Emerging Insights

On Education, Innovation, Technology and the Road Ahead

Mark David Milliron mark.milliron@wgu.edu

Emerging Insights

Completion Matters

Swirl and Blend

Upward Mobility is Possible

Get Serious about Play

Move from Social to Learning Nets

Take Action with Analytics

We Need to Get Ready

Completion Matters

“The American Dream is imperiled. Upward mobility, the contract between one generation of Americans and the next, is under siege.”

Completion Matters

• In U.S., Intergenerational poverty transmission is at its highest

• Education is the single biggest disrupter

• We’ve doubled our access to HE

• But half of all college students drop out before earning a credential

• About 60-80% of upper income students (top ½) complete, compared to 12% of lower-income students

Completion Matters

• By 2018, 63% of new jobs will require at least some postsecondary education

• 300,000 more Americans a year will need a postsecondary credential than currently project

• Overall education attainment is projected to decrease for the first time

Completion Matters

“ . . . Dropping out is not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country.”

Swirl and Blend

Swirl and Blend

• Gen Y online 28 % more than GenX, 50% more than Boomers

• Gen X, Y & Z virtually always connected

• Gen Y 50% more likely to send IMs than GenX

• Gen Y & Z are major mobile; Gen X big-time adopters

• Broadband Ubiquity

• Mobile Device Ubiquity

• Social Network Ubiquity

• From Fixed Media to Search Engines to Answer Engines

Swirl and Blend

Swirl and Blend

Face to Face Infrastructure

* Housing *Classrooms

*Lecture Halls *Labs

*Office Hours *Library

*Open Space

Online Infrastructure *Website *Learning Mgt Systems *Content Repositories *MOOCs *Social Networks *Mobile Apps

Activities

Lecture, Dialogic, Small Groups, Contextual Learning,

Simulations, Learning Communities, Project-Based Learning,

Self-Directed Learning, Collateral Learning

Swirl and Blend

Upward Mobility is Possible

Upward Mobility is Possible

Get Serious about Play

Get Serious about Play

• $25 Billion: typical US household with at least one gaming console, PC, or handheld

• Average gamer is 30 (has been playing for 12 years); 47% are women

• Average age of most frequent game purchaser: 35

• Fast growing cohort, over 50 (25% now)

• 33% play on Smart Phones, 25% on small handhelds

• 73% of games are E, T, or E10+

Get Serious about Play

From Social to Learning Nets

From Social to Learning Nets

From Social to Learning Nets (CRS!)

Take Action with Analytics

Take Action with Analytics

•University of

Maryland

•Valencia College

•Purdue University

We Need to Get Ready

We Need to Get Ready

• Critical Learning

• Creative Learning

• Social Learning

• Courageous Learning

“In times of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” --Eric Hoffer

Courageous Learning

Emerging Insights

Completion Matters

Swirl and Blend

Upward Mobility is Possible

Get Serious about Play

Move from Social to Learning Nets

Take Action with Analytics

We Need to Get Ready

Dr. Mark David Milliron

www.markmilliron.com