Right here, right now: a department store for learning

• Authors: Schejbal David
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The rapid and extensive changes in higher education play out within a much larger, global context of change. Technology, globalization, mass enrollments in higher education, and the insatiable need of the global knowledge economy for educated workers is creating enormous pressures on higher education to adapt to meet the need.

Keywords

EN

department store for learning; higher education

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
• Journal: e-mentor
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 4 (66)
• Pages: 74-77

Contributors

author

Schejbal David

• The author is dean of Continuing Education, Outreach and E-Learning at the University of Wisconsin-Extension. He writes and speaks broadly about the future of higher education and how that future is shaped by social, economic, technological, and political forces. In 2012, he was one of the founding members of C-BEN: The Competency-Based Education Network: A National Consortium for the Development of Higher Education Models. He currently serves on the steering committee of that group. David Schejbal is the current president of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), a member of the Board of Visitors for the Army War College, a Commissioner for the American Council on Education (ACE), and an Executive Committee member of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (CEDD).