Educational Implications

We have seen that the physical environment has been augmented in ways that enable greater connectivity and more ways to use mobile technologies in novel and creative ways. And the trend is set to continue, with educational spaces being impacted more and more.

Education can certainly take advantage of the opportunities offered by experience design, but they do raise some implications for the future work of educators:

• Instructional design: To fully take advantage of the possibilities, educators will need to design learning experiences with these technologies in mind. This will require new knowledge of what's possible, as well as creativity and novel approaches to the way learning materials and assessments are designed and delivered.

• Privacy and security of data: Educational spaces will need to create and maintain very secure networks of interconnected IoT devices, and to be stringent about the way they handle learners' data.

• Collaborative learning: Enhancing the educational environment to allow for mobile connectivity will provide more opportunities for collaborative learning, which may represent a shift in approach.

• More engaging place-based learning: Field trips will become more engaging as the spaces visited adopt mobile enhancement technologies. Learning in the class or at home (or in virtual spaces) will be more directly linkable to learning in the field.

• Personalized learning: as individual learners are tracked in their physical environments, this will open up the possibilities for personalized learning experiences to be delivered to them. Perhaps assisted by AI, educators will need to create and assess these experiences.

• Learning anywhere: As the phygital environment expands, educators and educational administrators will increasingly need to be cognizant of the fact that learning happens everywhere, all the time. Collecting useful data to track learner progress will be a challenge, as learning will be distributed across multiple, often incompatible platforms and spaces.