The New York Times reported in the spring of 2014 that fewer High School grads have opted to attend College, halting a trend of increasing matriculation for four plus decades. What is going on? As education in the US experiences a shift from being perceived as the most obvious method of higher social mobility, the viability of Higher Education is in doubt. The product of Higher Education is ripe for upheaval with new thinking in the presence of the digital, mobile, and social media revolutions that have changed many industries this decade.

This course will ask you to observe, imagine and create the vision of Higher Education, 1 year, 5 years, 10 years into the future. How will people learn? How will teachers teach? How will you measure your academic success? How will students connect to peers and experts? Who will be able to attend this future? Will higher ed be on your wrist or in a building? Will education be gamified?

Our weekly conversation will have voices from people helping to shape and improve education today, with futurists, with designers, and with content creators. We will explore the current education landscape globally. We will restructure education in terms of experience design, with the goal of improving the experience for the learner. We will discuss how our experiences have motivated our learning. At the end we will design experiences that capture the essences of these visions

Gregory Dorsainville