In the last decade, technologies like adaptive learning, smartphones, learning analytics, OER, and MOOCs have been chipping away at the corners of traditional education. In the near future we'll be dealing with even more disruptive technologies like bots and artificial intelligence. Technology-enhanced learning is here to stay and it is altering formal education, like it or not. This is a guide to successfully navigating and thriving in this new world and preparing yourself, your students, and your institution for what is to come.

1. Facing the Future
of Technology and
Learning
Maria H. Andersen, Ph.D
CEO, Coursetune
Faculty, Westminster College
Email: busynessgirl@gmail.com
Twitter: @busynessgirl

2. In ONE decade, the world
has been transformed …

3. In ONE decade, the world
was transformed …

4. https://www.statista.com/statistics/201182/forecast-of-smartphone-users-in-the-us/

5. What IS the current population of
the United States?

7. https://www.statista.com/chart/15561/smartphone-sales-by-os/

10. Smartphone
usage

12. How many
times a day do
you pick up
your phone?

13. The state of
technology is
rapidly changing.

15. “Every two days now we create as much information
as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.”
- Eric Schmidt, quoted in 2003 (CEO of Google)

17. Source: https://web-
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23. The state of
technology is rapidly
changing.
AND
The amount of data
is rapidly increasing.

24. Search and Application
over Memorization
You couldn’t memorize all the information
in your field even if you wanted to.

25. Dewey Decimal meets Wikipedia
We will create a citation system where we are able to “cite back” all the
literature that supports particular posits, from a point in time.

26. Why does the
rise of
information
matter?
It is this rapid rise in
information that is
bringing AI to fruition.

27. Two kinds of AI
Artificial Narrow
Intelligence (ANI)
Artificial General
Intelligence (AGI)

28. How many
jobs have
been lost in
the world
due to
automation?

29. Projected Job Disruptions due to AI
Studies at Oxford: 47% of American jobs are at high risk of automation, up to 20
million manufacturing jobs worldwide will be lost to robots by 2030
McKinsey Global Institute: 40 million and 160 million women worldwide may
need to transition between occupations by 2030
WEF: automation will displace 75 million jobs but generate 133 million new ones
worldwide by 2022
Forrester predicts job losses of 29% by 2030 with only 13% job creation to
compensate
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2019/07/15/is-ai-going-to-be-a-jobs-killer-new-reports-about-the-future-of-work/

31. “100% Automatable Jobs”
Aircraft Cargo
Handling
Supervisors
Dredge Operators
Foundry Mold and
Coremakers
Graders and
Sorters,
Agricultural
Products
Logging Equipment
Operators
Machine Feeders
and Offbearers
Medical Appliance
Technicians
Motion Picture
Projectionists
Ophthalmic
Laboratory
Technicians
Packaging and
Filling Machine
Operators and
Tenders
Plasterers and
Stucco Masons
Slaughterers and
Meat Packers
Source: https://features.marketplace.org/robotproof/

32. “The vast majority of jobs consist
of some portion of tasks that can
be automated and some portion
of tasks that can’t.”

33. We will all be retraining … all the time.

34. That wasn’t the only driver of change.

35. Drivers of Change
Climate Change
(WEF)
Middle Class in
Emerging
Markets (WEF)
Rapid
Urbanization
(WEF)
Extreme
Longevity, Aging
Society (IFF, WEF)
Computational
World (IFF)
Superstructured
Organizations
(IFF)
Globally
Connected World
(IFF)
New Media
Ecology (IFF)
Rise of Smart
Machines and
Systems (IFF)
Mobile Internet
and Cloud
Technology (WEF)
Processing Power,
Big Data (WEF)
New energy
supplies and
technology (WEF)
Internet of Things
(WEF)
Sharing Economy,
Crowdsourcing
(WEF)
Robotics,
autonomous
transport (WEF)
Artificial
intelligence (WEF)
Advanced
Manufacturing,
3D printing (WEF)
Adv materials,
biotechnology
(WEF)

36. What have you had to learn since
leaving school?

37. Things I’ve learned in the last three years
Customer
Relationship
Management
Software
Project
Management and
PM Software
Accounting
Management
Software
SaaS accounting
Virtual Meeting
and Webinar
software
Software ticket
management
software
Social media
management
software
UI/UX design and
management
software
Contractor
management
software
Customer Service
management
software
How to write a
term sheet
How to make a
pitch deck
Software to
manage the cap
tables for our stock
Work with a lawyer
to write a patent
Determine sales
tax nexus in any
state we do
business in
Determine the best
cloud server
platform for us
Figure out GDPR
and how it applies
to us
Documentation
management
software and
processes

38. The state of technology
is rapidly changing.
The amount of data is
rapidly increasing.
AND
Careers are rapidly
changing.

39. Curriculum
in Higher
Education
has got to
change.

40. Curriculum
Drift
New skills and fields
emerge that need to be
learned for a discipline.

41. Curriculum
Bloat
New knowledge,
research, and desires
from other schools
bloat the curriculum
from within.

42. Curriculum
Reality
Most curriculum
contains both drift
and bloat.

43. Curriculum
needs continual
tuning
If there is no space to
do innovative things,
innovative things don’t
happen.

44. Expertise is a Moving Target
Curriculum is going to need the agility to morph midstream to the
changing world around our learners.

45. English
Composition

46. Core of English
Composition
with Business
Theme

47. Core of English
Composition
with Medical
Theme

48. Core of English
Composition
with Science
Theme

50. Suppose a student
wants to do English
Comp with an
Entertainment
theme?

51. Learning Structures
to Support the
Multi-disciplinarian
Modular Learning
Pods centered on
themes

52. BEING HUMAN
SCIENCE OF BEING
HUMAN
MEANING OF
CONSCIOUSNESS
STAGES OF LIFE PSYCHOLOGY OF
HUMAN
INTERACTIONS
INTERACTION
BETWEEN HUMANS
AND TECHNOLOGY

53. PLANET EARTH
ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
CONSCIOUS
CAPITALISM
WASTE AND RECYCLING
MANAGEMENT
TREND ANALYSIS ENERGY CULTURAL
PERSPECTIVES

54. Curriculum in Higher
Education has got to change.
• Make space for innovation
in all curriculum
• Carve out room in
standard courses for online
specialization co-requisites
• Theme-organized learning
to support generalists
• Quick paths to certificates
and degrees
• Retraining, retraining,
retraining

55. We simultaneously live
in awe of technology and
in fear of it.

56. "In 50 years there will be
only 10 institutions in
the world delivering
higher education"
- Sebastian Thrun, founder Udacity, 2012

57. "We think of it like a robot
tutor in the sky that can
semi-read your mind and
figure out what your
strengths and weaknesses
are, down to the percentile"
- Jose Ferreira, founder Knewton, 2015

58. “Anyone that can be
replaced by a computer
should be.”
- Arthur C. Clarke

60. Face the Future of Technology and Learning

61. Questions?
Maria H. Andersen, Ph.D
maria@coursetune.com
busynessgirl@gmail.com
Twitter: @busynessgirl
Instagram and Facebook:
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