siliconindia | | July 20188IN MY OPINIONBy Amit Goyal, Country Head, edXFounded by Harvard University and MIT, edX is world's leading MOOC (massive open online course) platform offering high-quality courses from the world's best universities and institutions to learners everywhere.t's that time of the year when everyone is excit-ed about their annual reviews ­ appraisals and bonuses. Employees often have a love-hate re-lationship with their boss. But can you imagine reporting to a Robot? A Robot deciding your ef-ficiency and relevance in the organization? That's right, numerous reports have cited that 50 percent of the jobs that exist today will be lost to AI, Automation and Robot-ics by 2030. As alarming as it may sound, but hasn't the work has always changed or rather evolved? For instance, machine input has evolved from type to touch to voice command and now artificial and emotional intelligence to predict your input? Think of that electronics repair shop in your neighbourhood at which you might have queued-up at some point of time to repair your Radio or those bulky CRT Televisions? The same electrician was nudged to work on CRT Televisions to Plasma to LEDs and soon Foldable screens. However, this time the pace of business disruption is faster than ever. There is going to be a 2000 percent increase in business & technology transformation over next five years as compared to what happened in last 20 years. The real challenge ahead for individuals & or-ganizations is ­ are we geared-up to adapt the change at this pace? At work, the retirement age is shrinking to 65-50 and very soon 30-35 years? Our college learning depletes or is deemed almost fully irrelevant within 7-8 years. Imagine the relevance of last technology that you learnt in college in today's world. While COBOL or C or Excel may still be the elementary foundation of some technologies today, but the world has evolved to Python & R and much more. Continuous learning is the mantra for success today. The real anecdote for continues learning seems to be `In-de-mand Learning on-demand,' i.e., acquire relevant skills at your own pace and convenience. This sudden change in learning requirements has forced the traditional universi-ties to change their business model. Students and working professionals are gradually moving away from the notion of bundled education. They no longer want to spend 3-5 years of their life in a classroom to acquire a bundled skill or degree of which only a small fraction will be of relevance to them at the work front. To match the in-de-mand and on-demand learning needs these universities are gradually shifting to popular MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platforms like edX that defines future of learning as:a) Modular b) Omni-channelc) LifelongFUTURE OF WORK & LEARNINGAmit GoyalI
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