The Future of Education According to Generation Z
In recent years, we’ve witnessed the
rise of massive open online courses (MOOCs), which are online classes aimed at
unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs consist of a variety
of materials, from video lectures and assigned readings to quizzes and
interactive user forums for instructors, students and teaching assistants. The
current technology, however, requires some tweaks.
“MOOCs are not working that well because people only take one class at a
time and then don’t finish it because it isn’t compelling,” says Erica Orange,
executive vice president of New York business consultancy The Future Huntersand a member of DeVry University’s Career Advisory Board. “The next generation of MOOCs will be sensorily immersive, leveraging
virtual reality to put students in the world they’re studying. Instead of having
to memorize facts about the Civil War, for example, a student in a future MOOC
will be on the battlefield.”
New modes of online learning will cater more effectively to Generation Z
— or those students born after the mid 1990s. “The oldest Gen Z-ers have been
forced into an industrial model of school, and we are seeing all these
attention problems,” Orange says. “Their brains are wired differently and
actually function better with input from a variety of sources.”
The two main trends
rapidly picking up steam are online learning and vocational training.
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