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Top 7 Trends of Education Technology for 2019

Education Technology Trend

Technology is rapidly changing the way we live and collaborate. Education is lagging in terms of
technology adoption. Education is something that can change the world in positive way.

Education technology can help to eliminate current barriers of providing quality education to all across
the world. We have compiled some of the key trends and technologies that can define trends for the
coming year.

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Here is the introductory video of Remote Proctoring to Invigilate Online Exams

7.Virtual Reality (VR) in education

Here is the video released by National Geographic using Virtual Reality

What do you think about future of EdTech in coming Year ?

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Here are top 7 trends for Education Technology

1.Online Education

When things like ticket booking, watching TV shows, ordering food is becoming online, education is still
behind in terms of online education delivery.

Number of internet users is increasing rapidly with increase in smartphone. It has provided good
opportunity to deliver education online.

Online education is slowly and surely becoming popular with interest from working professionals to
learn new things, technology. More number of organizations like Byju is emerging to target online
education.

Trends of Online Education In India

According to credible reports from KPMG and google study, it is predicted that online education in india
is likely to be 2 Billion USD industry by 2021.

Around 28 Crore students are going to be enrolled to schools by 2021

More than 75 Crore Indians would be using internet ( second Highest behind China)

Coming year would see increase in online education and it’s aligned services. Online education is useful
to remove barrier of classroom based learning. Students can easily revise key subject/ topics.

Internet penetration in rural India is increasing as we move forward. Mobile app based services like
Whats App, Youtube are becoming popular. There is scarcity of quality teachers in rural India.

Rural students are looking forward to consume digital education in the form of videos, documents.

There are 3 key Segments for digital education K12, Higher education and Professional Education.

Adaptability for professional education, executive management courses is on the higher side as many
working professionals opting for the courses which they can easily learn, subscribe sitting at office or
home.
Higher education is also slowly adopting the digital era. Online certifications, value added certifications
are becoming popular in the college going students. Most of such courses are targeted to improve
employability of the students.

More such courses can help to make online education popular in India.

Barrier of Digital Education

Currently online education is not regulated by govt to the large extent. Most of the times students or
professionals are looking to complete course from some certified / Govt approved education entity. It
can help them to get job after completion of the course.

Online education course providers are offering courses which are autonomous , private. Those case
certainly help individuals but its acceptability or scaling to mass market is limited due to non regulated
segment.

Service Providers like Khan Academy providing exceptional knowledge for free and individuals are taking
advantage of it to improve their knowledge.
Coming year would see Govt regulations for digital education , Govt would start process of formalizing
online education with rules and regulation framework.

2.Digital and Comprehensive Online Assessments

Online exam Management

Evaluation of students is one of the key area of academic curriculum. Success of education largely
depends on type of evaluation done. Evaluation of the students has largely been focused on analysis of
theoretical knowledge of the student. Students usually write theory answers in the exams and it is being
evaluated by one of the evaluator.

Limitations of current Assessment or Evaluation of students

Evaluation is human dependent

It is biased and not standardized for all students

It is prone to error

It does not take into consideration practical aspects of the knowledge

In the coming years there would be more focus on evaluation of student for practical knowledge of
particular topic. Proportion of theory exams would be reduced.

Out Dated Syllabus

Knowledge is becoming dynamic and changing quickly due to era of internet. Things taught in the
education institutions might become obsolete or outdated in quick time. Here is the quick video about
why indian education universities need to adopt dynamic syllabus with new technology.

As an educator or institution, focus should be to teach things which are practical, industry oriented and
it should help students to become employable.

Knowledge management and collaboration tools and features can help institutes to improve practical
knowledge of the students. Such tools would become more useful and many institutions are likely to
adopt it in the coming years.

Evaluation or assessment of the students can be improved with the help of technology.

AI Driven Assessments

Artificial intelligence for Assessments

AI driven assessments, personalized assessment of the students can be done using online examination
systems. Such systems can provide useful insight of the student performance, group analysis and
individual analysis for each topic / sub topic.
As assessment of the student is done using online tools and techniques, bias associated with manual
evaluation can be eliminated.

Assessment tools usually focused on evaluating practicality of the subject rather than theory knowledge
of the student.

Online examination system like Eklavvya.in provides subjective exam assessment as well. Students can
write their answers using online editor provided , for each question or exam there is timer. Students are
not allowed to switch to other applications during active online exam.

There is facility of auto authentication of the student using photo capture facility . Online examination
system can also monitor student using video streaming.

For objective exams results are instantly provided. It eliminates barrier of manual evaluation of the
student performance.

In the coming year assessment of the knowledge would be based on new factors

Practical Implementation

Ability of innovation

Problem Solving using knowledge

Conceptual Application of the knowledge

Digital assessment can help unbiased and error free analysis of individual performance. It would be able
to provide personalized feedback for the individual. Such feedback would be able to set right path for
the student progress in terms of knowledge acquisition.

3. Blockchain Technology

Blockchain is emerging technology. It is going to dominate innovation across many businesses in the
coming decade.

Many articles are written about Block-chain technology. It is useful when there is need of collaboration,
distributed database/ information. Block-chain is useful for many areas of education including
examination management, student credentials verification, certificates verification etc.

Maintaining Student Academic Records

In the current scenario, maskheet of the individual students are maintained by respective universities.

There is no way where any third party authority, employer can validate if marks or degree obtained by
the student is valid and as per records of the university. Process of verification has to be done manually.
Blockchain technology can help to eliminate such issues where information collaboration, validation can
help to validate credentials of the student degree or marks obtained.

Coming year would see more new concepts and ideas of collaboration oriented processes in blockchain
for education sector.

