What Comes Next May Surprise You: The Future of Work and Learning

Brief Abstract
As people begin to make their way back to in-person work and school, a lot of us are wondering how much our new world will look like our old world. John Baker, President and CEO of global learning leader D2L believes the future of work and learning will look very different. Not just because technology will help us digitize – but because technology will help learning and work become more human. In this exciting, collaborative session, you’ll hear provocations from John along with other thought leaders within the learning and workforce community connection space, and participate in futurecasting our digital learning future.
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Extended Abstract
As people begin to make their way back to in-person work and school, a lot of us are wondering how much our new world will look like our old world. John Baker, President and CEO of global learning leader D2L believes the future of work and learning will look very different. Not just because technology will help us digitize – but because technology will help learning and work become more human. In this exciting, collaborative session, you’ll hear provocations from John along with other thought leaders within the learning and workforce community connection space, and participate in futurecasting our digital learning future.
This session will consist of a collection of short lightning talks, allowing participants to reflect on the big ideas shared by each of the presenters. Between each talk, participants will be asked to reflect on a driving question that they will collectively answer in a collaborative worksheet. The result will be a crowdsourced artifact illuminating our path forward in critically defining our collective actions to detail and inform the connection between learning and work success, respectively.
We invite you to take part in this experiential and connective session that will help to generate new ideas for how we might best amplify the effective practices within the classroom that best prepare the workforce of tomorrow.