Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Tech Future Promotes Continuing Professional Education - Ray Schroeder, Inside Higher Ed

It wasn’t that long ago that professional education was the less-respected, fragile forum for night school, weekend programs, extension and applied study at many colleges and universities. More recently housing the nascent online programs of the 1990s, this school or college was last in recognition and stature among the more powerful renowned and acclaimed schools and colleges. The sooner we adapt to more efficient access to external databases and broad retrieval of digital information, the better we will be prepared to shift with the rapidly changing workplace in order to remain relevant and useful as employees. Of course, we will add our own personalities, perspectives, ethos, philosophies and histories to applying the data tapped through technology, thereby adding the value of our thoughts and experiences. Guiding us along the way will be continuing professional education. Professional education will enable us to apply our human understanding and values to empower us to advance even as previous jobs we had held disappear into history.

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/online-trending-now/2026/06/10/tech-future-promotes-continuing-professional