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.