One of the enduring lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is that we are all in this together. From January 9th, 2020, when the World Health Organization first announced a mysterious new coronavirus in Wuhan, China, it took only three weeks before the WHO declared a global health emergency, and only two more weeks before an estimated 69,000 people were infected in at least 25 different countries. The virus knew no boundaries and didn’t care about geopolitics. We clearly live in an interdependent world. The question is whether that interdependency is positive or negative. Education can be a powerful force for positive interdependence. It should know no boundaries. It should spread with unrelenting pace, and it should be accessible to all.
This session will examine factors and technologies shaping education and society and discuss how to prepare for them. It will begin with a broad overview on changes in learning and education in the future and will then look at specific strategies for preparing for these changes. It will present several initiatives underway at the Georgia Institute of Technology to re-imagine higher education for the global 21st century.
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