Yet today, at the beginning of 2018, the burden of learning the plethora of technologies and trends stands tall with students and professionals. The volume of choices with respect to the type of content adds further to the difficulty. There also technology comes to rescue in the form of Search, Ease of access through Web or Mobile.
We have seen the growth of digital learning through Social video portals such as YouTube, Netflix, Vimeo. Digital learning has started changing many professionals life with help of tools like Coursera, EDX, Udemy etc., This blog post is to outline what is the kind of potential trends in 2018 in digital learning.
Targeted video-based learning/Microlearning:
Targeted video content would lead the way further. This would evolve further with short time span to enable quick learning. Content consumed from the mobile would be more, so providing a simplified and powerful experience would be key with the focus on anytime and anywhere learning.
MR (Mixed Reality):
Mixed Reality evolved from Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality is becoming low cost.It soon might enable learning an excellent experience along with the real world interaction to give an immersive experience. Expected to deal with 2.2$ billion markets, it’s here to grow.
Digital Twin based learning:
Gartner has already outlined digital twin as the emerging trends. Training employees and labors where there were a lot of downtime and travel can be avoided with VR/AR/IoT converging together to provide Digital Twin based learning experience.
Conversational platforms integrating with video:
Applications and video platforms will become more intelligent with AWS bringing more intelligence on video content. This would also provide more bots which can get integrated with the content to provide a deep learning experience.
Learning Analytics & Content Curation:
Organizations and institutions are focusing on improving the learning effectiveness and so that training can be made more and more effective. The time and context of learning based on individual preferences would be more powerful. So it’s important to deliver the right content based on JIT practices based on Big data Analytics and xAPI.
Having said all of this end of the day content will be the king. It’s essentially how we deliver and enable consumers to consume content anywhere anytime providing an excellent learning experience to make learning more fun. Technology is always an enabler.
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