WHAT WILL HIGHER EDUCATION LOOK LIKE IN NEXT FIVE YEARS?
Evolving of the Education paradigm is inevitable and is happening all around. The pandemic influences and global economic upheavals have shaken the higher education sector like never before.
There are several challenges and opportunities within the current system, so for securing success, institutions need to remain flexible and adaptable.
Higher Education needs to embrace the fact that technology is compelling and global collaboration is inevitable. Individualized learning, simulation, and artificial intelligence are the catchwords and today’s learners are “digital natives.” Virtual teaching was undoubtedly a forced shift, but due to the flexibility and accessibility it offered, we can expect the remote learning model as the new and widely recognized parallel infrastructure for higher education. Digital skills predominate and would thrive through and beyond this decade. Skills needed for the Future of Work in a technology-driven economy will need to be taught in colleges and universities. This provides us a brief yet accurate view of how the future of education will look in the coming years. More and more students with consumer mindsets will expect institutions to work like businesses, demanding convenience, personalization, and quality.
There will be an increased focus on gaining concrete skill bases that enable them to graduate ‘with a job’ and facilitate ‘career mobility.’ A demand is already being created for a more engaging experience and the learners would expect learning to be entertaining, immersive, and purpose-driven, though these young adults will continue to need help with cognitive and critical thinking and professional skills such as teamwork, effective communication, and interpersonal-social appropriateness. Institutions preparing for a changing landscape would have enhancing curricula featuring micro-credentials, boosting student recruitment and graduation employability through digital tools and media even more prominently. Students will only then be able to come through the societal transformation and be prepared to contribute towards solving complex global issues. They need to be allowed to master a skill or competency at their own pace and would be required to provide job training and vetting services. Undoubtedly, future students will expect more of a mentoring relationship from their teachers than just the old-fashioned lecturing and ‘fill my cup’ methodology. The universities of the emerging era will have to embrace the shifting values. Their curriculum relevance would be rooted in outcomes rather than time and process. In the next few years, access to knowledge will be a seamless diminishing age-related concept of learning.
There is no doubt that STEM-based learning under National Education Policy (NEP 2020) will experience a big push during the next few years as skill-based education picks up speed. The kaleidoscopic changes will come into better focus if we, now look closely and directly at the margins where major changes are already taking place.
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