E-Learning trends
Posted January 26, 2006 
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Comments(0) eLearn Magazine polled a group of e-learning experts on what they see as leading trends for 2006. Predictions for 2006
Here are some highlights:
- Increased use of Audio and Video Podcasting as learning tools
- “wikibooks, blogs, Webcasts, and podcasts, 2006 will spur an explosion of media-rich and creative instructional approaches”
- “increased emphasis on free and open content, at the expense of commercial content”
- “a grassroots movement for teaching with small tools outside of learning management systems”
- Further usage of audio, video and streaming multimedia to provide blended learning experiences
- “Audio and video will become more expected in e-learning”
- Collaborative learning via social networking concepts will be prevalent - “less command and control learning”; “it will be less about connecting people with content…and more about connecting people with people.”
- Continued feelings of angst and uncertainty over the Blackboard/WebCT merger
- Migration away from commercial LMSs to open source alternatives such as Moodle, Sakai and others
- Growth of mobile learning and accessibility of content on a variety of devices
Some good stuff here, and provides market validation for a low-cost, yet effective content authoring tool that can generate audio and video learning materials.
