July 27-29, 2012 • Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Preconference Courses: July 26-27, 2012 • Professional Members’ Forum: July 30, 2012
When Ivory Towers Fall: The Emerging Education Marketplace
Thomas Frey is executive director and senior futurist, DaVinci Institute and author of Communicating with the Future, Louisville, Colorado, USA
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.
Highlights
Participants will leave the session with an understanding of:
- The shifting ground on which higher education stands and how the embryonic learning businesses of today are set to mushroom into the next-ed industries of tomorrow.
- Why many of our existing colleges and universities will collapse, leaving great opportunities for those who specialize in disassembling the old to plan for the new.
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