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

Dear Sir, There are some very fundamental questions that arise when it comes to education
in the 21st century.
1. As can be noticed, since the spread of the internet from 1998 onwards and now the
spread of the mobile technology and the internet on mobile, the volume of information has
multiplied many-fold. This information is now on tap and it becomes quite useless for the
teacher to regurgitate it in the classroom no matter how important it may be.

2. Tools and techniques too are available on the internet and a serious learner can find
the right source to learn from.

3. Students are now in a position to choose what they want to pursue as far as learning
is concerned. The only gap is that they do not know what to pursue.

4. The students do not have an exposure to real live problems though they may have access
to search and find the solutions.

5. There are now very significant gaps that threaten the teacher as concerning his own
knowledge. This is because of the rapid changes brought about by technology in conducting
profitable businesses.

6. In my mind,the teacher of yore has all but disappeared. The teacher of tomorrow is a
specialist in some area of human activity,who is able to counsel students about his
specialization, he can articulate the problems concerning his specialization and is able
to design solutions for the problem. The teacher has become a trainer of motivated and
interested students to work on the problems using technology and design solutions based
on their own experience concerning their interest in the specialization.

7.To the disinterested students, there is nothing that the 21 century teacher can do for
them. The students have to find their ground for themselves. To the teacher without any
specialization, life is going to become more difficult with each passing year.
Best regards and very Happy New year -2016
K. Paranjpe

On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 11:02:44 +0530 "Virendra Goel" wrote
> Technology as a tool was OK but now technology has taken over the total educational
process resulting in absence of face to face communication between the teacher and the
students and human building process has taken the back seat, it is the flip side of the
dependency on technology. State of the affairs in majority of schools where smart classes
have been introduced is the teacher runs the standard video and leaves the student to
learn by themselves, as a result student neither develops inquisitiveness that should be
primary goal of the education nor does he find answer to his confusions.RegardsVirendra
GoelFrom: join_mtc@googlegroups.com [mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com]
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2016 7:52 AM
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: 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 XavierFormer Director - IIM
Ranchi

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On 31-Dec-2015, at 11:18 PM, Prabhakar Waghodekar
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.

Regards,

Dr. P H Waghodekar, PhD (Egg), IIT,KGP, IE&M, 1985,
Advisor (HR), IBS & PME (PG)
Marathwada Institute of Technology,
NH 211, Beed by pass road,
Aurangabad: 431010 (Maharashtra) INDIA.
(O) 02402375113 (M) 7276661925
E-Mail: waghodekar@rediffmail.com
Website: www.mit.asia
and
Chairman, Advisory Board, MTC Global, Bangalore.


Engineering & Management Education: An Engine of Prosperity.
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From: "ORS Rao ICFAI"
Sent: Thu, 31 Dec 2015 13:57:12
To:
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.RegardsORS RaoFrom: Virendra Goel Sent: Thursday, December 31, 2015 9:21
AMTo: 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?RegardsVirendra GoelFrom: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
[mailto:join_mtc@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Prof. Bholanath Dutta
Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 11:39 PM
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: [MTC Global] What Is the Future of Higher Education?Anant Agarwal,CEO of
edXReason 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, ElevateProf. Bholanath DuttaFounder, Convener & President- MTC
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