Giving Compass' Take:

• This EdSurge post reports on the importance of higher education institutions developing ways to meet students where they are on the technology side, especially in workforce preparation.

• How can we modernize higher ed more and allow for more flexibility? Cross-sector collaboration is one prescription.

• Here's how AI and VR are changing higher ed instruction.

There is no shortage of employers using social media to recruit new hires. These employers even enlist their own young employees to tweet, post on Instagram or their favorite social media, and talk about how good it is to work at their company.

But how do you reach and motivate a 16- to 24-year old still living at home — or worse, on the street or as an itinerant — to interact with educational opportunities? We need to move from typical programs with standard outreach to the design, testing and iteration required to cross into the real app world and ramp it up in new ways with younger people in the design, development and delivery process.

It should be noted that there are powerful corporations investing in expensive solutions that could help lead the way. Among them are Salesforce, Workday, SAP, LinkedIn, Amazon, and others that have the back-office capability to power such bridge-spanning apps that live and operate in both higher education and in major employers. However, outside their sales environment, inside most of these giant cloud-based organizations there is little motivation to take on the work of bridging old processes into a new equity-focused opportunity space.

Read the full article about bridging the "app gap" in higher education by Gordon Freedman at EdSurge.