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1. White Paper
Convergence in education:
Fading campus boundaries
through Technology
The irony is that it is always harder to tell what is
imminent than to frame what is far-fetched. Internet
technologies and online social activity have created as
much curiosity in education as they have in business.
How would these trends disrupt the education system
is a story half told.
We find that these trends would not change the
fundamentals of education and teaching. Rather, they
would help revive what we have lost due to the
increasing commoditization of Education. These
trends will also help Institutions embrace the
openness of Internet which is blurring campus
boundaries today.
2. About the Author
Venguswamy Ramaswamy
Venguswamy Ramaswamy, or “Swamy” as he is better known,
globally heads the TCS Small and Medium Business (SMB)-iON.
iON is a strategic business unit of TCS and provides end to end
business solutions to the SMB segment.
In his previous role, he was the Director of TCS' Global Consulting
Practice (GCP) and was instrumental in the structural formation,
development and positioning of TCS’ consulting offerings.
Consulting Magazine has named him amongst the top 25
consultants of the year 2007.
During his 16 year tenure at TCS, Swamy has held several strategic
positions including managing key customer relationships,
building and heading the Process Consulting group, managing
the Corporate Resource Management function, leading numerous
Centers of Excellence, as well as launching TCS' first steps in
geographies such as Hungary and China.
Swamy is a firm believer in the power of IT to create business
value and is known for his interest in Innovation & Quality and
expertise in Six Sigma. He is also recognized as a champion of
many digitization drives within TCS, including deploying digital
platforms for Six Sigma, creativity and talent acquisition.
2
3. Table of Contents
1. The practitioner dare not become a teacher 4
2. The death of impersonal teaching 4
3. The fading campus boundaries 5
4. Re-industrializing the administration 6
5. Convergence in media, not in disciplines 7
6. Role of IT sector – a line still finely drawn 8
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4. The practitioner dare not become a teacher
The paradox of practitioner becoming a teacher has stayed for ages, drawing a fine line between academia
and industry. Ironically, we spent significant time in looking at each other to connect theory with practice.
This attempt would continue through civilizations. And, when an industry attempts to be more academic
than it is mandated, it faces an identity crisis - the best example being the Palo Alto Research Center of
Xerox, which has been the mother of many industrialized products today (GUI PCs, LCD, Optical Disks, LAN)
but played little role when those got commoditized. Such examples of theoretical brilliance alongside
industrial failure make many firms overly cautious when we delve into the specialized world of academia.
Given this, I still draw the courage to attempt and write about the future course of education, and let me be
cautious that I would do so in the capacity of an industry practitioner and not transgress. I would draw this
line by limiting myself to talking about the role of IT in framing new education models, which seems as much
obvious as it is intriguing.
Technology is disruptive. The Facebooks, Wikipedia, iPhones, Kindle, all these have changed the way society
has defined its boundaries. Would this also disrupt education where many of the principles have survived
ages since Plato created the Academy? And when we are
here to talk about a notion that computers would become
intelligent and take over the role of the teachers, we fear …and when we are here to talk
that we may lose many of the cherished principles of
about a notion that computers would
traditional education that are still sacrosanct. Hence, the
become intelligent and take over the
role of technology in education is more delicate than one
would think. This is understood when we delve into the
role of the teachers, we fear that we
challenges in education – which suffers from the evil of may lose many of the cherished
knowledge commoditization in terms of curriculum and principles of traditional education
some IT geeks now expect computers to “industrialize” it. On
the contrary, the role of technology would emerge to be
very different.
The death of impersonal teaching
One of the pitfalls in our pursuit of knowledge lies in the notion that there exists more information that
could change the way we think. This is an endless mirage, and often detracts us from stopping to look back
on how we can utilize the information already gathered. Students of today suffer from this (the scholars even
more!) – overwhelmed by a fire hose of information, being consumers for a notional gratification but little to
produce.
The purpose of education has changed from delivering knowledge to spurring the natural curiosity. This
methodology had swept western education and we are glad to see institutions in this part of the world now
embracing it. The role of the teacher is transformed to a facilitator, and this does not lessen the role in this
4
5. noble profession because being a facilitator is more intricate
than being a teacher. The facilitator engages with the The facilitator engages with the learner’s
learner’s mind, a function that is more personal. Teaching, mind, a function that is more personal.
on the contrary, has always been an impersonal skill.
Teaching, on the contrary, has always
Question remains, has technology a role to play in this? Let been an impersonal skill.
me draw an analogy from technology itself where it is
changing a very different domain – that of entertainment.
Here the dilemma between being personal and impersonal is as much intriguing as it has been in
education. Since 70’s we saw the age of “broadcasting” where entertainment has been delivered by
Televisions with a scheduled program reaching the choiceless masses. Today, with YouTube and concepts
in IP TV, we are moving towards “unicast” where one finds and chooses what he or she would like to
watch. The departure from being fed to being a seeker is as much applicable in education as it is in
entertainment, with the role of technology being no less disruptive. Hence, in our age of “unicast”
education, the role of the facilitator remains paramount. How does a teacher morph into a facilitator, and
what technologies are incidental?
