Shaping the Unscripted Future: The Role of Service-eLearning

The United States is now sprinting out of the Industrial/Manufacturing Age through the Information/Knowledge-based/Technological global age-- and beyond. Unprecedented changes affecting every aspect of life are occurring throughout the world. Perhaps the best-known work regarding the impacts on the United States, its workforce, and global competitiveness, is Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat" (2006) in which he details the economically flattening world and sets out possibilities for educators and students alike to address a massive set of interrelated changes. Service-eLearning, an integrative pedagogy and critical learning model, presents itself as an ideal pedagogy for the Unscripted Future we face-- a future conceptualized broadly as the myriad of consequences (known and unknown) of the increasingly fast-paced, dynamic, and unpredictable changes in the global/economic/technological context of human life. Chapter from Service-eLearning: Educating for Citizenship.