This document discusses how technology is disrupting education and the impacts of educational technology (edtech). It notes that edtech is enabling more self-paced and individualized learning through tools like MOOCs and adaptive learning. This is shifting education away from standardized curricula and teaching-centric models toward competence-based assessments and learner-centric models like flipped classrooms. Edtech is also allowing universities to reach more learners through virtual classrooms and recorded lectures. The document argues that edtech will lead to more customized curricula and certifications focused on developing skills like problem solving over pure knowledge acquisition. It concludes that edtech will benefit India by helping it leverage its demographic dividend through improved education systems.

1. TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION
By
Sanjay Padode
Secretary
IFIM Institutions

2. ABOUT IFIM INSTITUTIONS
•ranked amongst the top 30 business schools of the country. Ranked as 28th nationally by Business
India,23rd best private business school by Business World etc. Internationally accredited by SAQs
IFIM Business School
•a Bangalore University Affiliated college accredited as A grade by NAAC and one of the youngest
to have received this grade from NAAC
IFIM College
•incroprated last year but recognized by Career 360 as one of the emerging schools to watchIFIM Law College
IFIM Business School was established 21 years ago

3. EVOLUTION OF EDUCATION
Self, Family, Community, Mentored Based
Learning, merit based recognition
Teaching Centric, Standardized Curricula,
Long tenure Certification and Recognition
Based Learning
Self Paced, Open courseware,
Individualized, Mentored, micro/nano and
competence based certification and
recognition
Early years Present Future

4. DISRUPTING FORCES
• Customize
learning pathway,
learning analytics
• Nano/Micro
Degrees, Need
based, Targeted
and Specific
• Recorded lectures,
Augmented
Reality, Virtual
Reality,
Simulations
• MOOCs, Open
Access Research,
Google Scholar,
Social Networks
Democratization
of Courseware
and Knowledge
Virtual
Classrooms/
Laboratories
Adaptive
Learning
Competence
Based
Assessment
EdTec
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5. EDUCATION TECHNOLOGIES (EDTECH)
WWW and Google
Open Source Learning
Management Systems
Curriculum Management
Solutions
Learning Analytics
Testing and Evaluation
Engines
Plagiarism Checking
Adaptive Assessment
Platforms
Live Web Streaming and
Recording Solutions
Collaborative Working
Platforms such as Google
Docs, Office 365 etc
Mobile interfaces for
accessing and interacting
with learning content
Augmented/Virtual Reality
for Experiential Learning
Collaborative teaching aids
such as Airplay,
Chormecasting etc
Collaborative Learning
through social networks,
messaging engines and
more

6. IMPACT ON PEDA(/ANDRO)GOGY
Flipped Classroom
• Focus on Application of
Knowledge
• Developing Problem Solving
Skills
• Encourage Critical and
Analytical thinking
• Learn by interaction with the
facilitator (teacher) and
peers
Project Based Learning
• Learn by doing in real life
situations
• Learn through immersions in
new cultures, places and
unknown areas
• Attempt
innovation/invention and
learn through the process
Reduced dependency
on Q&A based
assessments
• Rote learning days are over,
Q&A based assessments
suited this method best
• Assessments need to be
made competence based
rather than knowledge
based
• Application of knowledge
and dexterity in skills need
Unimaginable scale of
delivery
• Distance between the
facilitator and the learner is
of no consequence
• Size of cohort is no
limitation
• Technologies for assessment
and delivery are permitting
an expert facilitator to reach
out to more learners
• Technology is shortening
Mentoring/Coaching/
Training and Learning,
Reduced lecturing
• Legacy lecturing is out
• It is about mentoring and
facilitating learning
• It is about igniting the mind
to learn more
• It is about encouraging
learners to feel free to learn
by failing
• It is about coaching and

7. IMPACT ON CURRICULA
Bepsoke or Tailormade
Curricula will be the new order
• Learner to be empowered to
choose learning path
Testing will become adaptive
• Enabling learner to take their
own path to achieve the final
learning outcome
Assessments will lead to
recognition and Awards
• Assessment of competence
and application of
knowledge in practice will
supersede Q&A testing to
earn recognition and rewards
Learning Goals will need to
focus more developing core
skills
• Communication,
interpersonal and
collaborative working
• Problem Solving
• Critical and Analytical
Thinking
• Social responsibility leading
to sustainable actions

8. IMPACT ON AWARDS AND
RECOGNITIONS
Precise and Specific certification
of scholarship and skills will be
the order of the day
Courses tenure will shorten
leading to micro and nano
degrees
Continuous learning
engagement would be more in
demand than one time
acquisition of qualification
Curricula and nomenclature of
awards will need to evolve every
few months to keep pace with
the changing demands of the
society
Obsolescence of qualifications
will be the new normal

9. EDTECH RELATED MYTHS
Teachers will
become redundant
On the contrary teaching will become a very lucrative profession
The demand for coaches and mentors will skyrocket
Certification and
Rewards will not
have any value
The need for certificate and awards will be increase
They will be shorter and one leaner will own many
Universities/Colleges
and School will
become extinct
They will continue to grow as centers for learning
They will thrive as incubators/accelerators of ideas
They will become the centers of innovation
They will also shoulder the additional responsibility for sustainable progress of humanity
On the contrary they will become the power centers of the future

10. CONCLUSION
• Digital Revolution will Impact Education
• Technology has already started impacting learning
• EdTech will topple the balance of education towards learning
• Education will become holistic and will be driven by the quest for
learning and will flourish because of the joy for learning
• India is poised to benefit from this revolution to reap the benefits of its
demographic dividend
• We educators, need to embrace the change to ease this inevitable
transition

11. THANK YOU
sp@ifimbschool.com