Towards Evolving Symbiotic Cognitive Education Based on Digital Twins

Abstract

In the past, professional education lasted for a lifetime. Since then, the industrial revolutions have accelerated the pace of knowledge doubling from a lifetime to months, and have altered the working environment so that professionals will have to move between many jobs in their life. Are we capable of adjusting to that pace? How can we learn all that is needed in the old educational system? The time has come to revamp the educational system at the core. The new system must be personalized to match the diversity of individual abilities and styles of learning. The new system must also be based not only on the body of knowledge (BoK), but body of experience (BoX). We envisage that the new personalized system of education being sufficiently agile and interactive so that it would become evolving in its symbiosis with humans. For that to happen, we must coexist with symbiotic autonomous cognitive systems, specifically involving digital twins. This paper addresses some aspects of this view.