Do we need multidisciplinary skills? doubts few researchers

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Given the development and advances for stability and steady growth in higher education, now have reached a new age and working environment. As the growth followed in the education sector, it now faces a series of challenges, including sophisticated technology. Few of these challenges are related to competition, the workplace, and technology. For instance, visualization tools and high-performance computing have become a crucial part of chemistry, physics, and molecular biology laboratories. But the computation for creating images and interpret them, which is central to various research areas, faces challenges and demands for multidisciplinary academicians to teach students from a diversified educational background. Despite the importance, some doubts the ability of multidisciplinary and their magnitude in the education system. The author Arthur Levine wailed on higher education and wrote that “traditional higher education will rush into, or worse yet, will be pushed headlong into the new digital economy.” Furthermore, to help students with molecular visualizations and their computation, educators, computer scientists, and graphic artists are central to the higher education system. The changes in technology significantly impacted the higher education system, processes, and decision-making.

"Intimate society between people radically dissimilar to one another is an idle dream. Unlikeness may attract, but it is likeness which retains."

-John Stuart Mill

In the year 2000, Abel mentioned the importance of acquiring additional skills for professionals to play the new roles in the dawn of digitalization. Multidisciplinarity is not only important for science, sociology, and economics but also entrepreneurship.

Reference:

1. Eleonora Fiore, Giuliano Sansone, and Emilio Paolucci, Entrepreneurship Education in a Multidisciplinary Environment: Evidence from an Entrepreneurship Programme Held in Turin, Administrative Sciences, 2019.

2. Michael J. Jacobson and Uri Wilensky, Complex Systems in Education: Scientific and Educational Importance and Implications for the Learning Sciences, The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2006.

3. Gerben s. Van der Vegt and J. Stuart Bunderson, Learning and performance in multidisciplinary teams: the importance of collective team identification, Academy of Management Journal, 2005.