Session on Educational Analytics in India convened by me at the the FICCI Higher Education Summit, New Delhi, Nov 6 2012

1. Parallel Session II B
Powering the Higher Education
System through Information and
Analytics
FICCI Higher Education Summit, 2012
November 6, 2013
3.15-4.30 PM
Viplav Baxi
CEO, Atelier Learning

2. Introductions
• Chairman
– Dr H A Ranganath , Director, NAAC
• Panel Discussion:
– Prof Pankaj Jalote, Director, IIIT Delhi
– Prof Sudhanshu Bhushan, Head of Higher Education, NUEPA
– Mr Milind Kamat, Vice President & Country Head, India,
Ellucian
– Mr Ambrish Singh, Vice President and Head-Sales, Shiksha. com
– Ms Deepti Dutt, Senior Manager - Process & Operations, UID
– Dr Trey Miller Associate Economist at the RAND Corporation

3. Session Flow
• Setting the context (3.15 – 3.20 PM)
• Chairman’s viewpoint (3.20 – 3.25 PM)
• Discussion themes
– Why Now? (3.25 – 3.35 PM)
– Information Sources and Classification Systems (3.35 – 3.45
PM)
– Information acquisition and validation (3.45 – 3.55 PM)
– Information uses and applications (3.55 – 4.05 PM)
– The Political Economy of Information (4.05 – 4.15 PM)
• Audience questions (4.15 – 4.30 PM)
• Vote of Thanks (4.15 – 4.30 PM)

4. Setting
THE CONTEXT

5. 3 million sq km
250 mn school students
18 mn Higher Ed. Students
Too diverse a nation?
1.25 mn schools 33000+ colleges
500+ universities 6 mn teachers
28 official languages
~500 mn working population
Too huge a scale?

6. Accountability
New legislations
Governance Planning
Transparency
Effectiveness
Information and analytics are more
important than ever before
Students
Schemes
Decision Making PPP
Parents
Administrators Content
Solutions
Infrastructure
Teachers Technology
Connectivity

7. Centre-State dynamics
Compulsory data reporting
Funding and Structures
Governance Technology
Many Parallel initiatives
Processes
Standards Security and Privacy
Where are we today?
Consistency
Deficiencies identified
Decision Making Many
Timeliness Committees
Accuracy Coverage
Problematic
Paucity of analysts
Central Bureau of Educational Statistics

8. Show stopper Accurate planning
Aggressive Targets
Arresting the decline Why Now? Urgent Attention
Need accountability and transparency

9. Population Social and Economic Development
Habitat and Settlements Health and Nutrition
Infrastructure MHRD PMS
NAAC
Teaching and other staff UGC
AICTE
Enrolment
NBA
Institutions NCERT
NIEPA
Information Sources and NUEPA
Classification Systems Census of India
Materials & Supplies
National Sample Survey Organization
Budgets and Use
Institute of Applied Manpower Research
Income and Expenditure
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Efficiency and Quality
Indian Council of Medical Research
Learner Attainment
DGHS, Ministry of Health
ISCED, OECD Others
National Center for Educational Statistics, USA

10. Large scale processes Structures
Security Decentralization
Privacy Centralized monitoring
Information acquisition and
validation Regulations
Validation
Models such as PPP
Preventing fraud

11. Choices Teaching Support
Recommendation Systems Learning Analytics
Decision Making support Academic Analytics
Information uses and applications
Planning tools
Regulatory Support
Forecasting
Implementation Models
Predictive simulations

12. In Summary
The Political Economy of
Information and Analytics

13. Sources: Sathyam Committee Report

14. Sources: Sathyam Committee Report

15. Thank You.
Viplav Baxi’s Meanderings
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