The Year of Future Learning wiki

What are the questions we need to answer to understand the needs and demands of future learners? Particularly in relation to the use of technology and the implications that has for education. List them here and I'll try and organise them. Obviously there is overlap between questions and categories.

Pedagogy

What theories apply to learning in a social/participatory media space where content is free?

How can we assess new types of learning?

How do we avoid 'shallow' learning?

In a personalised, user-selection model how do we scaffold learning?

Is there anything fundamentally different about the way learning will take place compared with the traditional model?

Are some subject areas more suitable than others to these types of approaches?

What approach should we take to plagiarism and collusion when authorship in social/participatory media is complex and collaborative? 

How do we distinguish between 'hype' and real transformation given the historical tendency of innovators to overstate the potential impact of technology (e.g. claims made about the impact of video in the 1950s, Skinner's teaching machines in the 60s, CD-ROMs in the 90s, etc.)?

Educators

What is the essential function of the educator when resource discovery is mediated through search and peer appraisal?

What new skills (if any) do educators need to help support new learners?

What new research methods and skills do we need?

How do educational technologists help academics in other areas make the best use of new technologies?

How do we assure the quality of more informal, varied learning?

What incentives/rewards are needed to recruit educators?

Learners

What skills are useful for learners to have for employment?

How can learners find their way through a range of resources?

Is socially constructed knowledge more daunting and difficult than traditional lecturing modes?

How do online interactions feel different to small group face-to-face interactions?

How do learners prioritise engagement with technologies?

Technologies

What technologies are best for certain pedagogy?

Can we resolve the conflict between personalised selection of tools and centralised supported ones?

How do we overcome some learners resistance or preference not to use technology? Should we be trying to do this?

Research approach

Who is doing the research?

What is the role of the researcher?

Is the research approach fundamentally transformed by the nature of the subject under investigation and/or by the technology available?