QUESTION:
Highlight the future trends in higher education and the role of technology in distance mode of learning.
Course: Higher Education
Course code 8625
Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment
ANSWER
The Future of Higher Education:
The most important challenge involves a shift in the way students consume higher education. Instead of attending a single institution, students receive credit in multiple ways, including from early-college/dual-degree programs, community colleges, online providers, and various universities. Students are voting with their feet, embracing online courses, and undermining core curricula, which served as a cash cow, by turning to alternate providers and pursuing fewer majors that require the study of a foreign language.
As a
result, colleges must
become more nimble, entrepreneurial, student-focused, and
accountable for what students learn. I am a historian and far better at
interpreting the past than forecasting the future.” This report goes on
to predict 15 innovations that will alter the face of higher education.
The future of higher education depends on innovation.
We have put together 4 articles consisting of educated predictions, research, and reports that can provide an indication of what the future holds for universities and business schools:
“The most important challenge involves a shift in the way students consume higher education. Instead of attending a single institution, students receive credit in multiple ways, including from early-college/dual-degree programs, community colleges, online providers, and numerous universities. Students are voting with their feet, embracing online courses, and undermining core curricula, which served as a cash cow, by turning to alternate providers and pursuing fewer majors that require the study of a foreign language.
As a
result, colleges must
become more nimble, entrepreneurial, student-focused, and
accountable for what students learn. I am a historian and far better at
interpreting the past than forecasting the future.” This report goes on
to predict 15 innovations that will alter the face of higher education.
Full
Story: The Chronicle
Everything from the emergence of MOOCs to new learning styles and mounting financial and sustainability pressures is impacting the education landscape. Higher education leaders are developing new strategies to leverage these challenges and opportunities every day.
The common
denominator amidst all this change: is students. To best recruit and retain
students, universities need to evaluate how they offer a student life
experience that prepares students to be healthy and dynamic people in
the future. That means universities need to embrace sustainability and
wellness as key components of campus life. Spelman College recently differentiated itself by diverting all of its athletic funding to create a
“Wellness
Revolution,” focused on best promoting the health of its students. e
expect that in the coming years, long-standing models of higher education that
prefer tradition and stability will be supplemented, if not displaced,
by new models that embrace organizational innovation, responsivity, and
adaptation.
A dual
transformation design strategy has proved especially effective for addressing
both legacy and emerging markets. According to this approach, operations
act in parallel—one to develop strategies that optimize the core organization
to become more responsive to the new profile of demands it faces, and the
second to design and implement disruptive innovations that provide a
basis for future growth, agility, and responsivity.1 We
provide here a set of recommendations for how dual transformation can be
implemented in higher education. virtual reality, robotic telepresence, and cyber defense will be driving forces in digital- learning at
colleges and universities over the next 20 years.
Role Technology in Distance Education
The concept of ‘Distance Education‘ is not new and can be traced as far back as the first century. The Apostle Paul wrote to the early Christian Churches, teaching them from a distance even from his prison cell. However, organizational use of distance learning methods was first introduced in the 19th century. One of the first universities to deliver distance learning in an organized manner was Pennsylvania State University which established its first distance learning network in 1886.
Today, distance
education calls upon an impressive, range of technologies to enable teachers
and students who are separated by distance, to communicate with each other
either in real-time (synchronous) or delayed time (asynchronous). Due to
modern communication and technologies, today's educational
transactions through distance mode are being utilized by students and
teachers engaged in both formal and open systems of education. Rai (2000) has
defined three types of distance education systems, viz., Institute-centered,
Person-centered, and Society-based.
(i). Institute–Centered Distance Education System:
In this system, there is a predominance of systematic models of education. The institutional mission focuses on the cost-effectiveness and cost-efficiency of the system. Academics become consultants to the institution for material design and development. All other functionaries in the institution are assigned essential functions with accountability and individual responsibility.
(ii). Person – PersonCentered distance Education system:
Under this system of distance education, the programmers are more individualized and negotiable as the aim is to serve the individual learner. Individualized learning is personally negotiated and is followed up by tutors/counselors.
(iii). Society-Based Distance Education System:
In
the society-based distance education system learning, materials are
developed by the needs of the community. These are used
in community situations where the teacher strives to involve the entire community In the study of the learning materials. The teacher functions as a facilitator
to identify learning goals, evaluate learning materials, etc.
Before discussing the various media and technologies of distance education, appropriate to deliberate upon its objectives in brief the distance education attempts:
§ to provide an opportunity for education to those who had discontinued their formal education due to one reason or another at any age and class. Working persons, economically and otherwise disabled persons, or persons residing in remote areas may improve and advance their academic careers through distance education;
§ To provide quality education and training to a large number of students at lower costs than the conventional education system;
§ To make access to higher education;
§ to promote education as a lifelong activity by providing necessary access to the masses, particularly to the disadvantageous groups like those living in rural areas, the employed, women, weaker sections of society, and many others wishing to acquire and upgrade knowledge and skills, at their doorsteps;
§ to provide a flexible and diversified innovative education system that is open in the methods of learning, pace, place, and eligibility criterion as well as in every operation of the program;
§ to promote courses leading to gainful employment, tailored to specific vocational/professional needs, as also being relevant to local needs;
Media in distance
education is a kind of delivery system, which includes all kinds of
mechanical devices directed to educational use. These devices are used to
communicate knowledge or ideas to a large number of people who are
located in far-off rural and remote areas. The distance education program
can be enriched and made more attractive, effective, and satisfying for
learning by using a variety of media content. The
facilities that can be provided for these programs should attempt to exploit the potential of the variety of powerful media rendered
by modem technology.
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