My last mail to summarize the IZN of Higher Education Platform ka.
My own version of the overall learning is:
- IZN is here to stay and can be a great mechanism for mobility, partnership, collaboration, and benchmarking. Go for cooperation, not competition at all levels from local to regional and international.
- The speed of the digital world is much faster than imagined and our higher education institutions must adjust fast. Prof. Sacco’s emphasis on teaching students ‘to learn how to learn’ is crucial.
- Quality has to be integrated in all the IZN steps and processes.
- The sessions have also confirmed my talk in several key aspects ka.
1) There’s a real need to bridge the gap between national authorities and universities to build mutual understanding of the policy directions on IZN to ensure that the implementation will work for our younger generations and our more stable future. Universities need to have their autonomy to manage their IZN elements as seen most responsive to their respective contexts.
2) Internationalization at Home (IaH) must be on our agenda to allow the mass to have intercultural understanding even when without any mobility opportunities. Virtual mobility should be seriously explored as well.
3) While we see younger ones who are digital natives, the older generations (particularly faculty and staff) must turn themselves into Gen ‘C’ (Gen Connected) to keep up with them and the new normal world.
4) We need to nurture the attributes of ‘empathy‘ and ‘ethics’ before the third generation (ASI— Artificial Super Intelligence) of robots take over the mass! In other words, retain our human qualities not to be robotized as robots are being developed to be more and more humanized!
On another matter, I felt upset to see many empty seats after the morning of the first day and again the second day. It was such a great opportunity to have the Platform organized in Thailand for us to benefit but I guess priority given to IZN wasn’t high enough along with other reasons.
Anyway, it means much more work has to be done more seriously before we run out of time and in fact, time is limited ka!
Let’s keep learning and fighting!
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