Developers of educational applications and tools… spend a substantial proportion of their very limited resources inventing and creating such services. Progress could be much faster and more efficient if each project did not have to invent basic services but rather could build upon a common services infrastructure.
Predictor: Hunter, Beverly
Prediction, in context:The 1995 book “Public Access to the Internet,” edited by Brian Kahin and James Keller carries the chapter, “Learning and Teaching on the Internet: Contributing to Educational Reform” by Beverly Hunter, an educational strategist in the Educational Technologies Department of the technology firm Bolt, Beranek & Newman. She was previously the program director for Applications of Advanced Technologies in Science Education at the National Science Foundation. She writes:”Developers of educational applications and tools… spend a substantial proportion of their very limited resources inventing and creating such services. Progress could be much faster and more efficient if each project did not have to invent basic services but rather could build upon a common services infrastructure … The following benefits would be likely:- Non-technical people would face fewer barriers to making contributions to the infrastructure- The information that people do contribute to the infrastructure would be easier to locate and access- The limited resources for educational innovation could be spent on application-relevant inventions rather than basic services- There could be more rapid progress in developing standards at the application level, thereby increasing the value of individual contributions to knowledge- The quality of educational applications could improve much more rapidly- Educational publishers and other service providers would be more likely to invest in this market.- Educational reform efforts such as new curricula and assessment projects would be more likely to take advantage of the power of networked resources.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Public Access to the Internet (book)
Title, headline, chapter name: Learning and Teaching on the Internet: Contributing to Educational Reform
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Pages 107, 108
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne