Digital transformation is happening at warp speed, and higher education institutions struggle to know how to equip students for jobs that don’t exist yet. Introducing a round-table discussion on creating employable students at the Digital Universities US event, Courtney Miller from Adobe’s strategic education team explained that “every student has a story to tell”, noting that creativity will be a rare constant in this fast-moving dilemma.
From a pedagogical perspective, “the most important thing we can do as educators is to give students the curiosity to learn”, said Stephen Harmon, executive director for the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Institute of Technology. “Tools come and go very quickly, so we need to focus on outcomes.” A dangerous assumption is that students enter the workplace with extensive knowledge because they use social media; many…
