The future of education is not what it used to be | Jack Delosa | TEDxMacquarieUniversity

all my professors ever did was pass out the sylabus with due dates and grade term papers all of this for 70,000 in student debt. Thanks Monroe College

Spot on, Jack. However, I do not expect the universities to bell the cat on this - they are far too dependent on the current model to be able to change effectively. For me, the biggest thing they fail at is teaching people an Industrial-era thinking concept - that is, if you read these textbooks, you will be able to solve average problems with the standardized, average solutions we will provide you in your degree. The fact that this concept is out of date is something that the general public has not yet broadly woken up to, but they need to. In the modern world, people make a difference by being able to solve difficult, non-standardized problems and to innovate by challenging assumptions.

Is a higher degree useful for the students and is it what the world needs? Very good questions to be asking. Great talk.

Wonderful talking, Jack. Absolutely agree with your criticism! But... What to do? What and how should be changed? We have certain ideas. How to discuss them with you?

this is SO SPOT on. as someone who has gone through university, 12 years later, I can say without a doubt, that in hindsight I would have chosen to enter the workforce earlier than attended university. I had a great time at uni though, and wasn't much to do with the actual education, rather the community aspect. How relevant to me as Jack is speaking at the very university I studied...

In 2020 the situation is a lot worse... It’s one thing to tell people to question the higher education that they choose for themselves, once they have reached graduation (from lower schooling) age, and quite another to realize that you haven’t been given the tools or the type of thinking that would honestly and actually allow you to think about that choice in honesty and with objective information that you have (haven’t actually) acquired throughout your previous schooling journey. The real conversations will begin when all separated subjects are connected to present the bigger picture, for they are all parts of the one reality we have cut up into isolated pieces, losing our self in the process.

You speak of something that resonates a mutual frustration for all of us. Yet, the only fields that provide a hands on work experience are found in the areas that are either less paid or looked upon as less than (Music, Sports, Dance, Art, to name a few...) as opposed to those areas that are given more attention to.

Well spoken! Wow, not investing in improving education sounds ridiculous.

This talk confirmed much of my own experiences, I went to Chester university close to my home town in the North West on England, when I started they were charging around £3650 per year, we were using out dated material, and within a few months of starting my business degree they discontinued the program but we had to complete it or loose our places and our fees. Then during the second year when the government removed the fee cap they went up to max, even after saying they would wait and build a better offer. Most universities upend their fees to the max without upping their investments. I spent my second year at an American university in Wisconsin, and I felt like i had gone back to the early years of high school. I felt sorry for the other students paying something like $20k+ per year for 4 years and the universities can turn around last minute and say you need to do more credits. The whole system felt like a cash cow. I will not even get started on my high school experience, I am looking for ways to be apart of the disruption because No child should be forced to endure this system.

Jack, your talk confirmed my own experience.After completing a Masters degree I declined to follow on with a PhD because academic degrees have limitations I.e. they couldn’t in my case provide me with a functional skill set to add value to a career change.I have noted that disrupters like the internet in cohorts with digital platforms can offer solutions to a revised cultural education shift.

Great talk Jack!

You're right jack knowledge makes everything Not college education they only teach

Great speech by a great speaker. I am sure that by now my generation(millenial) and the younger generation are waking up to the reality that college is no longer a guaranteed of upward mobility. Online platforms like udacity and udemy are going to playing a big role in disrupting the industry so too will bootcamps (if done right). it is going to result some colleges shutting down, as of now college enrollment has been declining.

This was a great talk but universities are not the problem. Businesses using the degree as a filter to accept or reject people is the problem.

Worlwide. Believe it.

BINGO!!

They don't talk about how you can make $50,000+ on a trade, WITH a paid apprenticeship. A system that only supports the exceptional isn't going to stand.

yes 100% ok

Question it - student has limited choice.. most of the students do not want to risk self-learning, do not want to step out the mainstream.. it is the government and university that needs to question as frequently as possible and update the curriculum Master/Mentee - a scaffolding set up consisting of teachers, guides, mentors, counsels, coaches are required for effective student development Embrace failure: it is ok to fail and spend more time in the university.. outcome of everything that happens in university (including failure) is learning.. mentors/coaches have to stimulate reflection I recommend Reflection practice as the fourth item for development . Students have to become reflective practitioners capable of sustained self-learning

I am from non EU country, i paid the tuition fee and all of the costs around it ( which I borrowed from a bank) why ? Bcuz if I don't have a student visa, there is almost no other way to get to EU pool of employment. I got employed 2 months after I moved to one country, got offer from another one moved, 2 years later got even a better one from the third country. Sooooo sorry to say but for NON EU folks ,traditional universities are the only to prove ourselves to society ... unfortunately