With almost $400 billion being spent on education at all levels, private industry sees the delivery of learning as the largest untapped, or under-utilized marketplace in America.
Predictor: Lyell, Ed
Prediction, in context:In a speech he delivered at the summer training program for New York State Deans of Education at Bank Street College in 1994, Ed Lyell outlines a new educational plan in which the use of the Internet is key. He says:”Major corporations, especially newly merged tele-communications/multi-media giants like Time/Warner, TCI, Disney, US West and Bell Atlantic, see [education as] a major new marketplace for the next century. With almost $400 billion being spent on education at all levels, private industry sees the delivery of learning as the largest untapped, or under-utilized marketplace in America. With fiberoptic-level broadband connectivity provided to every home, business, and school building in America, they are … buying textbook companies, curriculum producers, computer software-development companies and other components of the new age of multi-media learning. They see no need to buy teachers – because 99 percent of existing and newly graduating teachers are illiterate in these new technologies, and many seem ideologically opposed to using technology for learning.”
Biography:Ed Lyell was an educator and education administrator who foresaw uses for the Internet in schools and became a popular public speaker on the topic. (Futurist/Consultant.)
Date of prediction: June 11, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Technology in Context
Title, headline, chapter name: Creating the Just-in-Time Learning System: Merging High Tech with High Touch
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://faculty.adams.edu/~ehlyell/Articles/BANKSTre.ART.htm
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: McAlister, Rory