Reimagining the Higher Education Ecosystem

Overview

<div>How might we empower people to design their own learning journeys so they can lead purposeful and economically stable lives? </div> <div></div> <div>The Challenge—Reimagining the Higher Education Ecosystem—seeks bold ideas for how our postsecondary education system could be reimagined to foster equity and encourage learner agency and resilience. We seek specific pilots to move us toward a future in which all learners can achieve economic stability and lead purposeful lives. This Challenge invites participants to articulate a vision and then design pilot projects for a future ecosystem that has the following characteristics:</div> <ul> <li>Expands access: The educational system must ensure that all people—including low-income learners who are disproportionately underserved by the current higher education system—can leverage education to live meaningful and economically stable lives.</li> <li>Draws on a broad postsecondary ecosystem: While college and universities play a vital role in educating students, there is a much larger ecosystem in which students learn. This ecosystem includes non-traditional “classes” or alternative learning providers, such as MOOCs, bootcamps, and online courses as well as on-the-job training and informal learning. Our future learning system must value the learning that happens in many different environments and enable seamless transitions between learning, work, and life.</li> </ul> <div>We have identified three important categories ripe for innovative solutions. We encourage submissions aligned to one or more of these opportunity areas.</div> <div> <ul> <li>Curating lifelong learning pathways</li> <li>Creating a marketplace for student learning</li> <li>Leveraging emerging technology</li> </ul> </div>