Do You Know What Life Will Be Like In 5 Years? IBM's Top Scientist Does (5)
Educational
insufficiency is a major global challenge. Estimates show that, on a global
basis, nearly two out of every three adults have not achieved the equivalent of
a high school education. This, in an era when a secondary education is often
the bare minimum required for an individual to productively enter the
workforce.
The
ability to deliver “affordable education at scale” is another key driver across
the world, India alone will require 6 million more teachers by 2020 to attain
the world average of student teacher ratio. Though it is a huge issue and still
early, the increased use of technology in teaching and learning, we are
beginning to see the digital transformation of the education industry.
The
growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
is resulting in educational content becoming freely available to anyone with an
Internet connection.
Publishers are now focused on making content more engaging and adaptive in
order to proliferate its use in classrooms, while tablets and other personal
devices are making learning an anytime, anywhere activity. This creates a
tremendous amount of big data about teaching, learning, content, interaction,
and outcomes.
"What
if you had the ability to have the materials available, but through pure
electronics deliver them to the student and be
able to monitor in real time what that student was doing well with and what
they're struggling with? The teacher could individualize the instruction because
they're essentially handed an understanding of that student on day one because
the classroom itself has followed that student from entry in
kindergarten."
In
five years, cloud-based smart content and cutting-edge analytics will unlock
deep insights that will transform our approach to learning and help move the
classroom from assembly-line models into a truly personalized environment that
motivates and engages learners at all levels, from a kindergartener studying
the alphabet to a university student exploring new majors.
"It's
not, in fact, that the teacher is somehow displaced; quite the opposite,"
says Meyerson. "The teacher is empowered. The teacher has access to data
and history they had no other way of getting, and as a consequence is way more
effective."
Five
years from today, technology will help the education industry move away from
arbitrarily measured and schedule-based classrooms, toward a system that helps
students learn what they want at the pace they need. Predictions of likely
graduating skill pools and hiring profiles will better link curricula with
employers, narrowing the skills gap.
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