A Revolution Underway in Education

Here is a link to a youtube video of a talk I gave recently to Leadership Augusta.  It outlines my thoughts about revolutionary changes happening in education and what higher education will look like in the coming decades. I try to make a case that the four-year residential college will be a thing of the past -- and so will the four-year degree.  What will education look like?  Watch....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlEw7bn1VFw
This next video is of my talk to Leadership Columbia County. In this video, I summarize the same argument in the first few minutes, but focus instead on the critical importance of schools more intentionally teaching and nurturing non-cognitive skills (often called 21st century skills) to prepare students for this new landscape.    This talk is about the same as the last one until about 7:30 at which point I turn the focus of this one to the non-cognitive skills that will be needed to be a victor in the 21st Century.  I also offer some of the research on non-cognitive skills as a good or better predictor of academic performance and life satisfaction than grades, IQ, SSAT scores and other cognitive measures.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?edit=vd&v=QHfDk7k2gyQ