HP Innovation Journal Issue 10: Fall 2018 | Page 25
SHAPING THE CLASSROOM
AND CAMPUS OF THE FUTURE
G U S SC H M E D LE N
Vice Presid e nt of
Wo rldwid e Ed u c atio n , H P
When we imagine the office of the future, we describe
a physical and virtual work environment that meets the
needs of generations entering the workforce today and in
years to come. But the talent that will occupy tomorrow’s
workplace is being developed right now, in classrooms
around the world. How do learning environments need
to change, from K-12 through higher education, to help
today’s students thrive in the future? How will academia
meet the challenges of a changing world?
New work patterns, technologies and behaviors are emerging
in response to challenges and opportunities in the modern
workplace. Educational institutions must equip students with
skills to succeed not just in the workplace we can imagine
but for a future transformed in ways we can’t yet predict.
THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK HAS
PROFOUND IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION
The accelerated rate of business disruption and innovation
will require unprecedented agility and creativity from
tomorrow’s workers. This means that fundamental skills—
collaboration, communication and critical thinking, for
example—will be the price of entry, and learning designed to
foster these strengths begins in the formative K-12 years.
In recent years, reports from the World Economic Forum
have named unemployment, gender equity and the need
for labor re-skilling among their top areas of focus.
Shaping the Classroom and Campus of the Future
All three of these issues are closely tied to human capital
development and education. Communities around the globe
are facing challenges achieving and sustaining economic
growth, employment and engaged citizens in a volatile
business environment. Businesses in every industry sector
are navigating intense global competition, a shift from
manufacturing to services, new safety and security threats,
pressures around sustainable practices and resources and
quality-of-life concerns.
Finding answers to these big challenges starts with asking the
right questions—a foundational value for HP. Both our ongoing
HP Megatrends initiative and the HP National Education
Technology Assessment (NETA) drive critical insights
toward aligning what schools are equipped to teach and what
employers will require. The HP NETA Reinvent the Classroom
project has surveyed 50,000 teachers, 20,000 parents, 5,000
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