11 Educational and Technological Trends in 2021

Education have witnessed tremendous technological enhancement in current decade. With introduction of AR & VR, Extensive connectivity of Internet, Smart & Interactive boards, Social interactive platforms and analytical tools have changed conceptual and traditional classrooms and moved to modern education Era. Data have become anywhere, anytime possible with 4G and 5G connections and cloud technologies. Majority Universities and education institutions have offline and Online mode of education. Student and management features have made through own applications or portals created by institutions and shared own cloud.  Let’s have a macro approach on various trends that have impacted in short summary way

 Implication of AR & VR for Learning

Virtual & Augmented Reality Technologies have made magical impact in modern learning environment

• • The class room and learning experience have undergone tremendous change after implication of AR and VR came to education. Learning and Teaching have in its out most interactive after its implication.AR & VR brings real time learning experiences for the students
  • Explaining complex concepts like space, anatomy, human body etc. have become much easier & simpler applying VR & AR tools to education.
  • AR & VR have made teaching much understanding and helpful impacting real world and look alike for learners
  • Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger understanding is the outcome of AR & VR technology to education.
  • Augmented and Virtual Reality education have made complicated education to explain and detail in simpler way
  • Augment Education helps teachers and students to try their hand at constructing various objects and animating them via extensive libraries of shapes, objects, and actions.
  • Virtual Reality gives an opportunity to experience the subject up and front. As such, this kind of experience is much more compelling and effective in delivering knowledge than conventional teaching styles which were followed in earlier days

Modern Learning Environment- Connectivity

Connectivity is back born of modern learning environment. Now Classrooms Grip Tech in All Features of Learning. New treads learning environments are intended with the supposition that students will have constant access to connectivity

• • Connectivity in modern education is much easy, Students are well connected with school or university or institution they learn through LMS or platforms
  • Entire registration, class plan, exams, attendance are well connected with parents, teachers and administration and vise versa
  • Entire Admission to exit tracking is available even during the student transportation is been connected in recent schools
  • Similarly, audiovisual solutions in a modern learning environment directly support student learning and engagement.

Cloud computing

• • Everything is moving to cloud now. Information are being shared and saved in cloud. Interaction and collaboration happens in cloud servers.
  • Many universities are turning to cloud-hosted learning management systems (LMSs) that connect student databases with learning content.
  • Cloud computing is also a viable option for numerical modeling, data storage, and visualization, facilitating collaboration with other scientists.
  • Cloud computing is an affordable resource that enables fast processing, large data-storage capacity, and the sharing of resources.
  • All students and explorers have easy data management, research options, collaboration reducing all constraints

 E Learning and Online Education: –

• • Online education is becoming popular especially in Executive education & Higher education sectors. Digital education tools like videos, virtual classrooms etc. are getting popular in these segments

Working professional mostly opt E learning or online education as convenience factor of sitting in home or office and opt learning on convenience.

• • Udemy, Byju’s etc widely funded and common among all when they think about learning and skill enhancements either its K-12 education or executive Education
  • A self-paced system enables your clients/students to make progress at a pace that suits them. This type of system does not require attending live sessions; they can access the materials at any time that works for them. This over wheis normal education system where we go to a common place to acquire knowledge like university or college, whereas online becomes a virtual university. 
  • The fact that online programs are cheaper when compared to the ones held in a traditional setting is enough to convince a major number of your online clients to consider them. The tuition Fee for online courses are varied from course to course and also depends credibility facilitator, so it varies from one program to another. Once you have made the course, it can be taken by endless number of clients/students. 
  • Many online courses are completely free of charge. Some, offers all course materials online without any charges, but free courses don’t usually come with a certificate of completion. You can offer a fully certified educational program with a certificate of completion similar to other prestigious educators. The system is automatized. Once the student is done with learning and completes the quiz, he/she gets the certificate of completion in PDF ready to download.
  • Massive Open online courses -MOOCs typically comprise video lessons, readings, assessments, and discussion forums.

MOOC are taken by candidates basically to switch

• • Switch careers?
  • Gain a promotion?
  • Become better at your job?
  • Improve your job prospects?
  • Or, simply for the pleasure of learning?

