The 60-Year Curriculum: New Models for Lifelong Learning in the Digital Economy

The 60-Year Curriculum explores models and strategies for lifelong learning in an era of profound economic disruption and reinvention. Over the next half-century, globalization, regional threats to sustainability, climate change, and technologies such as artificial intelligence and data mining will transform our education and workforce sectors. In turn, higher education must shift to offer every student life-wide opportunities for the continuous upskilling they will need to achieve decades of worthwhile employability. This cutting-edge book describes the evolution of new models―covering computer science, inclusive design, critical thinking, civics, and more―by which universities can increase learners’ trajectories across multiple careers from mid-adolescence to retirement. Stakeholders in workforce development, curriculum and instructional design, lifelong learning, and higher and continuing education will find a unique synthesis offering valuable insights and actionable next steps.

Christopher J. Dede is Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA, where he served as Chair of the Learning and Teaching Department.

John Richards is Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA, and President of Consulting Services for Education, Inc. (CS4Ed). He has served as President of the JASON Foundation for Education and Senior Vice President and General Manager of Turner Learning, Inc.