Disruption and Opportunity

Daniel Burress gives us 25 Game-Changing Hard Trends That Will Create Disruption and Opportunity. Here are a few that relate to education and training:

7. Gamification, Socialization, and Personalization of Training and Education

Education and training will increasingly focus on accelerating learning by using advanced simulations and skill-based learning systems that are self-diagnostic, interactive, game-like, and competitive. These innovations will focus on giving the user an immersive experience, thanks to a photorealistic 3D interface. By making the experience fun and personalized, learning will improve and the use will spread.

8. Online Learning Is Redefined and Rapidly Gains Momentum

Taking courses and getting degrees online continues to accelerate. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have been embraced by highly recognized and traditional educational institutions, putting them in a position to challenge all educational systems by making location and tuition far less of a barrier to receiving the information, training, and knowledge people need in order to succeed in a rapidly changing world. Online courses, combined with Gamification systems, will change the face of global education.

9. As Use of eBooks, eNewspapers, eMagazines and Interactive eTextbooks Rapidly Grows, Paper Versions Increasingly Function to Attract New Readers

ePublications are finally passing the tipping point due to the abundance of smartphones and tablets that provide a full color experience, plus publishers providing apps that are starting to give us a better-than-paper experience by including cut, copy, paste, print, and multimedia capabilities. Interactive eTextbooks will finally take off thanks to easy-to-use software, freeing new publishers to create compelling and engaging content, and freeing students from a static, expensive, and literally heavy experience.

I've been reading Peter Diamandis's book, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World. It's compelling reading. He covers many of the themes in this lecture: