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How will education look like in the future?

Ali Simsek 1 *
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1 Faculty of Educational Sciences, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, TURKEY* Corresponding Author
Contemporary Educational Technology, 16(3), July 2024, ep518, https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/14794
Published: 10 July 2024
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ABSTRACT

There are many factors affecting educational practices. Changes in these factors create serious transformations in education. Some of the transformations are visible that imply a predictable future, while others have blurred influences which make the future forecasts difficult. Educational technologies often come and go but they all leave their marks on education when they are prevalent. In order to get prepared for the future, educators need to know which technologies will be dominant in the future practices of education. This article attempts to highlight the technologies that will be used commonly in the future education. It appears that virtual classroom, artificial intelligence, learning analytics, mobile applications, smart devices, extended reality, open educational resources, gamification, cloud computing, network society, post-truth, digital learning objects, online collaboration will be popular elements of educational practices in the future. On the other hand, social media, metaverse, and wearable technologies will lose their popularity in education to some degree. It is also likely that some of the current technologies will be modified while new ones will emerge to accommodate educational needs of the future.
Keywords: future education, future educational technologies, emerging learning environments, education in the future

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Simsek, A. (2024). How will education look like in the future?. Contemporary Educational Technology, 16(3), ep518. https://doi.org/10.30935/cedtech/14794

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