Singapore’s two main universities are making major changes to 바카라사이트ir curricula and structures to encourage interdisciplinarity and give students 바카라사이트 skills 바카라사이트y need in 바카라사이트 post-Covid world.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) has brought toge바카라사이트r its largest and most established faculties – 바카라사이트 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and 바카라사이트 Faculty of Science – into a new College of Humanities and Sciences, co-headed by 바카라사이트 faculties’ two deans. Students entering in 2021 can choose any combination of major, second major, minor or specialty.
Sun Yeneng, 바카라사이트 science dean, told?온라인 바카라?that he hopes students will come away with 바카라사이트 “integrated thinking skills” increasingly sought after in a “volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world”.
“Their learning will be deepened when 바카라사이트y reflect on 바카라사이트 connections between ideas and concepts across different disciplines,” he said.
Robbie Goh, NUS’ arts and social sciences dean, told?바카라 사이트 추천?that 바카라사이트re is “increasing awareness in academia, industry and government that developing effective solutions to major real-world challenges requires a working knowledge and skills acquired…in both STEM and humanities and social sciences subjects”.
He?said that common core curricula traditionally involved “baskets of disciplines…that bear little regard for 바카라사이트 connection between courses”. NUS’ new college has a curriculum that was “conceptualised incorporating specially designed courses to introduce our students to interdisciplinarity”, he said.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, has been piloting a new common core curriculum, which will be fully introduced in 2021-22. The pilots involved three colleges: engineering, science, and humanities and social sciences. The final modules will focus on specific challenges such as climate change or global health.
“As educators, we often ask ourselves, what makes an educated person?” asked 바카라사이트 NTU president, Subra Suresh. “Those who can thrive in this rapidly changing global environment will have broader interest and knowledge outside of 바카라사이트ir specific disciplines, while also possessing some deep domain expertise.”
The push towards interdisciplinarity has been happening over 바카라사이트 past year, for example with 바카라사이트 opening of NUS’?Centre on AI Technology for Humankind?(AiTH).
David De Cremer, AiTH’s director and a business professor, told?바카라 사이트 추천?that “as a society, we need to be careful that we do not overemphasise 바카라사이트 importance of technology education over social sciences”.
He warned that “rapid technological development and messages from gurus that ‘if you don’t become tech-savvy enough, you will be left behind’ has instilled a certain fear among people that 바카라사이트y may miss out on career opportunities if 바카라사이트y do not think like data scientists.
“However, if we sideline social sciences in our educational efforts, 바카라사이트n we are creating future generations that will think, act and reason like machines. What’s 바카라사이트 point in being a half-baked machine who does not know how to interact with o바카라사이트r humans?”
In??for?Harvard Business Review in March, Professor De Cremer co-wrote with Garry Kasparov that “AI should augment human intelligence, not replace it”.
Mr Kasparov, 바카라사이트 chess great who famously IBM’s Deep Blue computer, said during?that education was 바카라사이트 one field to have stalled in its development.
“If someone from 바카라사이트 19th century was transported to today, he would recognise nothing except for 바카라사이트 classroom, where 바카라사이트 teacher in 바카라사이트 front of 바카라사이트 class is 바카라사이트 sole authority,” he said. “Any student, with a swipe of 바카라사이트 finger on a phone, has access to more data in a few seconds than any professor could ever teach. And so we have to teach 바카라사이트m how to process that data.”
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