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<p>About the Author</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>1 Higher Education’s Challenge to Change</p> <p>2 Yesterday’s Education Meets Today’s World</p> <p>3 The Innovation Economy Needs a New Graduate</p> <p>4 Students Need a New Experience</p> <p>5 The Case for Place-Based Education</p> <p>6 Hybrid Learning</p> <p>7 The Promise of a New Generation</p> <p>Afterword</p> <p>About the Author</p> <p>Index</p>

<P><B>GLORIA CORDES LARSON, ESQ., </B>was elected to the presidency of Bentley University after a prestigious career as an attorney, public policy expert, and business leader. Before joining Bentley, Gloria was co-chair of the Government Strategies Group at Foley Hoag LLP. She led a business advisory cabinet for Massachusetts Democratic Governor Deval Patrick and served as Secretary of Economic Affairs and Secretary of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation under Massachusetts Republican Governor William Weld. </p>

<p>How can we as parents, educators, and members of the business community prepare students to be successful leaders in today’s global environment? It’s a critically important question. Gloria Cordes Larson, president of Bentley University, begins by explaining why our current practices in higher education are inadequate preparation for our rapidly evolving innovation economy. Instead, she passionately advocates for a hybrid-learning model that integrates business with traditional liberal arts courses, a well-documented and highly effective teaching and learning model.</p> <p>Larson makes the case for a sound grounding in humanities, as well as specific training in the technical and professional domains. Most importantly, this text highlights the importance of helping students develop a cooperative learning style that will easily translate to any work environment. This hybrid-learning model parallels and complements the “learning organization” model used by the world’s most advanced companies. <p><i>PreparedU</i> describes how hybrid learning takes place in four critical venues: classroom, cohort, community, and corporation. This vital resource fills a gap in the literature and addresses the call from global businesses searching for managers who can alternate between technical acumen and “people management” skills. Today’s businesses need and demand a new kind of “hybrid” graduate, possessed of both hard and soft skills, with the courage to take risks, the creativity to innovate, and the savvy to excel in a turbulent competitive climate. <p>This book is an inspiring and valuable resource for participants in every learning community: our homes, schools and business environments. It will change the way you think about what excellence in education means in today’s business environment as you develop sound strategies and practices that will help move our children, students, and future employees forward in a rapidly changing and very challenging world. Prepared with that training and knowledge, they will find greater fulfillment and make their own mark on the future.

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