ABSTRACT
Education is one of the crucial and potentially the most important factor that drive wellbeing and development of societies;it's a strong tool for fighting poverty, gender inequality, unemployment and improving standard of living. It's considered a basic human right, therefor, the fourth sustainable development goal in the united nations blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all, calls for access to quality education and lifelong learning opportunities by 2030. However, given the rapid expansion of information and communications technologies (ICTs) applications and the internet, the traditional education view will soon be outdated and replaced by a new world order. The recent COVID pandemic exposed major limitations in the traditional education view and it's rigid dependence on physical presence and facilities, nevertheless, it also shed the light on the potentials of utilizing information and communication technologies and Internet of things (IoT) concepts to revamp the educational sector. The main purpose of this paper is to conduct a technology foresight for education services in next 9 years until the year 2030 and to provide recommendations for investments in specific emerging technologies. In this study environmental scanning, focus groups, brainstorming and scenarios techniques are used as the primary foresight's methods. Four Scenarios for the future of education in 2030 were proposed: Schooling Extended scenario, Education outsourced scenario, Schools as learning hubs Scenario and learn as you go scenario. Copyright © 2021 by Naudé Scribante. Permission granted to IAMOT to publish and use.