Making this future a possibility will need the whole education sector to come together with innovative thinking.

Firstly, there needs to be investment in global digital literacy, that way new learners will always be able to engage with this new world in a safe way. Next, all students and learning establishments will require a high-quality internet connection. This will need to be backed up by the arrival of limitless connectivity to help create a platform for new concepts like XR, the Internet of Senses, and cloud-based AI. The emergence of these immersive experiences will need a network compute fabric which will take processing to the edge. For teachers and learners to collaborate in real time within these experiences will require ultra-low latency.

For online education to be effective and widespread, safety is paramount. Therefore, networks will only work if they’re reliable, secure and trustworthy which means keeping any learner’s privacy and data secure.