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INDIA & EDUCATION
Seminar Presentation on Emerging
trends/ policies in education
Ms. Priya
Class: SY B.Ed.
Sujeet
(2024-25)
Singh
Ms. Priya Sujeet Singh
Class: SY B.Ed. (2024-25)
ABSTRACT
COVID-19 has expedited digital adoption in the education industry and encouraged educators to rethink how best
to deliver education to students. Many agree that the pandemic has forced them to innovate and embrace
technology to continue providing education remotely
01
INTRODUCTION
➢ Innovation that would have taken a
decade has happened immediately.
KEY
POINTS
Going back to university this year will be
as if it were 2030.
FLEXIBLE LEARNING
02 ➢ EMPLOYABILITY
➢ RESEARCH
STUDENT WELLBEING
03 ➢ PRIVACY & SECURITY
➢ DIGITAL DIVIDE
CONCLUSION
04 ➢ To reap the full benefits of technology,
educational institutions should embrace a
culture of change, using this moment as an
opportunity to experiment and innovate to
meet the changing needs of their students.
INTRODUCTION
Socio political and economic pressures that
pre-date the pandemic now seem certain to
reshape the landscape of higher education.
Traditional Approach
Traditionally, universities teaching similar courses aimed
at achieving similar outcomes, combined with some level
of research, have differentiated themselves with quality.
Effect of pandemic
The pandemic is not the only driver for change.
Governments’ appetite for funding education that is
misaligned with national and employer priorities or less-
than-immediately applicable research is declining
Remedies
For primary and secondary schools, the situation varies in
each country depending on the country’s COVID-19
policies. Some schools have announced that younger
learners can return at reduced capacity whereas others
continue to offer distance learning.
Challenges
The challenge for universities and schools alike is not
merely a question of balancing in-person and online
education—personalized or otherwise—in response to a
health and safety challenge.
TIMELINE PHASE
Research. Researchers at the University Privacy & Security, Digital Divide Cyberattacks
Employability. Arizona State
of Adelaide are collaborating with are an increasing threat everywhere; however,
University is ranked first for
researchers from the Plant Breeding and education institutions have become particularly
innovation and is among the top
Acclimatization Institute (IHAR) in Poland vulnerable. Many learners do not have access
universities worldwide in
on a project to study the increase crop to the technology necessary for online learning,
graduate employment.
yield of wheat. be it devices or a reliable internet connection.
2019 2021 2023
2018 2020 2022
Flexible Learning. A vast Assessment With most teaching Student Well- Being Online learning has the
majority of universities across moving online, educators need disadvantage of less social interaction and
the world are offering a blend ways to assess learning remotely. connection to the campus. Together with
of face to-face and online In response to the pandemic, stress from the global
teaching and assessment for many countries either cancelled or pandemic, more remote courses may
at least the 2020-21 postponed their national end-of- exacerbate mental health conditions among
academic year. year tests for secondary schools. digital learners.
FLEXIBLE LEARNING
students absorb new
Flip materials as homework and use
Classroom classroom time for discussion.
educators agree that they
Teaching should focus on how
more students are engaging .
effective
“Real-time analytics just weren’t possible before, but
now instructors can really understand how there classes
are doing. As a result, instructors have more
involvement and connection with their students,” says
Heather Taylor, product marketing manager for Revel.
Educators now agree that personalized education yields better learning
outcomes, and technology has accelerated this process. New technologies
also offer a personalized learning assistant to students to remind them of their
assignments and offer feedback on their learning experience. Data analytics
also enables teachers to better understand how students are learning and
what interventions are needed to support them. The benefits of education
extend beyond the acquisition of academic knowledge and skills. Non-
academic co-curricular activities, life skills, social capabilities, and the
relationships that students form while at university are critical components of
the higher education experience. The short-term challenge for universities is
to acquire capabilities that enable them to deliver traditional education
remotely while balancing the non-academic benefits of university education.
EMPLOYABILITY
Universities will adjust offerings to enhance learner employability.
URGENCY
The pandemic prompted a newfound urgency to
reinvent curricula and offer flexible learning. There is
more interest in stackable learning, defined as taking
a selection of academic programs that can stack
together to achieve a certificate or degree.
REBALANCING
COMMITMENT The movement towards graduating
They are offering flexibility on cost, time employable students is likely to drive
commitment, and the ability to gain academic institutions to adjust their
certification in emerging specializations in curricula, rebalancing it to the needs of the
fast-changing fields like technology and labor market and government priorities and
healthcare. offering students flexibility through
stackable credentials.
APPRENTICESHIPS
Stackable learning is a good fit for students GLOBAL RECESSION
balancing their education with full or part-time jobs, Today’s global recession is pushing universities to
not least because it recognizes the knowledge and build curricula that are more responsive to the
skills gained through activities beyond traditional needs of labor markets. Some countries have cut
degree courses like certificates, digital badges, and public spending on universities and tying what
apprenticeships. remains to employment outcomes.
ASSESSMENT
Students learn, Flexible Learning Employability Assessment
Research Student Wellbeing communicate and collaborate in a
digital environment; go on to work in a digital environment and yet
online assessment is some way behind the curve. We believe in
learning throughout life; where embracing and using knowledge,
whether in work or education, is continuous.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud enabled schools to successfully
conducted exams with 73,000 students . They were also able to
monitor students during the test and use AWS technologies to verify
their identities.
