The Class of the Not-Too-Distant Future

Abstract

In the future current educators and those contemplating teaching in higher education to plan learning environments that incorporate pedagogical components encompassing information, student performance, and novel situations at increasing rates. Such components may include student-to-student partnershipbased engagement as well as hands-on experiences outside the classroom with students from their own and other disciplines, or with professionals in the practice, to motivate a well-rounded exchange of knowledge. Interacting with a variety of others in and outside of the academe fosters concept reinforcement that results in learning. While cognitively and actively engaged in the conceptual details, the learners are focused, leading to a comprehensive approach to learning and thinking critically. Traditional approaches to teaching may give way to new, adaptive learning environments both in and outside the classroom; in a dorm room; or in a practicing professional’s place of work.