Future of digital and social media in academics - Challenges and opportunities for Higher education in India by Dr. H. Chaturvedi, Director BIMTECH

1. Future of digital and
social media in
academics
Challenges and opportunities for Higher
education in India
Dr H Chaturvedi
Director BIMTECH

2. Industry 4.0 (4 IR)
Opportunities
 Enhanced quality of life with higher
order technologies
 Increase in global income levels
 Reduction in transportation & commn.
costs
 Creation of new products and markets
 Enhanced health services leading to
longevity
 Safer workplaces
Challenges
 Security issues of data and maintaining
privacy.
 Risk of greater inequality in labour markets
 Decrease in real income of workers as
machines take over
 Displacement of workers by machines and
artificial intelligence
 Creation of higher order human jobs is
always a concern when automated
technologies takeover day to day jobs

3. The Six Drivers of Change brought by 4IR

4. Skills of Tomorrow needed 4IR world

5. WHAT HAS CHANGED?
 Business and policy environment has
become more volatile/ uncertain/ complex
and ambiguous
 Advancement in technology and
communication is changing the way content
can be delivered (e. g., video) and
interactions can me governed (e.g.
WhatsApp)
 Analysis of large data sets and self-learning
algorithms promise to improve our ability
to predict
 Price of technology/ tools of automation is
reducing rapidly, leading to more pervasive
deployment
 Attention spans of students are
reducing dramatically
 Overload of information that takes
away focus from developing
insights/ knowledge
 Misplaced trust on technology,
erosion of trust between student
and teacher. Learning is relegated
to a technology mediated
transaction rather than a long term
engagement

6. THE NEW CHANLLENGE IS TO CREATE
LIFE-LONG LEARNERS
▪ When the target
environment is uncertain
and unpredictable, we need
to evolve new processes
▪ This is not about introducing
new content (e.g. design
thinking/ big data) but
bringing about change in
attitudes, mindsets and
behavior – a slow and
difficult process
▪ As educators, we need to
develop a deeper
understanding of how our
students learn /going to be
learning in future

7. DRIVERS OF LEARNING THAT HOLD
TRUE DESPITE CHANGES
➢ Telling is not teaching and listening is not learning
Learning happens by engaging learner in activities of application and
cooperating
➢ Experience by itself is not necessary a good teacher
Reflecting on experience makes learning complete
➢ Learners learn best when their poor experiences and knowledge are
built upon – Rule of association
➢ Retention is highest when learners are able to organize information in
meaningful patterns – Rule of chunking
➢ Learners need to understand the relevance of subject to their overall
learning goal- Motivation of learning
➢ Assessment of learning rather than assessment for learning- Feedback

9. What Google Expect from a New
Graduate?
 Is a good coach
 Empowers team and does not micromanage
 Expresses interest/concern for team members’ success and personal
well-being
 Is productive and results-oriented
 Is a good communicator
 Helps with career development
 Has a clear vision/strategy
 Has important technical skill

10. What Digital Native Learners Want?
 No lectures – or very few short ones
 To be respected, trusted, valued
 To follow own interests and passions
 To create – using 21st Century tools
 To work with peers
 “Just enough, just in time” learning
 To make decisions and share control
 Connect with peers in class
 To cooperate and compete with each other
 An education that’s not just relevant, but real

11. Our Role of a teacher is also changing from
content delivery to being a coach and a facilitator


12. Role of Social Media in education
 Connecting with experts
 Communication between institutions and students
 Research
 Enhanced Learning Management System
 Social Credibility for Learners
 Social networks can be used as the venue for dialogue and activity, and can
increase student participation
 Asynchronous learning
 See www.facebook.com/etimbimtech talk to EVA the bot about the course
Also Disadvantage: Distraction
Source : The role of social media in higher education classes (real and virtual) – A literature review
Paul A.Tess https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2012.12.032

13. In their own words … how students value digital learning
As a result of using technology for learning, I am …
Developing new skills
• Creativity
• Critical thinking and problem solving
Changing my learning behavior
• More likely to complete homework
• Collaborating more with my classmates
• Communicating with my teacher more often
• Participating more in class discussions
Enhancing my self-efficacy as a learner
• Learning at my own pace
• Learning in a way that fits my learning style
• In control over my learning

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The world is connected: economically, socially and technically.
An educated workforce, scientific research, and innovation are all essential
to the development of a sustainable economy where today’s students will be:
▪ Doing jobs that have not been invented yet
- Estimates are 85% of the jobs today’s learners will be doing don’t yet exist
- The top 10 in-demand jobs in 2018 did not exist in 2010
▪ Using technologies that don’t currently exist
▪ Solving problems we don’t know are problems yet

15. 5 Steps for Getting Started
It is not the question that whether to use Social media or not but how
well to use.
1. Find a digital native coach/mentor.
2. Start a Class Blog www.edublogs.org: free, easy to manage,
very secure
3. Try Micro-blogging www.twitter.com
4. Create your own resource bank with RSS
RSS: Your own customized professional learning library
www.google/reader: one of many, but very easy to use
5. Integrate AV Material and Resources

16. BLOGGING / QUIZ
DISCUSSION
VIDEO / AUDIO SOCIAL MEDIA
DIGITAL
STORYTELLING
Glow Wordpress
Blogs
Padlet
Medium
Kahoots
YouTube
Vimeo
Audioboom
Adobe Voice
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Pinterest
Class Tools
(for lots of
applications)
Glow Wikis
Office Sway
Prezi
BookCreator
Paper.li
Storify
Some popular Tools

17. https://www.edmodo.com/
https://ed.ted.com/
https://vimeo.com/blog/category/video-school
https://www.teachertube.com/
The regular ones Facebook Google + pinterest Instagram

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Any Device Learning
TECHNOLOGY IMMERSION
PERSONAL LEARNING PATHS
Student-Centered Processes
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS
Learning Communities
GLOBAL INTEGRATION
Services Specialization
ECONOMIC ALIGNMENT
Systemic View of Education
Intelligent
• Aligned Data
• Outcomes Insight
Instrumented
• Student-centric
• Integrated Assessment
Interconnected
• Shared Services
• Interoperable Processes
Workforce
Skills
The
Educational
Continuum
Economic
Sustainability
Can the future of education become a more outcome-focused continuum
supporting lifelong learning?
Single View
of the Student
Source: IBM Smart Education Framework

19. Education delivery will need Unbundling

20. Proposed approach for Digitalization of Education

21. Thank you