PEST analysis of Learning in HE #4 Technological

Digital disruption is the latest phase in the technological revolution.  It will be as far reaching as the Industrial Revolution was in the 18th Century.

As with the Industrial Revolution, it will have implications for jobs, economies, welfare, wealth, politics and even education.

Not only do Universities have to prepare students for working lives that will be disrupted, for jobs that do not even exist today but they also have to do so by harnessing technology (in the current guise of BigData) to provide hard pressed tutors with up to date analytics on student performance in order that interventions can be initiated.

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Many institutions will embrace this trend by using mobile apps to collect analytics data to feed into BigData systems. Data collected will be things like: attendance; VLE hits; assessed marks; library searches; library books withdrawn; number of comfort breaks per lecture session; size of Twitter following etc...

As I learned in my first computing class in the mid 1970's

RUBBISH IN...RUBBISH OUT