Academia and the jobs of tomorrow

What do you want to work with when you grow up? Think about this question asked twenty years ago, how many would have said social media manager, SEO specialist or app developer?

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“Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories,” according to prominent research psychologist Robert Epstein (2016). So why do we often speak about teaching as a transfer of information? The so-called “transmission approach” (Open University), while rejected by many practising teachers and educational theorists, remains at the core of popular understandings of …

Do Androids Dream of Electric Teachers?

We have heard this before: due to cognitive computing, fewer and fewer jobs will be safe from automation. Not just repetitive jobs. Robots will soon master skills that we thought could only be acquired by humans through higher education (Frey & Osborne, 2017). Automated teaching, employing robots that adapt to the learning style of their …