Looking to the Student-Centered Future of Higher Education
Looking to the Student-Centered Future of Higher Education
December 11, 2019
By Louis Soares
Chief Learning and Innovation Officer, American Council on Education
Summary
In 2018, the postsecondary industry underwent a unique evolution in terms of student demographics and learning innovation.
If someone is learning meaningful things every day for what they need to do next, and they come to us for formal education as the final piece of the puzzle, we have to understand not just what they already know but also their learning identity.
How are do they learn? That learning identity is formed by how they engage in learning in their work life, their family life, in formal environments and as a citizen.
As an individual interacts with those knowledge communities, higher education can take on a different role: Connecting the learning ecosystems that those knowledge communities create for the learner.
How does higher ed help us understand Learner X's learning identity? What are the three or four knowledge communities they're embedded in? How do we optimize their human capital based on that information?
There are different players that could figure out the answers to those questions, but higher ed is well placed to do it in a learning economy.
Higher education is already doing it: Delivering education in a structured environment; taking a learner's core capabilities and using it to create a networked understanding of learning.
Reference
Soares, L. (2019, December 11). Looking to the Student-Centered Future of Higher Education. Retrieved December 11, 2019, from https://evolllution.com/managing-institution/operations_efficiency/looking-to-the-student-centered-future-of-higher-education/.