How come the EdTech startups are still struggling to penetrate and transform the higher education market? One reason is to the digital players’ poor apprehension of the university’s value chain. Will higher education institutions will resist digitization forever? It seems unlikely.

The Internet has revolutionized our access to knowledge. Education is on the verge of major changes. Nine recent pieces published in ParisTech Review try to make sense of this tsunami.

In the same way it revolutionized creative industries, digital technology is revolutionizing higher education, an industry that can be traced back almost a millennium, with the creation of the University of Bologna in 1088. Digital...

The ability and the need to become continuous learners are both indisputable. The real challenge is to put into practice this requirement and to implement continuous training seamlessly in professional careers.

“Serious games allow us to rediscover that play is the oldest, most natural and intuitive way of learning and socializing.”

Elitism is not the only factor that explains the overall high quality of the Japanese industry and its contribution to the rise of Japanese manufacturing. The “dispersion effect” during wartime can also provide some explanations...

Any child is capable of learning how to code. In a world where digital technologies are increasingly pervasive, it is healthy for future citizens to acquire a basic understanding of how their environment works. But...

The question first arose in the 1980s, with the advent of the personal computer: were we all going to have to learn to program? The development of the software industry seemed to have given one...

With the rise of machines, an important number of skills are bound to disappear. But the emergence of new issues also requires new forms of human expertise. Facing worldwide problems that we are yet unable...

Children of the digital era are accustomed to receiving information really fast. They like to parallel process and multi-task. Philosopher Michel Serres describes them as no longer having the same heads. Is it a generational...

Knowledge is becoming increasingly important in our economies and Society at large, to the extent that a new expression has been coined to baptize this new development phase: the knowledge-based economy. Characterized by the growing...

The Internet has revolutionized our access to knowledge. Why should education not be affected? Institutions are evolving, but the arrival of new technologies and practices such as MOOCs have only had a limited impact thus...

Today’s researchers are enduring a tough period compared to other scientists throughout history. Due to funding and institutional constraints, they have to work on short-term contracts serving commercial interests and must make promises that they...

Modern economies really need high level research scientists, but there are difficulties when it comes to proposing job openings to the PhDs. We have reached a point now where question has become: what is the...

The sudden and widespread advent of Massive Online Open Courses took universities by surprise and could potentially bring in-depth changes in the Higher Education scene. Still, major questions remain unsolved, such as: what business models...

The irreversible momentum of MOOCs is penetrating all levels of China’s education system, providing students with unprecedented freedom to select courses and access the best educational recourses at home and abroad. MOOCs break time and...