Higher Education News & Updates: How Technology & Donald Trump’s Higher Ed Platform Affect The Evolution Of Higher Education

The burgeoning learning gap is perhaps one of major issues that are plaguing higher education today. That's why education experts are calling for policy reforms and higher quality solutions to provide to education development opportunities.

In addition to the large learning gap, ineffective educators and poor accountability are also among the key issues in education. Fortunately, the global community is prompting world leaders to give importance on education such as funding in times of crises and emergencies, Huffington Post notes.

How Technology Affect The Evolution Of Higher Education

Did you know technology can either be a major disruptor and innovator in higher education? According to The Economic Times, technology has a huge potential to disrupt the higher education in three major categories - administration's efficiency, student's preparation and educator's effectiveness.

Personalized and self-learning tools can help students learn and progress at their own pace and when integrated with higher education, teachers will be able to follow the learning data of every student and offer individual intervention. However, technology's ability to provide intensive and diversified learning can also easily disrupt education, especially for teacher development.

How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Higher Education

In addition to technology, the rise of artificial intelligence also has an impact on the evolution of higher education. In fact, most if not all professions, including education, has been significantly affected as a result of the knowledge economy's eruption.

With the accumulation of specialized knowledge, the world has experienced an increase in specialization and sub-specialization, making it difficult to focus on one are of studies. Fortunately, artificial intelligence can address the fragmentation of knowledge in sub-domains, University World News reveals.

In addition, artificial intelligence can also customize knowledge and make higher education more flexible. That's why recent studies appear to show the demand to control individual's education path through selectively accessing knowledge is increasing.

How Donald Trump's Education Platform Will Affect Higher Education

Donald Trump's higher education policy has been quite nonexistent during his victorious Republican presidential primaries. But according to Morningside College Economics professor and Trump's policy director and national co-chair Sam Clovis, some of the higher education ideas of the 69-year-old 2016 U.S. Presidential nominee could be "revolutionary," Inside Higher Ed reports.

Clovis said the Trump campaign expects higher education as a major issue during the fall general election and among the proposals under consideration would be the upending of the current system of student loans. However, final decisions have yet to be made or when the ideas will be formally unveiled.

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