Technology boost for your career

Rachit Jain

Education is all set to go through a massive change in India in the next few years. There will be a shift from marks-based academic curriculum to life-based overall development. This aims to reduce the large gap between what students study and what the industries require from them. Technology will serve the objectives of new education policy that aims at making education affordable for all, including free education for girls, developing world-class industrial workforce that strengthens higher education-industry partnership, holistic education that ensures literacy life skills and scholarships for helping the students who don’t have the necessary funds.

Here is a look at some of the education trends that will thrive in 2020 and beyond

Gaming in Education

Gaming in Education provides students the best of both work and play. Video games and educational simulators teach skills like computer programming, flight training as well as breaks down tricky algebra and trigonometric questions into engaging practices. It also helps students imbibe technical skills with reality games that provide an immersive experience through a rich combination of digital technology, real world game play and strong narrative. Moreover, high definition gaming allows students to build things and look closely at their final outcome to understand what they did right and what went wrong.

Courses available

• University of Phoenix, Arizona
• MIT Institute of Design, Pune
• National Institute of Design, Gandhinagar
• University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA
• Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA

Block Chain

Block Chain is a technology that should not be limited to acting as a framework for ever growing cryptocurrency as it can facilitate secure data exchange as well as collaboration between multiple universities and schools. Blockchain can be used to share student data with another university for things like semester exchange, course exchange, student transfer, data transfer for a scholarship as well as sharing of academic data for recruitment. The digital storage of academic information as well as accessibility to it for authorized users can be implemented very fast with the use of Block Chain Technology.

Courses available

• Edureka – Blockchain Certification Training
• Intellipat – Blockchain Certification Training Course
• CollaberaTact
• Blockchain Council: Certified Blockchain Expert
• Udemy: Ethereum And Solidity Course

Internet of Things (IoT)

Internet of Things is helping plenty of sectors for control and automation with education being one of them. With the help of IoT technology educational institutions are able to track digital attendance using biometrics and perform face detection . Moreover, students and school buses can also be easily located with its help. IoT devices and technology is useful when it comes to keeping a tab on the usage of electricity in campuses as it can detect the number of students in the room and switch the required amounts of lights accordingly. IoT devices these days are very cost effective and can help campuses secure their educational environment.

Courses available

• Arduino Certification Course: Programming the Internet of Things (IOT) (Coursera)
• Internet of Things (IoT) Certification by Curtin University (edX)
• Arduino Course: Step by Step guide (Udemy)
• Arduino Tutorial: Learning Through Projects (Udemy)
• Tech Explorations™ Arduino Step by Step: Getting Started

Interest-based learning

Interest-based learning refers to students pursuing subjects that they are inclined towards. For example, if a student is more into mathematics than science then he/she will be encouraged to learn more about that subject so that he/she can excel and will not be scolded for doing that well in other subjects. This type of education taps into the inherent passion that the person has for that particular subject.

Social and emotional learning

Social and emotional learning helps improve student behavior as it is all about ingraining a positive outlook towards society and its members including fellow students, teachers and parents. It fosters better motivation towards learning as well as deeper commitment to school activities. By making everyone feel part of the group it encourages them to participate and share ideas and their beliefs.

Self-paced learning

Technology has enabled users to study at their own pace and grasp contents with personalised learning. This removes the pressure of matching their peers and instances of rote learning as students are not studying only for exams but for comprehension that will make their understanding of the subject quite deep. Many institutions have come up with courses and certification programmes that are exclusively taught in online mode which enables students to view recorded lectures, participate in live sessions and study from any location.

The writer is Founder & CEO, Youth4Work