Moving exams to the cloud makes it possible for universities to scale
exams to thousands of students. The London School of Economics
and Political Science (LSE) quickly realized that they could not
accommodate more concurrent online testers on their existing on
premises infrastructure.
The scalability and security of their online infrastructure was critical to
facilitating this
move.
Over the medium and long term, educators have an opportunity to
rethink assessment as a whole and experiment with technologies that
enhance various aspects of assessment.
Testing should be more authentic and continuous, assessing skills
in a more realistic way. Technologies like machine learning can ease
teachers’ workloads by offering automated feedback on
assignments. For example, Revisely is an education company that
helps teachers give better feedback on students’ writing
assignments and performs plagiarism checks on essays.
RESEARCH
Research will continue to internationalize and become more collaborative.
FIRSTLY
SECONDLY
governments are increasingly
insistent on more immediately universities, research institutes, or even
applicable research, citing the entire nations tackling the same
impact of independent research opportunities cannot individually address
institutes funded by government global challenges. For example, the UN’s
and industry. Fundamentally, sustainability goals including public
universities have their own 65% health, climate change, security, and
interests, and industry pursues
profits. Both are staunch 55% sustainability will require coordinated
collaboration, reduced duplication,
protectors of their independence. partnership, and interdisciplinarity across
Occasionally, however, interests what are currently dispersed specialties
converge and mutually fruitful and strengths. Several daunting barriers,
endeavors materialize. According including fragmented funding, restrictive
to Nancy Rothwell, vice chancellor bureaucracy, and measures of success
at the University of Manchester persist, but progress towards
and the chair-elect of the Russel specialization and collaboration seems
Group of universities in the UK, set to continue.
“implementation has become as
important as innovation.”
STUDENT WELL-BEING
A growing mental health challenge.
DISADVANTAGE
Online learning has the disadvantage of
less social interaction and connection to
HOTLINES & CHATBOTS
the campus. Together with stress from
the global pandemic, more remote In response to the crisis, some
courses may exacerbate mental health universities have set up hotlines and
conditions among digital learners. . chatbots, which help reduce the
administrative burden of increasing call
volume and enable health professionals
to spend more time with students.
DATA ANALYTICS
Some universities are using data
analytics to gain insights on which STUDENT ACCOMODATION
students are struggling and intervene Universities are rethinking the layout and
early to support them. For example, functionality of campuses and student
Betha Systems in Brazil offers municipal accommodation, partly in response to
education departments the ability to use the global health and safety challenge
machine learning for such predictions. and partly because they believe that
remote learning is here to stay.
PRIVACY & SECURITY
Educational institutions will focus more on security and privacy of online systems.
90 %
Cyberattacks are an increasing threat everywhere; however,
education institutions have become particularly vulnerable..
The increase in cyber attacks further emphasizes the need for a workforce trained in
cybersecurity. Cybersecurity Education: Planning for the Future of Workforce Development
outlines steps to build a Cybersecurity Education Action Plan (CEAP) to support cybersecurity
education and address the shortage of cybersecurity skills in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
Data & Privacy Netwalker Research Theft
Educators are also becoming Malware known as Netwalker hit Research theft is also becoming
more vigilant when it comes to several universities in the US, a larger concern for universities,
student data and privacy. successfully encrypting systems especially those carrying out
Attackers are increasingly on university networks and research on behalf of
threatening to reveal student requesting funds in return for corporations. The
and faculty personally access to their files. Some announcement by universities
identifiable information. They reports indicate one of the that they were conducting
also need to prioritize security schools were targeted because COVID-19 vaccine-related
awareness among faculty, staff, of its proprietary research related research has made them targets
and students. Educational to COVID-19 vaccines. In for academic theft. These
institutions have also been response to these attacks, and examples further highlighted the
conducting more training for to protect against future threats, importance of enhancing
their staff and students around universities are using security security
the security of online systems. features
DIGITAL DIVIDE
ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY DESIGN FOR INCULSION
Digital learning is here to stay. Yet, As educators work on getting students
many learners do not have access to back to school, they are doing so with an
the technology necessary for online eye towards equity. Although educators
learning, be it devices or a reliable have demonstrated that they can find
internet connection. This problem is creative ways of connecting with their
particularly acute for primary and students, the success of remote learning
secondary school students. According to long term depends on how well
the Brookings Institution, less than 25% educational institutions design for
of low-income countries provide any inclusion and their ability to partner with
type of remote learning. government and industry to address this
complicated challenge.
PROMISING SOLUTIONS INVESTMENTS
There are promising solutions that are Investing in improvements to the quality
helping students connect no matter their of online teaching may also help
location. US-based technology company students most in need. Most online
Kajeet Inc, which runs on AWS, is learning during the pandemic has been
providing learners with hotspot devices teacher delivered. Teachers can use
that are simple to use and are compliant technology in ways that drive
with federal laws protecting student’s collaboration, transparency, and learning
access to online content. to focus on the needs of individual
students.
CONCLUSION
THANK YOU
Regards Priya Sujeet Singh
