Re: [MTC Global] What Is the Future of Higher Education?

There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding about technology in education. Can you show me a housewife who does not track her husband and children on a minute to monte basis using her mobile phone? From the time I leave home and reach office, I get at least three calls to ensure that I do not change tracks. I wonder as to how women monitored their men a couple of decades back. Since we both use iPhones, my wife can also follow my location. I cannot lie to her that I am travelling northwards when I go southwards. She would say I find your phone showing a tower in South. 

Has communication got affected due to mobile phones? No, It has taken a new form. When you get a new girl friend, you buy her a mobile phone before getting other gifts. That is the power of technology. This is true of people in the slums too. People can live without electricity, water or food but not mobiles.

How did this technology get adopted by housewives and slum dwellers. As they are the decision makers they adopted a technology that they found useful. 

Why are we still using chalk and talk? The decision to adopt technology is with the aged educators who belong to the 2G while our students are from 4G. We the teachers and elders have failed to understand the changes. Why are we inflicting this kind of a torture on our Millenials and Gen Z students by boring lectures? Have we consulted the students to know what they want. Why we then talk of student centric education? 

Please change before education gets totally disrupted by technology.

All the best for the new year. 

M J Xavier

Former Director - IIM Ranchi

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On 31-Dec-2015, at 11:18 PM, Prabhakar Waghodekar <waghodekar@rediffmail.com> wrote:

Technology is the two edged sword, it can be used for our safety or destruction. Technology is an objective tool and not abstract one like education.

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From: "ORS Rao ICFAI" <orsrao.icfai@gmail.com>
Sent: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:57:12
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Subject: Re: [MTC Global] What Is the Future of Higher Education?

It is more of a Technology Solution chasing the problem ,rather than the other way round. Most of the Educators are yet to figure out how to mingle technology with teaching

so that students are benefited.

 

Regards

ORS Rao

 

From: Virendra Goel

Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 9:21 AM

To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com');" >join_mtc@googlegroups.com

Subject: RE: [MTC Global] What Is the Future of Higher Education?

 

Don't you feel that too much of technology in education has destroyed its human face whereas prime task of the education is human building?

Regards

Virendra Goel

 

From: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Prof. Bholanath Dutta
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 11:39 PM
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Subject: [MTC Global] What Is the Future of Higher Education?

 

Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX

Reason for despair: I am in the field of higher education, and I am continually reminded of how challenging it is to transform this world through technology. While we've seen technology revolutionizing so much of the world around us, and providing so much access to everything from entertainment to communication, the same cannot be said of quality education. Education is a basic human right, but has remained relatively resistant to technology, and continues to be either of poor quality, or simply out of reach for so very many people around the world.

Reason for hope: The progress we've begun to see in technology-enabled learning gives me reason to hope. Online learning has the potential to revolutionize education in both quality and scale, enabling anyone with an Internet connection and a will to learn access to an education. Experiments with MOOCs have demonstrated that quality education can be offered to millions of students worldwide at near-zero marginal cost. Recently, barriers to university credit for MOOCs have also begun to come down, giving me tremendous hope that soon people will be able to get an education and also a meaningful credential to showcase their work.

Education has also been recognized as one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations, so I'm hopeful that nations will now see a reason to invest more heavily in education.

 

 

Best Regards,

Educate, Empower, Elevate

Prof. Bholanath Dutta

Founder, Convener & President- MTC Global

An Apex Global Advisory Body in Management Education

 

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