Ekonomi TEK
Yazarlar: Hasan KAZDAĞLI
Konular:İktisat
Anahtar Kelimeler:Economics education,The fourth industrial revolution,Technological unemployment,Cognitive processes,Metacognitive skills in economics education,Contemporary learning techniques,Higher education council of Turkey,Bologna process,Effective and smart learning methods
Özet: With the effect of the fourth industrial revolution, the threat is looming for middle-class jobs being lost to smart machines, making the race all the more intense for remaining jobs. The economists of the future will distinguish themselves with their combination of talent and knowledge. Unfortunately, the existing universities do not appear to have perceived this fact fully. The main purpose of this essay is to present a new education strategy that will prioritize what the economics students of the future will require— namely, the exact knowledge and the skills to focus on—and to assess the conditions for the implementation of this strategy. This is a major departure from the current practice in economics education of issuing periodic curriculum updates, which do little to serve the needs of the students. We should ensure that the economics student has learned everything he was supposed to and, on top this, has the requisite skills to process that material and manage her/his own learning. While educating the economists of this new age, we should not only be concerned with transferring knowledge, but also be concerned with transferring knowledge, but also with their long term learning performances. Typically, high school students in Turkey show up in university economics departments lacking the prior knowledge and skills due to insufficient and examination-indexed education they get. This situation negatively affects the economics education. Moreover, overcrowded classrooms further hamper the learning process. This situation can be corrected and a much better economics education can be given provided that an efficient education strategy is implemented. Modern technology now offers, for both teachers and learners alike, the possibility of reaching enormous sources of information for optimizing the Turkish education process and to make learning much more effective. Artificial intelligence and machine learning now offer much better education methods. The combination of advanced technological methods with traditional education policies may produce the desired results in economics education.