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New Paradigms for innovationNew Paradigms for innovation
in Teaching and Learningin Teaching and Learning
N.Vivekananthamoorthy,S.SankarN.Vivekananthamoorthy,S.Sankar
R.Siva,S.SharmilaR.Siva,S.SharmilaKCG College of TechnologyKCG College of TechnologyChennai,IndiaChennai,India
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Plan of presentationPlan of presentation
OverviewOverview
IntroductionIntroduction
Problems faced in Technical EducationProblems faced in Technical Education
Solutions to the problemsSolutions to the problems
New ParadigmsNew Paradigms
Business Process Reengineering(BPR)Business Process Reengineering(BPR)
Reengineering the educational processReengineering the educational process
IT,the change enablerIT,the change enabler
Instruction vs Learning paradigmInstruction vs Learning paradigm
Active vs Passive LearningActive vs Passive Learning
Experiment and resultsExperiment and results
Future WorkFuture Work
ConclusionConclusion
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Introduction
Technology is continuously changing and organizations areintroducing new technologies and new processes to improveproductivity, profitability to stay competitive in the market.
There is a need for a major paradigm shift in Educationsector which would not happen with small incremental andunrelated changes here and there .
We need to supplement the traditional systems of educationwith innovative and flexible systems using currentTechnology, capable of providing quality education to largetarget group of learners to suit their requirements andexpectations.
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Overview
Educational sytsems should change to meet current challenges
and needs.
There is need to change traditional teaching methods.
This paper focuses change management and re-engineering of
educational processes.
We discuss new paradigms in educational systems to promote
innovation.
Some of the paradigms are Business Process Reengineering
(BPR) ,Open Education and E-Learning etc.
E-learning case study and results
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Problems Faced in the
Technical Education The world around us has changed dramatically but our
higher education continue to operate in the old policy frame.
There is need for paradigm shift.
Technology is growing fast and the traditional educational
system has many limitations and it cannot meet the demand
on students to face 21st century challenges.
There is need for paradigm shift in educational systems tofully utilize the revolutions and innovations taking place in
digital technology.
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Solution to problems &
Challenges Change Management is a tool for analyzing andaddressing the current challenges in educational
systems.
Re-engineering the educational processes with
technology as change enabler.
New paradigms in educational systems areeLearning,Web based Learning ,Open education,etc
The following slides discuss the new paradigms in
Education
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New Paradigms in Education
Open Education
Main Focus New way of communicating, collaborating, and
exchanging information such that every student is able
to achieve his or her full potentialHow it is different
from Traditional
learning schemes
and advantages
More open access to education for more students
,regardless of their institution,region etc
Reuse and sharing to reduce cost
Implementation
Strategy/Example
s
The vision from IBM for the future of education : The
Smarter Classroom, which is a 21st century model for
learning, removes the barriers of time and space for
students of all
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Kaizen
Main Focus Continuous improvement in
teaching methodologies
How it is different from
Traditional learning
schemes and
advantages
Kaizen is a way of life philosophy.
It assumes that every aspect of
our life deserves to be
constantly improved
Implementation
Strategy/Examples
Total Quality Management, Quality
Circles, Small group activities
New Paradigms in Education
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E-Learning
Main Focus Alternative form of learning
How it is different from Traditional
learning schemes and advantages
To extend the learning environment
beyond the four walls of class room
E-learning provides a learning experienceto the learners via the internet versus the
traditional brick and mortar learning
E-learning provides opportunities
24/7/365 to learners
Self paced learning
The learning process will now takes place
without the constraints of space and time
Implementation Strategy/Examples E-learning-2,Web-2
New Paradigms in Education
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New Paradigms in EducationBusiness Process Reengineering in Education
Main Focus Radical redesign and drastic improvement ofeducational processes.
How it is different from
Traditional learning schemesand advantages
Utilizes technology as change enabler and
alternative learning opportunities are harnessed.
Recognizing and breaking away from the
outdated rules and fundamental assumptions
Implementation
Strategy/Examples
Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning
(ERP) System. An example can be PeopleSoft(SA).
Reengineering the business processes involve
forgetting the traditional way of doing things and
open minded about the new functionalities the
ERP software offers
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New Paradigms in Education
Active Learning
Main Focus Active learning puts the responsibility
of organizing what is to be learned in
the hands of the learner themselves.
How it is different from
Traditional learning schemes
and advantages
It is the teachers job to promote
active learning by moving away from
being content focused to student
focused
Implementation
Strategy/Examples
Web-2
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Business Process
Reengineering(BPR)The Business Process Reengineering
Fundamental reconsideration and the radical redesign of
organizational processes, in order to achieve drastic
improvement of current performance in cost, services andspeed
-Michael Hammer
The objective of reengineering is to eliminate non- value-adding activities and administrative barriers
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Reengineering the educational
Processes
The stimulus for re-engineering is the combination of four ongoing transitions in
society. They are:
Changing educational needs.
