward

Students will have multiple paths/optionsbuilt into online courses to enable person-alization. Gabe Linder

Courses will sense where the student is(academically) and automatically adjust thecontent so that students only have to workon stuff they donʼt know.

In K-12 elearning is outcomes/competencybased and learners can demonstrate un-derstanding. In building understanding theyaccess scaffolding that supports theirlearning style. Terri Reid

Each academic domain has unique peda-gogical models. The way you teach sci-ence online will be different from the wayyou teach business online. Paul Stacey

Students Pedagogies

The instructor is more of a facilitator help-ing the student by providing access to theresources available. Ted Owens

There should be a focus on the change ininstructor/tutor to facilitator. Michel Bui-tendyk

Instruction will revolve around interdiscipli-nary community based projects producingexperience and results relevant to stu-dents. Course materials and communica-tions will be fully operational on mobiledevices so classroom location is unneces-sary. Joan Coy.Academics/teachers become evaluatorsand facilitators of learning rather than “con-tent providers”. Michael Cenkner

Online high school teachers will need “e-teacher” training to work in the DL environ-ment. A set of standards perhaps at theprovincial level for online coursedesign/components. Gabe Linder

Teacher is a facilitator or guide.

Online courses will be all about how to re-purpose content. Mary Pringle

Cooperatively build courseware. Kim Baril

Within high school system (Gr 10-12)“small” schools will have specialists teach-ing specific courses and students in theschool wil have access to specialists fromother schools for other courses. (use ofMoodle, Elluminate ...) Still believe many ofour students need daily contact with ateacher in a structured class situation. J.Sinclair

Shared base courses for K-12 based oncurriculum that are easily customizable tostudent needs.

Creating and authoring online courses willbe so easy that my grandmother can do itwithout any help. Jason Maur

I see teacher supports as a critical compo-nent in making e-learning successful. Pro-fessional learning in groups andindividualized will be freely accessible andsupported. Triva Emter

Assessment centres. Tutoring.

Teachers

Cell phones (mobile learning) will becomethe medium of choice with projectedscreens and keyboards (larger format in-teraction surfaces). Holographic projectionwill become the replacement for video. Im-mersive technologies will replace videoand audio and design will be as simple asvideo recordings Mark Karstand

With the development of technologies suchas cloud computing, mobile devices, etc.people will use e-learning tools anywhereanytime without realizing it. Students willlearn when they play. Dave Sun

More tools for mobile devices. ShawnaCerraini

A central repository of many open learningresources that is accessible to teachers.Evan MacDormand

A radical re-invention of the user interface.Itʼs terribly unintuitive in most/all LMSʼs outof the box. Wade Kelly

To embrace multi-modality throughaudio/visual UI and to extend online learn-ing environments to mobile user agents.Beyond this shifting from a pull from serverto a push to subscribers model is some-thing that would improve integration. Basi-cally I would like to see elearning moved tothe Personal Area Network. I would alsolike to see multi-modal UIʼd move closer toan all inclusive accessible interface. PANintegration and multi-faceted UI might helpbreak out of schedule based, top down de-livery and collaboration. Ryan Thomas

Access to Moodle using mobile devicesand multiple operating systems without re-quiring an excessive design burden on thecourse builder. Terry Korol

Global search and replace feature as mostother systems provide such feature JaniceBoyles

Easy access to universal platforms.

Student records, marks, courses, commu-nication systems will all be on the samesystem. All resources will be online (nomore textbooks!)

A way for organizations to populate Moodlecalendars and other tools automaticallywith content inputted into their web sites,social network tools, etc, so everythingworks together.

Save the trees! No paper.

eLearning will make no sense in the futureast it will be standard learning with content,interaction, and evaluation processes inte-grated to conventional education throughmobile and table devices. As soon as westart walking like this paradigm we will beable to take advantage of it. GiovanniFarias

Better tools/social media/multimedia. Phys-ical social interaction limited, more onlineinteraction. Sharon/Janice/Carla/Jaime/Angela/Karen

Biometric authentication for quizzes. Betteraccess for mobile devices. Better enter-prise setup dealing with application clus-ters, batch upload balancing for largeinstallations.

Technology

Guild model of learning - Join the philoso-phy department for life. Always have ac-cess. Always have a community.Flexible credentialing for self-directed stud-ies where you are able to cobble togethera unique learning path and have it officiallyrecognized. Mike Minions

Credentials will be distributed based onwhat the individual proves he/she knowsnot how much or where they received theknowledge. Oriville Andrews

Outcomes based, skills oriented, task ori-ented, portfolio accreditation. Kim Baril

Credentials from an e-learning experiencewill be regarded as higher level learning.Nicole Gillies

Continuous learning will simply be the waythings are done. Seamless between learn-ing and earning. Dan Mose

I see the ability of all who participate inelearning to achieve valid credit for thelearning they undertake. Triva Emter

Alumni have access to the current versionof their online courses for life. Paul Stacey

Credentials

THE FUTURE OF eLEARNINGCrowdsourced ideas from participants at

Global, Pedagogies, Technology and Credential images sourced at Wikimedia http://commons.wiki-media.org and are in public domain or licensed with GNU Free Documentation License. Teacher andStudent images clipped from photos taken by Paul Stacey.

Paul Stacey assembled this Future of eLearning poster from ideas submitted by Canada MoodleMoot 2011 participants. Names in italics at the end of each idea provide attribution. Ideas with noname in italics were submitted with no participant name.

4-May-2011