Some Platforms of Online courses or MOOC

• • Coursera
  • edX
  • FutureLearn
  • Udacity
  • Edex

 Artificial Intelligence

Educational institutions from elementary to higher education as

• • well as adult and professional learning are being transformed by intelligent systems that are helping humans learn better and achieve their learning objectives.
  • AI System are being used to develop a custom learning
  • AI systems are being used to develop a custom learning profile of each student and customize the training materials for each student based on their ability, preferred mode of learning, and experience.
  • Rather than requiring teachers to create a single curriculum for all students, educators will have augmented intelligence assistance that provides a wide range of materials leveraging the same core curriculum, but cater to the specific needs of each student.
  • AI systems are being used to augment tutoring with personal, conversational education assistants. These autonomous conversational agents can answer questions from students, provide assistance with learning or assignment tasks, and reinforce concepts with additional materials that can help reinforce the curriculum. These intelligent assistants are also enhancing adaptive learning features so that each of the students can learn at their own pace or time frames. 
  • Educators are often required to handle many non-teaching responsibilities such as essay evaluation, grading of exams, filing necessary paperwork, HR and personnel related issues, ordering and managing classroom materials, booking and managing field trips, responding to parents, assisting with conversation and second-language related issues, dealing with sick or otherwise absent students, and otherwise facilitating the learning environment.
  • Educators often spend up to 50% of their time on non-teaching tasks.
  • AI are helpful understanding student behavior and managing behind the scene and evaluating, building applications related to student behavior understanding student behaviors and parents and stake holder’s requirements.
  • Customized emails when students pay fees, delay notification when student arrives late, notifications of grades send on periodic paper evaluations etc. are evolved from AI
  • • • Thus AI act as a first-line interaction with parents and guardians and give access to meaningful information and feedback tool as needed for routine matters giving teachers more time to focus on things that require a personal touch with the students.
      • AI systems that are trained in a way that eliminates much of the human bias are starting to be used to provide a credible and fair admission using a given criterion when compared to humans.
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    • STEAM

    STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts & Maths) is newly blended Approach guiding students in more scientific way and creating dialogues, learning by doing and increase critical thinking. Students Engage in experimental learning style, problem solving techniques, Collaborative approach to understanding assignments and working on team based approaches and delivering solutions and understanding concepts. These are the innovators, educators, leaders, and learners of the 21st century!

    • • STEAM is an integrated approach to learning which requires an intentional connection between standards, assessments and lesson design/implementation
      • True STEAM experiences involve two or more standards from Science, Technology, Engineering, Math and the Arts to be taught AND assessed in and through each other
      • Inquiry, collaboration, and an emphasis on process-based learning are at the heart of the STEAM approach
      • Utilizing and leveraging the integrity of the arts themselves is essential to an authentic STEAM initiative
      • Students who participate in STEAM learning: 
      • Think outside the box
      • Feel safe to express innovative and creative ideas 
      • Feel comfortable doing hands-on learning
      • Take ownership over their learning
      • Work collaboratively with others
      • Understand the ways that science, math’s, the arts, and technology work together.
    • • Social Media in Learning
    • • Facebook, WhatsApp, Snap Chat, Instagram etc. have become very common even at students in younger age.
      • Classroom groups incorporating teachers and parents of the classrooms are very common in every schools in additional to the portals from schools.
      • This groups act as interactive medium for sharing assignments and group discussions and emerge as powerful platform for parent’s teacher communication and student’s opinion sharing.
      • Students are using various online tools to cater to different requirements.
      • Educative features in in social media have been enhanced day by day it goes Joint venture in active education
      • Open Social Media Platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Flickr are widely used for learning & sharing especially if mass audience are the target groups, People from same industry tastes and experts are well connected through this platform to add values, and experiences and also this takes the experts to higher level without any cross borders
      • Create a Facebook and what sup group for your class.
      • Use blogging for students’ homework assignments.
      • Twitter for bringing fun into the classroom and engaging audience
      • Educational resources and images can be pinned by Pinterest.
      • YouTube for online classes and demo classes
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    • Smart Boards
    • • Highly interactive smart board are common in every classrooms of recent times. Many schools and colleges and educational institutions are adding same to their infrastructure to upgrade conventional classrooms to smart classrooms
      • A Smart Board is an interactive whiteboard, which are implemented to classrooms which mainly connected to laptops or Data Sharing tools.
        • • When you move your hands images are being moved and you may also use different kind of pen to write on it, this allows teachers to show subjects in a way that all students can understand easier. Real images with colors, Diagrams, Movements of objects Charts etc.  can be made much interactive to learn better and faster.
          • It’s connected to a computer and works with a projector. They usually come with different colored pens that you write with on the board.
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        •  Learning Outside the class room
        • • Learning beyond classroom using online tools, students have own own space and time
          • Wide internet options have made to access resources everywhere and features like annotation tools, bookmarks, hyperlinks, dictionary, EBooks etc. have become common in student’s life.
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        • Data Management and Analytics
        • • Analytics and artificial intelligences are widely used in evaluating student performance and behavioral analytics. Student behavior can be analyzed to give extra attention from early intervention and reduce student retention rate. Student achievement can be directly interconnected and analyzed to achievement out come and encourage and empower them from student level as well as teachers can be customized teaching approaches to understand different students. This Data management approach can give students the competitive edge and empower the teachers to be the best educator
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      • Speech to Text
      • • • Speech to text tools recognize sound from facilitator and types to words and text in computer or tables or into applications used. This Innovative classroom tool is speech to text which are very actively developed and and enhanced especially helpful for the students who have difficulty getting through paper.
          • speech-to-text programs and apps are available on more computers, tablets and smartphones than ever before – making this teaching strategy an option for both students and teachers