Gregory Dorsainville

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.