Need for Technology Enabled Education for Growth and Innovation

Enayet Kabir 21 June 2013

For a country like India technology could be the only hope

• Huge and all pervasive deficits in education

across all segments

• Very limited resources available

• Arrival of the enabling conditions

• Broadband connectivity

• Falling prices of tablets and smart phones

• There is a need for creative thinking to mitigate

resource problems

• Flipped classroom?

• Virtual labs?

• Canned lectures?

• Tools to improve accountability of teachers?

In the next five years, relentless waves of technology will strike education

Time to Adoption Horizon K-12 Higher Ed

Near Term: One Year or

Less

Cloud Computing MOOCs

Mobile Learning Tablet Computing

Mid Term: Two to Three

Years

Learning

Analytics

Learning Analytics

Open Content Games and

Gamification

Long Term: Four to Five

Year

3 D Printing 3 D Printing

Virtual and

Remote Labs Wearable Technology

Cloud computing makes learning – anywhere, expandable and on-demand

Mobile devices connected to internet offer rich tapestry of knowledge to people on the move

When Stephen Downes and George Siemens coined the term in 2008, massively open online courses (MOOCs) were conceptualized as the next evolution of networked learning

Tablets allow users to seamlessly use apps and content of their choosing, making itself a portable personalized learning environment

Learning analytics, in many ways, is “big data,” applied to education

Gamification of education is gaining further support among researchers and educators who recognize that games stimulate productivity and creative inquiry among learners

3D printing for teaching and learning enables more authentic exploration of objects that may not be readily available to institutions

Virtual and remote labs are resource multipliers and offer great flexibility

Wearable technology, though currently at a nascent stage, may open many doors in data aggregation, analysis and feedback in real time

The Indian Scenario…

• Little or incremental innovation

• Disruptive models

• Turn challenges into opportunities

• Indian customer is loath to pay for information/data;

but they would pay for services!!

Opportunities for Funding

• Key imperatives are

• Pedigree of promoter group

• Need-gap

• Scalability

• Pace

• Ticket size

• Bullet proof business plan

Thank You enayet.kabir@technopak.com