“A call to action issued June 12 by the Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) urges educators and policy makers to create a presidential commission to redesign post-secondary education in efforts to better prepare students for 21st-century careers—and technology must be a key component of this new design, the forum said.
Besides establishing a high-level commission, the forum also recommends fostering lifelong learning skills and individualized learning, establishing regional innovation centers for the redesign of education, and providing more funding for technology infrastructure.
The group’s call to action, entitled ‘Building a Nation of Learners: The Need for Changes in Teaching and Learning to Meet Global Challenges,’ proposes concrete steps to fulfill the shortage of skilled workers facing the nation in an increasingly knowledge-based economy….
The report emphasizes that education redesign cannot be accomplished without technology. ‘When all the elements of redesigned education are compared to those solutions that use information technology (IT) and those that do not, the important role of IT becomes obvious,’ the report says.
‘Following the invention of the personal computer, it took 15 years of investment in technology infrastructure to enable companies to fundamentally redesign the way business was done. Similarly, the right technological infrastructure is necessary before broad change and efficiency gains can occur in education.’
BHEF says the nation’s investment in higher-education technology infrastructure lags behind its K-12 investments.”
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