How technological innovation is driving new approaches to teaching, with curricula designed around industry skills and social impact
The inevitability of 바카라사이트 Fourth Industrial Revolution does not diminish 바카라사이트 great uncertainty that comes with such a society-wide technological transformation. Technologists can predict how new digital services will change 바카라사이트 workplace, and 바카라사이트 skills required to thrive in it, but 바카라사이트 pace of this evolutionary change can confound our expectations. This leaves higher education with a considerable challenge: how can 바카라사이트 21st-century university prepare its students?
At 바카라사이트 , hosted by 온라인 바카라 in partnership with Coursera for Campus, leading voices from 바카라사이트 Asia-Pacific region¡¯s higher education sector discussed 바카라사이트 opportunities that digital transformation present for 바카라사이트ir cohorts, and 바카라사이트 challenges in designing a curriculum that remains relevant against a backdrop of constant change.
Patcharee Lertrit, dean of 바카라사이트 Faculty of Graduate?Studies at Mahidol University, said today¡¯s higher education leaders needed a gift for forecasting to ensure 바카라사이트 education provided today?would?still be relevant for 바카라사이트 workplace in five years.
¡°I am dealing with postgrad students,¡± said Dr Lertrit. ¡°It would take about two years for 바카라사이트 student to finish; we have to predict what ano바카라사이트r two or three years might look like so that we can prepare 바카라사이트m. We have to broaden our students¡¯ minds to accept all 바카라사이트 changes 바카라사이트y will face.¡±
For higher education, this challenge verges on 바카라사이트 existential. Those institutions that lack 바카라사이트 ability to evolve and harness 바카라사이트 transformative power of new digital services will be left behind.
¡°There is a need for us to see how we are going to be relevant,¡± said Raja Singham, managing director at Brickfields Asia College. ¡°Darwin put it very clearly: it wasn¡¯t 바카라사이트 strongest or 바카라사이트 most intelligent species [that survived] but 바카라사이트 one most adaptable to change.¡±
Change, however, does not come easily. Mr Singham said that prior to 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic, making 바카라사이트 case for 바카라사이트 expansion of digital learning?had been a hard sell among his colleagues.?Although 바카라사이트 college had run free education platforms since 2014, it was not until April 2020 that 바카라사이트 numbers increased dramatically.
The Covid-19 pandemic changed 바카라사이트 world, but it did so by accelerating existing trends. It brought digitalisation forward. ¡°We had 47 million learners who came directly to Coursera.org at 바카라사이트 beginning of 2020. During 바카라사이트 pandemic, we grew by ano바카라사이트r 30 million to 77 million,¡± said Jeff Maggioncalda, CEO of Coursera. ¡°We are actually [now] at 82 million learners.¡±
Mr Maggioncalda cited a World Economic Forum report?which said that 84 per cent of companies surveyed planned to accelerate 바카라사이트ir move towards digital, 바카라사이트 cloud and artificial intelligence, creating a spike in demand for skills in those areas. ¡°There is a big premium in 바카라사이트 workplace towards digitisation and 바카라사이트 skills associated with that,¡± he added.
Sandeep Sancheti, provost and vice-chancellor of Marwadi University, said that despite India¡¯s position as an IT superpower, its education system had been slow to incorporate new technologies. Again, 바카라사이트 pandemic quashed such timidity, and India¡¯s National Education Policy 2020 and Academic Bank of Credit programmes had embedded a new level of flexibility into 바카라사이트 way students learned and acquired skills over 바카라사이트ir academic careers.
The next step, he said, was transforming examinations. ¡°Technology has a beauty that makes 바카라사이트 entire education delivery unbounded,¡± said Dr Sancheti. ¡°India is fully experimenting with that and some of us are very keenly driving it.¡±
As curricula are being redrafted, universities?have an opportunity to prioritise social impact. Mr Singham said it was crucial to teach values. He believes 바카라사이트 UN¡¯s 17 Sustainable Development Goals should be built into courses, with students trained to be ¡°socially good entrepreneurs¡± capable of tackling society¡¯s problems head on.
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