Future Classroom “One World, One Classroom”- An Emerging Global Learning Ecosyst

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作者：張光進(Mr. James K. Chang) /CEO of Global Knowledge Exchange & COMWEB Technology Group 8p

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# Y0 b6 ?; l) v4 lABSTRACT
5 |5 V& g" _4 Y% |1 @9 \6 qAs society shifts from the “Information Age” to a new “Learning Age”, learning is no longer the preparation for a job, it is the job. Business and industry understand that the next wave of productivity gains will be realized through improved human capital management and by a massive global re-alignment of talent. The worldwide education community is responding creatively to this challenge. Educators have developed an innovative and much more systematic framework for learning – i.e. the “21st Century Learning Initiative”. Under this initiative both students and their teachers are lifelong learners. And they are expected to internalize a whole new set of 21st century skills and take more direct responsibility for their own individual learning. We call this bold student-centered self-paced approach “deep learning”. The only thing that matters is successful student outcomes. The demand is for good data, real-time performance support, and continuous tracking of actual student achievement.
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& i! U3 [' M3 }' i; W, n+ fAlong with today’s new systems and the new focus on learning itself, comes a revolutionary organization concept for education. Schools are reinventing themselves and moving away from being mere teaching organizations and becoming instead real learning organizations.
The classroom is being transformed. It is no longer a solo teaching environment.
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It is a student-centered, networked, lifelong learning environment that leverages the talents of a  multi-generational learning team whose members are drawn from all over the world. The continuing development of this next generation global education workforce to support the new “net” generation of self-paced lifelong learners is absolutely essential.

, q: J0 ~3 @' C8 j' H* LThe globalization of the education industry will continues to accelerate. The classroom of the future will need to be further re-engineered and become capable of quickly adapting to meet multifunctional, multi-cultural requirements. Schools will no longer be simple learning spaces. They will become instead highly interconnected hubs and integral parts of global multi-generational networked learning communities. Soon the  personalization of each student’s learning path via an individual development plan (IDP) will be the norm.

4 r, Y% z. z. k8 GThe maturing of cloud computing beyond Web 2.0 applications will create a launching pad for effective “global knowledge exchange” – i.e. the “weaving of a web of knowledge”. The process requires a shared context to facilitate the building of new relationships regardless of differences in geographic location. The process requires a new type of global learning community, an “intelligent human network”- i.e. a “net brain”. Hundreds of millions of learners, educators, mentors, social entrepreneurs, school administrators and other stakeholders - including countless virtual assistants/digital avatars - will routinely interconnect, communicate, share knowledge, and collaborate in real time.

Classrooms of the future will be the building blocks in a rapidly evolving global learning ecosystem and catalysts for the next generation of education technology (ET) development. We predict a huge new ET industry and the deployment of the global education workforce
will be its main driver. ET innovation will make “One World, One Classroom” a reality.