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Harpreet Singh
Educomp Raffles Higher Education Ltd
Challenges with our current Education system
More Focus
on Theory
Rote
Learning
Problems
Lack of
Practical
Emphasis
Aim for
Good Marks
not for
Concepts
Top 10 trends in Higher Education
1. A global, knowledge-based society:
Ubiquitous and ever-opening access to information creates a need
for skilled workers who can transform information to meaningful,
new knowledge.
2. The innovation-based society is emerging:
Successful members of society will create innovative- and contextuallyrelevant applications for new knowledge.
3. Knowledge and innovation-based jobs are moving to India and China:
Today, many companies are beginning to move their creativity and R&D jobs
to markets with vast Human Intellect/Technology/Lower Cost.
4. Personal success in the innovation society will require novelty at the
individual level:
Standardization at the workplace will give way to individualization,
employees will be viewed and rewarded for their creative inputs as
individuals
Top 10 trends
5. Technology changes human relations:
Advances in technology allow people to interact in new ways that were
previously obscured by geographical, economic or social boundaries like
Social networking.
6. Jobs that exist today will not necessarily exist when today’s
students finish school:
7. An ageing population:
Advances in sanitation, nutrition and medicine have extended life expectancy in
many countries.
8. Globalization:
Tom Friedman is right. The world is flat. The phenomenon of globalization compels students and
schools to compete on a global scale.
Top 10 trends
9. Change is accelerating:
The doubling time of information is now under one year. In 20 years or less
doubling time may drop to a few weeks. If our cultural institutions don’t
change at least as fast, what will happen to our senses of identity and
security
10. Advent of 3G/4G Technology:
This will change the way of teaching/learning as it will make possible to have
dynamic /artificial intelligence powered Learning management system which is
individual based.
21 st century Skills required
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Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
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Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence
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Agility and Adaptability
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Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
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Effective Oral and Written Communication
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Accessing and Analyzing Information
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Curiosity and Imagination
Trends
 Colleges will go from ‘buildings’ to 'nerve centers', with walls that are porous and
transparent, connecting teachers, students and the community to the wealth of
knowledge that exists in the world.”
 Teacher - From primary role as a dispenser of information to orchestrator of learning
and helping students turn information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom.
 The 21st century will require knowledge generation, not just information delivery, and
schools will need to create a “culture of inquiry”.
 Learner - In the past a learner was a young person who went to school, spent a
specified amount of time in certain courses, received passing grades and
graduated. Today we must see learners in a new context:
Emerging Directions
 First – we must maintain student interest by helping them see how what they are
learning prepares them for life in the real world.
 Second – we must instill curiosity, which is fundamental to lifelong learning.
 Third – we must be flexible in how we teach.
 Fourth – we must excite learners to become even more resourceful so that they will
continue to learn outside the formal school day.”
Government Role
Three-pronged reform process
•Policy reforms
•Curricular
reforms
•Financial
reforms
Examination
system (EQ &
skills testing)
Faculty (Research,
development
programs, Live
projects with
corporate/ NGOs)
Industry based
Values
imbibed
education
Teaching
methodology
(Seminar,
workshop,
GD,
Tutorials,Roleplay, simulations)
Infrastructure
Research grants
Technology
Special Education
Zones (Kiran
Karnik,
NASSCOM)
20th century
21st century
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Time-based
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Outcome based
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Focus: memorization of discrete facts
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Focus: what students know, Can do and are
like after all the details are forgotten
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Lessons focus on the lower level of Bloom’s
Taxonomy – knowledge, comprehension and
application.
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Learning is designed on upper levels of
Blooms’ – synthesis, analysis and evaluation
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Textbook-driven
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Research-driven
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Passive learning
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Active Learning
.
Thank you
Global demographics
Country
Median
Age
Median
Age
Median
Age
Old Age
Dependa
cy
Ratio
2000
2025
2050
2000
2025
2050
India
23.7
31.3
38
8.1
12.1
22.6
Mexico
23.3
32.5
39.5
7.6
13.8
30
USA
35.5
39.3
40.7
18.6
29.3
34.9
China
30
39
43.8
10
19.4
37.2
France
37.6
43.3
45.2
24.5
36.2
46.7
Europe
37.7
45.4
49.5
21.7
33.3
51.4
Russia
36.8
43.8
50.9
24.1
39
54.7
japan
41.2
50
53.1
25.2
49
71.3
What is 21st Century Education?
 “One can’t believe impossible things.”
 “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the
Queen. “When I was your age I always did it for half-an-hour
a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six
impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures inWonderland