Technology affects education and employment drastically. Today traditional colleges face a lot of challenges in producing skilled students. There is a gap between what employers are looking for and what colleges are producing. Colleges can bridge the gap using advanced technologies.
Universities may be having good research papers, but hardly produce skilled employable students. The demand for skilled people will force colleges to reorganize their courses. They will now be looking at courses that aim at matching their skills with their jobs.
Subscription-Based College Education
This would revolutionize how students pay for college. Students can ‘subscribe’ to the courses they want rather than enrolling. They can pay a monthly fee which will be much lower than the entire college tuition fees. They will be free to study whatever they want; whenever they want.
Georgia Institute is one of the first colleges looking into the subscription model. The courses will have everything one needs to develop their skills. Also, they will have access to the international network of mentors and teachers.
In a subscription-based course, students will be paying on a monthly basis. This will encourage the student to learn faster. Most of them will graduate in 18-24 months, thus saving a lot of time.
Robotic Teachers
Georgia College has also been experimenting with virtual robotic teachers. The university is working to develop ‘virtual tutors’ which can do forum discussions. They can work without human guidance will full accuracy & answer to almost all doubts.
Colleges are now working on AI-based grading systems. Some of the institutes already have AI that can detect mistakes. Large scale application of AI is now common in evaluating MCQ questions.
Students can now learn foreign languages with the help of AI. Learning foreign languages, with AI & virtual reality will be much efficient and easy than it was earlier. Reports suggest that students can learn faster when it’s experience-based learning.
How Technology Affects Education and Employment?
With these technologies, the future of education will change. It would be easy to understand what a student has learned. Employers today face a big challenge worldwide to recruit skilled people. With these tools, employers will have skilled students to hire.
With such advanced technologies, higher education will no longer be costly, difficult & vague. Students can study what they love and develop a better skill set. This will also help them in getting desirable jobs.
No one knows how higher education will look 20 years from now. There will be many factors affecting the education industry. One thing we can be sure of is that technology will be a large disruptor.
There will also be a negative side to this disruption. Since lots of AI & robots will be working in place of humans, unemployment will rise. Also, it would be very new for people to learn from AI & not actual humans. There will also be a miss of the human touch in the education system.