Requirements for alternative learning opportunities.
Extensive availability of digital technology for
educational materials development.
The potential of enhancing human performance (both
learners [students] and learning facilitators [teachers])
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IT-The Change Enabler
IT plays a major role in BPR success and it serves as a change lever.
The innovations and advancement in Technology have enormouspotential
The challenges and problems faced in Educational sector can beconsidered as opportunities for redesigning and improving theexisting processes.
IT offers unprecedented opportunities for introducing new ways of
learning.
Some of the recent paradigms in Higher Education like Web basedLearning, E-Learning, ICT etc have enormous potential for educatingthe masses at cheaper cost.
They can supplement the traditional class room learning.
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Instruction vs Learning Paradigm
In recent times, the shift from Instruction centric approach to Learner
centric approach is advocated
Instruction Paradigm The Learning Paradigm
Provide/deliver instruction
Transfer knowledge from faculty
to students
Offer courses and programs
Improve the quality of instruction
Achieve access for diverse
students
Produce learning
Elicit students discovery and
construction of knowledge
Create powerful learning
environments
Improve the quality of learning
Achieve success for diverse
students
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Active vs Passive LearningActive vs Passive LearningActive Learning promotes a better learning
environment through which the student uses prior
knowledge effectively and acquires new knowledge
easily.
Active learning is learning by doing
Such teaching is dynamic and the continual
revisions to teaching and delivery methods, visualaids, demonstrations, etc. are endless. The students
have the opportunity to remember up to 50% the
content of each class session.
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EE--Learning Experiment and ResultsLearning Experiment and Results
An eAn e--learning system has beenlearning system has been
designed and implemented at KCG College ofdesigned and implemented at KCG College of
Technology,Chennai,India.Technology,Chennai,India. The web based system has been used to augment theThe web based system has been used to augment the
learning experience of Computer Science andlearning experience of Computer Science and
Engineering students as an experimental basis.Engineering students as an experimental basis.
Data has been collected over a period of one year onData has been collected over a period of one year on
web usage on the basis of Visits,Visitors,Page Views etc.web usage on the basis of Visits,Visitors,Page Views etc.
Interesting patterns are noticed after analysis ofInteresting patterns are noticed after analysis of
statistical data generated.statistical data generated.
The following slides highlight the experimental resultsThe following slides highlight the experimental results
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Monthwise Visitor Statistics collectedMonthwise Visitor Statistics collectedfor the year 2009for the year 2009
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Visits 23 170 85 112 115 150 143 165 116 113 1192
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visitors14 133 66 74 66 101 95 115 104 87 855
Page
views70 615 416 573 509 777 664 804 522 419 5369
Avg.
Page
views
3.04 3.62 4.89 5.12 4.43 5.18 4.64 4.87 4.5 3.76 4.51
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New 60.9 74.7 70.6 62.5 49.6 56.7 56.5 63.0 81.0 62.2 64.4 %
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Intrepretation of Experimental results basedIntrepretation of Experimental results based
on data collected regarding Web Usageon data collected regarding Web Usage
From the data collected for One YearPeriod, the highest number of 170 visits happened in May-2009 by 133 visitors.
The increase in demand for the web site could be attributed to
students appearing for the university examination conductedduring May-2009.
It can be further noted that the number of visits has fallendown to 85 with 65 visitors during the month of June-2009,during which the students had vacation.
The college reopened in July-2009 and again a spurt in visitshappened.
We can come to the logical conclusion that there was a patternin web site usage that during examination time more numberof students had visited the web site and referred the course
material and instructions for various courses.
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Future Work
A project will be under taken in future to
simulate the Re-engineering of the
educational processes and the outcomewill be measured to find out whether
drastic improvements have taken place in
speed, cost in the teaching and learning
process.
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Conclusion The problems and challenges faced by current Educational systems
suggest improving the teaching and learning process to suit current needs of
Industry and society.
Re-engineering can be applied to educational systems by redesigning the
education processes which can produce dramatic improvement in theTeaching and Learning Process.
Re-engineering suggests using latest Technology as IT Levers which are
also called change enablers.
Some of the paradigms discussed for improving the teaching and learning
process are BPR, Kaizen, and e-learning etc.
Major change in educational systems would happen by moving from
Instruction Paradigm to Learning Paradigm.
Experimental results on an alternate form of learning based on e-learning
paradigm was presented and discussed.
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