COID - 2021 Annual Report - Digital Final - 210704 - Flipbook - Page 4
COLLEGE OF INNOVATION + DESIGN — Dean’s Report
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The rate of change in the workplace is accelerating
and producing dramatic shifts in skills needed to
succeed. Digitization, robotics, artificial
intelligence, and globalization are dramatically
altering the nature of work and the associated
skills and training needed.
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3. Rapidly Changing
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Emerging technologies (online, A.I., automation,
big data, and advances in cognitive sciences)
coupled with rising costs, are creating alternative
educational opportunities and economic incentives
that are attracting competition to, and promoting
disruption of, the current higher educational
system.
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Rising Cost: The rapidly rising cost of a college
degree is limiting access and creating massive
student debt. This decline in affordability is also
challenging the value of a college degree and
promoting the development of alternative models
of higher education.
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Three macro-scale drivers: rising costs,
technological change, and rapidly changing
workforce needs, are disrupting the traditional
model of higher education.
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