{"id":54325,"date":"2020-10-09T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T19:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=54325"},"modified":"2020-10-09T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T19:30:09","slug":"university-digitize-or-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/university-digitize-or-go-back\/","title":{"rendered":"University: digitize or go back"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Traditionally regarded as a minor modality, online teaching had already achieved its nature and quality mark before the pandemic.\u00a0Their figures, however, were (are) still small: of the 251 million university students only 2% receive training exclusively online (just over 5 million).\u00a0In Spain the data are somewhat better, but equally low compared to face-to-face teaching with 85% of undergraduate students and 76% of\u00a0master’s<\/a>\u00a0students\u00a0.<\/p>\n

And suddenly, like a black swan, as unexpected as it is devastating, COVID-19 appears, acting as a catalyst for essential educational change.\u00a0Faced with the difficulty of maintaining face-to-face classes, universities have turned their eyes to online and blended teaching, which have acquired a citizenship card and will experience an exponential increase in demand.<\/p>\n

The number of\u00a0tertiary education students<\/a>\u00a0will increase from 100 million in 2000 to 377 in 2030 and 594 in 2040. The Asian continent, Latin America or sub-Saharan Africa will experience spectacular increases in training that will not be able to be served by traditional providers of education. teaching.\u00a0It is possible that within 20 years we will have more than 100 million students online and a higher number taking hybrid education.<\/p>\n

And something similar will happen in Spain in a context of general student growth until 2030-35 due to the disembarkation of the generations born in the stage of recovery of the birth rate (1998-2008).<\/p>\n

The unstoppable digitization process<\/strong><\/h4>\n

According to a recent projection, remote universities are going to win around 50,000 students, which will probably be more if the number of these institutions increases.\u00a0To this factor will be added the unstoppable digitization process.<\/p>\n

The entire value chain of educational activity needs to be digitized.\u00a0The institutions that succeed will survive;\u00a0those that don’t will be doomed to irrelevance.<\/p>\n

The increase in demand, the technological revolution and also the possibility of meeting aspirations that face-to-face training does not cover: those of those people who for reasons of time, geographic location, work reasons or family commitments cannot go to the classrooms every day.<\/p>\n

Broad spectrum skills<\/strong><\/h4>\n

All courses are subject to online training: degrees, masters, short programs and continuous training.\u00a0Certainly some specific subjects and trainings lend themselves more than others to virtual training, but all, in whole or in part, can benefit from this way of transmitting knowledge, competences and skills.<\/p>\n

There are already programs for almost everything.\u00a0Many of the companies listed on\u00a0Hiring 20.com<\/a>\u00a0offer virtual internships.\u00a0Prestigious\u00a0aprenticeships<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0bootcamps<\/em>\u00a0have\u00a0online<\/em>\u00a0versions\u00a0.\u00a0To perform non -contact\u00a0testing no facial recognition technologies such as\u00a0Proctor U<\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0And the examples could be multiplied.<\/p>\n

It must be recognized that some degrees, particularly in health sciences, require a greater presence for certain training courses.\u00a0For them (and for others) there are hybrid or semi-presential modalities through which many of the training paths of the future will run.<\/p>\n

As the Obanian motto states (“Yes. We can”),\u00a0online<\/em>\u00a0training\u00a0can do anything and with the same quality and efficiency as the face-to-face format.\u00a0The old accusation of being a minor educational instrument, of limited scope and unsatisfactory results, no longer holds.\u00a0This is how the results prove it and this is how the market recognizes it.<\/p>\n

Challenges of the transition from face-to-face to virtual<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The move from face-to-face to virtual poses some significant challenges.\u00a0I quote three:<\/p>\n