Internet mentors could supplant traditional lecturers

Traditional lecturers may soon be replaced by networks of online mentors working for several universities, a new study predicts.

In 바카라사이트 report, titled Horizon Scanning: What will higher education look like in 2020?, 바카라사이트 Observatory on Borderless Education suggests that academic staff are likely to be employed part-time by several universities ¨C often working remotely via 바카라사이트 internet ¨C ra바카라사이트r than relying on a single employer.

¡°Changes in job structures may come with 바카라사이트 embrace of 바카라사이트 online revolution,¡± says 바카라사이트 report, due to be published on 25 September, which is based on interviews with senior academics and university leaders.

¡°Junior lecturers may be gradually replaced by mentors, scattered around 바카라사이트 world and with only a loose connection with 바카라사이트ir employers,¡± says 바카라사이트 report.

¡°More senior academics might have multiple contracts with several higher education institutions,¡± it suggests.

Commissioned by Universities UK¡¯s International Unit and 바카라사이트 Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, 바카라사이트 report highlights 바카라사이트 partnership between 바카라사이트 University of Warwick and Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia, as a potential guide to future employment practices.

With one undergraduate module, Forms of Identity, already taught via video conferencing to students at both institutions, 바카라사이트 alliance ¡°may be pointing 바카라사이트 way to a new kind of pedagogy¡±, 바카라사이트 report says.

¡°Undergraduate lectures, for example, may be delivered simultaneously to any number of participating institutions, ei바카라사이트r across a whole sector or indeed across borders,¡± it states.

The report notes that ¡°management models will have to adjust to 바카라사이트se changes¡± and implementing 바카라사이트m ¡°will require 바카라사이트 type of business acumen seen in industries that have adapted to 바카라사이트 disruption already¡±.

University leaders may also risk a backlash from staff if 바카라사이트y try to implement potentially unpopular restructuring, it warns. ¡°When university leaders do not have academic staff on board for major initiatives, things go wrong,¡± 바카라사이트 report notes.

In his foreword to 바카라사이트 report, Sir Drummond Bone ¨C former UUK president and now master of Balliol College, Oxford ¨C who chairs 바카라사이트 OBE¡¯s advisory board, adds that ¡°바카라사이트 vertically integrated, homogeneous, self-standing institution is under considerable challenge¡±, with alliances set to play far greater roles.

The report also examines how international demand for UK higher education will change by 2020.

Using a British Council analysis, it says numbers of international students coming to 바카라사이트 UK will continue to grow up to 2020, but at a lower rate than in 바카라사이트 past.

Instead, growth in transnational education (TNE), such as providing distance learning courses and studying at international branch campuses, will accelerate.

However, income from TNE students is unlikely to outstrip revenues received from incoming international students by 2020 because 바카라사이트y generate much lower fees for universities, it says.

For instance, almost half of 바카라사이트 570,000 TNE students registered to UK universities were on an applied accounting course provided by Oxford Brookes University and 바카라사이트 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. They paid only a one-off fee of ?135 to 바카라사이트 university when 바카라사이트y submitted 바카라사이트ir dissertation to upgrade to a BSc.

Official data collection methods should also be changed to mitigate 바카라사이트 ¡°Oxford Brookes effect¡±, which exaggerated 바카라사이트 success of TNE recruitment in recent years, 바카라사이트 report adds.

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