Future Universities

The arrival of digital technologies and the Internet into the classroom has radically changed the way faculty and student’s access, produce, and share knowledge.

Digital technology made students to learn and educate themselves as per their needs, information and knowledge is based on personal demands. Technology helps everyone to execute demanding principle to access piece of information relevant to them at the moment. These ideas helped university to design courses according to the needs and personal agendas of students

What is bad in sharing knowledge and studying academic material with a cup of caffeine in cafeteria instead of using library materials with a pin drop silence? Yes! World is changing thereto with the use of smart phones connected with the internet and accessing to the library material with a thumb click. I think that is good! Don’t you think?

As world is more and more adapting changes, similarly we are also facing the modes of learning in higher education system. So far we have faced 3 major modes:

Mode 1 in which focus was just has towers of knowledge and people focused on attaining and transferring knowledge from one to other and so on.

Mode 2 based on technology driven forces, focused on upgrading technological skills We see a multitude of case competitions, incubators, internships, vocational initiatives and upgrading of technological skills getting implemented in higher education.

Mode 3 pedagogical teaching era has initiated. University and society, staff and students, educational developers and teachers work together in critical-creative partnerships to co-create societal value, future knowledge, and citizens

Perhaps in the current era instructor has to be technology driven knowledge and with continuous polishing skills. For this purpose it may have to attend online trainings sessions and entangle with society works forces.

Moreover questions such as access, equality and inclusion, curriculum development, and quality indicators to measure learning in higher education. We are also interested in seeing how issues that have to do with the sustainability of the current or future university systems and business and financing models develop, and how new university policies emerge to cope with such transformations.