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Changing Trends in Higher Education Group: Bruner Members: Vineet Chandra, Deepak Prasad, Jai Goundar, Sumesh Narayan

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Changing Trends in

Higher Education

Group: Bruner

Members: Vineet Chandra, Deepak Prasad, Jai Goundar, Sumesh Narayan

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Introduction

HE landscape is undergoing a dramatic change. This change is seen both internationally and in the Pacific region.

These changes are a direct result of new issues that are surfacing.

The changes in HE is driven by :

Political/National issues

Value adding to degree/need of graduates in specified profession/ offering of scholarships in a specific field.

Social issues

Demand placed on graduates skill set by corporate organizations and society

Environmental issues.

Sustainability and preservation of environment for the future generation

Mitigation of global warming and climate change

Contributor: Group

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Changing Trends in HE

Some of the issues causing changing trends in HE are listed below (Staley D. J. and Trinkle D.A.)

Differentiation of HE

Transformation of general education

Mobility of students and staffs

Rise of invisible colleges

The changing “Traditional” student

Pressure to demonstrate value of degree

Increase in demand of middle skilled workers

Forming life long partnership with alumni

Contributor: Group

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Changing Trends in HE The group identified other issues which is causing changing trend in HE are listed

below:

Integration of technology in HE

Emphasis of sustainability in HE

Preservation of environment

Mitigation of global warming and climate change

Wise use of resources

Incorporating culture aspects in HE

Online presence

Development of online courses

Globalization and forming collaborative partnership with universities and industries

International recognition

Accreditation of programs

Accommodating and addressing needs of mature students in HE

Contributor: Group

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Integration of technology in HE

Technology is shaping and reshaping the HE landscape continuously.

Work environment puts great emphasis on technologically equipped graduates.

Technology has given rise to efficiency and effectiveness.

HE institutes have to incorporate technology in their curriculum or else their graduates will be at a great disadvantage in the very modern and competitive world.

Contributor: Deepak

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Implication of Integration of

technology in my course In engineering there is lot of calculations and at

times there are many criteria’s to look at. In addition to this, some problems are too complex to solve analytically or experimentally. The only option is to use numerical methods.

Engineering firms and industries make use of this numerical methods (specific software's) to solve these problems.

Other reasons for using numerical method are:

Saves time

Saves money

Rapid prototyping

Contributor: Deepak

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Implication of Integration of

technology in my course In order to make my students ready for work

life I have introduced used on ANSYS-CFX which is a computational fluid dynamics software (CFD) in my course.

The software is a very important tool for the students.

How to use the software is taught to the students and later they use it in their projects.

Project work foster dynamic teamwork and provides the platform to show their creativity and ingenuity with mastery of the software.

Contributor: Deepak

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Sustainability in HE Pacific Island Countries are facing challenges in sustainability such as global warming,

climate change issues, ecological, waste management, pollution, labor migration,

subsistence diet, poverty, urbanization, trade, health, human rights and many more.

In the case of Pacific Island nations, education for sustainable development is embedded

within Pacific cultures, languages and knowledge systems that have helped Pacific

peoples to live sustainably for centuries (Corcoran and Kosby, 2010) .

Policies for sustainability in HE is developed at regional level, then adapted at country

level in national policy.

The most important activity is the Pacific Education for Sustainable Development

Framework (Framework) with priorities of formal education and training; community-

based education; and policy and innovation.

Due to financial constrains faced by many small island countries for national

infrastructure to address national sustainability needs, lead to the setting up of a number

of regional organizations in the Pacific with decrees for specific economic, environment,

and socio-cultural areas of significance. PACE-NET and PACE-SD at USP is an example.

USP is also focusing on sustainable development through research, this was included in

new strategic plan, the researches are now normally focused on sustainable development

of the country.

Contributor: Sumesh

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Sustainability in HE Despite many challenges, the Pacific region has initiated

sustainability thinking and practice in various scopes,

particularly in the education.

Pacific Island Countries launched 14 Type II Partnership

Initiatives (Fox, 2014) during the 2002 World Summit on

Sustainable Development. Education-based Capacity Building

by USP and Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment

Programme (SPREP) as an example.

