Education

Digital technology's role in enabling skills development for a connected world

Axelle Devaux, Julie Belanger, Sarah Grand-Clement, Catriona Manville

Expert InsightsPublished Jul 3, 2017

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This Perspective explores the ways in which the growth of digital technology is impacting education and skills. The authors state that technology is not only more prevalent in people's lives, but its growing use will affect schools' curriculum, new digital skills in jobs, and the changing use of services. However, they point out that education establishments are not keeping up with the technology growth, that new skills will have to be learnt outside of only digital skills, and that digital technology could lead to increased social exclusion for different sections of our society.

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Devaux, Axelle, Julie Belanger, Sarah Grand-Clement, and Catriona Manville, Education: Digital technology's role in enabling skills development for a connected world, RAND Corporation, PE-238-CI, July 2017. As of September 8, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE238.html
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Devaux, Axelle, Julie Belanger, Sarah Grand-Clement, and Catriona Manville, Education: Digital technology's role in enabling skills development for a connected world. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2017. https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE238.html.
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