Immersive Education in the next 10 years

Immersive Education is a great way to involve students to learn online from where they are and this has been around not for a long time but it has been very effective. The website (http://immersiveeducation.org/) has been very popular and I think that it will be the most important thing in the next 10 year for long distance education. There are also programs for immersive education like Second life. In these 3D virtual worlds people can talk to each other and chat with each other so they become friends and communicate from where they are. Since the technology has been restless in the last 25 years and getting stronger and stronger in about 10 years it will be unstoppable.

Since technology is growing every single second in I think about 5 years from now everything will be done online. The students will not have to go to school and people will not have to go to work. They will be able to do all their stuff from home online. If presence is needed they will have their avatars in the virtual world and it all going to be like a pc game. People will be talking online and browsing stuff online. Like we did in this class students will be using more advanced programs than audio whiteboard and will be able to share documents, see each other, do vocal chats and be able to communicate perfectly.

Even if this is a great thing to have it has it’s negative aspects. From day to day people are having less and less real friend. And even in this class I got to know some people but just from the chat in Audio White Board. When I was going to tutoring I didn’t know who that person is. In the next 10 years after having everything developed this will be a bigger issue in our lives.

I also believe that in 10 years it technology will be so powerful that we won’t have any choice of not using it cause then the people who don’t use it will have the lack of information and lack of everything. The classrooms will be in our computers, and this will be beneficial for some students and there will be less rushing to go to school. I also think that, after seeing the video on http://immersiveeducation.org/ people will also start working from home and they won’t even have to go to work. If presence needed they will be going online and using a program such as Second life and working over that. I think that with technology nothing is impossible…