The Pros and Cons of the Digitization of Higher Education
In The News Piece in Education and Career News
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June 29, 2021
Alejandra Acosta was interviewed by Education and Career News about the technology schools should invest in to better support their students after a year of experimenting with digital learning.
Alejandra Acosta, policy analyst with the higher education initiative at New America, speaks to the kind of technology schools should invest in to better support their students.
How important is it to consider each student’s unique needs in optimizing their higher education experience?
It’s very important. I think it’s just challenging for schools to do that, considering they have so many students and needs are different and change over time. Often colleges operate on an old idea of what a student is like. Once they realize that their students are not like that, it takes time to change policy, procedure, and resources. And at that point, the student population might be different.
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