Swasdee kaaaaa! I just got back from a seminar on 'University 4.0', where 3 participating universities (Chiang Mai U/CMU, Khon Kaen U/KKU, and Prince of Songkla U/PSU) gave their final presentations of the months' efforts using foresight to look into the future of their universities.
The three universities have come up with their own preferable futures to be implemented one way or another according to their contexts and readiness, which could be quite detailed to share so let me highlight some of the issues plus my own thinking as usual ka!
Foresight exercises lead us to think more transformational and it seems time and efforts are needed to be more bold and imaginative even some have emerged for us to see like one university aimed to go from .edu to .org, .com. and .biz while one looked more closely into the subregion with China as the dominant player for GMS. The other one stressed the forms of physical to virtual campuses with a variety of program choices and DIY.
What makes them think and behave so, I really am not sure ka!
Self awareness must be integral as part of the education processes and outcomes and perhaps start from older generations to identify effective ways to guide the younger and for the younger to explore themselves more readily.
On generational issues, I like it when Ajarn Mor+ Avudh Srisukri said for the more senior to simply share their experiences for the junior to get started and let the latter pursue their thinking and build their world with the most updated knowledge the senior can't possibly catch up!
Khun Veerathai, former Bank of Thailand's governor, gave sharp comments focusing first on values propositions of the universities, turning out to be subsequent lively and productive discussions.
Time to recheck our own values propositions from the national to university/ faculty/departmental levels ka.
Several other key questions were, 'What to do when education seems to be torn apart in pieces?', 'How could we take advantage of our being trusted by the society to prepare our next generations for their unknown future?', 'Have we thought of how to maximize sharing economy platforms?'.
Any issue to get started as a sandbox with the least rules yet risks contained to a certain level and success can be scalable (similar to the one kids play quite freely yet, with some to help monitor?)
Several other key questions were, 'What to do when education seems to be torn apart in pieces?', 'How could we take advantage of our being trusted by the society to prepare our next generations for their unknown future?', 'Have we thought of how to maximize sharing economy platforms?'.
Any issue to get started as a sandbox with the least rules yet risks contained to a certain level and success can be scalable (similar to the one kids play quite freely yet, with some to help monitor?)
Again and again, the term, 'mindset' popped up ka.
I think we must move further away from 'top up', which may be outdated so the notion of seniors, leaders, and faculty ' know better with experiences’ to be more about student engagement for them to co-design what’s likely to be relevant and dynamic for constant change.
Self awareness must be integral as part of the education processes and outcomes and perhaps start from older generations to identify effective ways to guide the younger and for the younger to explore themselves more readily.
Trust in the universities can be highlighted to help coach our younger ones on self awareness and can be joint lessons for all involved la ka!
Hope the more seniors can serve as favorable role models of future-oriented citizens too ka.
One missing link as always since people tend to take internationalization/IZN too lightly, human-to-human relationship building, intra-university/international collaborative networks, and shared platforms have yet to be heard!
Any comments mai ka?
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