In the last decade, innovations like adaptive learning, smartphones, learning analytics, OER, and MOOCs have been chipping away at the corners of traditional education – causing us to teach using more technology. The pandemic accelerated technology adoption, but we still haven’t faced the real crisis in curriculum. The next wave of disruption to higher ed will not come from more technology to incorporate into teaching, but will be caused by the existence of advanced technology in the workforce. The existence of technology like AI will force us to regularly alter the curriculum we teach to keep it relevant to the world around us. This talk provides guidance for changing how we design and assess programs, courses, and modalities of delivery in order to stay relevant as educational institutions.

1. Facing the Future
of Technology
and Learning
Maria H. Andersen, Ph.D
Core Adjunct Faculty, Westminster College
CPO and General Manager, Coursetune
Email: maria@coursetune.com
Twitter: @busynessgirl

2. In ONE decade, the world
was transformed …

3. In ONE decade, the world
was transformed …

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

5. U.S. Population
329.5 million
12% below age of 10
(39 million)
16% above age 65
(52 million)

6. 85% of U.S. Adults have a Smartphone
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

7. Refrigerator
Dishwasher
Landline phone

8. Smartphone
Social Media

9. 18-29, 88%
65+, 37%
50-64, 64%
30-49, 78%
The chicken
and the egg...
which is
driving which?

10. Most
college-age
adults in the
U.S. have a
Smartphone
now.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

11. Smartphones
are a more
equitable
technology
than
computers.
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/mobile/

12. Smartphones
are a more
equitable
technology
than
computers.
https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2018/acs/ACS-39.pdf
Computers
80.9%
63.9%
67.5%

13. In one decade, Smartphones have changed the way we do everything

14. In 2020, the education and working world transformed a decade.

15. We can’t pretend that attending lecture IN PERSON is the only “real” option.

16. Professors can’t pretend that there’s NO WAY to “make up” a missed lecture.

17. We can’t pretend that there is NO WAY to attend class from home.

18. Students can’t pretend that they have NO WAY to do groupwork if they can’t meet in person.

19. Faculty can’t pretend there’s NO WAY to teach if they are out of town.

20. We can’t pretend that the ONLY options are Online, F2F, and Hybrid.

21. In education, everyone now understands how exhausting it is to teach online.

22. In the world, ONLINE learning has taken a huge reputation hit.

23. The state of
technology is
rapidly changing.

24. How has your curriculum
adjusted to the presence of
Smartphones in the world?
Type your answer in the chat but wait to
press enter until I say 3-2-1-GO!

25. “Getting information” has
changed in the last three
decades

26. When I was an undergraduate...

27. When I was a PhD student ...

28. Students today

30. “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)

31. Source:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/
every-minute-internet-2020/
YouTube: 500 hours of
content
Instagram: 347k stories
Facebook: 147k photos

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

33. And where is that data and
information coming from?

34. 1 billion in
1804
7 billion in
2016
World
Population
today?
7.8 billion

37. 1% growth 2-3% growth 8-9%
growth

39. http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/

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49. Great model, where is the problem?

50. The state of
technology is rapidly
changing.
AND
The amount of
information is
rapidly increasing.

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

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

53. Forrester: 73% of all cubicle-related jobs lost by 2030

54. 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: Between 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 (prediction in 2018)
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/

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

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

57. (deep breaths and kittens)

58. 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)

59. 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)
GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!!!

60. 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)
TEXAS POWER OUTAGES!!!!
GLOBAL PANDEMIC!!!!

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

62. Curriculum
in Higher
Education
has got to
change.

63. 1. People should be
able to attend
college for one year
and be able to
upgrade their job.

66. Ask Students: What skills will help you move up in your job or move to a different job?

67. 2. Rethink
depth of
knowledge.

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

69. ESIL LENS

70. Strictly deals
with the level of
information or
skill depth, not
the ability to
perform higher
cognitive level
activities.
EXISTENCE SUPPORTED
INDEPENDENT LIFETIME

72. 3. Streamline the existing
courses to make space to
teach more relevant
material at the right
depth.

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

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

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

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

77. 4. Expertise is a moving
target. Make the courses
themselves more flexible
by splitting the credits
into fixed and variable.

78. English
Composition

79. Core of English
Composition
with Business
Theme

80. Core of English
Composition
with Medical
Theme

81. Core of English
Composition
with Science
Theme

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

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

85. Curriculum can’t keep hiding from the existence of technology in the world.

86. Education
might be
slow to
move, but
we carry the
world when
we do.

87. Questions?
Maria H. Andersen, Ph.D
maria@coursetune.com
busynessgirl@gmail.com
Twitter: @busynessgirl
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