The report has been written by a small group of academics in the Institute of Educational Technology and the Faculty of Mathematics, Computing and Technology at The Open University.
The authors are:
Mike Sharples, Patrick McAndrew, Martin Weller, Rebecca Ferguson, Elizabeth FitzGerald, Tony Hirst, Yishay Mor, Mark Gaved, Denise Whitelock
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I enjoyed this report and it deserves to be widely read by people inside and outside the world of technology enhanced learning – particularly the latter. William Gibson said “the future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed”. He was right. And for that reason I think it is not that helpful to set timescales for different innovations having an effect. This is partly because it gives users of the report a justification for saying “this is not going to happen for 3 years, so we should not be trying it now”, and partly because in respect of several of the new forms described, for example MOOCs (impact – Medium / timescale – Medium 2 to 5 years), things are already happening, right now, on a big scale, with a high impact, and not just on learners. But I can see how tempting it is to structure a report in the way you have done!