10 macrotrends in education
A study has revealed the 10 macrotrends in education necessary to respond to global demand for excellence and differentiation of business schools. The Future of Education. New trends and their repercussions for business schools is the title of the study prepared by ICEMD - the Institute of the Digital Economy of ESIC-.
Under the technical direction of Manuel Serrano, professor of the Advanced Course of Coolhunting of ICEMD and president of the Spanish Association of Coolhunting and the collaboration of its students, the study has shelled the 10 main trends that education needs in the present moment.
So while we coexist with the latest technology and work hyperconnected, the classrooms and education in general are not adapting quickly to this new reality, and the worst thing is that they are not prepared to adequately train the new generations, characterized by their interest in the programming and the code, for their desire to undertake and for their social conscience.
However, more and more schools, universities and business schools are betting on innovation and adaptation to new trends, to new times, and that are different from the rest in that they can offer students the training they need for a future work environment full of changes.
10 key trends in current education
1. The power of the students
The Power Pupils they are seen for the first time as operative subjects, not as passive objects, and they are fully aware of their capacities and talents from ever younger ages.
2. Happy and healthy
Numerous initiatives have awakened the search for mental and physical well-being, as well as personal and professional satisfaction. Fun and entertainment outside and inside the company has incorporated strategies to reduce stress and promote health, with fun dynamics and games that satisfy the workers.
3. Continuous learning
There is no longer an "educational age" limited in time, now learning must be ongoing and last a lifetime. The jobs are changing and evolving throughout the professional career, making necessary the constant revision and updating of professional knowledge.
4. Simple entrepreneurship
This concept is entrepreneurship with nothing fancy, investing the minimum resources necessary to validate a business idea and move forward a project, focusing on what the customer wants and needs and the price they are willing to pay, and launching a minimum product viable that allows its testing in the real market.
5. Technological programming
This trend recovers the work done by people and claims the individual creative process. It is a return to crafts, although using new technologies, which are already fully integrated into society. This is what has given rise to the "maker" culture.
6. B-tech, technological applications
Now in the classroom the most modern technology is applied to improve education and make it coherent with the new times: connect the class with the world, solve problems with students from other countries, create documents in the cloud, exploit the feedback in real time...
7. Game dynamics or gamification
Gamification consists of using game dynamics in non-ludic environments in order to provoke attitudes and actions aimed at a specific and premeditated purpose. Gamification is a trend that has spread to the field of human resources, health and food education, marketing strategies and virtually all areas and business sectors.
8. Corporate social responsibility
Corporate Social Responsibility is a strategy by which companies collaborate with NGOs, facilitate the access of the most disadvantaged to products or services and contribute to the development of the community: It is not only a communication strategy, the environment and the people are important.
9. The power of collaboration
Collaboration is the new way to grow, and this is the message that business schools begin to transmit in their values and training programs.
10. Agora of shared knowledge
Acquiring information through teachers is no longer the only way. The information is already accessible thanks to new technologies and the Internet. Universities and schools, apart from information, are now striving to offer training programs and personal and professional experience to the student.
Marisol New
