Night with a Futurist - The Future of Colleges & Universities June 6, 2011

As the disruptive forces of the Internet bear down on colleges and universities, everyone is beginning to feel the leading winds of this impending storm, but few have a clear view of the changes to come. Newspapers, travel agencies, yellow pages, and record labels are all industries that have been greatly affected by the Internet, and each foretell a different version of what may lie ahead.

College 2.0 will witness a massive peeling apart process. Learning will become separated from the classroom. Courses will be created organically and formed around an on-demand, any-time, any-place delivery models. Professors will declare their independence and work for multiple institutions rather than just one specific college. Accreditation will shift from the Institution to the course and to the individual. And textbooks, the ink-on-paper version that we know today, will all but disappear.

However, unlike most doom and gloom forecasts, this talk is as much about helping colleges survive as it is about predicting the forces that are intent on unraveling them.

EVENT: Night with a Futurist
DATE: June 6, 2011 - Monday
TIME: 6:30pm-9:00pm
WEBSITE: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/events/538/night-with-a-futurist-monday-june--6-2011

LOCATION: DaVinci Institute, 511 E. South Boulder Road Louisville, CO 80027

COST: $20, Members: Free, SuperMembers: Free

PHONE: 303-666-4133

TOPIC: The Future of Colleges & Universities
SPEAKER: Thomas Frey, Executive Director and Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute

Official Website: http://www.davinciinstitute.com/events/538/night-with-a-futurist-monday-june--6-2011