Name of Applicant:?G M Owais Ahmed
Grade:?XII
School:?Narayana Junior College
City:?Kurnool
State:?Andhra Pradesh
Country: India
No generation is more at ease with online, collaborative technologies than today?s young people??digital natives?, who have grown up in an immersive computing environment. Where a notebook and pen may have formed the tool kit of prior generations, today?s students come to class armed with smart phones, laptops and iPods. This era of pervasive technology has significant implications for higher education. Nearly two-thirds (63%) of survey respondents from the public and private sectors say that technological innovation will have a major impact on teaching methodologies over the next five years. ?Technology allows students to become much more engaged in constructing their own knowledge, and cognitive studies show that ability is key to learning success,? says New York City-based Queens College vice-president of institutional advancement, Susan Henderson. Online degree programmes and distance learning have gained a firm foothold in universities around the world. What was once considered a niche channel for the delivery of educational content has rapidly become mainstream, creating wider access to education, new markets for content and expanded revenue opportunities for academic institutions. Sixty percent of those polled say that the technological change occurring in our midst will alter the perception of the college campus from a one-dimensional (physical) concept to a multi-dimensional (physical and online) one. ?Law school students enrolled in hybrid programmes that integrate distance and in-class education outperform those who study exclusively in one environment,? says Tom Delaney, associate dean and CIO of the New York University (NYU) School of Law, of the results of a recent limited trial at his school. New technologies are also affecting other areas of campus administration. Social-networking tools are helping to build connections with alumni and support career service activities. E-marketing campaigns expand the reach and success of recruiting and fundraising efforts, and drive down the cost of direct-mail campaigns. And automated, self-service programmes reduce administrative requirements, streamline course registration and enhance academic life. Although university participants view these changes as having a largely positive impact, many institutions struggle with the twin challenges of rising information technology (IT) costs and the need to avoid technological obsolescence. In addition, insufficient resources, a lack of adequate instructional design staff and other technological support issues can also impede the adoption of new technologies. Despite these challenges, most believe that technology will become ever more interwoven into the fabric of academic life. HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING IN TODAY`S CLASSROOMS: Technology is enabling multi-modal teaching, changing curricula and spawning rich forms of online research and collaboration. Nearly 60% of survey respondents say that professors will soon teach in more than one medium. At NYU?s top-ranked tax law programme, for instance, classroom courses are filmed with three cameras and a sound mixer. ?The course goes online within 30 minutes,? says Mr Delaney. ?Within 24 hours, students interested in reviewing a certain case or topic can click an online index that charts the content of the entire class and [can] view the portion that interests them.? When asked to compare different communications technologies, 52% of survey respondents state that online collaboration tools would make the greatest contribution in terms of improving educational quality over the next five years?the top response?while 48% point to the dynamic delivery of content and software that supports individually paced learning. Sophisticated learning-management systems and enhanced video and presentation tools are among other innovations that respondents say are likely to have a profound effect on the academic experience. It is interesting to note that despite the growing array of technology-enabled teaching tools available, nearly three-quarters of participants say that the greatest potential benefit of technology is something far more straightforward?namely, the expanded access to educational and reference resources that it provides. According to the survey results, online-collaboration tools, software that supports individually paced learning, and learning-management systems are among the communications technologies most expected to improve academics over the next five years. Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, instant messaging and social networking?which have been influential in improving connectivity in many settings and are in use now at a large number of institutions?are expected to decline in use over that period. By contrast, online gaming and simulation software are cited by 54% of higher-education respondents and 59% of corporate respondents as an innovation likely to be adopted among universities over the next five years. Faculty members, administrators and CIOs are also exploring how web applications and freeware such as Google docs can improve efficiency and reduce costs. Collectively, such advances may lead to profound changes in the way courses are taught. ?Teaching will become more outcome-based and student-centred,? says Polley Ann McClure, CIO of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. ?To be truly transformative,? she adds, ?instructional paradigms will have to shift.? Instead of focusing on memorisation of material by their students, instructors will focus on the application of knowledge to particular problems. Says Ms McClure: ?Students need to feel that they can plot their own academic path. If a student wants to, they should be allowed to take the final exam on the first day of school, and get credit for the portion of the course they?ve passed. If they answer 80% of the test correctly, for example, testing software would identify the issues behind the 20% of wrong answers and focus student attention on those areas instead.? It?s a view that others across the higher-education spectrum share. ?The professor?s role is evolving from instructor to mentor,? says Sam Scalise, CIO of Sonoma State University, in California?s wine country. ?Homework, quizzes and projects will have to be designed in such a way as to require genuine thoughtfulness on the part of the student. That paradigm shift offers enormous potential for advancing educational quality.? Finally, respondents foresee an interesting range of possibilities regarding how technology is most likely to affect future academic offerings, spurred by innovative faculty research, student engagement and the pursuit of academic collaboration. Over the next five years, 56% of respondents expect to see a greater number of interdisciplinary majors, combining chemical engineering and environmental studies for instance, and 43% foresee broader inter-university collaboration among students from multiple institutions. Looking beyond the five-year horizon, more than two-thirds of all respondents say that students will be able to craft individualised degree programmes, either within their own university or by bundling coursework from different institutions. And more than one-half see the publishing world evolving as a result of all these developments, with textbooks and printed documents eventually being replaced by online materials. ?The rise of online peer review may mean that some texts exist exclusively in virtual form, where they can be updated and refined in real time,? says Linda O?Brien, CIO of the University of Melbourne in Australia. THE EXPANDING ROLE OF ONLINE LEARNING: More than two-thirds of those surveyed from academic settings say their institutions offer online courses today. The specialisation, customisation and convenience that distance education affords has found an eager audience among students, working professionals and employers. Many academic institutions, and especially those with a public-service mandate, consider online learning key to advancing their mission, placing post-graduate education within reach of people who might otherwise not be able to access it. Recently named the top wired university in the US by PC Magazine, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign offers a case in point. As Scott D Johnson, CIO and associate dean for online learning in the College of Education, observes, ?As a public, land-grant university, our mission is grounded on the premise of education for all.? In January 2008 the university marked a significant leap forward in what had already been a long history in distance education, by launching the University of Illinois Global Campus?an integrated online programme created in collaboration with the colleges and academic departments at the university?s residential campuses. ?The ability to offer greater access to educational opportunities was the primary catalyst,? Dr Johnson acknowledges. ?There are many people who desire certification or degree programmes who simply cannot attend a residential programme, be they single mothers, working professionals or non-traditional students. It?s part of our public mission to reach those people, and we see e-learning as a vital tool in making that possible.? While distance-education programmes continue to grow in number and to improve in quality, most survey participants see online courses as a supplement to face-to-face classes, and nearly two-thirds of respondents maintain that traditional degrees carry greater credibility than those earned online. Corporate participants hold this view most staunchly. Few participants (11%) say that online and in-class students are likely to take the same classes together and compete for top grades. Perceptions may be shifting, however. A number of elite institutions, such as Johns Hopkins in Maryland and Stanford University in California, offer highly regarded online courses, and students who complete coursework through Stanford?s Educational Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) and matriculate as undergraduates may use these credits towards their bachelor?s degrees. CONCLUSION: IN THE TRENDING YEARS WORLD WILL DO THE WHOLE WORK ALL THROUGH COMPUTERS AND LATEST TABS ARE AVAILABLE.
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