1) There are challenges facing higher education and the workforce including high demand for tertiary education that will require building new universities at a rapid pace, and many current students will work in jobs that don't yet exist. 2) Emerging trends include new technologies like smartphones, tablets, and augmented reality, as well as new forms of learning and work such as social constructivism, connectivism, MOOCs, and freelancing. 3) A new paradigm for learning is emerging that is more open, personalized, focuses on learning by doing and transforming behaviors, and encourages innovative 3D thinking.

1. Future of Virtual Worlds
Education & Work
StylianosMystakidis
University of Patras

2. Challenges
1. High Demand for Higher Education
2. Increasing rate of Knowledge
Creation
3. Building Virtual Trust

3. Challenges explained
1. Tertiary education: 165 Million (2010)  263
in 2025 => 4 new universities / week for 15 y!
2. 65% of children entering grade school this
year will be working in professions that
haven't been created yet
3. Perform efficiently in geographically
distributed teams

4. Trends
1. New Technology
2. New Role of Learning
3. New Forms of Work

5. Trends explained
1. Smart phones, Tablets, Augmented Reality,
Gesture-based Computing (Kinect)
2. Learning is Work, Work is Learning
Emerging Instructional Strategies: Social
Constructivism, Connectivism, MOOC,
Gamification
3. Enterprise of One, Free Radicals

6. The New Learning Paradigm
• Different Model based on Open Education
• Mass Personalization: 1:1  1: ∞  ∞: ∞
• Learning to do
Apprentice  Practitioner  Master
• Residency & Behavior Transformation
• Thinking in 3D & Working Innovation