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Education And The Future Of Jobs, Singapore Management University
Education And The Future Of Jobs, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Technological advances could soon produce robots so efficient that human labour will effectively be eliminated. Jobs that require skills that are supposedly beyond that of robot - journalism, computer programming, and even medicine - could soon be done by robots.How does that change the role of education?
Disruptive Innovation In The Classroom, Singapore Management University
Disruptive Innovation In The Classroom, Singapore Management University
Perspectives@SMU
Disruptive innovation, as described on the website of the man who coined the term, Clayton Christensen, is "a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves up market, eventually displacing established competitors". Prominent examples include how the personal computer (disruptor) displaced the mainframe computer (disruptee), cellular phones displacing fixed line telephony, and community colleges eating into the market share of four-year colleges.