What do the forces of globalization mean to your business, research, and life? Join the conversation!

NCTI has been tracking trends in technology development and educational innovation since 2001.  In this report, drafted with the input of our stakeholders and advisory, we have identified five cross-disciplinary trends that the learning and assistive technology field needs to watch:

1. The rise of an aging population worldwide along with the growth of medical advances that  point to a heavier reliance on and acceptance of AT for quality of life and productivity.
2. The arrival of an information economy in the Western industrial countries.
3. The rise of developing economies across the globe as being competitive centers of technological innovation and development.
4. The continued convergence of platforms, applications, and modes of computing and accessing information into ever more portable devices.
5. Assessment data point to U.S. students’ lack of competitiveness with global peers.

This issue paper explores these trends and why they matter to the learning and assistive technology field.

Add your thoughts and join NCTI to set an agenda that expands the reach of learning, assistive, and emerging technologies.

Discuss the findings with NCTI at one of the following conference presentations:

CSUN, March 20, 2009, 10:40-11:40 am: Marriott Hotel, New Orleans room, Session ID: OTH-1019

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