This document discusses four elements that are emerging as defining factors for 21st century education: engagement, collaboration, technology, and sustainability. Engagement involves psychologically investing students and faculty in the learning experience. Collaboration brings the community into the educational process. Technology should support educational goals and provide opportunities for engagement and collaboration. Sustainability addresses ensuring relevance by preparing for future educational needs through embracing changes in technology, engagement, and collaboration. The document argues these four elements must be incorporated to sustain enrollment, retention, and career placement goals.

1. Four Elements 4 the Future
Engagement • Collaboration
Technology • Sustainability
An SBBC Faculty In-Service Event
Facilitator: A.J. Schuermann
Ventura Campus July 12, 2013

2. • Why are we
here at this
In Service?
• To better understand four key
themes emerging as defining
elements of 21st century
education.
• To get some practical
direction in our professional
development as educators.
• To put down on paper, after focused group discussions and
activities, a plan to explain how this campus will understand
and incorporate these elements into what we are doing as
educators as part of our processes.

3. • Why are we
here at this
In Service?
• Also, because we know we
can do better in the standard
listing of our “Teaching
Strategies” as “Lecture, class
discussions, assignments,
examinations, group
activities, and project(s).”

4. • Why are we
here at this
In Service?
• Based on the future trends
and outlooks, a more relevant
and standardized listing of
our “Learning Strategies”
might read something like…

5. • Why are we
here at this
In Service?
• “Facilitation of computer-supported collaborative and self-
directed activities, adaptive testing of local and distance
learning outcomes, blog writing, and service-based labs
and projects.”

6. • How effective we are as educators will be based on how
psychologically invested our students are in showing up
and participating in the learning experiences we offer in our
classrooms.
The Elements
1. Engagement

7. • There are plenty of “tips” we’ve heard before on how to
better engage our students, particularly addressing the
adult learners in our classrooms. Here’s a few…
The Elements
1. Engagement

8. • Active Learning
• Leave No One Behind
• Something “other than the usual.”
• Relevance
The Elements
1. Engagement

9. • We’ve also become familiar with the preferred “learning
styles” of our students…
The Elements
1. Engagement

10. • Visual Learners
• Kinesthetic Learners
• Auditory Learners
• Haptic/Tactile Learners
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1. Engagement

11. • These are all strategies and understandings for instructors
to utilize in making connections with students, livening up
their classrooms, and creating enjoyable learning
environments that are welcoming and, for the lack of a
better word, “engaging.”
The Elements
1. Engagement

12. • HOWEVER…those examples do not explain what is
essential to ensure the psychological investment we want
our students and ourselves to have in what we are doing
now and in the future.
The Elements
1. Engagement

13. • Engagement is not just about a bag of teaching tricks.
The Elements
1. Engagement

14. • It is about creating an environment that motivates all of us
to become psychologically invested in what we are doing...
The Elements
1. Engagement

15. • This means faculty and students, for starters.
• It really means everyone we interact with as part of our
processes.
The Elements
1. Engagement

16. The Elements
1. Engagement
• We recognize what motivates students to enroll:
• Seeking a positive change in their lives.
• Wanting a better life for their children.
• Need to re-enter the workforce with new skills.

17. The Elements
1. Engagement
• We recognize what motivates a potential faculty member to
apply and accept a teaching assignment:
• Personal and professional growth outside of their day
jobs or life responsibilities.

18. The Elements
1. Engagement
• We recognize what motivates a potential faculty member to
apply and accept a teaching assignment:
• It’s work they desire, need, and/or are able to do.

19. The Elements
1. Engagement
• The big questions that need to be answered are:
• What makes all of us want to stay and do our best?

20. The Elements
1. Engagement
• The big questions that need to be answered are:
• Do all of us actually want to stay and do our best?

21. The Elements
1. Engagement
• The big questions that need to be answered are:
• Is there anything or anyone preventing us from fully
engaging in an opportunity to become invested in what
we are doing?

22. • Consider the motivating forces of autonomy, mastery, and
purpose as it relates to what we are doing and what our
students are doing with the time and effort invested in our
shared experience...
The Elements
1. Engagement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

23. • Consider the following…
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2. Collaboration

24. • If “engagement” is primarily about bringing the student to
the class and the class to the student…then “collaboration”
is about bringing the community to the campus and the
campus to the community...and “the community” is
expanded and re-defined as playing a bigger part in our
processes and outcomes.
The Elements
2. Collaboration

25. • Levels of collaboration can transcend the individual and the
classroom and engage (psychologically invest) a broader
scope of participants in the learning experience.
• It appeals to the idea of Social Goals and Social Motivation
as a driving force for students to enroll and stay in school.
The Elements
2. Collaboration

26. • “Collaborative Learning” aims to locate knowledge through
the community.
• Brings students and instructors together for mutual learning
and self-development in the classroom.
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2. Collaboration

27. • Allows students to share their beliefs, views, opinions, prior
experiences, and knowledge they currently possess.
• Empowers students with the responsibility of their own
learning in the class, and their accountability to classmates.
The Elements
2. Collaboration

