Learning and Education

• Educational methods and institutions

  • Will clicks replace bricks?  IT implications to the traditional university campus.

  • IT impacts on university research and faculty tenure

  • The future of home schooling

  • Impact of new advances in cognitive science – is the lecture hall a dinosaur?

  • Other new methods of teaching

  • How will gifted students be taught?  How will "challenged" students (students with learning disabilities) be taught?

• Curricula

  • What subjects will be taught 20 years from now?

  • Liberal vs. utilitarian education – which will prevail?

  • More monolithic "one size fits all" education, or more individualistic?

  • What new areas of learning will emerge – in the arts and sciences, and beyond?

• General issues

  • Impact of the demise of the "career for life" – and of increased longevity – on education

  • Major differences among nations' educational systems in