Open Education, Open Universities, and The Future of Learning and Instruction
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Open education, open learning, open universities, future of learning, instructionAbstract
The main fulcrum of open education is to enhance access, ensuring that no one is left out. Open education has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping traditional paradigms and fostering a more inclusive and accessible learning environment. The trends in open education reflect a global movement towards democratising knowledge, breaking down barriers to entry, and embracing innovative pedagogical approaches. These trends include measurable skills and micro-credentials, Artificial Intelligence, block chain, virtual and Augmented Reality, IoT, new LMS, and intelligent and smart use of social media and network. The effects of these will be multi-dimensional and transformative, hugely profound affecting every human on the globe. Further evolution of the brain will lead to more creativity and innovations. As has other earlier technologies and inventions, they will adversely affect individuals and society. In many cases it could lead to further isolation and the increasingly plastic nature of human relationships. Inevitably, this development would lead to traumas of different kinds and dimensions. In looking for solutions, society must look into an integration and interaction of the body, mind and soul entities of human nature. Learning and instruction will now become completely open, more open than we currently have. Institutions must brace themselves for the avalanche of what is to come as the education of the future, which is already upon us would be as fascinating, enjoyable as it is fraught with signposts of obstacles and difficulties in teaching and learning.
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