disrupting and design thinking education - proofs - 9781032375427 text - with CJ comments
This section explores a wide range of emerging enabling technologies—GenAI, VR, AR, haptic computing, the metaverse, spatial computing, holographic professors, and digital twins—and illustrates their educational applications through personal anecdotes, case studies, and research findings. It argues that these tools can transform learning across the value chain, from admissions to alumni engagement, and improve confidence, engagement, and outcomes. The author provides practical prompts for using AI, discusses the role of VR in medical and business education, and highlights successful implementations at Harvard, INSEAD, and other institutions. The narrative then shifts to a visionary ecosystem that fuses the best of traditional and modern models, proposing a modular, global, technology‑enabled learning environment with personalized curricula, blockchain credentials, and a marketplace for projects and services. Detailed recommendations are offered for students, educators, investors, and policymakers, covering strategy, funding, accreditation, open innovation, and the importance of human skills such as questioning, adaptability, and design thinking. The section concludes with actionable steps, a call to embrace disruption, and a bibliography of supporting sources.
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Emerging Enabling Technologies for Education
An overview of cutting‑edge tools—Generative AI, large‑language‑model prompting, virtual/augmented reality, haptic computing, the metaverse, spatial computing, holographic professors, and personal digital twins—and how they can be applied across the education value chain from admissions to alumni services. Includes practical AI prompts, design considerations, and the potential to boost confidence, engagement, and learning outcomes.
Strategic Recommendations and Policy Insights for Disruption
Actionable guidance for students, educators, investors, and policymakers on adopting emerging tech, designing curricula, experimenting with business models, and securing funding. Includes three launch pathways (Big Bang, Middle‑of‑Road, Startup), accreditation alternatives, open‑innovation strategies, and analysis of government programs such as Singapore’s SkillsFuture, EU DigComp, and US voucher debates.
Shared EdTech Infrastructure and Unbundled Access Models
Argument for communal testing and deployment centers that provide high‑cost immersive technologies to smaller providers, outlining B2B/B2C service models, cost‑sharing mechanisms, and scalability benefits for the broader edtech ecosystem.
Disruptor Case Studies and Open‑Innovation Lessons
Illustrations of how organizations like Cirque du Soleil, IBM, and MetLife LumenLab identified unmet needs, spun off new units, and leveraged open innovation to create new markets—providing a template for education disruptors.