The educational system changes from time to time. It is one of the sectors where drastic change occurs, which has a significant impact on the students and their behavior towards learning. Education is not static.
Year by year, it changes due to factors like available resources and demands of the present generation on education. Recent educational trends are:
Online studying and learning
Online studying and learning are easily and readily accessible to people from anywhere across the world with the invention of election gadgets. People such as Students and professional workers who are faced with the challenges of transportation can access online education without barriers. This online education includes videos, pictures, training, and texts, which can be accessed by people from different places around the globe. Most online courses offered have certification attached to them, and this can also increase a student’s employability rate.
Artificial Intelligence Learning
This has greatly influenced the educational sector by altering education institutions and tools used. In this modern technology age, most online educational sites use artificial intelligence to monitor student’s progress and provide online-based learning.
The significant advantage of artificial intelligence is that it makes tracking of student’s progress more easier, timely feedback so that teachers can draft new lesson plans. Paper correction is also made easier with AI for the trainers.
Digital library
Reading wide and deep sharpens one’s knowledge, information about anything, and everything is gotten.
A digital library will give students the freedom to read widely, explore, and deepens their knowledge. It will also gear up lazy students and compel them to read.
Good relationship
In the classroom, students have a bad behavioral relationship with one another, and to create a good and conducive environment for learning, students need to build a good relationship and communicates with themselves. To achieve empathy and excellent communication skills between students, trainers need to organize more group activities to make them interact more and empathize with themselves.
Cost Management in Education
The correct usage of advanced technology in the educational sector will lead to an improvement in cost management. It is also expected of the educational field or area to invest more in cloud technologies leading to a reduction in operational cost. The cost of printing will be eradicated with the introduction of modern technology in education. There will be digital certification, documents, and others. Technology in the educational sector will also increase effective and efficient operation in the school. It will also reduce labor cost, which is applied in managing, storing, and maintaining the institute’s data. As more online classes are linked together, it will give rise to investments in computing aspects. Printing, transactions passing information, tutoring, and other functions will become easy and digitally controlled.
Advancing from STEM to STEAM
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics (STEM) has always been the area where education revolves around, but it is fast diminishing and outdated. Professionals in the field of arts and creativity are in high demand now. The educational sector has adopted a STEAM approach to learning. The acronym STEAM means Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics. The addition of Art covers the Creative aspect of education. Innovations and creativity, teaching, and learning are part of Art aspects. Teachers need to employ their creative thinking and come up with innovations to design appropriate teaching and learning models.
Development &Training Programs for Teachers
Training and development programs should be put in place for the teachers to help them meet up with the changes occurring in the educational sector. Teachers must also familiarize themselves with the latest teaching and learning trends in education so that they can compete with the changes arising.
Digital Learning Solution
All students must be aware of and benefit from digital education. Digital education aim at equipping students with modern knowledge and providing digital materials for learning. Audiovisual contents attached with textbooks and online learning programs can make learning outcome effective. When education is combined with online assessment, audio, video, and visuals contents, it makes it easier to gain knowledge and retain them. It is not only about learning the subject but also experiencing it that helps students to understand and learn faster.
Seating arrangements
It has been found out that seating arrangements in classes also have their effect and benefits on the students. The students should be allowed freedom for the students to choose their seating arrangement. Seating arrangements are also important to education as it affects the thought of students on education.
Smart Spaces
It is a platform or physical space where students and teachers can interact with modern technology. The classrooms are set up for the effective use of technology. A classroom with modern technological infrastructures such as smart boards, the learning management systems will create a fun and better environment for learning.
Wellness programs
This program focuses on addressing and resolving learning-related issues that can lead to learning disabilities. The educational sector differs from one area to another, depending on the available facilities and provisions made.
Free time
To improve the educational sector, learners should be allowed to observe, read about, and explore their loved subjects. This can help them to grow and become knowledgeable. It helps them to find their passion and develop a deep connection with the subject.
Examination conducts
Artificial intelligence can alter the way examinations are set up. It changes the traditional style of invigilating and supervising examinations. With the advancement in technology, students can write the examination from any place of habitation. The students can also be monitored digitally to know if the examination is conducted according to the laid down manners. Technology has a better way of helping students store their digital certificates and credentials to avoid damages and losses.
Short term learning
Students are often faced with the challenges of extended classes and learning processes, which reduces their learning ability. Due to the inventions of digital education, teachers have been able to reduce extended learning to a bite-size, which as resulted in inefficiency in learning. The learning models are made interactive and less stressful for students.
Personal learning
Students are also able to learn at their own pace. The freedom to gain personally and in their paces have hastened to learn processes for students.
