EarlyBirds helping universities build resources for new age workplace

Highlights

• While businesses are adopting new technology at a fast pace, it is essential that universities too match up their curriculum with the advancements.
• Open-source innovation ecosystems like EarlyBirds can help universities update their curriculum following emerging industrial innovation.
• With a collaboration with EarlyBirds, the universities will be able to integrate industrial innovation into the curriculum.
• The universities working with EarlyBirds have savoured positive results, such as improved industry connection, higher employability of graduates, increased student engagement, and more successful student placements. 

In today’s fast-changing world, there is a need to bring in modifications in the education system so as to bridge the gap of time. The books provided to the students contain content published years ago, which has not been updated with the changing world.

There remains a gap between university academic education and the present time. As a result, a graduate from any university might remain unaware about the current state of technology in businesses.

Let’s understand it better with the example of artificial intelligence and machine learning being used across industries. If the universities do not update their curriculum timely, it is most likely that the graduates from such universities would lose their chance of grabbing a work opportunity in multi-national companies which make use of latest tech features such as AI.

In such a scenario, open-source innovation ecosystems like EarlyBirds play a crucial role. They can help universities update their curriculum following emerging industrial innovation.

EarlyBirds is a business-to-business platform that brings together early adopters, innovators, and subject matter experts. It helps early adopter businesses to pace up their technology adoption programs. Businesses can take part as early adopters in the innovation ecosystem through https://earlybirds.io/en/early_adopter.

While businesses are adopting new technology at a fast pace, it is essential that universities too match up their curriculum with the advancements. In this direction, EarlyBirds has built associations with education leaders, faculty members, and influencers at education centres to eliminate the gap between industry and academia, between the new-age technology and the university curriculum.

EarlyBirds has been able to achieve this because of its expertise in detecting and analysing emerging technologies as well as industry trends. More than five million innovators have already tracked the EarlyBirds open innovation ecosystem, says the Australian company.

A collaboration with EarlyBirds would enable universities to integrate industrial innovation into the curriculum, leading to increased employability of graduates and entrepreneurship, highlights EarlyBirds. This partnership will help universities have industry insights and build connections that will keep them up to date in terms of advancements in technology use in industries.  

EarlyBirds says that the universities that deployed its offerings have savoured positive results, such as improved industry connection, higher employability of graduates, increased student engagement, and more successful student placements.

Universities that have collaborated with EarlyBirds ensure that students at their centre graduate with the required set of skills and aptitudes to tackle “real world problems” and makes them a suitable candidate for any workplace.

Also, an industry-oriented curriculum is a must in universities to create a learning environment for students where they are challenged to enhance their intellectual, practical, and social skills. EarlyBirds says that it can be a great help here too as it offers solutions to colleges and universities to update their curriculum as per latest technological innovations for diverse industries.

With EarlyBirds, innovators, early adopters, and SMEs can work closely for entrepreneurial success with accelerated technology adoption. It provides innovators with strategic guidance, access to multiple resources, and useful industry networks to commercialise their innovative solutions.