The Challenge of Equitable Access to College Education

Education Futures

English - January 24, 2020 06:00 - 10 minutes - 7.13 MB
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Welcome to "Education and Technology Futures," a podcast that highlights interesting trends and connections in the worlds of education, technology, and culture. In this inaugural episode, Rob takes a look at five BIG challenges facing education in the coming decade.

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It’s awfully easy these days to find yourself looking up and asking, "With all the changes, what has really changed?" In other words, “What’s really new in all the new stuff?” Is the coming decade one where we’ll see real innovation or just different wrapping on the same old packages?

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If Elon Musk has his way, we’ll have people colonizing Mars by 2050. This means we may need to start thinking in bigger terms than the traditional moonshot. A ‘mindshot’ perhaps? Regardless of what we call it, what should our big goal for education be in the coming decade?