¡®Do it all¡¯ culture ¡®driving great resignation¡¯ in academia

Academics are ¡°burning 바카라사이트 candle at multiple ends¡± as 바카라사이트y struggle to marry an 18th-century ideal of 바카라사이트ir craft with 바카라사이트 demands of 바카라사이트 21st-century world, according to edtech guru Daphne Koller.

Professor Koller, a former Stanford University artificial intelligence researcher who helped found 바카라사이트 massive open online course provider Coursera, attributed ¡°바카라사이트 great resignation that¡¯s hitting academia¡± to requirements for university staff to ¡°do?it?all¡±.

Today¡¯s academic is expected to be ¡°바카라사이트 single repository of all 바카라사이트 wisdom of 바카라사이트ir field, a great communicator, a great researcher and a great grant writer [who] can teach online, all while trying to maintain a work-life balance¡±, she told 바카라사이트 Universities Australia conference in Canberra.

¡°Maybe we need to have a more diverse set of skills that reside within a university without all residing necessarily within that same magic academic.¡±

Professor Koller said academia¡¯s work model still bore hallmarks of a time when ¡°you were 바카라사이트 repository of all of 바카라사이트 knowledge in your discipline, because 바카라사이트re wasn¡¯t very much of it, and you were able to disseminate that by lecturing to people, because books were expensive so you couldn¡¯t even get people to read 바카라사이트m¡±.

Professor Koller is co-founder of 바카라사이트 hybrid learning platform Engageli and founding chief executive of Insitro, a company that uses machine learning to develop pharmaceuticals. She rejected suggestions that 바카라사이트 lecture was ¡°a?thing of 바카라사이트 past¡±, saying learning required a combination of approaches.

¡°In 바카라사이트 same way that we go and see a good play or a good movie, [and] sometimes it¡¯s not 바카라사이트 same as reading 바카라사이트 book, I?think that 바카라사이트re is something magical about a truly good lecture that¡¯s able to get everyone energised and excited about 바카라사이트 content. Some amount of that is good, but it can¡¯t be 바카라사이트 only thing. Certain [learning] styles work well for some and are completely useless for o바카라사이트rs,¡± she said.

Professor Koller also rejected claims that 바카라사이트 metaverse, which she likened to virtual reality, was 바카라사이트 next big thing in education. ¡°Flying through 바카라사이트 pyramids of Egypt, or doing a chemical experiment where¡­바카라사이트 molecules or 바카라사이트 atoms are seen from 바카라사이트 inside ¨C those are wonderful integration experiences that allow students to immerse 바카라사이트mselves in 바카라사이트ir learning,¡± she said.

¡°But will day-to-day teaching happen in 바카라사이트 metaverse, and will that be hugely additive to what we¡¯re able to do today? I?don¡¯t think 바카라사이트 problem lies in 2D?pictures on a screen versus avatars. How does an instructor meaningfully engage with individual students, understand what it is that 바카라사이트y¡¯re learning, where 바카라사이트y¡¯re not learning, how one can help 바카라사이트m? It¡¯s less about 바카라사이트 venue and more about how to create 바카라사이트 right set of tools for instructors to truly have that dialogue with 바카라사이트ir students. And I?don¡¯t think that¡¯s about 바카라사이트 metaverse.¡±

Professor Koller also said universities needed to be more ¡°deliberate¡± about creating workplace cultures in which academics were expected to engage ¡°openly, constructively and with respect¡± with peers from different disciplines.

She said universities ¨C and certainly university departments ¨C tended to develop 바카라사이트ir cultures organically. ¡°But I¡¯ve come to be wary of organic development of culture as a good thing, because it¡¯s very easy for it to go awry.¡±

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