Technology, Shaping the Future of India’s Education
This is the age of technology disruption, where Digital is becoming the way to go. The world as we have known it has transformed in just under a decade, growing and evolving on the wings of revolutionary Digital innovations that are now visible everywhere.
The extreme connectedness, ease-of-technology-access and availability of all we need and want at the press of a few keys have made new tech—including Mobility, Cloud, Analytics and Social—a must have in virtually every area of life.
From healthcare, to governance, to manufacturing to education, there is no domain today that is not being powered by technology. Education in fact, is one area where new tech is expected to have the greatest transformational impact.
For a country such as India that is facing gargantuan problems in the educational sphere, technology can certainly serve as a panacea.
Today, India’s schools and higher education system are under great pressure. Lack of infrastructure, poor quality of teaching, teacher absenteeism, high drop out rates of students and a host of other challenges have prevented the country from achieving its goal of 100 percent literacy.
Technology can greatly reverse this situation and play an important role in making education a key pillar of national development. Education in fact, can serve as the tool that will help India convert its currently uneducated youth, into employable, day-1 job ready resources that can help the country leverage its much talked about demographic dividend.
India, which will have almost 47 million people in the working age group by 2025 will only be able to put this high potential manpower to use if it can educate and train it in the right manner.
And here’s where technology can step in. Our education system in India, especially private sector institutions, has already embraced the state-of-the-art, to deliver premier education that conforms to the highest global standards. In these schools, Whiteboards have replaced blackboards, and tablet computers, projectors, digital cameras, and online games have made an appearance.
This trend of course has to become more widespread. In 2016 therefore, we can expect to see a significant churn in the education vertical—a change that is led by technology innovation.
We are sure to see technology, especially e-learning, make a real difference to the school education system. This will allow high quality education material to reach remote locations, thereby enabling teachers to expand their reach. As a result, the overall efficiency of the education system is expected to improve. With the introduction of technology in the classroom, students are likely to take more interest in the curriculum and unleash their creativity. Technology will also bring the fun back into learning. The year ahead will certainly be a showcase of many out-of-the-box ideas that deliver ‘student delight’.
2016 is additionally expected to see greater deployment of the Cloud to deliver learning flexibly and conveniently to users. As it has become more secure, the Cloud has emerged as a new delivery model and platform of choice for educational institutions including colleges, schools and universities. These citadels of learning are now expanding their footprints across India, (some even across the world) and reaching the unreached without making heavy financial investments in hi-tech.
They are leveraging the infrastructure provided by service providers to host their programs and make available online courses Corporate Training in India been gaining popularity on the same.
Others, meanwhile, are setting up their own campuses in the Cloud, as a pathway to higher growth. Over the next 12 months therefore, we are likely to see more Cloud Campuses appear on the landscape and high quality education being accessed by a larger number of learners, on yes, a ‘pay-per-use’ basis!
Another trend that is expected to gain momentum is the delivery of video over the Cloud—a model that several countries in Africa are successfully deploying to train teachers and make faculty global class in a cost-effective manner.
With mobility proliferating in India, the platform of choice for providing learning going forward, will most likely be the mobile/smart phone or device. Educational institutions will be looking to link up their teachers and learners over the mobile platform and use it to offer students content, tools, data and services.
Finally social media will be the other big game changer in the emerging educational landscape. Increasingly, educational institutions are using their social media sites to communicate with their learners, connect them to faculty, create discussion and feedback platforms, share content, and scale their learning experience. Recent research has shown that social media platforms, when integrated with student programs, Content Development Training in Gurgaon can boost student participation and (source: BBC Active) reduce drop out rates.
During the year, we can expect collaborative learning to go mainstream. These trends fuelled by portals such as Moodle—that is enabling students to share notes and course content, upload assignments, and chat with peers and teachers—will become more visible.
Over the coming year, we can expect to see more and more educational institutions integrate with, and leverage social media apps such as Twitter, Facebook and Linked to offer content to learners and make distance teaching and learning easy-to-do.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that technology will indeed be the tool that will draw India’s educational system into the 21st century, making it a powerful driver of the country’s economy. Bolstered by hi-tech, India, after many centuries, will once again be able to position itself as the knowledge hub of the world.
