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5 Education Trends That Will Impact The Education Sector In 2020

In the education sector, technology is not anymore a future, it is already here. The education landscape is transforming into a tech-savvy panorama. Students are not limited to teacher, teachers are not limited to institute campus. Like blockchain tech, education is also decentralizing, learning is being more democratic and diversified.

2020 will be one more year advancing in Edtech lane, it has the potential to bring some great innovation in the tech world. Not just technology is evolving rapidly but new technologies are also paving the way for advancement in the education industry. Every year we enter the year with version 1 of technology and exit the year with version 10.

Let’s see which technology trends will impact the education industry in 2020.

Blended Learning is the new focus

Blended-Learning or B-Learning is the perfect combination of e-learning and traditional learning. The growing usage of the internet and its availability is increasing the use of online learning, but, to make the best use of it, educational institutes and educators are mixing it with the traditional approach. In this students gets the best of both worlds. With teachers’ guidance and abundance of online sources, they are unstoppable.

Learn more about blended learning from here.

MOOC is the student’s favorite source of learning

MOOC or Massive Open Online Course is the new trend among students. Getting lessons while sitting home, listening to lecture while commuting, what more you need if you crave knowledge. Not only just for regular students, but working professionals are also getting huge benefits from MOOCs. There is no need to join a college or to fulfill the required number of attendance percentage to sit in the exam, just enroll in courses and get the degree/ certification of your favorite program.

Udacity, Khan Academy, Coursera, NPTEL and many more have grown exponentially in the last five years. According to MarketWatch, the MOOC market is expected to grow over 39.3% CAGR value during the forecast period (2019 – 2026). It won’t be surprising to see MOOC rising to the new horizon by the end of 2020.

Cloud-based Education Management System is more desirable than ever

Alongside the development of learning experience, the management system of educational institutes is also changing. The cloud-based education management system is becoming a great investment for institutes. It is capable to manage the complete student life cycle, enable 360-degree automation, and brings a high return on investment (ROI).

Institutes are getting great benefits from the student management system. They are able to manage the day to day tasks, improve enrollment rate, manage students better, and boost productivity.

Gamification through AR/ VR bringing new experiences for students

Do you know Instagram offers a small percentage of augmented reality?

AR is the technology that adds extra effect in your real world. It is a live direct or indirect view of a physical real-world environment whose elements are expanded by computer-generated real-world sensory. The smartphones we use, Android or iOS are updating to AR every day. Many apps like Pokemon Go, Instagram, Snapchat already using some form of AR.

Unlike AR, VR gives you the experience of the virtual world where you can learn about things in your term.

It is evident that students have more inclination towards video games, colorful designs and added features while learning. The education sector is also leveraging the benefit of it. With the gamification of learning through AR/VR, it is encouraging students to involve more and transforming their experience completely.

Not to forget the AI in education

Learning has moved beyond just feeding information to students irrespective of their comprehension ability. It is becoming more personalized and student-focused. This is the role that AI has to offer in the education world.

Teachers are getting the help of AI to understand every student separately, instead of just delivering lectures they are now more of a coach or mentor and playing a facilitating role and enabling students to exploit their full potential.

According to a study done by Online Education for Higher Ed, the use of AI in US classrooms will grow by 47.5 percent in the next three years.

As ironical as it seems but technology is making teaching more human-like and student-focused by assisting teachers and taking over the time-consuming, tedious day to day tasks like attendance, grading, administrative processes, etc.

Mobile apps have made education management easy!

Features of Academia ERP Mobile Apps :

Check how Academia student mobile apps can help in course management and how they can help students more properly.

Student Mobile Application – Course Management

In today’s world, technology is considered the most important thing in any sector, and education is one of the necessary aspects in which technology is breaking the old loops and the traditional form of teaching and learning. With time various things have changed in the education sector and one of the times is the digital transformation of institutions using ERP. Just imagine how it will be easier for faculty, parents, and students to get everything over their mobile phones starting from attendance to examination results. Everything is easier and easier to access with mobile apps for educational institutions.

Let’s discuss the importance of mobile apps for education management:

  • Enhanced Interaction

Mobile apps undoubtedly provide the best experience when used properly like with an ERP. It not only helps faculty but to the students and parents as well. It enhances the interaction among the internal and external management by clarifying things, for example, the faculties can anytime ask the fee department to provide fee data of a particular student, and then the faculties can check it using the mobile app. Isn’t it amazing?

  • Systematic parent-teacher communication

Communication is the most important key in the education sector, it is important to keep connectivity and synchronization between faculties and students. A mobile app provides a complete and systematic way to communicate and fill the bridge among students, parents, and faculty. 

Not only between parents and students but communication also plays an important role between faculties and students. If a student is updated with all the lessons, assignment details, faculty’s availability, and other related information; his awareness will increase and he will perform better. The same goes for faculty.

  • 24/7 Availability

There are times when an educational institute needs to close, one of the biggest examples of this is we are facing the pandemic due to which most of the schools and higher education institutions are closed. So in these times what if students will need help from faculties in checking the timetable, examination results, or even face any doubt in their studies? An Educational ERP with a mobile app for educational institutions is the best option that gives access to any document or anything anytime, and if needed it can even connect to students with faculties in any doubt. 

  • Remote Access 

This is considered as the best feature of having an ERP with a mobile app for educational institutions, having a mobile app can remotely access anything whether it is fee submission, admission form distribution, enrollment of students, examinations, result declaration, and whatnot? Institutions can also use the mobile app to communicate with different branches or groups of institutions having data accessed anytime from anywhere with the authorities. 

  • Systematic Learning Activated

In this modern world, student demands for modern ways of learning, so having a mobile app students gets systematic learning activated, having a mobile app students gets the opportunity to learn properly anytime and anywhere without any glitch providing a real-time learning experience. 

The apps are arranged systematically so that it becomes possible for students to go with the flow without even realizing it.

  • Sustainability

Mobile apps when having integration with an ERP system provide more sustainability as compared to traditional ways, it reduces the pen-paper format removing the data redundancy, providing more sustainability to students, parents, and administrators. 

How mobile apps are transforming the education industry?

Technology is changing almost everything in the education sector, institutions need to opt for technologies that can hugely impact their current and traditional ways, like an ERP which provides seamless integration with the existing system along with providing complete digital transformation to institutions. An ERP having a mobile app for educational institutions helps in providing digital transformation in the education industry providing all the works like admission, examination, results, timetable, fee, and all others. 

Conclusion:

There is no hierarchical education system when it comes to institutional management with mobile apps. Academia is a robust,  feature-rich, analytics-equipped, user-friendly education ERP and SIS system that enables institutions to automate & streamline their functions and processes for both learning and administration with all devices like desktops, tablets, and mobile phones.  Academia also provides complete integration of all the modules with mobile apps to provide a seamless experience to institutions. So what are you waiting for, do contact us today and we will be there to provide you with a  free demo with our team of experts.