In this discussion, I would cover two aspects of education technology. One, how technology is set to
increase the effectiveness of teaching. Two, how technology would improve efficiency in institutes. I claim
that we would eventually discover that the two are related – an institute can teach well only if it is
efficient.
The fading campus boundaries
In the institutions of tomorrow, neither the student nor the faculty would be captive to the campus. The
line between the land and the virtual is becoming blurred. The teacher could be a member of an
education department or an avatar on the internet. The student could be an active blogger – being
source of knowledge himself. The transition here is that we would see the taught to be a teacher himself -
the student creating content on internet by reproducing what he has learnt with his interpretations.
Isn’t this cycle of enrichment fundamental to any learning? This existed since the prehistoric Academy was
created – Plato wrote what Socrates had taught, but he used his version in doing so. One would never
know how much of Plato is in the Socrates that we know.
These fundamentals don’t change in education; what …fundamentals don’t change in
changes is the way we lose it and then try to bring it back. education; what changes is the way
This time we are empowered by technology to revive the we lose it and then try to bring it
fundamentals of teaching. The emphasis of today’s
back. This time we are empowered by
education shifts from being institutions of imparting
technology to revive fundamentals of
knowledge to communities of enriching knowledge.
5
6. Consider some statistics that reflects how knowledge sharing and development is picking up on the internet
- a recent Forrester study shows that 61% on the online adults are internet “contributors”, who actively
participate in creating internet content – this is either in way of blogs, critiques or even videos and music.
More interestingly, number of people joining online communities has doubled in the last two years. The
success of Wikipedia is a fine example of content being created by people across the globe. Initially there
were questions raised whether such a model would swamp the system with information of doubtful validity.
However the new model revolutionized content contribution and its usage. This reflects that creating
content by sharing knowledge or skill is an instinctive societal behavior, which found internet as the natural
platform of expression. “Natural” because it has no boundaries and no regiments. In the context of
education, I see campus as the constraining boundary and curriculum as the imposing regiment. The
internet is exactly the opposite.
Hence, we are to infer that institutions of tomorrow will have to embrace the looseness of the internet and
revisit many of cherished practices in education, which would soon look antiquated to the newly
empowered scholar – one who is here to exploit the online media. One good example in the IT world is the
development program for one of the popular browsers, “Mozilla”. Mozilla foundation leveraged the internet
to develop the browser with loosely held volunteer developers across the world. In a similar way, learning
can be interactive and loosely coupled with required structures for mentoring, assessing skills and
certification to establish reputation.
Re-industrializing the administration
I am inclined to infer that the purpose of curriculum has always been dominated by the economics of
running the institute, often overriding the need of the students, or even the generation. Curriculums, and
justifiably so, are tailored to the availability of faculty and the wherewithal of the institute. This model
worked economically in past when students were reliant on the institution to impart knowledge, and they
were mere recipients. It worked well also because the institutions could arrange for long term faculties in
seemingly unchanging subjects. For instance, a management curriculum in a good institute could remain
sacrosanct for a long time since many of the subjects in it,
like organizational behavior, deals with relatively veteran
disciplines like psychology. Hence, it would not seem very If at all this teaching is not absolute in
orthodox for institute to emphasize heavily on, for example, the context of modern developments,
Freudian teachings in an MBA course. If at all this teaching is it would have remained
not absolute in the context of modern developments, it
unquestioned since campus had
would have remained unquestioned since the campus had
closed boundaries… Today, however
closed boundaries.
such shortcomings show up
Today, however such shortcomings show up blatantly. A
blatantly. A curious student may well
curious student may well stand up to question the
stand up to question the applicability,
applicability, if not ably refute it. The openness of content
and debates on internet has brought us to this situation.
6
7. This means that technology has equally disrupted the
industrial model of education and the pedagogy. While this I believe, like any community art
disruption causes many of the orthodox institutes to re- form, each institute would preserve a
engineer their functioning, it also presents new genre and would efficiently manage
opportunities for efficiency. it. It is like the Italian opera or the
For an IT practitioner like me, I can relate the change with Paris painting school or the
what we saw in banking. Traditional banking relied on the Broadway theatre, all would continue
concept of branch, with each managing its finances and to differentiate no matter how
profitability. This got entirely changed with information
globalized these art forms become.
technology bringing in the model of core banking. Here a
Education has to positively embrace
branch is non-existent. Rather, ATMs and online media like
internet banking enable the network and outreach. Today, this globalization and consciously
even the ATMs are not captive to banks; the same ATM is
shared by many banks.
