Demystify technology & increase usability (for both learners and teachers) – take away the feeling of trepidation for some; technology is supposed to make our lives easier! Use more of the great free tools to improve the learning experience when creating eLearning content [examples - Screenr and Jing for creating simple screencasts/video demonstrations of software]; let everything happen faster too!

Improved Online Learning Strategies – a system that allows better interaction between students; increase opportunities for students’ willingness to engage.

Reliability - technology to be more robust/reliable; key is tutor technical support.

Digital Literacy Skills - what constitutes digital literacy skills are still not well defined nor universally taught; adult learners would be enabled to become more engaged with the technology being used; teaching adaptability to new tools.

Hardware - Give everyone headphones, Smartphones! The former to cut down on noise levels, the latter to encourage greater access to eLearning materials; give all students a tablet/ipad/Kindle on registration or supply text books on a USB (Kindle would also allow instructors to create & deliver lectures notes in Kindle reader format); USB ports on iPhones & iPads.

Cross platform & cross browser consistency/compatibility/accessibility/connectivity improving user friendly interfaces e.g. Blackboard 9 is fully integrated with mobile devices so that tutors could update/moderate on the go and students could do the same; seamless technology among campuses and systems; online courses to be comparable with all smart phones and screen resolutions; not all technologies are accessible to all students e.g. those with visual/hearing impairments; all the 'good' technologies could talk to each other and allow seamless integration between each other e.g. Twitter feed from a Clickers quiz to allow larger crowd sourcing; Apple Technology to be compatible with Flash; Articulate content to be viewed on an iPhone;
Universal cable from laptops to plasma tv screens for viewing & adapting teaching resources in different platforms.

Excellent (and cheap) broadband infrastructure for quick and easy downloads - it’s not rocket science and we were promised it years ago! Instantaneous downloads and uploads at the click of a button; Broadband suppliers living up to promises on download speeds!

Digital Identity - the idea of a single sign on to everything is very appealing, not having to remember multiple usernames and passwords; e.g. Meebo - apparently gives seamless login to several IM tools.

Increased training in ICTs for primary and second level schools; children encouraged and given extensive opportunity to blog, participate in discussions, create project sites, schools collaborate on projects etc. Also to include ICT as a leaving cert subject and a compulsory module in every programme, the latter particularly in the Further Education sector; lack of interactive whiteboards, broadband and up-to-date PCs in Irish schools.

Time/Training - increase time in class showing students all the exciting online tools they can engage with e.g. to learn languages; time to develop online learning material; requirement to complete a certain number of CPD hours as a must for all tutors; more time to investigate and produce more teaching and learning specific resources e.g. NDLR, Merlot etc.

Learning analytics/catalytics to better access the performance of the online course/ audience response system www.learningcatalytics.com/

A wish shared by Clare, Jim, Barry, Hugh

A wish shared by Barry, Edel

A wish shared by Odette, Enda

A wish shared by Edel, Angela

A wish shared by Enda, Clare, Jim, Steve, Debbie,  John

A wish shared by Jim, Clare, Odette, Edel, Nuala, Angela, Enda, Barry, Steve, John, Hugh, Mark

A wish shared by John, Clare, Jim, Debbie, Edel, Hugh, Mark

A wish shared by Debbie, Nuala, Hugh

A wish shared by Nuala, Debbie, Enda, Mark

A wish shared by Odette, Enda, Barry

A wish shared by Steve, Edel

Then there are some wishes that either are pushing the boundaries or are context-specific to individual’s workplace:

More relaxed and flexible IT security protocols at work for accessing and downloading from shareware sites; self contained resources so that when published they contain everything that they need to run on the device that they are accessed from; more effective Pop up blockers, that don’t stop content you need to use.

A wish shared by Angela and Mark

Greater availability/understanding of VLEs.

A wish shared by Debbie

Let’s have a webcam in every computer for retinal scanning - you’ll automatically get an account and automatically log in ever after.

A wish shared by Hugh

More online tools to be kinesthetic type of tutorials e.g. Prezi.

A wish shared by Odette

Technology Overuse - magic away peoples’ desire to implement technology into everything once they have been bitten by the technology in teaching bug!

Peer Review Resources - a more practical 'grading' scheme from peers to indicate which resources are 'good'. Twitter - great source of info on 'tried and tested' software and technologies.

Wishes shared by Barry

Better voice recognition capability - to be seamless for all computer processing.

A wish shared by Jim

More reliable/faster versions of mobile apps.

A wish shared by Nuala

One single type of programming code that is user friendly and easy for a ‘layman’ to write; Super anti cyber crime software that can't be hacked and fully protects online data.

Wishes shared by John

Text capture systems for pen & paper work; purpose - get the most from digitally provided content and quickly and easily make notes.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXbBA1DRE84

Stylus for iPad http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DtVfQx5k4fk

Livescribe http://www.livescribe.com/en-gb/smartpen

A way to simulcast a lecture as a webinar - to enable the content slide part of the live classroom to be broadcast to a projector while expanding the window for the remote students.

Wishes shared by Steve