The Future of Education

Education is undergoing radical changes. While education used to be mainly frontally held lectures, digital technologies today allow for a wide range of new possibilities. This not only affects education in schools or universities, but also executive education and trainings - lifelong learning is crucial in today´s business world.
With the possibility for everyone to select from a wide range of pre-selected online lecturer, teachers are increasingly taking on the role of coaches rather than the one of traditional lecturers. Ted Talks, MOOCs with thousands of enrolled students as well as online tutoring platforms radically change the way education is taking place. In addition, people previously excluded from high-class education (be it people in third world countries but also, on a national level, people from different social backgrounds) can now benefit from online lecturers and get access to the same resource.
This report consists of three parts. First, the authors analyze trends in the field of education. Building upon these findings, four scenarios are described, vividly depicting possible futures. In the final Ideation part five educational or business concepts are elaborated and tested against the scenarios.
The developed concepts range from a teaching concept that fosters the entrepreneurial spirit of students and society, an online platform for schools to foster offline time and enhance the motivation to learn, virtual scenarios using Oculus Rift for language learning, a toy for kids to learn by teaching their toy, to a service improving lecture quality by measuring audience attention and offering feedback and coaching.