Higher education has long been established, Dr. Wesch questions the approach and purpose of learning and education. He discovers the questions students are really asking themselves and resources alumni developed during their time in the classroom. Learning is not about a grade or score, allow Dr. Wesch to share how he came to understand education from a new perspective.

Michael Wesch was dubbed “the prophet of an education revolution” by the Kansas City Star and “the explainer” by Wired Magazine, Wesch is a recipient of the “US Professor of the Year” Award from the Carnegie Foundation. His videos on culture, technology, education and information have been viewed over 20 million times, translated in over 20 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. His research on the effects of social media and digital technology on global society and education concludes that they don’t automatically foster significant learning or establish genuine empathy or meaningful bonds between professors and students. Using social media is but one of the many possible ways to connect, but the message that Wesch’s experimentation brings is that only genuine connections may restore the sense of joy and curiosity that we hope to instill in our students.

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