Abstract: A humanized education depends on the teaching of educators to impact, navigate and co-occur within the sociocultural environment and implementation of educators, leaders, students, administration, and community members. Creating beliefs and practices around a humanizing education focuses on the cultural and contextual realisms and understandings of the learner. The motivation of this paper was to scout how educators inspire academic change towards a humanizing education and increase employability opportunities for the youth. Educational atmosphere and teaching methods using digital advancements of IR4.0 are explored in this paper as impacts on the elements for humanizing education. Employability is also a major problem to be resolved for the youth in contemplation on an industrial and economical level. Youth have experienced various scenarios of skills mismatch upon trying to be employed in the current industry. The design and system thinking approach has been adapted in this paper to address the wellbeing issues and promote employability skills trainings for the unemployed youth in India through understanding their need, and then followed by building conceptual business models using modelling tools, i.e. Business model canvas (BMC) and Value proposition design canvas (VPC). The approach includes conducting literature review and interviews for understanding the needs, challenges and key problems; formulating and ideating initial business model options in solving the problems; and validation of the initial business model by interviewing the various customer segments. This paper offers validated conceptual UotF business model with focus on international community engagement for a Malaysian-based UotF. The value proposition of the conceptual business model is to enhance the wellbeing of the youth in India through humanizing educational activities by harnessing the digital possibilities in today’s world. This paper also aspires to contemplate the contribution of higher education institutions, in accomplishing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through employability and digital entrepreneurship skill sets that are essential for a graduate.
Keywords: Wellbeing, Humanizing Digital Entrepreneurship Education, India, B40 Youth, Digital Era, University-of-the-Future, SDG, Community Engagement.
Title: The role of Malaysian University-of-the-Future (UotF) in the Digital Era: International Community Engagement for Improving the Wellbeing of Youth in India
Author: Sohail Salim, Abdul Rahman Ahmad Dahlan
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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