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Title: Are you prepared for Millennials and beyond


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Are you prepared forMillennials and beyond.?a
perspective from higher educationJanet Staker
Woerner Associate ProfessorHerzing
University
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Conversation
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Context
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Learning Organization
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And one other factor.
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Pew Institute
Generation Name Birth Years In 2010 of total adult population of internet-using population
Millennial Born 1977-1992 Ages 18-33 30 35
Gen X Born 1965-1976 34-45 19 21
Younger Boomers Born 1955-1964 Ages 46-55 20 20
Older Boomers Born 1946-1954 Ages 56-64 14 13
Silent Generation Born 1937-1945 Ages 65-73 7 5
G.I. Generation Born 1936, Age 74 9 3
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Millennials- Fast Facts
  • Diverse
  • Achievement orientated
  • Conventional
  • Not afraid of failure
  • Virtual
  • Sense of Social Responsibility
  • Impatient
  • Active/hands-on learners/multi taskers
  • Challenge authority
  • Spending power exceeds 200 billion
  • Independent
  • Strong views
  • Programmed and team oriented.
  • Stressed. Compared with five years ago, 81 of
    college mental health service directors reported
    an increase in students with serious
    psychological problems. .
  • Howe and Strauss- Generational Learning Styles
    Julie Coates 2007

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Reality in Education today
  • On average across Organization for Economic
    Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries,
    the proportion of people with at least an upper
    secondary education has risen from 45 to 81.
  • OECD (2011), Education at Glance 2011
    OECD Indicators, OECD Publishing.
  • http//dx.doi.org/10.1787/eag-2011-en
  • 92 of ages use online video students expect
    to be entertained
  • Education is one of the strongest predictors of
    having more close social ties. Those with a
    4-year university degree average 12 more close
    ties than those with only a high school diploma
    Pew Institute
  • HERI (Higher Education Research Institute) 2007
    data show
  • ? The top 5 life goals for college-bound students
    have
  • not changed much over the year

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So
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Generation Z
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Generation Z
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The Challenge
  • Experiential learning opportunities
  • Learning communities informal learning
  • Expectations shared up-front
  • Feedback
  • Utilization of their talents.
  • Systems approach to problems.
  • Flexibility for creativity
  • Multiple options for performance
  • Plan focus time in short segments
  • Technology open classroom
  • Generational Learning Julie Coates 2007

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New Ways to Learn
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Needed Skills for today and the future
  • Education
  • Social Networking
  • Literacy on a Holistic Scale
  • Foresight and Insight
  • Innovation
  • Leadership
  • Life Long Learning Florida, R. Rise of
    Creative Class
  • http//www.21stcenturyskills.org/

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Peter Drucker
  • We must now accept the fact that learning is a
    lifelong process of keeping abreast of change.
    And the most pressing task is to teach people how
    to learn.
  • American management guru ( 1909 - 2005)

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Thank you
  • Questions
  • Contact me at
  • Janet Staker Woerner
  • jstakerwoerner_at_msn.herzing.edu
  • http//www.linkedin.com/in/janetstakerwoerner
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