Technology

Q. 1
Most of education materials will be online in the next decade. Students will be acquiring all their lectures from the internet (Zodhiates  Nickerson, 1988). The use of direct teacher-student interaction will no longer be used since people are opting to use technology to simplify the education system. Online classes will increase to cater for the increasing need for flexibility in education system (Shields, 1995). Most people will adopt the system of work and study. This will facilitate the need for flexibility in the mode of teaching. There is an increase in the need for online degrees world-wide and this is encouraging the extension of technology to accommodate the increasing enrollment. A decade to come will see a great transformation in the education systems. The use of internet to offer academic content as well as assessment will be the dominant thing in the higher education curriculum (Davis  Somekh, 1997).

Q. 2.
International Society for Technology in Education (2000) has suggested that technology has affected the value and quality of higher education. New technologies have introduced distance learning, the online learning as well as other indirect means of delivering education to learners. The system of education has adopted a new method of delivering content to students. The content is prepared by a team of experts, it is delivered to the students by another team and assessment is done by another separate team (Houweling, Atkins  Duderstadt, 2002). The most controversial issue is about the value of the education to the students since there is no direct contact between the students and the instructors. Hence, the system cannot determine the quality of the education delivered to the students. Though technology has created some advantages, there is increasing decline in value and quality of education due to technological systems of delivering content to students (Perez  ONeil, 2003).