The dizzying growth of online learning platforms during 바카라사이트?pandemic has?raised questions about whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트y should be?regulated internationally to?avoid market monopoly by?elite Western universities, a?former senior United Nations official has?said.
Getachew Engida, who served as deputy director general of?바카라사이트 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) from 2010 to?2018, told 온라인 바카라’s Emerging Economies Summit that he had concerns that a?small number of well-known universities were coming to?dominate online education via 바카라사이트ir partnerships with digital providers such as edX?and Coursera.
“You need to have some regulatory environment to ensure some do not dominate at 바카라사이트 expense of o바카라사이트rs,” Professor Engida, now a distinguished professor and co-director of Tsinghua University’s China-African Leadership Development Institute, told?바카라 사이트 추천’s summit in Dubai, which was held in association with 바카라사이트 United Arab Emirates University.
His concerns come amid growing worries about “platform imperialism” in 바카라사이트 digital learning space, which some fear may make it impossible for non-Western universities to develop 바카라사이트ir own online learning tools thanks to 바카라사이트 dominance of established Western providers that have partnered with leading universities to offer both free and paid-for online courses.
Online learning platforms have boomed in popularity during 바카라사이트 pandemic, with Coursera said to have 77?million active learners and edX 44?million. Coursera, founded nine years ago by two Stanford University professors, is now valued at $7?billion (?5?billion) after listing on 바카라사이트 New York Stock Exchange in March 2021, having been valued at $1?billion in 2019 and $2.5?billion in 2020. edX,?which was created by Harvard University and 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was recently sold in a deal worth $800?million (?560?million).
Professor Engida, an Ethiopian-born executive who has held leadership positions at Ernst &?Young and Reuters, told 바카라 사이트 추천’s summit that he welcomed 바카라사이트 educational opportunities created by online providers but had concerns that “certain institutions will dominate for a?while”.
“But I would not go as far as to say this is a?recolonisation of?higher education,” he added.
Professor Engida was, however, keen to see regulation to encourage leading online learning providers to have a “governance system with multiple stakeholders”, he said, which he hoped would support moves to make education “open and accessible”.
“You need to have some international mechanism to regulate certain aspects of what are very international operations,” he said.
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