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  • ICT and online technologies have great potential

  • to support your lifelong learning plans.

  • As of 2018,

  • almost all urban areas of Asia-Pacific have access to the internet.

  • There are as many mobile connections as people in the region,

  • and we use our devices almost everywhere, for everything

  • Did you know thatin the Philippines and Thailand

  • an average user spends more than 9 hours a day on devices

  • and nearly 5 hours of that on their phone.

  • How about you?

  • What do you think the potential could be for us

  • to use technology to support people with learning?

  • In this unit, we'll look at:

  • What opportunities does ICT offer us as a tool to support learning?

  • and how can the government make use of it to support learning for everyone

  • along the way we'll also look at some examples of

  • how some providers are already using it to support learning and wider community

  • There are many innovations in ICT for learning.

  • We can see 3 key trends for the last 10 years.

  • Online learning, for people to learn whatever, whenever and wherever they want

  • Connecting people across places in collaboration and to people with shared interests

  • and personalizing content to enhance the usefulness and appropriateness of material

  • The first is online learning

  • When Massive Online Open Courses first began,

  • they were designed to open up a select number of higher education courses to the public

  • Today you can almost learn anything online

  • and more than one hundred millions of people around the world

  • are already learning at global and local online platforms

  • Some platforms are supported by the government

  • such as K-MOOC, J-MOOC and Thai MOOC

  • Some platforms like Udemy allow anyone to create and post online courses

  • MOOC has been evolved for the last 5 years.

  • In the past, the completion rate has been low.

  • Now the contents became shorter, more skill based, entertaining and are gamified to motivate

  • learners to complete the courses.

  • Online contents are more blended into the normal classes.

  • Social media platforms like YouTube and Facebook also allow anyone to create and post their

  • learning contents.

  • Everyone can be a teacher!

  • Secondly, technology offers us the unique possibility to connect with people across

  • space in ways we never imagined.

  • connecting people online with similar interests and passion.

  • They can learn or start new projects together.

  • Today online learning environments are evolving to be more collaborative.

  • We would like to introduce 4 types of learning through connecting with people or collaboration.

  • We can get connected at the specific online platforms such as music or hobby groups to

  • share knowledge, contents or ask questions.

  • Data tells that – 42% of Asia-Pacific are active social media users.

  • Through social media, we can create networks on any topics and explore new opportunities

  • to learn.

  • We can easily find information from crowd knowledge through hashtags provided by internet

  • users.

  • Online social gathering allows people with similar interests and passion to connect online

  • and be able to meet in persons.

  • For example, Meetup is a digital platform to organize online groups with

  • something in common.

  • They can meet, discuss and start projects together in real life.

  • With big data and artificial intelligence, learning can be personalized or customized

  • easily.

  • In school education, adaptive learning has been popular.

  • It allows learners to study based on their capacity and progresses.

  • The system can personalize the contents, learning pace and levels in order to leverage their

  • strengths and minimize their weaknesses.

  • Adaptive learning has been used by Khan Academy and Lexia.

  • Apart from school education, Google, Amazon, YouTube and Facebook also personalize the

  • contents for you.

  • They recommend website, books and video contents based on your digital history and trends.

  • Another example is Lynda.com.

  • It offers courses that are related with your LinkedIn data to give you personalized learning.

  • You might also receive notifications from MOOC platforms that suggest the contents based

  • on your past learning.

  • There are also other innovations that could support learning.

  • We live in a world where conversational bots can be trained by users with little to no

  • coding knowledge, responding to learners' questions in real-time.

  • They can work as AI Tutors.

  • For example, A world where VR/AR enables learners to learn in simulated environments such as

  • medical operation, disaster preparedness, driving lessons or visit special places and

  • learn about history.

ICT and online technologies have great potential

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