Technology Information, Forecasting & Assessment Council (TIFAC),
India's technology think tank, released a roadmap for Education,
prepared under its Technology Vision 2035 exercise.
Incidentally, 2035
would be 200 years of Macaulay's Minutes and the roadmap suggests among
other things to reconfigure our Education system, and proposes
"realizing the full potential of every Indian" as the vision.
The
document
· retrospects Macaulay’s Education system
· identifies “pre-determined content” as the biggest bane of Indian education system
· embedded in TV2035 exercise- Indian-centric (their security, prosperity & identity) rather than India-centric (GDP)
· draws insights from 11 technology sectors of socio-economic importance
· factors in foreseeable future technologies and their impact- on education (access, quality, skiling, assessment, and management)
· proposes to (re)position education for preparing learners for ‘life’ and not ‘work’ and also for easier absorption of life-skills
· suggests modular certification in higher education- facilitated through easy exit and re-entry
· suggests mainstreaming vocational education and vocationalization of mainstream education
· points to the liquidation of differences in curricular, non-curricular and extra-curricular aspects of education
· projects a reinvented role for teacher- facilitator or navigator as against instructor hitherto
· proposes a new definition for literacy circumscribing- Reading, Writing & Communication (RWC); Numeracy (NU), e/Digital Proficiency (E/DP); Visual and Symbolic Proficiency (VSP) and Civic Awareness (CA). Literacy preparing not for operating today but stay resilient to uncertainties of future
· sees technologies unleashing education completely for the first time, making it- Anywhere, Anyone, Anytime
· foresees University transforming into Multiversity- a tripartite pluralistic institution dealing with research, disciplinary specialization and diversification of curriculum
· predicts that large number of new universities will be Virtual/ Meta/ Open in character
· foresees learners seeking second/third career and also short-span careers, due to longer life-span, ease of access to education and technology triggered obsolescence
· reflects on learner-paced, personalized education- adaptive learning and adaptive assessment
· proposes ring-fencing teacher education to the public sector, emphasizing training of teachers for new roles
· flags the exponential changes due to technologies that will force educational institutions, to reinvent and recalibrate themselves
Download the Roadmap from the link
https://tinyurl.com/tifactv2035-education.