New Paradigms for innovation

in Teaching and Learning

N.Vivekananthamoorthy,S.Sankar
R.Siva,S.Sharmila
KCG College of Technology
Chennai,India
 Plan of presentation
 Overview
 Introduction
 Problems faced in Technical Education
 Solutions to the problems
 New Paradigms
 Business Process Reengineering(BPR)
 Reengineering the educational process
 IT,the change enabler
 Instruction vs Learning paradigm
 Active vs Passive Learning
 Experiment and results
 Future Work
 Conclusion 2
 Introduction

 Technology is continuously changing and organizations are

introducing new technologies and new processes to improve
productivity, profitability to stay competitive in the market.
 There is a need for a major paradigm shift in Education
sector which would not happen with small incremental and
unrelated changes here and there .
 We need to supplement the traditional systems of education
with innovative and flexible systems using current
Technology, capable of providing quality education to large
target group of learners to suit their requirements and
expectations.
 Overview
•  Educational sytsems should change to meet current challenges
and needs.
 There is need to change traditional teaching methods.
 This paper focuses change management and re-engineering of
educational processes.
 We discuss new paradigms in educational systems to promote
innovation.
 Some of the paradigms are Business Process Reengineering
(BPR) ,Open Education and E-Learning etc.
 E-learning case study and results
 Problems Faced in the
Technical Education
 The world around us has changed dramatically but our
higher education continue to operate in the old policy frame.
There is need for paradigm shift.
 Technology is growing fast and the traditional educational
system has many limitations and it cannot meet the demand
on students to face 21st century challenges.
 There is need for paradigm shift in educational systems to
fully utilize the revolutions and innovations taking place in
digital technology.
 Solution to problems &
Challenges
 Change Management is a tool for analyzing and
addressing the current challenges in educational
systems.
 Re-engineering the educational processes with
technology as change enabler.
 New paradigms in educational systems are
eLearning,Web based Learning ,Open education,etc
 The following slides discuss the new paradigms in
Education
New Paradigms in Education
Open Education

Main Focus New way of communicating, collaborating, and

exchanging information such that every student is able
to achieve his or her full potential
How it is different More open access to education for more students
from Traditional ,regardless of their institution,region etc
learning schemes
Reuse and sharing to reduce cost
and advantages

Implementation The vision from IBM for the future of education : The
Strategy/Example Smarter Classroom, which is a 21st century model for
s learning, removes the barriers of time and space for
students of all
New Paradigms in Education
Kaizen
Main Focus Continuous improvement in
teaching methodologies
How it is different from Kaizen is a way of life philosophy.
Traditional learning It assumes that every aspect of
schemes and our life deserves to be
advantages constantly improved

Implementation Total Quality Management, Quality

Strategy/Examples Circles, Small group activities
 New Paradigms in Education
E-Learning
Main Focus
How it is different from Traditional
learning schemes and advantages
Implementation Strategy/Examples
Alternative form of learning
 To extend the learning environment
beyond the four walls of class room
 E-learning provides a learning
experience to the learners via the internet
versus the traditional brick and mortar
learning
 E-learning provides opportunities
24/7/365 to learners
 Self paced learning
 The learning process will now takes
place without the constraints of space and
time
E-learning-2,Web-2
 New Paradigms in Education
Business Process Reengineering in Education
Main Focus  Radical redesign and drastic improvement of
educational processes.

How it is different from  Utilizes technology as change enabler and

Traditional learning schemes alternative learning opportunities are harnessed.
and advantages Recognizing and breaking away from the
outdated rules and fundamental assumptions

Implementation  Implementing Enterprise Resource Planning

Strategy/Examples
(ERP) System. An example can be People
Soft(SA).
 Reengineering the business processes involve
forgetting the traditional way of doing things and
open minded about the new functionalities the
ERP software offers
 New Paradigms in Education

Active Learning
Main Focus  Active learning puts the responsibility
of organizing what is to be learned in
the hands of the learner themselves.

