The director of the Higher Colleges of Technology Complex, Dr. Abdullatif Al Shamsi expected that the “campus” will disappear from higher education institutions during the coming period, with the emergence of a new educational model that exceeds the boundaries of space and time, called “education along the lines of Uber”, pointing out that this model provides Education as a service for everyone who desires to have it, without linking it to a place or time.
Al-Shamsi stressed, during the activities of the closing day of the Digital Future Summit, yesterday, that colleges can graduate students with two diplomas, the first is an academic from the colleges, and the second is professional.
In detail, the first session of the "Digital Future 2019" summit, organized by the Abu Dhabi Digital Authority, in cooperation with Messe Frankfurt Middle East, under the slogan of "Empowering the Future Government", concluded yesterday to discuss and analyze the various dimensions of digital transformation and its role in empowering the future government.
The closing day of the summit, which was held in the presence of more than 1500 participants, including ministers, policymakers and international experts, witnessed a number of lectures and discussion sessions, reviewed and discussed the digital transformation in the system of work in the governmental and private sectors driven by the latest innovations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and to identify potential opportunities provided by technologies Emerging to various sectors in the future.
During the activities of the second day of the summit, the Director of the Colleges of Higher Colleges of Technology, Dr. Abdullatif Al Shamsi, gave a lecture entitled "The Fourth Generation Plan for Higher Colleges of Technology", during which he reviewed the features of future education in light of the digital revolution, explaining that the "fourth generation" plan for colleges of high technology that With the slogan "After Employment", it came to face the future challenges imposed by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and its impact on the changes in the job market, which required preparing human cadres with new ideas and capabilities that support building the future of digital education.
Al Shamsi said that the fourth-generation plan for higher technology colleges depends on three pillars, including preparing technical leaders, by enabling students to have skills as a requirement of the labor market more than academic degrees, so that colleges are able to graduate students with two degrees, the first academic from colleges, and the second professional from The global donor, after the professional certificate has become part of the curriculum in partnership with 22 international institutions granting professional certificates.
He added that the second pillar depends on achieving the principle of education for all, by providing colleges with educational opportunities for every Emirati and Emirati by diversifying their educational paths, by returning to the basic message of colleges, which is the graduation of a diploma and higher diploma campaign, in addition to a bachelor’s degree, to provide the technical competencies required for the sector Industrial, as well as the opening of specialized academies to attract employees who wish to develop their skills, in line with the technological revolution and job changes.
Al Shamsi stated that the third pillar revolves around "graduating companies and entrepreneurs", so that colleges become an incubating and encouraging environment for young people to establish their companies, pointing to the colleges' endeavor towards achieving the integrative institutional digital transformation of all the systems used by them, and enhancing the smart learning environment, through many global initiatives and partnerships . Turning to drawing features of education in the future, and visualizing an educational model that transcends the boundaries of space and time, it was called "Education along the lines of Uber", saying that this model will enable the provision of education as a service to all who wish to obtain it, without being linked to a place or time, where it will allow This type of education attracts the best professors and the best students, it also provides learning resources for everyone, the possibility of studying from anywhere in the world, and achieving a study achievement in record time, in addition to expecting the disappearance of the concept of “campus”, and turning universities into sources of technology and spaces for application that support students.
Vision for the future
The Director of the Higher Colleges of Technology Complex, Dr. Abdullatif Al Shamsi, spoke about the future vision of education, which depends on taking advantage of the huge technological development in the interest of the process of preparing and building human capabilities, and through the analysis of "big data" for each student, and investing in artificial intelligence technologies, so that colleges can Preparing an individual curriculum suitable for each student, according to his digital data that reveals his inclinations, abilities, and hobbies, noting that this vision enables students to obtain special scientific certificates that are compatible with their abilities and meet the needs of the labor market.