Labor Market Trends, EdTech, and the Need for Digitally Reengineering Higher Education

College Education: Continuity And Change

A recent poll predicted that nearly half of the jobs in the U.S. are at risk of being taken over by computers within the next two decades (Oxford, 2013). Only 37% percent of workers said that if they lost their job to a machine they would turn to a college or university for retraining. Higher Education is facing forces that are bound to affect how faculty teach and how students learn over the coming decades (Armstrong, 2016). Engagement in higher education should move outside of the internal stakeholder satisfaction. Currently, universities and other scholarship gatekeepers rank each other without due regard to external stakeholders and this is a major impediment to universities responding to changing demands of the environment (Fitzgerald, Bruns, Sonka, Furco, & Swanson, 2016).