Technology Impact On College Education

When the majority people think of what a few hundred thousand dollars looks like hanging on the wall, they may imagine themselves standing on the beautiful parquet floors of the Louvre, staring at one of the many beautiful artworks. In reality, millions of people in the US will need to look no further than the dusty, forgotten college degree hanging up in their home office. Technology is changing the human experience, and in its wake, certain college degrees are being rendered obsolete. As a result, an influx of adults is returning to school to expand their education and, for some, even to acquire an entirely different degree altogether. Once considered the backbone of higher education, bachelor’s degrees, earned as recently as a decade ago, …show more content…
Consequently, the once-prominent fields of literature, mathematics, and science have suffered a substantial impact from technology and its ability to produce a more convenient everyday life. Over the past quarter century, colleges and universities even have begun to offer fewer and more limited degrees in these studies in favor of the ones more readily able to adapt with technology as continues to reforge the present. In the same way businesses have had to reevaluate, schools themselves are struggling to keep stride with these similar changes and they face their own unique set of challenges presented by the online world and, the unlimited resources the stroke of a key has to offer. Having to physically attend a lecture in a brick-and-mortar building is becoming passé in a world that simply does not have the time to sit down and take it all …show more content…
A large portion of students who will enroll in college this year will be over twenty-five years of age and, a great deal of whom will be working to develop the skills and expertise necessary to launch a second career, or to take a current career to the next level. Others returning students, have come to the realization that an education needs to come in stages and grow as it becomes necessary. The stigma of college being for young people no longer exists, and the reasons to go back are as diverse as the people making that choice. For those people who are willing to venture forward and carve their own path, it has never been easier to open a laptop at the local coffee shop and work on a second degree—a new