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The Digital Transformation of Healthcare Education

EdTech4Beginners

The World Health Organization predicts a worldwide shortfall of 15 million healthcare workers by 2030. Social distancing policies forced many schools to transition towards online instruction almost overnight rapidly. This acceleration into high-tech is driven mainly by necessity.

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‘Digital skills gap’ threatens innovation

eSchool News

“There are just not enough people with the right digital skills to enable the transformation that companies are seeking,” said Salil Gunashekar , a research leader and associate director at RAND Europe who focuses on science and technology policy. RAND Europe, the European arm of global research firm RAND Corp.,

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The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

Edsurge

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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COLUMN: The world is waking up to education’s essential role in climate solutions

The Hechinger Report

75 percent of youth in a UNESCO survey said that they are frightened about their future because of climate change. Among 17,000 11- to 19-year-olds surveyed globally, 70 percent say that they cannot explain climate change, can only explain its broad principles, or do not know anything about it. Furthermore, at COP 27, UNESCO, the U.N.’s

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When nurses are needed most, nursing programs aren’t keeping up with demand

The Hechinger Report

Estimates of the problem vary dramatically, from a projected shortage of 510,394 registered nurses nationwide by 2030 , based on a formula used by scholars at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and elsewhere, to a predicted shortfall in some states by then but a surplus in others, according to federal forecasts.

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The changing geography of work: a new report

Bryan Alexander

McKinsey just published a new report, “The future of work in America: People and places, today and tomorrow” ( summary ; longer document ), looking ahead to 2030 after new technologies have had some impact. The report isn’t happy with this, and asks us to make policy changes now.

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Impatient for workers, businesses help students take college shortcuts

The Hechinger Report

Nearly one-third of teenagers now say they would prefer their postsecondary education to last two years or less , a survey by the ECMC Group, a nonprofit education corporation, found. Researchers at the Georgetown Center predict that by 2030 only 30 percent of jobs will be available to workers with just a high school education.