Very insightful post! One point that I want to explore is what are the “basics” look like in the future? Or rather, what’s the “basics” for future learning that’s not catered by current environments?

Using Jobs-to-be-Done framework, we can roughly divide current jobs to content (knowledge), social, accreditation, research (for HigherEd) categories (quote David Wiley). One thing that’s becoming apparent is content will be abundant in the future, as is now. Moreover, general learning materials will be superior than whatever an average instructor could come up with, due to the increasing production cost of creating these materials — thus your subject-specific environment prediction. But the learners might still need a navigator (an instructor or an AI) to make these content personalized and relevant to them because of the sheer amount of mental energy required to curate the info. How could future environment make this job easier for learners and instructors?

The other thing I see that’s often overlooked by current environments is the lack of focus on social/collaboration aspects of learning. The main affordances are usually an outdated forum. How could that be enhanced?

Zooming back, while very interesting questions were asked, the discourse surrounding the #codesign16 hashtag tend to linger on metaphysics or critiques on the current — maybe due to the limitation of short exchanges on social media. It would be interesting to find ways past that. How about everyone draw what their #ngdle will look like as a design exercise? A show and tell of sorts?