As everything in this age of transformation, Academic education is going through tremendous strain to keep up with a complete restructuring of the ever-evolving economic model.
In the last decades, a set of waves of revolutionary changes has swept the world, ending with old professions and creating the need for new ones. Most positions in hot demand today did not even exist a decade or five years ago, instead, a mix of disciplines are adapting and re-branding themselves in new ways to meet the new needs of the work market.
In such scenario, a formal academic structure, in which four to five years are required to build professional skills and work ethic in students, every curricular program could become obsolete while the student is coursing his career. Then, teeming information -and misinformation-, fills the ocean of the internet in the form of multiple and quite opportunistic pill-contained shells of data, promising knowledge and filling the mind-space of students with buzzwords and immediacy-tainted sense of pseudo-achievement. This reality in evolution tends towards more online, non-linear structures of content, which compete with formal academic careers, however still, the coin of certification being sought for as a token by the masses.
