SIG Educational Trend Spotting

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Initiated by the SSAB.
Planned to be an instrument for forecasting and trend research in education.
Focused but not limited on new media.
Search for new developments such as technical issues, content development, pedagogical, economic or social issues.
Common discourse aims at figuring out strategic impact and potential of developments in educational daily life.
Strive to intensify existing networks with partners and stakeholders.
A first national meeting of experts and stakeholders of educational organizations will take place in Winterthur, ZHAW on April 30th 2009.

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Other projects in 10 different forums on trends discussed at the conference (we are still looking for presenters and participants.):

Workshop “Zukunftswerkstatt” with focus on adapted strategies for educational organizations:

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More information on workshops will follow.

Current projects: scenario analysis - systematic consolidation and concomitant research (planned)

Follow-up of edu-trend spotting at Learntec Karlsruhe 2010: Follow-up edu-trend spotting

To contact the initiator of this SIG, Andreas König, go to www.znl.zhaw.ch or Center for Education and New Learning