| | 8 September 2020HIGHERReviewREIMAGINING UNIVERSITIES POST COVID ERABy Vikas Gupta, Managing Director, Wiley IndiaIN MY OPINIONVikas Gupta, MD, Wiley India, is recognised as a progressive thought leader of the edtech and publishing industry. In his current role at Wiley, he heads the Wiley India office with a portfolio of Research, Learning, Training and Workforce Skilling and Deployment Solutions businesses. Vikas conceptualised and spearheads the WileyNXT business, which is Wiley's new Edtech offering for building future work skills driven by emerging technologies. Vikas holds a bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering and an Executive MBA from ISB in association with Kellogg School of Management, the Wharton Business School and Fundação Dom Cabral, Brazil. He also holds a PG Diploma in Printing and Publishing from London.Vikas Gupta, Managing DirectorThe unprecedented events within the current past have put education in limelight like never. The paradigm shift towards online learning requires re-imagining of Universities and educational institutions to accompany technological disruption. There is a need for new learning methods, adaptive learner experience as well as identifying new revenue fashions to fund innovation and enlargement in those areas, to equip future personnel for Enterprise 4.0.4. The university model has remained invariably same over the years; operating as a well-regulated institution, with a structured and consistent approach towards curriculum development and pedagogy, academics, and overall governance. As we have entered the fourth industrial revolution, it is time for universities to leave the archaic framework behind and ushered in one that's integrated and inclusive. This calls for curriculum transformation and collaborative partnerships to meet the demands of a technologically inclined society as well as learners.How the Emerging Landscape will Shape University 4.0?To become the key enablers for fostering new-age skills for Industry 4.0, Universities need to don their 4.0 avatar and move from functioning as a trust to operating as an enterprise. The transpiring ecosystem provides universities with an opportunity to streamline education as a service, keeping learners at the fulcrum. This necessarily means universities would require moving from a standard one-size-fits-all and allow students to drive the kind of degrees and learning experience they are looking for. How can universities create an enterprise like model?The answer lies in implementing learning models enabled by digital technology and synergic industry collaborations.Re-thinking Offerings: For an enterprise, the essence of customer gratification is the ultimate value delivered. In an era where offerings are customized and bundled per user reference, how can career development
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