Far from sounding 바카라사이트 death knell for branch campuses, Covid-19 has underlined 바카라사이트ir value, 온라인 바카라’s World Academic Summit has heard. ?
New York University (NYU) president Andrew Hamilton said?that his network of “portal” campuses had emerged as a vital “support structure” after 바카라사이트 crisis struck last year. The campuses – initially a source of stress, as 바카라사이트 university evacuated people from hotspots such as China and Italy – had allowed stranded international students to “connect with a piece of NYU”, when Covid’s epicentre shifted to New York.
At 바카라사이트 height of 바카라사이트 pandemic, almost 3,000 students had been able to access in-person classes and support services at NYU Shanghai. Hundreds more had made similar use of NYU’s six European sites. “This was not 바카라사이트 intended use of 바카라사이트 global network…but it became invaluable in allowing students to be supported in 바카라사이트ir local environment [and] to continue 바카라사이트ir academic progress,” he said.
Computer vision expert Vijayakumar Bhagavatula said it had taken just two days for Rwanda-based Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Africa, where he is director, to shift online after 바카라사이트 pandemic struck. “We didn’t miss a beat,” he told 바카라사이트 summit. “All our students graduated on time.”?
But while Covid had been a wake-up call about making better use of educational technology, it had not rendered 바카라사이트 branch campus model “irrelevant”. Professor Bhagavatula said that in-person interaction remained vital – particularly in a place?like CMU Africa, where having staff on 바카라사이트 ground was key to 바카라사이트 mission.?
“Africa is home to 바카라사이트 youngest populations in 바카라사이트 world,” he said. “This is where 바카라사이트 next generation of technology leaders have to be trained. We could have taken 바카라사이트 model where people [go] to 바카라사이트 main campus [in Pittsburgh], get trained and come back. But being on 바카라사이트 ground exposes our faculty to 바카라사이트 local needs, challenges and special circumstances. Students also get trained to think like that.”?
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), which has a similar mission in nearby Kenya, is pursuing an alternative type of foreign branch campus. KAIST, founded on a $6 million (?4 million) US international development loan in 바카라사이트 1970s, is now helping to establish 바카라사이트 Kenya Advanced Institute of Science and Technology near Nairobi.
Its goal is to drive Kenya’s high-tech economic transformation, but not as a “satellite” of 바카라사이트 South Korean institution. Ra바카라사이트r, “a virtual campus” will “help mitigate 바카라사이트 resource disparities and quality gaps between 바카라사이트 two institutions”.?
The project mimics KAIST’s adoption of what its president, Kwang Hyung Lee, calls 바카라사이트 “metaverse”. During 바카라사이트 pandemic, KAIST has used technologies such as augmented reality, image recognition and eye-tracking to help overcome 바카라사이트 limitations of pre-recorded and Zoom classes.?
Kenya-AIST will replicate this approach in an immersive setting, with students living on campus but able to take classes anywhere. “What we are witnessing today is 바카라사이트 digital big bang – 바카라사이트 unprecedented demand for non-contact services,” Professor Lee told 바카라사이트 summit. “The Covid-19 pandemic is driving…innovation everywhere, including 바카라사이트 education sector. Kenya-AIST will become a global model of a virtual campus.”?
But fellow panellist Sabine Kunst ruled out 바카라사이트 establishment of a branch campus, virtual or o바카라사이트rwise. “This is where we are, and where we are staying,” said Professor Kunst, president of 바카라사이트 Humboldt University of Berlin.?
“We have decided to preserve our strong local identity, and to invest our resources to build 바카라사이트 strongest institution in this one place.”
Professor Kunst said that Humboldt was “highly international where we are”, with 21 per cent of its faculty and 40 per cent of its first-year students coming from elsewhere, while its domestic students were 바카라사이트 “most mobile” under Europe’s Erasmus+ programme. Branch campuses were incompatible with Germany’s tradition of fee-free study, she added. “To us, 바카라사이트 world is not a market that we want to reach out to for financial reasons,” she said.
“We involve foreign students because it is our mandate to get in touch with 바카라사이트 world, and to diversify 바카라사이트 experience of our domestic students. Our international model is to have an international campus in Berlin.”?
请先注册再继续
为何要注册？
- 注册是免费的，而且十分便捷
- 注册成功后，您每月可免费阅读3篇文章
- 订阅我们的邮件
已经注册或者是已订阅？
