Title :
Will universities and university teachers become extinct in our bright online future?
Author :
Henno, J. ; Jaakkola, H. ; Makela, Jyrki ; Brumen, B.
Author_Institution :
Tallinn Univ. of Technol., Tallinn, Estonia
Abstract :
Members of highly developed societies do not grow their own potatoes, build their own house, marry in local neighborhood and (mostly) educate their offspring. Human society has developed a complicated networks of services to satisfy our needs in food and goods, lodging and education. These services are based on Information. Trade is moving goods from where they can be obtained cheaper to where they can be sold profitably and the concept used for evaluation - money - is just information about ability to own/possess things; education is collecting, classifying knowledge obtained by all members of society and then arranging this knowledge to nice mouthfuls for transferring to our students. The rapidly developing Information and Communication Technology (ITC, IT) has changed almost every aspect of our daily lives. Consumer goods are moving into on-line shops, brick and mortar shops are closed and replaced with on-line Amazons, where smart software helps you quickly find what you are looking for and gives you lot of information, what you cannot obtain in ordinary shop; salespersons are evolving into marketing and public relations professionals, networking with clients, customers, prospects, suppliers. In education, especially in IT education, changes are even more rapid. Old-fashioned Colleges and Universities with large campus, staff and high costs are getting more and more competition from numerous educational entrepreneurs, who start massive open online courses (MOOC) with millions of users/students from all around the world and establish new on-line universities where costs of obtaining a degree are marginal compared to ´brick-andmortal´ universities and which again are open to nearly everyone independent of user geographical location. Do we still have salespersons and teachers in 2020 - or will both professions become extinct ?
Keywords :
Web sites; computer aided instruction; educational courses; educational institutions; ICT; IT education; MOOC; brick shops; education collection; educational entrepreneurs; human society; information-and-communication technology; knowledge classification; massive open online courses; mortar shops; old-fashioned colleges; old-fashioned universities; online Amazons; online shops; online universities; smart software; universities; university teachers; Computers; Educational institutions; Europe; Internet; Programming; Three-dimensional displays;
Conference_Titel :
Information & Communication Technology Electronics & Microelectronics (MIPRO), 2013 36th International Convention on
Conference_Location :
Opatija
Print_ISBN :
978-953-233-076-2