With multi-media, there is no need for any human mediator or gatekeeper at all. Education can finally be random access according to each learner’s whim … the transformation of education is not far away. No more introductory courses! No more sequences of courses! No more standardized tests of sequentially-acquired data! No more standardized evaluations! Rather, everyone moves at her own pace down pathways of her own choosing, through never-ending sequences of ever-opening doors … forever. How do you graduate – how can you be certified – who evaluates whom – when there is so much more to explore? This is truly “continuing education” for eternity.
Predictor: Dator, Jim
Prediction, in context:In a speech for the Seminar for Presidents of Community and Junior Colleges from Japan and the U.S. (presented at the East-West Center, June 8, 1993) titled “The College Classroom of the Year 2010,” futurist Jim Dator says: ”With multi-media, there is no need for any human mediator or gatekeeper at all. Education can finally be random access according to each learner’s whim … the transformation of education is not far away. No more introductory courses! No more sequences of courses! No more standardized tests of sequentially-acquired data! No more standardized evaluations! Rather, everyone moves at her own pace down pathways of her own choosing, through never-ending sequences of ever-opening doors … forever. How do you graduate – how can you be certified – who evaluates whom – when there is so much more to explore? This is truly ‘continuing education’ for eternity.”
Biography:Jim Dator was a futurist who is credited with founding the first Future Studies program in 1971. He has been director of the Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies at the University of Hawaii. (Futurist/Consultant.)
Date of prediction: June 8, 1993
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Seminar for Presidents of Community and Junior Colleges from Japan and the U.S. at the East-West Center, June 8, 1993
Title, headline, chapter name: The College Classroom of the Year 2010
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/dator/education/class2010.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney