In the closing speech at COABE 2017, XPRIZE Foundation CEO Marcus Shingles gave a wake-up call to adult educators warning that the Fourth Industrial Revolution will change learning at speeds and in ways we could never imagine.

Digital technologies develop exponentially. Their biggest impacts occur relatively overnight and tend to blindside whole industries.

Whereas it took 100 years of technological advancement for $1,000 to be able to buy the computational power of an insect, the speed of change nowadays is mind-boggling. That same $1,000 will soon buy the power of one human brain. In the next 25 years, $1,000 will likely buy one billion times more power than all human brains combined.

Early REGISTRATION and the CALL FOR PROPOSALS are now open! Connect and engage with colleagues from across the country at the National College Transition Network’s 11th annual conference on Effective Transitions in Adult Education on November 13 - 15, 2017 at the Crowne Plaza at the Crossings, Providence (Warwick), RI.

Our conference is a time to join with adult education, workforce development, and postsecondary educators, advisors, and administrators in a community of peers to affirm a shared vision of access to educational and economic opportunity for adult learners. The conference is designed to strengthen our practice, and catalyze collaboration as we experience changes in the national landscape that affect our work at the local level.