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Romans 11:33-36 (NIV)

Doxology

33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable His judgments,
and His paths beyond tracing out!
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been His counselor?”
35 “Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
36 For from Him and through Him and for Him are all things.
To Him be the glory forever! Amen.

Daniel S. Christian

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Key areas to watch

• The forthcoming Walmart of Education
  
  
• Developing learning ecosystems
  
  
• Rising student expectations & power
  
  
• Keeping students engaged & motivated
  
  
• The move towards using more teams of specialists to create educational content
  
  
• Learning Agents, 1:1 computing, PLE's, EPT's
  
  
• Building your global network
  
  
• Mobile learning
  
  
• Global learning
  
  
• Lifelong learning
  
  
• Participatory learning; students more in control of their learning
  
  
• Digital storytelling
  
  
• Cloud computing / software as a service
  
  
• The extent to which Google's applications and offerings will make their way into the classroom
  
  
• The all-encompassing communications & computing device; convergence
  
  
• Open/collaborative teaching & learning
  
  
• The move towards developing consortiums & pooling resources
  
  
• Nanotechnology
  
  
• Cross-disciplinary assignments & learning
  
  
• Multimedia -- providing students with the same content but in 4-5 different ways; let them select what works for them
  
  
• Educational gaming
  
  
• Social networking/ learning/Web 2.0-related items; including the growth of blogs, wikis, Twitter, other
  
  
• Multi-touch interfaces especially within Smart Classrooms
  
  
• Virtual worlds / 3D
  
  
• The semantic, real-time web
  
  
• The developing WebOS
  
  
• Legislation requiring students take at least one 100%-online class to graduate (first from high school, then from college)
  
  
• The move towards Voice-Over-IP (VOIP)-based applications & services, often bundled in with technologies such as instant messaging, presence, desktop sharing, whiteboarding, and audio/video conferencing
  
  
• Whether Learning / Course Management Systems continue to be integral or not
  
  
• Whether Moodle and other open-source systems will continue to gain market share
  
  
• Whether accreditation will be relevant in the future and/or if the accreditation bodies have to change significantly
  
  

Christian-based items

• Biblegateway.com
• GospelCom.net
• Leadership Network
• Minds in the Making
• 100 Most Bookmark-Worthy Websites for Christians

Training resources

• Lynda.com
• Adobe's Video Workshop
• Atomic Learning