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Modern higher education prepares students for digital workforce

25.04.19 12:55 PM By ulyati1977

If a person make the decision to go to college or university to further their studies, they make the active choice to consciously pursue further academic success. This is obviously a good thing, but it inevitably comes with its challenges. Education is a privilege, and it is also often the gateway from a passionate love for something, to an exhilarating career. Every moment in the journey from being a student, to becoming a professional in one’s chosen field, comes with its own experiences and emotions.

  

Whether a student is sifting through the Edureka career guide to decide on their chosen majors, or going to the latest events and networking events to get some real-time experience around those in industries of potential career interest, education has it all. Now, education is also reimagining itself to realign with the way of a changing world, and in the process it is preparing students for the workforce they will enter into once they graduate – a workforce that is becoming exceedingly digital as time goes on.

  

The world is going digital

  

It is no secret that the world is becoming exceedingly digitally-inclined. We live in a world that is made to our own specific designs, and we are the masters of our universe. Digital inclination is part of the package, and the more and more that we come to grips with, and further advance, our technological reaches, the more hinged on those reaches the world around us – and we ourselves – become. It is the way of the world, and we are in control of that world, definitively and without exception. Everything from education and entertainment, to healthcare and the workforce, is changing thanks to technology.

  

Modern education realigning with the gravitational shift of the rest of the world

  

So, the world is digitally-inclined, and continues to become even more so as time goes on. Now, education is a historically traditional industry in its own right, but in recent years it has been somewhat forced to realign its models and methods so that it coincides once again with the way of the rest of the world. Technological disruption hit the education industry on a global scale not too long ago, and ever since education has been taking on more and more technological innovations (think online learning, digital assessment submissions, and the virtual classroom, for example).

  

Modern education prepares students for digital workforce

  

With the whole world steadily becoming more digitally-focused, it should come as little surprise that the workforce is becoming more focused on digitalisation as well. In fact, we are well on the way to coming face to face with a digital workforce. Interestingly, it seems that the changes in education are perfectly timed to evolve with the changing workforce. The students that are going through the education system today are being equipped with technological innovations and a remote learning alternative, and these concepts of modern education are perfect segways into the digital workforce that is coming into play more and more – a workforce where digital innovations even remote career paths and job opportunities are more common than ever. The future of the workforce is decidedly digital, and modern education is the perfect preparation tank for students to get them ready to dive into it.