28. • While the jury is out on this type of learning as the best way
to educate students, it is progressive in its revision of the
traditional classroom environment and expectations of the
participants.
The Elements
2. Collaboration

29. • It is “engaging” in the sense that it psychologically invests
the group in the process of showing up and participating,
and taking ownership together to become better problem
solvers and communicators.
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2. Collaboration

30. • The teachers become facilitators and the students become
active participants, while it is still the responsibility of the
facilitators to take the lead in making a “collaborative
learning” experience happen in their classes.
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2. Collaboration

31. • This can cause some “anxiety” for the teachers who don’t
want to surrender control, and for some of the students who
do not want to be problem solvers or contributors.
• Attendance may become a matter of peer pressure, not just
a policy.
The Elements
2. Collaboration

32. • Being able to “collaborate” means being able to network,
cooperate, to be a team member, to be a leader, to be
accountable and responsible, and develop relevant skills
necessary to be successful in the workplace.
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2. Collaboration

33. • A collaborative approach in a classroom setting or activity is
designed to wake up contemporary students from being
passive learners and making them show up and participate
with purpose, in order to have some control over their lives.
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2. Collaboration

34. • This is an innovative approach to address shortcomings in
traditional education environments that are not preparing
students with what they need to succeed.
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2. Collaboration

35. • Have you ever thought or said something like, “I’m not
responsible for the failures of the public education system.
What am I supposed to do with these students?”
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2. Collaboration

36. • If we think that the students in class today have challenges,
just imagine how our students of tomorrow will feel…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
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2. Collaboration

37. The Elements
3. Technology
• It’s here and it’s not going away, in case you have doubts.
• It’s going to keep changing and we must acquire it and
manage it effectively.

38. • Should support the goals and objectives of the curriculum.
• Should provide a platform for engagement and
collaboration, plus have an appeal of real world relevance.
The Elements
3. Technology

39. • Learning and working with interactive technology tools
allows students to be intellectually challenged while
providing them with a realistic snapshot of what the modern
office looks like.
The Elements
3. Technology

40. • Students acquire and refine their analysis and problem-
solving skills as they work individually and in teams to find,
process, and synthesize information they've found online.
The Elements
3. Technology

41. • We live in a mobile world with distance learning.
• Very few of us today will be even close to being as
technologically sophisticated and integrated as the adult
learners of tomorrow.
The Elements
3. Technology

42. • The vulnerability of reliance on technology as the hub of
value and the sole platform of knowledge transference.
• Parables about escalators, staircases, PowerPoint and
Portal.
The Elements
3. Technology

43. • Regarding the future of technology, we will have to wait and
see how wonderful or how terrible it will be for education.
The Elements
3. Technology

44. • It reminds me of a parable…
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3. Technology

45. • On his 14th birthday, a boy in the village gets a horse...and
everybody in the village says, “How wonderful. The boy got
a horse.”
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3. Technology

46. • And the wise man of the village says, “We'll see.”
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3. Technology

47. • Two years later, the boy falls off the horse, breaks his leg,
and everyone in the village says, “How terrible.”
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3. Technology

48. • And the wise man of the village says, “We'll see.”
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3. Technology

49. • Then, a war breaks out and all the young men have to go
off and fight...except the boy can't go because his leg is all
messed up. Everybody in the village says, “How wonderful.”
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3. Technology

50. The Elements
3. Technology
• And the wise man of the village says, “We'll see.”

51. • And on and on and on it goes...
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3. Technology

52. The Elements
3. Technology
• The pros and cons of changes and updates in technology
will depend on how well we can sustain relevance with what
we have and what we don’t have...

53. • Sustainability as an element or theme of the future of 21st
century education has practical applications related to the
acquisition and disposal of technology.
The Elements
4. Sustainability

54. • It also addresses the consumption of resources and “green”
choices regarding facilities and materials used to “sustain”
classroom and business operations.
The Elements
4. Sustainability

55. The Elements
4. Sustainability
• We may view the other three elements as necessary for us
to incorporate as part of what we do effectively, in order to
“sustain” our enrollment goals, retention goals, and
placement goals.

56. • The best plan we can come up with for the future
sustainability of our success will include an outlook that
addresses and embraces and invests in becoming an
educational institution of quality processes and outcomes.
Engagement • Collaboration
Technology • Sustainability

57. • Engagement: We must seek the highest level of
psychological buy in, on the part of our students, our
faculty, our extern sites, and our network of connections.
Engagement • Collaboration
Technology • Sustainability

58. Engagement • Collaboration
Technology • Sustainability
• Collaboration: We must seek the highest level of
cooperation in our curriculum and processes, bringing
together our students, our faculty, our extern sites, and our
network of connections for gainful employment and
community outreach.

59. Engagement • Collaboration
Technology • Sustainability
• Technology: We must utilize technology to help facilitate the
aims of Engagement and Collaboration, and to improve the
teaching and learning networks for our students, our
faculty, and our community.

60. Engagement • Collaboration
Technology • Sustainability
• Sustainability: We must sustain ourselves and our
relevance by preparing for the future.