Digital Transformation in Higher Education—Buzzword or Opportunity?
Various institutions and scholars have proposed lists of skills likely to be needed in the next decade and beyond. [1, 2, 3] Interestingly, they do not include purely technical skills like programming but thinking (sense making, computational thinking, creativity, critical thinking), specific attitudes (design mindset, cognitive flexibility, adaptability, perseverance, agile working, ethics), and interaction with others (social and emotional intelligence, virtual collaboration, cross-cultural competency, people management, negotiation). Most of these skills are not related to a specific technology; specific technical or informatics skills are required for a few specialists only.
