The future of work is uncertain. Students need knowledge and tools that help them navigate and influence their future. Most writing in the public sphere about automation focuses on fears of job loss, but previous research on automation suggests that the effects of automation are more complicated. Students should be less concerned about job loss and more concerned about how to navigate a changing future of work.

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This learning module gives educators resources to help familiarize students with advances in technology and changes in organizing that may affect the future work. The goal of the module is to empower students to have more effective deliberations about the future of work and to think critically now about what the future of their work should be. As teachers, we hope this module will help students realize and use the agency they have in shaping the future of work. Dr. Tasha Davis—a collaborator on this project, co-creator of this module, and faculty member at Austin Community College—also created a slide deck that can be adapted for teaching about this topic (PPT  PDF).  

 

Our research team and students led by filmmaker Anya Swanson also created Career Profiles that can help introduce students to work in health automation and analytics. Watch the videos below to hear the wise words of Dr. Senem Guney, former Vice President of Language Analytics at Press Ganey and Founder of NarrativeDx;  Lehua Gray, Senior UX Designer, and Anmol Abraham, Assistant Director of Health Information Systems at People's Community Clinic.

 

A key assignment in the module is the Career Profiles students create themselves. Take a look at the Profiles created by students enrolled in the Careers in Caregiving / Communicating with Patients course developed as a part of this research below too.