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Rethinking education for the new normal: our conversation with Lee Skallerup Bessette
Yesterday the Future Trends Forum hosted a discussion about redesigning classes in the wake of COVID-19. Our guest, Lee Skallerup Bessette, spoke to the powerful ways student absence due to disease and mental issues can help us rethink how to structure the teaching and learning experience.
The conversation was intense, energetic, exploratory, and hard to contain to a single hour. Accordingly I’d like to share the session. In this post I’ll embed the video recording, along with highlights from the chat and questions we didn’t get to.
On the Forum people post questions through a text box. They started coming fast by the end, so we couldn’t get to them all. Here are the ones left over, or that we only addressed partially:
How would you theorize/build an organization/platform for self-directed learners, outside of but perhaps affiliated with a university, to extend their learning network and connect with others around subjects or projects? Leaving assessment and credentials aside. Some sort of bottom-up anarcho-syndicalist way to learn, using the affordances of digital technology.
While the…