Storage of certificates of the students

Blockchain technology can also help to store digital copies of the student certificates in the distributed
and collaborated environment. Each university can act as node or validator where any authority can
validate student documents by requesting for verified information of the students.

Such collaborative approach can help solve many issues like lost of original degree certificates or
marksheets, authentication of student education records etc.

4. Personalized Learning
Traditional classroom based learning is becoming obsolete. Consider examples of online or on demand
streaming services like Netflix, Amazon Prime etc. It is providing us personalized and on demand
television experience.

It is removing location, device and timing constraints. Television shows, sports events are being
streamed in the personalized manner.

Similar to it, education delivery or learning process must be personalized. Traditional classroom based
lecture process may not help each individuals.

Every individual has some strength and weakness and pace of understanding particular topic is different
for everyone.

It also depends on individual students liking for particular subject or topic. Personalized learning using
technology is one of the trend that would dominate in the coming year.

Advantages of personalized Learning

Ability to absorb topic and understanding increases due to personalized learning

Personalized learning can help student to learn, understand topics as per individual speed
It can be done from any location

It is classroom independent.

5.AI based Personalized Analysis of Individual

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is latest buzzword in the world today. Not only technology sector but all sectors
including finance, manufacturing and healthcare are going to be revolutionized due to implementation
of AI.

Education sector is also likely to get more ideas, implementations using AI.

AI can help providing detailed analysis of student performance in the examinations. Feedback from
teachers (human) has some limitations in terms of ability to comprehend student performance while
taking into considerations historical performance.

Personalized learning and analysis of the learning is possible using AI driven assessments of the
students.
6.Revolution in Exam Management

Exams in Education

Exams are still conducted in traditional manner with exam centers, exam invigilation, answer sheet
evaluation etc.

AI can bring lot of changes in current exam management. AI based proctoring or auto remote proctoring
can enable institutions to conduct exam without any need of infrastructure or logistic.

Remote Proctoring technology can enable students appearing for exam sitting at any location. System
can track , monitor remote user using advanced video, image, audio streaming with intelligence to do
analysis if student is appearing for the exam in fair manner.

Here is the introductory video of Remote Proctoring to Invigilate Online Exams

Currently this service has been successfully adopted and implemented by higher education institutes
and universities for conducting entrance exams. It has helped them to remove infrastructure
requirements and huge administrative cost of managing such exams.

AI based Remote Proctoring is going to be in demand in the coming days.

7.Virtual Reality (VR) in education

Virtual reality is popular in gaming. Concept of VR is becoming cost effective. Many other sectors have
started using VR for many critical things.

Virtual Reality in Education Technology

Consider below analysis of information retention. When it comes to classroom based lectures,
Knowledge retention is lowest. In case of audio/ video/ visuals , knowledge retention improves
drastically.

There is science behind it, when user mind is able to see something in action its retention is better. VR
not only provides opportunity to see something but also experience something.

Usually user need to wear 3D glass and experience something as if person is standing in front of that
event/ scene etc.

VR implementations targeted to education, training would see good growth in coming years. As an
educator you should not ignore this technology for sure.

Here is the video released by National Geographic using Virtual Reality

Checkout above video.You may get feeling as if you are also climbing the hill . You can get 360 degree
view of the surrounding. Such technology can help students to understand particular topic easily.
Complex concepts and things can be taught using Virtual Reality.
Traditional lectures has lowest knowledge retention rate whereas technology like VR can increase
knowledge retention to significant level.

Knowledge retention using Education Technology

Knowledge Retention Trends

Sr No Education Delivery Rating

1 Lectures Traditional lectures have least knowledge retention capability among the
students. It is not personalized.

Education Institutes should focus on making it interactive or form of knowledge discussion collaboration
agenda.

Lectures has less than 10% knowledge retention

2 Discussions It is better compared to traditional lecture forum.

Students are able to retain certain % of knowledge in this mode.

3 Info-graphics, Images Do you remember text or image from the books. Have you observed
how kids do the study. They are shown big pictures of relevant alphabets related words so that they can
remember things quickly.

Human mind is designed to remember knowledge in the form of pictures.

Knowledge retention increases rapidly if it is provided in the form if info-graphics or images.

It is also one of the reason why emoji are becoming popular mode of communication.

4 Videos Videos is currently go to medium for educational contents. Many education institutions
and universities are focusing on videos for teaching students about new technology and knowledge.

Knowledge retention is high with video as a medium

5 Interactive GamificationIt is taking video content to the next level by adding gamification.
Interactive things are easy to remember. Learning process can become easy with this approach.
6 Virtual Reality Virtual Reality or VR is the next big thing in education sector.

Virtual reality can eliminate all barriers of education and can provide feeling of things in front of us.

Imagine if you want to learn geography and using VR you are shown desert in front of you.

VR can take learning to new level and it would be demanding thing in the coming year for sure.

Education technology is buzzword with adoption of new things, solutions by Indian Universities.

What do you think about future of EdTech in coming Year ?

About Author

Swapnil Dharmadhikari

Swapnil Dharmadhikari
Swapnil has more than 15 years of experience in the Information Technology sector. He has been
working on digital platforms in the education sector. Swapnil is an avid reader and writes articles on
technology and leading developments in the education and IT sectors.

Swapnil is the founder of Splashgain, an Education Technology company from India working on various
innovative EdTech platforms for examinations, proctoring solutions, digital admission process and more.
Splashgain has been working with many educational institutes and universities for AI-powered
innovations and solutions to transform the education sector.

Splashgain has also filed a patent for an innovative product based on AI.
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