Future of Instructional Technology

Nanotechnology Metadata

Chapter 31 discusses the future of instructional technologies in the near future from
metadata to nanotechnology. Describe how nanotechnology could be used to improve a specific job or task you are familiar with.

Instructional Technology is the problem analysis, solution design, development, implementation, management, and evaluation of instructional processes and resources to improve learning and performance in education and at work. The distinction between the technological processes and the actual physical media is important.

The future of instructional technology in regards to metadata is ever changing in that one has to understand how the information will be used. Metadata is data about data; that is it describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted. Metadata is essential for understanding information stored in data warehouses and has become increasingly important in XML-based Web applications. The internet is a large online environment therefore, in order to find anything on the internet it has to be stored in a particular manner to found later on (metadata).

Advance technology such as nanotechnology constantly provides innovation after innovation in super-compressed time frames. Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. The future of instructional technology and nanotechnology will impact the use of systems, devices, and structures that have special functions or properties due to their small size. Our textbook states that "wearable technology" will be more commonplace than the implants Kevin Warwick used in 1998.