Education and 5 Changes You Will Suffer from Technology

This is how virtual reality and gamification, among other advances, will change education forever

Technology will change the way we teach in the coming decades.

Collaboration, flexibility and immersive experiences are the key to educational transformation.

Training in university subjects will be much more accessible in the future.

The educational transformation advances at a dizzying pace. In a very short time, technology has had a great impact on teaching, completely changing the outlook for the future.

Today, students would not understand an education without online platforms for notes and homework, collaborative software to do group work or the use of social networks as part of the training.

However, we can not help but wonder where the technology will take us in the coming years. These are five major changes that education will suffer in the coming years:

1 The classrooms will disappear as we know them
Go say goodbye to the desks and the blackboards: in the future the classes will not consist of spending hours sitting. On the other hand, the desks will adapt to the needs of the students. For example, when they have problems concentrating or if they need more space or a place for group work, the classroom can be adapted.

Likewise, interactive projectors will end up replacing the interactive whiteboards that already exist in many centers. As part of these changes, the walls will also create adaptable spaces.

2 The rise of gamification
Gamification - using game mechanics for teaching - is more fashionable than ever and it seems that it will not stop. This method of training will play an essential role in the educational transformation in the coming years.

It is particularly popular in companies focused on objectives, but it is increasingly seen in education. Although this technology is relatively new in the sector, new platforms are emerging that will make teaching a lot more interactive and fun.

3 Augmented reality
Increased reality is increasingly considered an innovative educational resource, capable of immersing students in subjects through 4D environments. The possibilities are endless: from conducting chemistry experiments without the dangers involved to talking to English natives without leaving the classroom.

The main advantage is that geographic and financial barriers will cease to exist. It will be much cheaper and easier to provide students with an enriched education. It will also involve adding sound, video and interaction to a flat world where the text reigned.

4 Collaboration and flexibility
Tools such as cloud storage or Google Docs are already a reality of the educational transformation. This technology already allows collaborations between students from anywhere in the world in real time and considerably reduces paper expenses.

In terms of flexibility, in the future it will be possible to adapt the tasks to the different learning styles. In this way students' competences can be assessed in a more appropriate way to their profiles. Each student has needs, strengths and weaknesses that can not be evaluated in a homogeneous way.

5 The impact of online training
Today, a thirteen-year-old student with only one email account can complete free studies in a wide variety of academic disciplines. And free. There are thousands of courses taught by professors from the most prestigious universities in the world. Therefore, there will be no need to spend four years going to classes to obtain a training that can sometimes be repetitive or not fully adapted to the student's objectives.

Think about how far the educational transformation will come: in four years of a university career, a student of the future can graduate in multiple disciplines through online training for free.

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