![]() I look at each of the points I addressed in 1998, and with the benefit of ten year’s experience, recast and rewrite each prediction. In this essay I offer a renewal of those predictions. ![]() This gives me confidence in my understanding of those forces and trends that are moving education today. ![]() I have found, on rereading and reworking the essay, that though there may have been some movement in the margins, the overall thrust of the paper was essentially correct. In the ten years that have followed, this vision of the future has proven to be remarkably robust. “We want a plan,” said my managers, and so I outlined the future as I thought it would – and should – unfold. (Downes, 1998) At the time, I was working as a distance education and new media design specialist at Assiniboine Community College, and I wrote the essay to defend the work I was doing at the time. In the summer of 1998, over two frantic weeks in July, I wrote an essay titled The Future of Online Learning. An MS-Word version of this essay is available at
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