{"118671":{"#nid":"118671","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Leading Thinkers Convene to Hack the Future of Higher Education","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERecently, the Institute for the Future had the opportunity to partner with\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/students.autodesk.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAutodesk\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/c21u.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Center for 21st Century Universities\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for an energetic day-long session exploring the new thinking that is emerging in the rapidly shifting higher education space.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA rich spectrum of viewpoints was explored by participants, from Will Wright on the future of games and education, to Howard Rheingold on new tools for self-directed learning and Jason Rosoff of Khan Academy on the implications of the explosion in online content. One of the best things about these kinds of events is the sparks that are created when the ideas of sharp, passionate people are put together in one place. For sessions like these, IFTF often relies on a graphic recorder, an artist who listens and creates a larger-than-life real-time visual record of the conversation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEven for those not originally in attendance, these records can bring ideas together in powerful new ways, often reviving reviving some of those original sparks of the session at a glance. At the same time, they also can reward more in depth exploration. In the notes attached here, it is possible to follow the course of the discussion as participants first offered a few words to describe themselves and then immersed into a series of presentations from those looking at educational innovation in many different ways.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAs we move into a period of massive disruption in higher education, it is encouraging to see the level of innovative thinking that is taking shape in this area.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;For more information or to view the infographic generated by this event, please visit:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iftf.org\/ReDesigningEd2\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.iftf.org\/ReDesigningEd2\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"C21U and Institute for the Future are partering on the \u0022Redesigning Education: An Innovation Leaders Exchange on March 24th"}],"uid":"27552","created_gmt":"2012-03-22 12:01:13","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:52","author":"Emily Ivey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-03-22T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"66244","name":"C21U"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jkordus@iftf.org\u0022\u003EJillian Kordus\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}