What will the education system look like in 100 years?
Education has changed drastically in the last hundred years, so it is easy to anticipate that education will continue to change and evolve at a rapid pace during the next hundred as more advances in technology will occur. In the next hundred years, there will be a larger emphasis placed on developing and enhancing students’ critical thinking and problems solving skills, just as this course provides for the MBA students. Developing courses that immerse the student in experiential learning outside the classroom is slowly being incorporated into the educational system in primary school all the way through higher education. In the next twenty-five to fifty years, this type of learning will become the norm rather than having students sit in a physical classroom all day listening to lectures.
With the emphasis on immersing the student into situations that enhance learning, we will begin to see standardized testing fazed out of the system until it is no longer used to judge students on their mastery of specific subject matter or as a method for acceptance to higher education programs. In reading articles on standardized testing for higher education, this method is already on its last ‘leg’ so it will not be surprising when college admission applications no longer ask for these test scores. Due to this, students will be tested less on memorization of facts but rather how they use this information to solve problems and to focus on the how or why of the situation. As a result, teachers will assume the role as facilitators of learning, while it will be up to the students to teach themselves the theory behind the topic of study.
It is no question that technology will play a key role in the development of education for our future generations. More and more classrooms and schools are becoming paperless and,