Summary:
1) Go East! - the world’s economic center has shifted to northern Russia. By 2025, it may return to central Asia – just north of where it was a thousand years ago.
2) Urbanize - By mid-century, 80% of the world’s population will be urban, mostly in the developing world.
3) Good to the Last Drop - Oil production has already peaked in 54 out of the 65 largest oil-producing countries, including the United States. The world is not running out of oil, just cheap oil.
4) Digitize Me - Economics is becoming less about ownership and more about access.
5) Smarter, Faster, Stronger - Humanity, as a whole, is more connected, educated, and healthier than ever – and this will lead to sustained innovation.
6) Stuck in Neutral - Political gridlock has kept the difficult questions from being asked. A lack of clarity regarding future government policies has created an environment of economic uncertainty and doubt. The looming risk of collapse in some industrialized nations may open the doors for radical elements.
7) Gray Boom - The industrialized northern countries will continue to grow slowly with mature, aging populations. We expect a rise in second careers and a shift toward part-time employment and small business. The “career ladder” has been replaced by a “patchwork quilt” of work opportunities.
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Jim Lerman
What is perhaps most interesting about this, is that Moody's - yes, they - are interested in MOOCs at all. This shows that xMOOCs (unlike cMOOCs) are an innovation in the costing of Higher Ed., not their pedagogy. So, we do not get better education with them, but a more affordable education, if indeed we do. University World News agrees: "But the important development associated with MOOCs is that they are able to offer exponentially larger enrolments. And, with these, the potential profits are much larger." I suggest we acknowledge that xMOOCs make for lousy pedagogy and only value them for what they are, a means to make higher education cheaper. Then we can at least start talking about the question of whether we are ok with that. (@pbsloep, thanks to @guzdial)
...die internationalen Finanzmärte ingeressieren sich für #mooc s :-) bug oder feature :-)