Universities must enter the digital age or risk facing irrelevance

1. The model where the teacher is the broadcaster and the student is the supposedly willing recipient of the one-way message is no longer sufficient for modern learners, writes Don Tapscott. (Thomas Lohnes / GETTY IMAGES)

2. In a article published in 2016 by a thestar.com journalist called DON Tapscott tells why universities must change their model of delivering knowledge in a digital world by giving many reasons

2.1. First Reason:universities function in a networked society. Innovation has to be done for student grown up digital.

2.2. Second:the actual model must change: "I’m a professor and I have knowledge. Get ready; here it comes. Your goal is to take this data into your short-term memory so you can recall it to me when I test you."

2.3. third: Today's student want to communicate with their classmate when learning. . Harvard professor Eric Mazur, who uses this approach in his physics class, puts it this way: “Education is so much more than the mere transfer of information. The information has to be assimilated. Students have to connect the information to what they already know, develop mental models, learn how to apply the new knowledge and how to adapt this knowledge to new and unfamiliar situations.”

2.4. What counts now is "your capacity to learn lifelong, to think, research, find information, analyze, synthesize, contextualize, critically evaluate it, to apply research to solving problems, to collaborate and communicate"

2.5. Computer based learning becomes more effective learning environments

2.6. Conclusion: changing the way knowledge is transfer is very crucial for students grown up digital

3. References:

3.1. Tapscott,D. (May, 10 2016).Universities must enter the digital age or risk facing irrelevance. Retrieved from Universities must enter the digital age or risk facing irrelevance | Toronto Star