At the Edex Conference in Delhi sometime ago http://www.edgex.in/ there were many talks about the technologies for education. Wile I did not attend all the talks, got a feel of the mood.It was mostly a crowd of technology lovers who were keen to apply technology solutions to higher education. My opinion is that more technology can be applied in K12 than in higher education because the very nature of higher education.
It appears to me that the future is in blended delivery rather than only campus or distributed.
Another topic that will grow in import is learning styles and matching technology to learning styles. This is already happening with audio lessons, video rich content and the like which cater to learners who prefer a specific medium.
What struck me was that discussions have not yet started on matching technologies to subjects. For example subjects where a large body of knowledge exists and is relatively slow in adding new stuff may be better using a didactic video lecture as compared to some software which is best learnt through peer to peer counseling. Understanding what is relevant technology to teach/learn a particular subject is yet to start; though it surely will soon as there appear very serious well funded researchers in this area. My retail background gives me these ideas...remember some product categories are well suited for online and others need the touch and feel.
Am hoping my employers will be the first to offer audio lessons that are easily downloadable for the MBA program. It will be a good start!
Do write in and let me know. Your views/inputs can benefit my sparrow brain a lot
Yes Sir, It is a good initiative to start a blog on edgex conference 2012. Infact me and garima was supposed to make an initiative as a follow up activity of the conference and waiting for garima to come back.
ReplyDeleteSir we can also think of doing a research on how to match technology with subjects. probably there may be different requirements of each subjects and all teh technology available may not server the purpose of all the subjects at a time.
For example, Suppose for subjects like Computer
Science and Mathematics which are more problem oriented subjects and may reuirement more problem related resource like animations or video.
For the subjects like HRM, we may feel resources such as discussion forum would be more effective.
But anyways this is blog if we elaborate will be really useful to all those who wish to improve the education quality in distance learning.
Children these days are much tech savvy as compared to our generation. Obviously they have grown up surrounded by computers and mobiles. I believe technology has spread its wings everywhere including education and knowledge gathering. Dont we google everything before thinking of going to a library? Time to be proactive...
ReplyDeleteRetailing in Indian market is one of the pillars of its market (economy) & financial records for 14 to 15 percent of its GDP. The Indian retail industry market is estimated to be US$ 450 billion dollars and one of the top five store markets on the globe by economic value. India is one of the quickest growing retail industries on the globe, with 1.2 billion peoples.
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