2. Bryan Alexander – The Visible College: Four futures for Higher Education

Choose one of Alexander’s four views of higher education in 2022 (this part of begins at the 37 minute of the talk) and imagine how your life will be in such a society. Since you will most likely be finished with university by then, I’d like you to talk about imagined personal and professional life. You will have to build from Alexander’s model how society as a whole might be under the particular future scenario you choose.

I know I do not have to do this assignment because I did the other one and two ds106 assignments. But I want to learn to prepare for the final exam so I’d like to share it.

This video with Bryan Alexander describes about what our society going on in the future? He says that everything will come digital in the future and higher education need for students to prepare for the future. He discuss about four futures which is Phantom Learning, The Lost Decade, Alt, residential, and Renaissance. I chose Phantom Learning from Bryan Alexander’s four futures for higher education. This is because I will become 31 years old in 2022 and I want children who will get higher education until that time. I can imagine how our society more relies on high technologies in 2022. However, if my future children go to university, I want them to learn from many kinds of lectures like I did them now. As Bryan Alexander says, “Students spent more time in K-12 with on-line classes than face-to-face one”. If it becomes the real, it is easy for them to attend and study instead of going to school. However, I do not like people who use the internet without face-to-face communication. Communication on on-line do not mean that people can talk directly. No one can understand what people think in reality. In addition, if students take many lectures on on-line, they may get nervous when they get their job. Bryan Alexander describes about Phantom Learning, he states that “Libraries are mostly media production sites”. Now, the importance of the library in TUJ is to search what people looking for and to read many books and articles which are paper version. If there are many media production sites, it is not necessary to have a library in universities. Also, I can imagine that people will not go to work in many companies because of the higher education when they get their job. If I were student in 2022, I would become lazy person by relying on technologies.