Schools
are repositories of stakeholder trust as to the future of students and must
retain this status. Schools of the future will
transform to a system of student relationship management and use these
their relationships to ensure macro objectives of a highly connected learning
ecosystem. The future schools will have to work towards,
personalized service that meets the student’s educational and non-educational needs. The traditional delivery mode would
have to be supplemented by a host of dis-intermediating channels.
What will the School of Things aim to do in emerging economies?
- · To deliver the learning experience students of the future seek
- · To optimize the opportunities the School of things era will provide,
- · To capitalize on the enormous amount of student data that schools already possess
- · To integrate data with an ongoing feedback from social media for new academic insights.
- · To use data analytics as enablers
- · To customize and tailor to meet individual needs to making it a level playing field.
- · To absorb that student backgrounds and intellectual abilities vary.
- · To innovate and transform to better anticipate and different student constituent needs.
Schools will become
a key part of their students’ ecosystem and social community. They will achieve
this by developing special alliances and partnerships that enable them to ensure
mutual connectivity with all
stakeholders.
The
School of things will anticipate less performing students’ needs and respond to
their circumstances, offering timely, relevant supportive solutions that help to
achieve their learning goals. Schools then remain repositories of trust, facilitators of learning and value
aggregators to the community.
The
School of things are data purveyors. The data captured by relevant smart
devices will enable the School of things to provide students with an integrated
approach to learning and give them a real time feedback on performance and
solutions. Schools of the future will
use the data to gain insights and to anticipate student needs and be proactive.
They would offer e- tutorial advice and e- solutions to assist students chart
their passage. The successful Schools of the future will be those that help
their students achieve superior results. The School of things will use connected
devices to monitor students’ actual behavior and adjusting their methods of teaching accordingly.
The
School of Things will create a borderless, internet driven experience across both
on site and off site channels to deliver
a superior student experience. The School of things would need to collaborate
with ecosystem partners to extend this all pervasive reach and to unify learning
with factors that impinge into areas of their students’ lives. These partners
could include other educational services institutions, standard setting
institutions which are regulatory or self regulated, mobile innovators, telecom companies, retailers or technology
firms.
The Internet of Schools will be characterized by continually
changing technology and infrastructure. Schools of the future will need to
invest in developing their capabilities and capacity for change. Schools of the future will continuously
re-train themselves to be technologically shifting. Innovation is the key as
schools cannot any more be responsive but must be perceived proactive - ahead
in thinking and of times. The
transformation from School to School of things will be an ongoing process, one
that will demand continual innovation to anticipate and the agility to react to
the ever changing student needs of tomorrow’s students and perennial
partnerships to help the transition and transformation.
These strands of thought are a part of
the research work being undertaken by the author on the Internet of Education
in Emerging Economies.
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of this article and its contents vests with the author of this blog: Jayaram Nayar. He can be contacted at email:
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