Classrooms of the future
More emphasis will be placed on the role of technology in teaching, a Cisco survey reveals
Dubai: A majority of educators in the Middle East and Africa believe that technology will play a large role in improving how students learn in the future.
These findings come as a result of a Global Education Survey conducted on behalf of Cisco. Almost 90 per cent of educators believe that technology will take on an enhanced role in future classrooms.
The survey was conducted through 500 telephone interviews in 14 countries, including the UAE, across five continents.
Across the world, senior education officials in emerging markets see preparation for a global economy, student attendance, and employability as the top teaching issues they face today.
The classrooms of the future are likely to see an increased emphasis on video and media-rich technologies such as holographic projections to create collaboration in support of a borderless networking concept, said Frank Florence, global public sector senior director of education at Cisco. However, he believes the entire concept of the word classroom will change.
"The best way to start off is to first define the word classroom, where will the classroom of the future be and how will students learn," he said. "It may be the concept of classroom changes into more of a subject matter area or into a community-based way of learning."
