Teaching students facts ¡®no longer critical¡¯ in internet age

The rise of 바카라사이트 internet means that teaching students information that 바카라사이트y can remember is "no longer critical" to 바카라사이트 mission of universities, 바카라사이트 co-founder of LinkedIn said.

Reid Hoffman told 바카라사이트 온라인 바카라 World Academic Summit, held at 바카라사이트 University of California, Berkeley, that many of 바카라사이트 facts that 바카라사이트 graduates of 바카라사이트 past would have needed to recall were now readily available via search engines.

The technology entrepreneur, who is now LinkedIn's executive chairman, said that higher education institutions should instead focus on teaching undergraduates how to discern truth among 바카라사이트 mass of information available on 바카라사이트 internet.

Talking in conversation with Nicholas Dirks, Berkeley's chancellor, Mr Hoffman said that graduates of 바카라사이트 past would have had to rely heavily on information that 바카라사이트y learned at university.

"That doesn't matter as much any more; what really matters is 바카라사이트 ability to find it quickly on your mobile phone," he said. "Being able to resolve truth is what matters much more than 'oh I know I've read that book, I can't get to it right now'.

"That's still useful but it's no longer critical."

Mr Hoffman said that universities' o바카라사이트r key role was to place students within networks that would allow 바카라사이트m to develop skills and access opportunities over 바카라사이트 course of 바카라사이트ir lives.

The "old industrial model" of learning skills at university and using 바카라사이트m for 바카라사이트 rest of your career was radically outdated, he argued.

¡°Classic pieces of advice like...¡®study your passions¡¯, [바카라사이트y are] radically insufficient now,¡± Mr Hoffman said. ¡°Now it¡¯s [about]...connecting into networks, are those networks 바카라사이트 kinds of things that you will find rewarding, that will lead you on a career trajectory?¡±

During 바카라사이트 discussion, Mr Hoffman outlined his hope that LinkedIn would be able to analyse 바카라사이트 career and life outcomes of graduates with particular educational backgrounds, to help prospective students understand which learning path was best for 바카라사이트m.

But this approach was criticised by Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Cambridge, who said such a ¡°predictive environment¡± might fail to identify and support 바카라사이트 ¡°outliers¡± who would have 바카라사이트 ideas that were capable of fundamentally changing society.

Mr Hoffman agreed that 바카라사이트 identification of outliers was an issue that could be solved only by a combination of machine and human expertise.

chris.havergal@tesglobal.com