The extreme connectedness, ease-of-technology-access and availability of all we need and want at the press of a few keys have made new tech—including Mobility, Cloud, Analytics and Social—a must have in virtually every area of life.
From healthcare, to governance, to manufacturing to education, there is no domain today that is not being powered by technology. Education in fact, is one area where new tech is expected to have the greatest transformational impact.
For a country such as India that is facing gargantuan problems in the educational sphere, technology can certainly serve as a panacea.
Today, India’s schools and higher education system are under great pressure. Lack of infrastructure, poor quality of teaching, teacher absenteeism, high drop out rates of students and a host of other challenges have prevented the country from achieving its goal of 100 percent literacy.
Technology can greatly reverse this situation and play an important role in making education a key pillar of national development. Education in fact, can serve as the tool that will help India convert its currently uneducated youth, into employable, day-1 job ready resources that can help the country leverage its much talked about demographic dividend.
India, which will have almost 47 million people in the working age group by 2025 will only be able to put this high potential manpower to use if it can educate and train it in the right manner.
And here’s where technology can step in. Our education system in India, especially private sector institutions, has already embraced the state-of-the-art, to deliver premier education that conforms to the highest global standards. In these schools, Whiteboards have replaced blackboards, and tablet computers, projectors, digital cameras, and online games have made an appearance.
This trend of course has to become more widespread. In 2016 therefore, we can expect to see a significant churn in the education vertical—a change that is led by technology innovation.
We are sure to see technology, especially e-learning, make a real difference to the school education system. This will allow high quality education material to reach remote locations, thereby enabling teachers to expand their reach. As a result, the overall efficiency of the education system is expected to improve. With the introduction of technology in the classroom, students are likely to take more interest in the curriculum and unleash their creativity. Technology will also bring the fun back into learning. The year ahead will certainly be a showcase of many out-of-the-box ideas that deliver ‘student delight’.
2016 is additionally expected to see greater deployment of the Cloud to deliver learning flexibly and conveniently to users. As it has become more secure, the Cloud has emerged as a new delivery model and platform of choice for educational institutions including colleges, schools and universities. These citadels of learning are now expanding their footprints across India, (some even across the world) and reaching the unreached without making heavy financial investments in hi-tech.
They are leveraging the infrastructure provided by service providers to host their programs and make available online courses Corporate Training in India been gaining popularity on the same.
Others, meanwhile, are setting up their own campuses in the Cloud, as a pathway to higher growth. Over the next 12 months therefore, we are likely to see more Cloud Campuses appear on the landscape and high quality education being accessed by a larger number of learners, on yes, a ‘pay-per-use’ basis!
Another trend that is expected to gain momentum is the delivery of video over the Cloud—a model that several countries in Africa are successfully deploying to train teachers and make faculty global class in a cost-effective manner.
With mobility proliferating in India, the platform of choice for providing learning going forward, will most likely be the mobile/smart phone or device. Educational institutions will be looking to link up their teachers and learners over the mobile platform and use it to offer students content, tools, data and services.
Finally social media will be the other big game changer in the emerging educational landscape. Increasingly, educational institutions are using their social media sites to communicate with their learners, connect them to faculty, create discussion and feedback platforms, share content, and scale their learning experience. Recent research has shown that social media platforms, when integrated with student programs, Content Development Training in Gurgaon can boost student participation and (source: BBC Active) reduce drop out rates.
During the year, we can expect collaborative learning to go mainstream. These trends fuelled by portals such as Moodle—that is enabling students to share notes and course content, upload assignments, and chat with peers and teachers—will become more visible.
Over the coming year, we can expect to see more and more educational institutions integrate with, and leverage social media apps such as Twitter, Facebook and Linked to offer content to learners and make distance teaching and learning easy-to-do.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that technology will indeed be the tool that will draw India’s educational system into the 21st century, making it a powerful driver of the country’s economy. Bolstered by hi-tech, India, after many centuries, will once again be able to position itself as the knowledge hub of the world.
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