{"id":2564,"date":"2014-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.learnnext.com\/blog\/?p=2564"},"modified":"2025-07-15T07:08:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T01:38:52","slug":"supplemental-to-integral-changing-role-of-technology-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nextgurukul.in\/thenextworld\/supplemental-to-integral-changing-role-of-technology-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Supplemental to Integral \u2013 Changing role of technology in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The role of education in human capital development has been largely acknowledged for decades. However, the education industry, unlike other industries, has been a slow adopter of technology. Although this trend is changing for good, we need to ask&#8211;is the change fast enough (considering what\u2019s at stake \u2013 the human capital is key to a nation\u2019s empowerment)?<\/p>\n<p>No doubt, the last decade witnessed a growing awareness of eLearning solutions among students, teachers and other stakeholders in the education ecosystem.\u00a0 Students are seeking online courses as part of their self-study routine to supplement their school learning. Some schools are investing in ERP and digital classrooms. These are the first crucial steps towards harnessing technology in the education sector. Although these are encouraging signs, quite clearly technical solutions in education are still in a supplement (at best \u2018enablement\u2019) phase.\u00a0 Embracing technology is still viewed as optional by these stakeholders especially by school authorities and administration. Cost is often mentioned as a deterrent, though such claims are usually based on subjective feeling than an objective analysis. Many students are enrolling in massive open online courses (MOOCs) &#8211; to supplement their school learning with self-paced digital lessons, but statistics show that a significant percentage of these learners are casual in their approach. Students don\u2019t allocate similar priority to MOOCs courses as they may to their classroom \/college courses.\u00a0 Such half-hearted infusion of technology in education needs to change.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the case that eLearning solutions have some inherent technical limitation that is affecting their mainstream adoption \u2013 technologically, these solutions are top notch for their time and have potential for disruptive innovation <a href='https:\/\/www.east-inflatables.com\/e104-inflatable-water-slide.html' style=\"color: #696969;text-decoration: none\">large inflatable slide<\/a>. However, this technology penetration needs to be architected in the formal learning system. A positive step in this direction would be from school authorities and education boards to acknowledge eLearning as a valid and mainstream medium of imparting education and even student evaluation (some universities provide proper course credits for MOOCs \u2013 just like classroom lecture-based courses).\u00a0 The teacher community also needs to dispel the idea that technology solutions can hamper the human element of teaching. In fact, many teachers are warming up to MOOCs as such medium allows them to reach out to volumes of students (spread across the globe) that is exponentially higher than a lifetime of classroom teaching.<\/p>\n<p>The impact that technology can have in advancing the education industry will remain limited unless the role of technology is not universally acknowledged as an essential ingredient rather than an optional \u2018good-to-have\u2019 addendum.<\/p>\n<p>Image Credit: freedigitalphotos.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The role of education in human capital development has been largely acknowledged for decades. However, the education industry, unlike other industries, has been a slow adopter of technology. 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