
Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

In addition to relying on their university for continuous learning, alumni will also stay connected through the ongoing use of career services and other support, with the operation evolving from a social capacity to a functional one.
Joseph Aoun • Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Increased demand for lifelong learning necessarily means that there will be an increased demand for teaching. As such, it is reasonable to expect that there will be a need for colleges and universities to expand their teaching faculties going forward.
Joseph Aoun • Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Instead of fitting it into old categories such as undergraduate and graduate courses, we can chunk it into smaller modular blocks that can be assembled according to learners’ targeted objectives. These blocks can then be combined and stacked in a way that is akin to a traditional degree, except that there will be many more permutations and combinat
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In addition to serving students as a group, higher education can be refit to serve the individual learner in a personalized and customized way.
Joseph Aoun • Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Growth mindsets see that natural talent and circumstance are not anchored contexts but are merely starting points from which to improve. People with a growth mindset possess the conviction that they can, though effort and diligence, change their abilities. They become self-reliant. This is of obvious use in converting setbacks into future successes
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As a matter of fact, entrepreneurship is a capacity that can be applied to any business context, including ones that have no intention of generating profits. Entrepreneurs who bring original ideas to bear on social inequities can use the tools of the marketplace to ease poverty, boost development, and advance social justice. Teaching entrepreneursh
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65 percent of children entering primary school today will eventually work in jobs that do not yet exist.28
Joseph Aoun • Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By understanding both interpretation and context, data literacy enables us to find meaning in the overwhelming flood of information pouring from our devices.
Joseph Aoun • Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
We are awash in data, so the next of our new literacies is data literacy, the capacity to understand and utilize Big Data through analysis.