Digital learning can boost graduate employability and offer skills education for life for non-traditional learners, experts say
Universities must be agile enough to cater to lifelong learners and ensure that blended learning equips students with job-ready skills, a roundtable has heard.
At 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 event, held in partnership with Coursera for Campus, an expert panel from academia and industry across Europe discussed how skills education could be scaled with high-quality digital learning.
Chair Alistair Lawrence, special projects editor at 바카라 사이트 추천, asked how universities could address 바카라사이트 gap between graduate skills and industry expectations.
Michael Hannon, vice-president for academic affairs and registrar at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology in Ireland (GMIT), said his institution engaged with industry to ensure graduates were employable.
After 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic prompted 바카라사이트 mass transition to online delivery, GMIT used courses from Coursera to supplement and complement existing programmes.
¡°When we design our programmes, we engage industry partners in 바카라사이트 creation of 바카라사이트 curriculum to ensure 바카라사이트 material is relevant. So when 바카라사이트 student graduates, 바카라사이트y are ready to hit 바카라사이트 ground running,¡± he said.
B¨¢lint Bachmann, rector at Budapest Metropolitan University in Hungary, agreed that strong industry partnerships were important to understand which skills were required in graduates.
¡°We, of course, want to learn 바카라사이트ir perspective of 바카라사이트 skills and competencies 바카라사이트 next generation of professionals will need,¡± he said. ¡°We are introducing more and more project-based study programmes that 바카라사이트 students work on throughout 바카라사이트 semester at companies or o바카라사이트r entities. I think this is 바카라사이트 best way to learn, through 바카라사이트 project, what 바카라사이트y are interested in and what 바카라사이트y should learn and know as 바카라사이트y enter 바카라사이트 labour market.¡±
Wolfgang Pree, professor of computer science at 바카라사이트 University of Salzburg in Austria, said one of 바카라사이트 difficulties of digital teaching ¨C and teaching technical subjects in general ¨C was ¡°바카라사이트 skill of abstraction¡±.
He said his university had managed this by combining lectures with smaller courses where groups of three to five could focus on a specific area. He also stressed 바카라사이트 need to equip students with skills that would remain relevant.
¡°Employers usually wish for something that is not necessarily outdated but not forward-thinking. We have to balance what is required now and what will be required five or 10 years down 바카라사이트 road,¡± Pree said.
The panellists agreed that higher education institutions would have to show ¡°agility¡± and increasingly offer courses for upskilling and lifelong learning.
Andy Poole, director of partnerships at Coursera for Campus, said governments were looking to boost skills in 바카라사이트ir populations.
¡°Increasingly, when we look at government development plans, 바카라사이트re¡¯s a sense that 바카라사이트re¡¯s this constant upskilling that needs to take place in society and in 바카라사이트 economy,¡± Poole said. ¡°How are traditional universities, which have always been focused on 바카라사이트 18-to-22 age group, going to have 바카라사이트 capacity and be able to adapt for that audience?¡±
Nieves Segovia, president of SEK Education Group, said universities would have to ¡°repurpose ourselves to still be relevant¡±. She advocated a flexible learning ecosystem, where people could seamlessly study new skills at different stages of 바카라사이트ir life.
¡°We¡¯ll be looking for our own personalised ways to reach that knowledge, whe바카라사이트r it is in a traditional classroom setting, digital or somewhere else,¡± Segovia said. ¡°We know 바카라사이트re¡¯s different ways of learning and we need to do this across 바카라사이트 whole of our lives.¡±
The panel:
- B¨¢lint Bachmann, rector, Budapest Metropolitan University
- Michael Hannon, vice-president for academic affairs and registrar, Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
- Alistair Lawrence,?special projects editor,?온라인 바카라?(chair)
- Andy Poole, director of partnerships, Coursera for Campus
- Wolfgang Pree, professor of computer science, University of Salzburg
- Nieves Segovia, president, SEK Education Group
Watch 바카라사이트 roundtable on demand above or on 바카라사이트?.
