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Teaching Students the Necessary Skill Sets for our Digital World

Series: Reinvent the University for the Whole Person

What skill sets will enable today’s students to address critical problems like climate change?
Many of the skills long nurtured in small liberal arts colleges will remain valuable in a future of rapid change. However, the old ways of teaching on these campuses also will have to undergo significant changes, as universities increasingly focus on what they are uniquely positioned to do and then integrate into larger learning ecosystems. Climate change, the mother of all 21st-century challenges, could force a fundamental restructuring of America’s economy and society similar to other key moments in our history – and so call for a different kind of American citizen. This roundtable looked deeply at the kind of multi-dimensional person America, and the world, is going to need in the years ahead, so we can better design universities to inculcate valuable skill sets.

Recorded: May 20, 2014
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  • Mimi Ito

    Professor in Residence at UC Irvine & Anthropologist of Digital Culture

  • Donald Harward

    Former President of Bates College

  • Randy Bass

    Vice Provost for Education & Professor of English at Georgetown University

  • Michael McPherson

    President of the Spencer Foundation

  • Nova Spivack

    CEO at Bottlenose

  • Peter Felten

    Assistant Provost for Teaching & Learning at Elon University

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