One specific regional contribution has been the UNESCO-

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Asia-

Pacific DESD Indicators Project (Ryan et al., 2010)

Unite academic disciplines and institutions in research

activities aligned to sustainability, for example, at The

University of the South Pacific (USP), there are five main

research areas.

Contributor: Sumesh

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Sustainability in HE

Policy and practice emerging in South Pacific Island

Universities. The USP is showing strong leadership in

education for sustainable development and climate change

research.

Higher education for sustainable development, such as

Postgraduate Diploma, Masters and PhD in Climate Change,

number of renewable energy courses offered

KOICA project at USP - Renewable Energy assessment in all

USP member countries and establishment of a Data Bank at

USP; Renewable Energy Capacity Building in the USP region;

and Establishment of a 45 kW grid-connected solar PV system

at the USP Laucala lower Campus and development of a

Renewable Energy Training Centre.

Contributor: Sumesh

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Changing Trend – Online

Presence in HE

Course material are now easily accessible through platforms like Moodle which enables the students to access it whenever and wherever they need. Likewise they can submit assignments from anywhere.

Students are sharing their work and are also having access to open educational resources and other material to enhance their learning which enables then to improve from the past work already carried out by someone in the world.

Students discussion are encouraged through the use of Moodle discussion forums and blogs.

Contributor: Vineet

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Impact of Online Presence in my

Course In order to provide students with teaching materials which is easily

accessible to them, all my courses have teaching material present online.

With the help of easily available internet, students are able to find related materials which they use to understand a particular theory or content easily

Students are also able to access teaching material (notes, lab manuals) on mobile device (smart phones) which enable them to refer whenever required.

However, online presence of all teaching material leads to low turnout in lectures sometimes.

Online presence of information related to the subject being taught enables the student to be prepared what to expect and how to tackle the subject matter.

In one of my course, online submissions (via Moodle) enable us to handle easily around 200 students assignment and lab submission. It enable us to easily mark the labs and enter their marks online which they can instantly see.

Contributor: Vineet

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Changing Trend – Accommodating and

addressing needs of mature students in HE Many students prefer to peruse HE while there are working in industries,

most of the times these students are mature aged students, they have

been away from education systems for number of years.

There is number of reasons for these students pursue there studies while

working, such as:

Over the years the program structure changes due to changing technology

and requirements of the nation, for example the BeTech (3years) program

has changed to BE (4year), therefore students join to upgrade there

qualification.

Due to some reasons, many students are not able to complete there HE

and join industries, and prefer to complete later.

Some students prefer to join the work field with minimum qualification

such as diplomas and prefer to upgrade their qualifications later.

Therefore the education system must be able to accommodate and

address the needs of these students.

Contributor: Jai

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Implementation of changes in my course to

accommodate mature students. Some of the changes that I adopted to accommodate mature students in my

course are.

I make all the lecture materials available online so mature students are

excess to this materials.

At-least one Lab session is scheduled after 5pm, therefore, mature

students gets time to attend this session.

The workshops and labs are arranged to be opened in weekends,

therefore these students have advantages to complete their projects.

Future changes that will be implemented in my course are:

Put the recorded lectures online, so the mature students can access it.

The students are away from the education systems therefore, they have

little difficulty in solving mathematical based problems, I put questions

and quizzes online for these students to practice in advance and get

familiar with it.

Develop some online labs, so they can do these labs in their own time.

Contributor: Jai

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Conclusion

HE institutes needs to address and incorporate the changes

occurring in the educational landscape into the curriculum

to meet the needs of 21st century.

Contributor: Group

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ReferenceUniversities UK. 2012, Futures for Higher Education: Analysing Trends.

Staley D. J. and Trinkle D. A. 2011. The Changing Landscape of Higher

Education, EDUCAUSE REVIEW.

Ryan A., Tilbury D., Corcoran P. B., Abe O. and Nomura K. 2010. Sustainability

in Higher Education in the Asia – Pacific: Developments, Challenges, and

Prospects, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 11

No. 2, pp. 106-119

Corcoran P. B. and Koshy K. C. 2010. The Pacific way: sustainability in higher

education in the South Pacific Island nations, Journal of Sustainability in

Higher Education, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 130-140.

Fox C. 2014. Future directions for comparative education dialogue in the Asia-

Pacific region, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, Vol. 34, pp. 212-227.

Contributor: Group