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the spreading popularity of MOOCs from various prestigious educational establishments might change the traditional educational systems, making the knowledge accessible. Thus making education a commodity rather then a luxury 

12-Year-Old Teaches Herself How To Dance By Watching YouTube Videos For Almost A Year.  and it's not only about dancing, cooking, drawing, any instruments playing, singing, any sport exercises techniques etc. etc.... there are also the whole workshop and online education courses industry in place... with VR development in future there will not be any necessity to relocate somewhere to take classes in various fields of education 

Many of things we've already discussed

IGSS every year incorporates agendas with research and education goals that combines science and technology with architecture and urban planning. Smart Cities, Smart Citizens, Self-Sufficiency, Self-Fabrication, Self-Organization, Self- Design and Self and Collective Intelligence are some of the key words on which the academic agenda of the program focus.

how VR may transform the Future of Education, imagine you don't need to  travel anywhere to be there. Additional applications of VR, e.g. Travel, Education, Entertainment etc 

Piggybackr is a crowdfunding platform that's specifically targeted to the needs of kids, with educational tools, game mechanics, and age-appropriate directions, and parental controls.

demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages

please watch the video conversation, but here are my brief takeaways: - There is a shift form institutional structures (corporations, centralized governments, educational establishments) to social structuring - Social Structuring - creating value by aggregating micro contributors by large networks using social tools and technology Key patterns in future of learning are 1. Content comments 2. New Foundations 3. Global Learning arbitrage 4. Embedded and embodied learning 5. Human-software symbiosis 6. Socialstructured work Major shifts in learning: - from episodic to continuous learning - from content conveyors to content curators - from working at one scale to working at up&down the scale - from degrees to reputation metrics - from grades to continuous feedback

The recommendations summarized in a final Summit communique primarily focus on the following: *Need to develop digital infrastructure. Young entrepreneurs are the most active group in terms of both starting up businesses and using the latest digital technology to help run the business and optimize business processes; *Importance of developing educational programs for entrepreneurs, advancing the entrepreneurial culture, and streamlining government funding for "green" technology studies; *Need to ease the tax burden in the fields of scientific-technical programs and social entrepreneurship, namely the taxes imposed on employers and employee income tax; *Access to funding for startups and emerging companies. Ensuring funding on easy terms, changing banking requirements, developing rules for new forms of funding, including cross border online platforms, investors' and entrepreneurs' networks.

Children learn about internet safety in school, as it is taught as part of the National Curriculum, and Safer Internet Day is widely promoted in February each year. In addition, the Government has pressed for progress through the UK Council for Child Internet Safety (UKCCIS). UKCCIS is a group of more than 200 organisations across the government, industry, law enforcement, academia and charity sectors, who work in partnership to help keep children safe online. The UKCCIS board is chaired by ministers. UKCCIS achievements include the creation of:

today's school kids who are not very bright at school discuss the changes they think should be made within existing educational system and how school marks to mean a thing 

Russian education has issues with adaptaion to the new jobs requiremts in the post soviet system of dead professional orientaion

Leading universities will offer fully accredited undergraduate courses online within five years, says the founder of a leading US online university network.

Due to technoligical advensments many job will become absoulete but workers will be able to learn new professions quickly.