Technology has steadily moved into education facilities of all kinds with robots, computers, electronic whiteboards, video, audio and learning management systems used to support and extend traditional teaching activity.

VR, AR, AI and robots increasingly have a place in the classroom, often as support tools in the teaching of STEM subjects.

Blockchain can be used to validate and authenticate qualifications and certifications within countries and between different education systems.

 AI managed, online learning systems will be customised to match the lifelong learning needs of individuals in navigating the new disrupted world of work and jobs.

Google makes information search simple, and smart phones and social media make access to content and answers ubiquitous. So plagiarism is a current threat to educational qualifications, with impacts on authenticity, validation and certification.

One of the biggest challenges for education is curriculum relevance in response to the speed of change in the world of work and jobs. Curriculum change takes a long time, but the speed of workplace change, with its new skills and attitudinal demands is fast.

And as qualifications and certifications can now be gained from institutions across the world, this creates a new level of competition for relevance in universities and high schools, especially when fees for private school, university and RTO education stimulates a new interest in measuring the value of return on investment.