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

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" t' I, c/ S6 Z作者：張光進(Mr. James K. Chang) /CEO of Global Knowledge Exchange & COMWEB Technology Group 8p
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ABSTRACT
As 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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( v3 ^4 X$ x0 v. o, BAlong 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.
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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.
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The 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.
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" T. c3 v$ C2 j3 lThe 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.