Throughout history, education has been formed around the concept of “place.” Build fancy buildings, attract world-renowned scholars, and you have a college or university. This model works well in a culture based on teaching. Over the coming years, with our hyper-connected world, we will be shifting to a learning model. While “place” will still matter, it will matter differently.
Teaching requires experts; learning only requires coaches. The two primary variables of time and money will drive the new education marketplace, and the four primary trend lines will involve:
1. Shortening the distance between students and experts.
2. Rewriting the social context of learning. (People will matter.)
3. The emerging courseware industry.
4. Experimental emersion camps.
The steady shifting of technologies, attitudes, and lifestyles demand that a symbiotic relationship be formed between a place of learning and its students. And this relationship will never be static.
Participants will leave the session with an understanding of:
Thomas Frey is executive director and senior futurist, DaVinci Institute and author of Communicating with the Future, Louisville, Colorado, USA