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- Visions may be futuristic or strategic.
- Futuristic visions forecast and predict, while strategic visions create and build.
- Science - the Endless Frontier (1945/1990) exemplifies a classic vision document about learning and technology.
- At this point in history, three phenomena--reports of failed reforms, evidence that too many students are failing academically, and recent syntheses of successful research practices-stimulate a new look at visions of learning and technology.
- The USDE Office of Technology originated first national educational technology plan, Getting America's Students Ready for the 21st Century: Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge (1993), with 4 goals and 8 programs, while their updated vision document, E-Learning: Putting a world-class education at the fingertips of all children (2000) proposed 5 goals (Vision #1).
- The USDE Georgetown Forum emphasized ending the digital divide, increasing technology literacy, supporting systems change in schools to enhance learning, and aligning technology-based initiatives (Vision #2).
- The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) proposed strategic recommendations including a focus on learning with technology, not about technology, realistic budgeting, universal access, and beginning a major program of basic experimental research (Vision #3).
- The Congressional Web-based Education Commission proposed many specific policy changes to Congress and recommended that "e-learning" be the center of our national educational agenda (Vision #4).
- The National Academy of Education recommended research priorities to the OERI National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board (Vision #5).
- The National Academy of Education criticized the RDDE model of research dissemination and praised the Stokes (1997) collaborative "use-inspired basic research" model from Pasteur's Quadrant (Vision #5).
- The National Research Council proposed a scientific approach to the study of human learning in the form of a fifteen-year Strategic Education Research Program (SERP) based on the Stokes (1997) collaborative "use-inspired basic research" model from Pasteur's Quadrant (Vision #6).
- The National Research Council's visionary SERP document recommended that four separate networks simultaneously address learning and instruction, student motivation, schools transformation, and research utilization (Vision #6).
- The Western Heights VISION Projects represent a business innovations model that leads to action and adoption in a public school setting (Vision #7).
- The research and development model in Western Heights represents a new "leader of leaders" form of collaboration among government, industry, and academia (Vision #7).
- All seven examples of visions sought to improve learning with emerging technologies, realistic increases in funding, and improved scientific research.
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