Abstract
This paper forecasts learning technologies that are predicted to impact the practice of engineering education according to the perceptions of engineering education researchers and practitioners. These forecasts were derived from three worldwide surveys carried out in 2013, 2014 and 2015. The responses were analyzed to know the technologies that will have an impact in the short, medium and long term. In turn, differences in forecasts according to area of specialization and geographical region were studied. Moreover, this paper applies social analysis (Google Trends) and bibliometric analysis (Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science) to these predictions in order to discover which technologies were successful and really impacted in engineering education, and which ones failed to have the predicted impact and why.
Highlights
Information and communication technologies have a powerful influence on all aspects of modern society, from commerce and business to health and entertainment
In this paper, we have analyzed the perceptions of engineering education researchers and practitioners on the educational technologies that are used in the day-to-day practice of engineering education
High stability has been observed in the forecasts, with very high correlations between the results of the three years, which helps to guarantee the reliability of the predictions and suggests that the large sample sizes of each survey help control the effect of participants fluctuation
Summary
Information and communication technologies have a powerful influence on all aspects of modern society, from commerce and business to health and entertainment. There are various references and bibliographic sources in which experts predict which technologies will be the most relevant in future education. The most internationally accepted studies in this field are the New Media Consortium Horizon Reports [1]. They predict the impact of emergent technologies on education across the world in three time frames (short, medium and long term). Martin [2], [3] conducted a study over the Horizon Report predictions to find out future meta-trends in learning-enhanced technologies. The Horizon Reports focus on general educational trends and do not focus on the needs of engineering educators in higher education
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