Year: 2018
Type: editorial
Abstract: If you are feeling like you cannot keep up with all the changes technology is embedding into academic life, you are not alone.Our experience of technology innovation as coming in shorter and shorter time periods, sometimes termed the acceleration debate (Marshall, 2018), challenges even the most enthusiastic first-adopter among us to take a breath and consider all the tools, systems, and innovations we encounter through our academic engagements.One common theme in our Journal of Management Education editorial work is considering how technology is affecting publishing overall, and particularly how technology might help us improve readers' experience with (and access to) our articles in addition to how it might assist us in disseminating the important scholarly insights our authors impart to the global management education community.While we are frequently reminded of technology's power and scope of impact when engaged in our editorial responsibilities, we have discovered a "secret" source of technological prowess and innovation insight: teenagers.Much as we do, Jeanie's adult sons engage with technology as professionals in their respective fields, but Kathy still has two teenagers at home.These teens provide a window on the future of learning in higher education as technology morphs from K-12 education (P-12 or K-16 in some countries), the system that serves young children to teenagers through their primary and secondary schooling, to postsecondary education.During our regular conversations (themselves a technological gift using Skype or FaceTime), we have marveled at how learning in K-12 has evolved and influences how we engage students at a university level.
Authors: Kathy Lund Dean, Jeanie M. Forray
Institutions: Gustavus Adolphus College, Western New England University
Language: English
Subfield: Life-span and Life-course Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: Gustavus Adolphus College
OpenAlex ID: W2888065691