Academics have proposed launching a long-term research project to discover how we will learn in the future.
The proposal was made at Grand Challenges 2006, a conference held to consider how computing will evolve over the next 15 years.
The learning for life challenge researchers want to find out how learning environments and opportunities will manifest in the future, how people will engage with learning events, and what learning for life will be like.
They explain: “With the emergence of mobile and ubiquitous computing, the semantic web and the development of an e-Research infrastructure, new possibilities are opening up for e-learning and learning for life that take us beyond what has been conceived in this area before.
“These new possibilities need to be understood in the context of our developing understanding of the co-evolutionary nature of learning and computing systems, so we ensure that the full potential of learning for life is realised.”
