A friend sent me this YouTube series.
It is about open education in Europe. These people involved in the education did not know that open education had a long history even the schooling system thus the formation of university system.
I do not want to involve the education system in China, which began two thousand five hundred years ago with more system of teaching and learning, before the Confucius, learning never stopped, either by coaching via relatives or self learning.
Therefore, you find no surprise if these kinds of teaching staff in your universities, refusing to go for a change, your universities would not be going forward just because they like to have a big crowd of students surrounded him/her.
"Teaching is the human interaction." They stressed that.
These people must be put in the band wagon and send to the dark corners of the libraries. They do not know how the economy and learning goes hand in hand. Marc said that the Indian girl wanted to do his linguistic course but the university turned her down because the university which he works with preferring on campus. Later, he said that, 150 new students in Netherlands sign up for Dutch language a year but on the world scale there are thousands of people study Dutch language in different universities in the world. But he could not understand that if the university he works with provide the online courses, how much the university can be profited from the new system of education.
University of London started 200 years ago and later formed the external program to help the poor people to study due to the war. The links of University of London external program are below. Read them and understand how it operates.
The medical doctors are consulting the patients via video, these old thinking folks still think that study in university should be face to face like in the kindergarten.
How to reap the economy via the modern technology, just as ZOOM came to success due to pandemic of Covid19, will depend on the outward looking people, of course, creativity takes the most important process.
If you had study in university, you knew that how many hours you were with the professors? A two-hour lecture a week or a fortnight or even a month, depending on the weightage of the course, optional with 1 credit or major with 2 credits, 3 credits. The other time would be rushing to the library to find more reading information for the assignments. But now, with internet age, students do not go to library but go online at the comfort at home or hostel to get more information. Look at the study guide of Deakin University from Australia which is famous for the research program.
https://www.deakin.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/6931/offcampus-courseguide.pdf
https://www.deakin.edu.au/study/study-online
Distance learning programs do not mean to go online but companies or learning institution can provide the tuition based system to the students. These would minus the cost of going all the way to London, food and accommodation cost will be reduced for the students from developing countries and under-developing countries. Look here, how many Malaysian students in Malaysia are holding the degrees from University of London external program, which is equivalent to the on campus students. University of London gets :
1. more students hold the name of University of London
2. free advertisement for University of London
3. language promotion, more people would learn English language just like the MIT is going to set up the branch campus in Indonesia, this mean that English will be more important in Indonesia.
4. providing the local employment
The benefits can be go down to ten points if you really sit down and think of the space,economy, mental health and learning.
Please be noted that Malaysia is the former colony of British Empire and is practicing the system of British law. Therefore, the Law degree of University of London is accepted by the Malaysia BAR council.
https://malaysiaeducation.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020_Brochure_UOL.pdf
Below are the information about how to conduct distance learning program of University of London, which was from paper to online system.
If the old folks in the university did not change the perspectives of distance learning or open education, they would lose the job in the Industrial 4.0 change.
Education is never a stop in the internet age. There are more urgent needs for short term course instead of the long term courses. It is the regret that Malaysia University of Science which began with courses in three stages for the busy working adults has stopped. It was designed in the last two decades, that the external course of Universiti Sains Malaysia https://pohon.usm.my/t_ppjj.php has scrapped off the three stages, certificate, diploma and degree. This mean, it would not able to train more people as not everybody can have the time and financial means to study for 6 years. Therefore what is the meaning for having a course which could not help more people. The school of distance learning has many programs https://pppjj.usm.my/index.php/ms/ but serve the community less.
The information of University of London external are below.
https://london.ac.uk/new-courses
https://london.ac.uk/applications/how-it-works/how-assessment-works
https://london.ac.uk/ways-study/distance-learning
https://london.ac.uk/about-us/history-university-london
https://technicaleducationmatters.org/2015/03/30/university-of-london-external-degrees/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_education
Do not forget that, there are a lot of young people with high IQ and able to work independently and securing a full time job to finance the family. Only those from elite and rich family people do not able to think out of the box.
Interview with Marc van Oostendorp - Open Education Champions series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5wOvbR5G68
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