{"id":15409,"date":"2023-11-15T01:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T01:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.edublink.co\/?p=15409"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:45:48","slug":"crafting-effective-learning-paths-at-curriculum-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dakanvics.com\/vi\/2023\/11\/15\/crafting-effective-learning-paths-at-curriculum-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities must prepare for a technology-enabled future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Automation and artificial intelligence technologies are\u00a0transforming manufacturing<\/a>,\u00a0corporate work<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0retail business<\/a>, providing new opportunities for companies to explore and posing major threats to those that don\u2019t adapt to the times. Equally daunting challenges confront colleges and universities, but they\u2019ve been slower to acknowledge them.<\/span><\/p>

At present, colleges and universities are most worried about competition from schools or training systems using\u00a0online learning technology<\/a>. But that is just one aspect of the technological changes already under way. For example, some companies are moving toward requiring workers have\u00a0specific skills trainings and certifications<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 as opposed to college degrees.<\/span><\/p>

As a professor who researches artificial intelligence and offers distance learning courses, I can say that online education is a disruptive challenge for which colleges are ill-prepared. Lack of student demand is already closing\u00a0800 out of roughly 10,000 engineering colleges<\/a>\u00a0in India. And online learning has put as many as half the colleges and universities in the U.S. at risk of\u00a0shutting down in the next couple decades<\/a>\u00a0as remote students get comparable educations over the internet \u2013 without living on campus or taking classes in person. Unless universities move quickly to transform themselves into educational institutions for a technology-assisted future, they risk becoming obsolete.<\/span><\/p>

Existing alternatives to traditional higher ed<\/span><\/h2>

Enormous amounts of information are now available online for free, ready for watching, listening or reading at any time, by anyone who\u2019s connected. For more than a decade, private companies, nonprofits and universities alike have been experimenting with online courses, often offered for free or at low cost to\u00a0large numbers of students around the world<\/a>. Research has shown that it\u2019s as effective for students to use a\u00a0combination of online courses and traditional in-classroom<\/a>\u00a0instruction as it is to\u00a0just have classes in person<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>

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Providers of massive open<\/a>\u00a0online courses (often called \u201cMOOCs<\/a>\u201d) are refining ways for people who complete the classes to present their accomplishments in ways employers can understand easily. For example, students in certain classes from major MOOC provider\u00a0edX<\/a>\u00a0can get an\u00a0official Arizona State University transcript<\/a>\u00a0listing their courses and grades. An employer would never know the person studied online. (There\u2019s another threat to universities\u2019 business model, too: Students can take the classes and get their grades for free; they only need to\u00a0pay if they are happy with their grades<\/a>, and if they want official college credit.)<\/span><\/p>

This is a period of rapid change unlike what universities have dealt with for centuries.<\/span><\/p>

Understand how AI is changing society<\/span><\/h3>