The campus would see the same fate that branches and ATMs saw in banking. It would reach to learners,
practitioners, mentors, and teachers through channels less physical and less captive. Interestingly, the lines
between these roles would get blurred. This is social networking brought to education.
This efficiency model is unprecedented - no longer would you need a full time faculty, with a static
curriculum to oblige it. No longer would you need your own captive laboratories, but you would use shared
facilities nearest to the learner and faculty. Would this mean that there would be emergence of multiple
players in the ecosystem, each confined to its niche competency? An industrial supplier thence would
provide laboratory services; the institution would share faculty with each specializing on few; and the
student would choose the best-of-breed learning package and precociously enrich it to present a thesis!
Convergence in media, not in disciplines
It is apparent now that efficiency and effectiveness of education are inter-related. An institute would
consume less resource and include more knowledge with IT. One question is obvious to most institutes that
have built significant reputation over the past – does the new paradigm threaten the identity of the institute,
with one not differentiable from the other? I believe, like any community art form, each institute would
preserve a genre and would efficiently manage it. It is like the Italian opera or the Paris painting school or the
Broadway theatre, all would continue to differentiate no matter how globalized these art forms become.
Education has to positively embrace this globalization and consciously choose its genre. I am provoked to
think that in 10 years from now each IIM or IIT would pick very niche areas, just like how Princeton is known
for theoretical physics and Carnegie Mellon for software engineering.
Hence, the convergence that I see is not in disciplines of teaching but in that of the campus. This is the future
education in its true industrialized form. With this, the processes and software to run education need a
roadmap that includes the fast changing pedagogy and economics of the sector.
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8. Role of IT sector – a line still finely drawn
I strongly believe that no software solution can provide a complete alternate to the education model that is
in store. The purpose of any software in business model transformation lies in how the software adapts to
unforeseen changes. Such software would help the business architect its model continually, in tandem
setting a roadmap for itself. At TCS, our experience in helping transformation of business models has taught
this firmly.
Power of information technology lies in setting the connects between resources and consumers. In the
world of education, the faculty and students are resources and consumers themselves, making the system
self-enriching. Hence, the purpose of the software is to enable this enrichment and support new forms to do
it. Simply setting up a local networking site for enrichment and adopting a packaged ERP for process
efficiency is not the panacea. We need to connect the two by raising questions like:
Can Wikipedia be the canvas where students reproduced their knowledge, leaving the sanity to be judged
by the social mechanisms, and not buy a faculty – the model that has already given high credence to the
information on Wikipedia?
Can the likes of Facebook or Linked-in be our campus, where faculty and expertise are validated by network
mandate, not by institutional stamps?
Can administrative part of education, like enrollment, be Can Wikipedia be the canvas where
managed by shared services specialized in dealing with the students reproduced their knowledge,
learning lifecycle? Can this service provider tell you which leaving the sanity to be judged by the
students are likely to drop out and what faculty would help
social mechanisms, and not buy a
retain them? In this age of management by analytics, why
faculty – the model that has already
should the education sector be left out?
given high credence to the
Today, I believe the education sector would seek this
information on Wikipedia?
support from the IT industry, as much as IT looks back to the
sector for talents. Our role in the emerging ecosystem is in Can the likes of Facebook or Linked-in
being a provider of IT that supports changing education
be our campus, where faculty and
models. The synergy lies in the rule that the education
expertise are validated by network
sector cannot afford to be reduced to a manager for IT
ecosystems, and conversely the IT industry cannot afford to
mandate, not by institutional
be academic. The line is finely drawn.
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n Guaranteed availability (99 per cent uptime);
n Disaster recovery;
n Reduced need for IT staff.
iON, therefore, manages your processes while you use the software. You gain from:
Integrated solutions
We ensure that all your solutions are connected. For example, if you are using a CRM along with an ERP, and have a document
management system to organise your files, we ensure that these solutions are connected and work as one. So for you, it is
simply IT and not applications.
Increased agility
We bring in the agility to keep pace with changing processes or a new line of business. We help you configure the processes to
work differently or simply choose new practices recommended by the software. Our activation system flags on best practices
while the system is running. As you pick and choose, we give you more options to choose from.
A pay-as-you-use model
This model eliminates capital investment as we provide the IT infrastructure and software on rent. You pay as you use and only
for the number of users who actually use the software. The rent is charged monthly. Typically, the cumulative rental for three
years is equal to the capital cost of acquiring similar or lesser software with one-time payment. Usually, the ROI exceeds rental
within three months, when best practices are well followed. The rental includes maintenance and training, with no hidden
costs.
Personalised solutions
Although this is a cloud service, the software is configurable to each business. You will always get the flavour of your own
business by picking and choosing what processes you would need.
Automatic upgrades
We continuously invest in our solutions to ensure best practices. We enrich the software based on user feedback and business
and statutory changes. We ensure the upgrade without disrupting the user.
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