The Impact of E-Learning on the Future Job Market – Predicting a New Educational Type of Learning Style for The Next Generations
The Impact of E-Learning on the Future Job Market – Predicting a New Educational Type of Learning Style for The Next Generations

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to present a theoretical analysis of a new educational type of learning style for the next generations. We are in a new era of a technological breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics that will change the jobs as we know them. Some jobs will disappear and new ones will be created. In the next decades, machines and robots are expected to perform more current tasks than humans and there will be a need of new skilled workers that could program, design and handle the Artificial Intelligence. What happens with the ones that will be left out? It will be a critical issue for the businesses to take a proactive role in supporting their existing employees through reconverting to new areas of competencies and for the educational institutes to create an environment that facilitates workforce transformation. The change in the educational paradigm should have two key components: soft skills and technical skills. Soft skills are the key abilities for the ones that will reconvert from jobs that will disappear and technical skills are the key abilities for the jobs that aren't created yet. The best scenario would be to combine the two skill sets and the challenge for this will be to merge them in: a new educational platform for students and a new one for reconverting education for both adults and elders. The studies show us that we are not proactive on the issue of preparing the workforce that will fill the job market in the future. This article will review a series of predictions regarding jobs that will be created based on the digitalization of old industries, new technological areas and a modern way of education.

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