Technological advancement which can handle multifaceted data sources, and research designs. For example, analyzing a variety of qualitative data quantitatively. These technological advances can be used to advance the learning sciences.
Methodological diversity, new methods are constantly being developed to analyzing and collect data.
Note: Here the text could say something like: During the next decade, methodological eclecticism will take mature forms so that multi-disciplinary research will become more widespread, at the same time that new research techniques and tools will evolve and develop.
Multi-disciplinary research supported by on-line collaborative technologies: shared repositories of rich data sets (qual + quant), multi-site real-time numerical data exploration... (other ideas? examples?)
Practical advances:
Policy making or tackling current serious societal or global issues with research based approaches. For example, scientist are consistently finding empirical support that global warming is occurring, yet there are still many deniers, is this a conceptual change issue?
Practical advances: