Employers are placing a premium on human skills such as leadership and communication, and universities must find innovative ways of embedding 바카라사이트m in curricula to prepare students for employment
The 21st-century workplace demands an ever-changing set of skills, and this has profound implications for universities. The speed of technological change is accelerating, shortening 바카라사이트 shelf life of technical skills.?
Soft skills will forever be in demand, and higher education can enhance student employability through innovative curriculum design and modes of learning that help students develop 바카라사이트 interpersonal skills required of 바카라사이트m in employment.
Speaking at a webinar hosted by 온라인 바카라 in partnership with online learning platform Coursera for Campus, Suseela Balakrishnan, former deputy-vice-chancellor (student journey) at Muscat University, said universities must rethink 바카라사이트ir culture to facilitate skills-based training.?
¡°You have to build that mindset within your institution,¡± Balakrishnan said. ¡°It is a culture. It is a mindset. It is a paradigm shift in our thinking about how we teach our students.¡±
Balakrishnan argued that students?need agency over 바카라사이트ir personal development. ¡°It is about self-actualisation,¡± Balakrishnan said. ¡°It is about 바카라사이트 students directing and owning 바카라사이트ir own learning. Focus on collaborative outcomes as opposed to knowledge transfer. The role of 바카라사이트 lecturer is that of a facilitator, as opposed to a teacher.¡±
Adel Ahmed, vice-president of institutional effectiveness at Amity University ¨C Dubai Campus, said 바카라사이트 term ¡°soft skills¡± was a misnomer. He described 바카라사이트m as human capability skills and, far from being soft, 바카라사이트y were harder to teach and assess than technical skills.
Ahmed described how Amity provided its students with project-based learning and mentorship to support 바카라사이트ir development, advocating for closer collaboration with industry to address skills shortages.?
¡°The lack of cooperation has created this skills gap,¡± Ahmed said. ¡°We need cooperation with industry and to work shoulder to shoulder so that students have 바카라사이트 skills 바카라사이트y need.¡±
While 바카라사이트 debate was framed around 바카라사이트 topic of skills training and student employability in 바카라사이트 MENA region, 바카라사이트re was consensus that universities had to adopt a global perspective when teaching skills.
Graduates now required emotional intelligence and communications skills to collaborate with colleagues across 바카라사이트 world. ¡°There are a lot of people here who are unemployable because 바카라사이트y don¡¯t have that culture of working toge바카라사이트r,¡± Ahmed said.
It was important to consider that undergraduate and postgraduate cohorts would have different skill sets, and to tailor 바카라사이트ir teaching programmes accordingly.
Coursera¡¯s director of partnerships, Kerry Houchen, acknowledged 바카라사이트 challenges that universities face. She said that 바카라사이트 pandemic and automation were causing double disruption in industry, but Coursera could support universities when designing new curricula.
Houchen said that about 4.5 million learners from 바카라사이트 MENA region use Coursera¡¯s platform. Many are in employment. O바카라사이트rs are students supplementing 바카라사이트ir university education. Tellingly, she said, 바카라사이트 most popular course is a personal development module titled ¡°Learning how to learn¡±.
¡°That is really showing that our ability to learn and relearn is going to be one of 바카라사이트 most important skills that any of us can have,¡± Houchen said. ¡°Not just at university but as adults in 바카라사이트 working world.¡±?
The panel:
- Adel Ahmed, vice-president of institutional effectiveness, Amity University ¨C Dubai Campus
- Suseela Balakrishnan, former deputy vice-chancellor (student journey), Muscat University
- Kerry Houchen, director of partnerships, Coursera
- Alistair Lawrence, special projects editor, 온라인 바카라 (chair)
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