Ufi recently commissioned a future-gazing report entitled - Skills Evolution: A vision of the future of workplace skills - which brought together world-renowned futurologists and scientists to predict the impact of emerging technologies on the way people learn, and the effect this will have on society and the workplace by 2020.
The key findings of the report were:
- Professor Wendy Hall begins her essay with the proposition that we think learning technology is complicated and assures us it’s not.
- Professor Nigel Shadbolt allays the fears which often arise when futurologists speak, telling us schools, universities and work will continue to be part of our lives.
- Ian Pearson sees the playground and the night club as places where the most useful skills are now being learned, with the computer generated world a testing ground for the real world.
A PDF copy of the report and timeline can be downloaded here: Skills Evolution Report Skills Evolution timeline.
The Skills Evolution report was launched with a keynote address by Professor Lord Robert Winston, one of the authors, at the British Museum in London. Other author speaking at the event included Dick Moore, Director of Technology at Ufi.
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