Discussions > 21st Century Learning: What's Different?

What is an FE College going to look like in twenty year's time? Maybe one hint is going back 20 years which (unfortunately) I can do easily! What's changed:

Physical space is hugely more welcoming. Colleges now have receptions!
Open spaces for learning and massive technology investment.
Better food.
More integrated courses; team teaching; online everything.
Richer links with industry and an absence of apprentices being dragged screaming into classes.
Big focus on quality by measuring and collecting data.
Integrated curriculum planning.
More transparent processes, more audit more resources for everyone.
Students as customers?
More part-time and sessional staff.
More cpd.
More accountability.
A College from 1987 transposed into 2007 wouldn't survive more than two minutes!It simply couldn't compete.

So going forward: more technology; absent students working anywhere, high definition video conferencing, as if you were actually there; average age of students will increase; more flexibility; maybe roll on roll off enrolment. New forms of assessment. Certainly new qualifications. More integration with HE.Lots of Associate Degrees. Much closer integration with the workplace. Coaching and mentoring as respectable delivery methods.Post 16 youngsters spending time in school and collge as a matter of course. Recreating work in the College virtually.

More mergers: bigger colleges, super Principals??

What do you think?
06-March-2007 | Registered CommenterNigel Paine
I believe all the above will happen - i feel the key for all businesses will be the intergration with the colleges and the courses. In an world where its increasingly the employee choosing the employer, creating a must for employers to look at raising and harnessing talent from the grass roots.
21-May-2008 | Unregistered CommenterHumble Coach