The KnowledgeWorks Foundation has set created “a tool, [2020 Forecast: Creating the Future of Learning] for thinking about, preparing for, and shaping the future. It outlines key forces of change that will shape the landscape of learning over the next decade.”  With the theme of KMWorld 2009, Resetting the Enterprise: Focusing on People, Talent & Knowledge,  and many sessions around Enterprise 2.o, you make want to check out one of the “drivers of change” sections — Amplified Organization/s: Extended human capacity remakes the organization.  There is also a section on Open Leadership & Socialability: A Trend of the Amplified Organization which includes a video of Chuck House, executive Director, Media X, Stanford University’s membership research program on media and technology, who talks about the new skills needed for the 21st century jobs.

The 2020 Forecast webiste contains four types of info:

* drivers of change — major forces of transformation that will shape our efforts to remake learning

*trends — distinct directions of change that point to new concepts or new patterns of behavior that will shape the future of learning

* signals — examples, or early indicators, of the changes described by the trends and the drivers of change. By providing analogies, data, and explicit stories, signals help make the future seem more concrete.

*learning agents — new roles and functions that might emerge in the future ecosystem of learning