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Assessment of emerging educational technologies

Dede, C. (1995). Assessment of emerging educational technologies that might assist and enhance school-to-work transitions. Washington, D.C.: National Technical Information Service.

Assessment of technologies comparison table

This table compares the attributes of the technology discussed in the study.

Executive Summary: Today's unique challenge in preparing for the evolving American workplace.

Section I of this study discusses how maintaining a "high skill/high wage" niche for America in the global marketplace requires a shift in work roles. Our economy is shifting away from smart machines automating human labor to manufacture standardized commodities. Instead, people increasingly are working in partnership with intelligent tools to create customized products and services. As this transformation to a post-industrial, "knowledge-based" economy occurs, an evolution of job requirements toward higher-order thinking skills is taking place in all types of occupations, blue- as well as white-collar. With advances in information technology during the next decade, people's creativity and flexibility will be vital as job skills, because the standardized aspects of problem solving will be increasingly absorbed by machines. Until the need for these new types of skills is routine in workplace settings, shifting the emphasis of occupational education is difficult for teachers and employers to initiate-- but by then a generation of our workers will be ill-prepared to compete in the global economic arena. The core challenge is to prepare today's students for a future workplace more disparate from present experience than at any time since the industrial revolution."

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