Mr. Manjunath Bhandary, Chairman recently attended “Eisenhower Fellowships Global Conference – The Future of Education”, at Columbia, USA, where he interacted with eminent educationists and scientists of various streams on upcoming trends in education system.
In this context, Mr. Bhandary addressed the Sahyadri faculty members on 5th March 2020 and shared his experience about the summarized view of experts and outcomes of the Global Conference.
Some of the key takeaways of his address are as follows:
• An upcoming trend would be more Hands-on with Innovative Skills and Higher Education will henceforth be only research oriented.
• K-12 Education System is becoming much prevalent in the education system. K-12 is a program that covers Kindergarten and 12 years of basic education to provide sufficient time for mastery of concepts and skills, develop lifelong learners, and prepare graduates for employment and entrepreneurship.
• Innovative companies will give more prominence to innovative skills than the academic skills.
• Micro-Bachelor degrees along with traditional degree will attain more value in future.
• Along with a Traditional degree, an opportunity to obtain Micro-Masters have been introduced and delivered by various prestigious universities like Harvard University, Berkeley University of California, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is widely accepted by the employers.
• Underlying principle of the education system is Student-Faculty connection that should be both heart-to-heart (Cordial) and Mind-to-mind (Intellectual).
• A major turmoil is expected in the traditional education system by Year 2030, as Innovative Education System would be evolving soon. • All human services including teaching is expected to be replaced by Artificial Intelligence and Robotics like Alexa – a Virtual Assistant AI Technology developed by Amazon.