Futurists Say More Personalization and Technology Will Become Norm

Future U: What will it look like? Is BYU paving the way to higher ed’s promised land?

How will the universities future generations attend differ from those we attend today?

In the year 2015, Sarah will take a single face-to-face class, one for which she paid extra just to get on a wait list, with her university’s star cognitive scientist. She is taking four other classes, but those she attends from the comfort of her off-campus apartment. She meets her professors in cyberspace, or not at all.

Sarah began her college education in 2012 with a dream of starting her own blogging and social networking website for other who, like her, share a passion for the Renaissance, art and all things European. She is one of her school’s first Integrated Studies majors, a student who constructs her own degree by assembling pre-approved course modules in her areas of interest.