How it is different from  It is the teacher’s job to promote

Traditional learning schemes active learning by moving away from
and advantages being content focused to student
focused

Implementation  Web-2
Strategy/Examples
 Business Process
Reengineering(BPR)
The Business Process Reengineering
 Fundamental reconsideration and the radical redesign of
organizational processes, in order to achieve drastic
improvement of current performance in cost, services and
speed
-Michael Hammer
 The objective of reengineering is to eliminate non- value-
adding activities and administrative barriers
 Reengineering the educational
Processes

The stimulus for re-engineering is the combination of four ongoing transitions in

society.  They are:

 Changing educational needs.

 Requirements for alternative learning opportunities.
 Extensive availability of digital technology for
educational materials development.
 The potential of enhancing human performance (both
learners [students] and learning facilitators [teachers])
 IT-The Change Enabler
 IT plays a major role in BPR success and it serves as a change lever.
 The innovations and advancement in Technology have enormous
potential
 The challenges and problems faced in Educational sector can be
considered as opportunities for redesigning and improving the
existing processes.
 IT offers unprecedented opportunities for introducing new ways of
learning.
 Some of the recent paradigms in Higher Education like Web based
Learning, E-Learning, ICT etc have enormous potential for educating
the masses at cheaper cost.
 They can supplement the traditional class room learning.
 Instruction vs Learning Paradigm
In recent times, the shift from Instruction centric approach to Learner
centric approach is advocated
Instruction Paradigm The Learning Paradigm
 Provide/deliver instruction  Produce learning
 Transfer knowledge from faculty  Elicit students discovery and

to students construction of knowledge

 Offer courses and programs  Create powerful learning
 Improve the quality of instruction environments
 Achieve access for diverse  Improve the quality of learning

students  Achieve success for diverse

students
 Active vs Passive Learning
 Active Learning promotes a better learning
environment through which the student uses prior
knowledge effectively and acquires new knowledge
easily.
 Active learning is learning by doing
 Such teaching is dynamic and the continual
revisions to teaching and delivery methods, visual
aids, demonstrations, etc. are endless. The students
have the opportunity to remember up to 50% the
content of each class session. 16
E-Learning Experiment and Results
 An e-learning system has been
designed and implemented at KCG College of
Technology,Chennai,India.
 The web based system has been used to augment the
learning experience of Computer Science and
Engineering students as an experimental basis.
 Data has been collected over a period of one year on
web usage on the basis of Visits,Visitors,Page Views etc.
 Interesting patterns are noticed after analysis of
statistical data generated.
 The following slides highlight the experimental results
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 Monthwise Visitor Statistics collected
for the year 2009
Dec May Jun Jan Feb Mar Apr 09 Jul Aug Sep Total
08 09 09 09 09 09 09 09 09
Visits 23 170 85 112 115 150 143 165 116 113 1192

sole 14 133 66 74 66 101 95 115 104 87 855

visitors

Page 70 615 416 573 509 777 664 804 522 419 5369
views

Avg. 3.04 3.62 4.89 5.12 4.43 5.18 4.64 4.87 4.5 3.76 4.51
Page
views
Avg. 2:2 3:46 3:53 6:35 5:26 6:41 4:04 8:47 4:04 3:15 5:15
Time 5
on site
(mm:

ss)
New 18
18
60.9 74.7 70.6 62.5 49.6 56.7 56.5 63.0 81.0 62.2 64.4 %
 Web Usaaaage Statistics

180
Monthwise Vistors to Web Site
160

140

120
Visits/Visitors

100

80

60

40

20

0
Jan-09 Feb-09 Mar-09 Apr-09 May-09 Jun-09 Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09 Dec-09
Month

Visits Visitors
Intrepretation of Experimental results based
on data collected regarding Web Usage
 From the data collected for One Year
Period, the highest number of 170 visits happened in May-
2009 by 133 visitors.
 The increase in demand for the web site could be attributed to
students appearing for the university examination conducted
during May-2009.
 It can be further noted that the number of visits has fallen
down to 85 with 65 visitors during the month of June-2009,
during which the students had vacation.
 The college reopened in July-2009 and again a spurt in visits
happened.
 We can come to the logical conclusion that there was a pattern
in web site usage that during examination time more number
of students had visited the web site and referred the course
material and instructions for various courses. 20
 Coursewise Web Usage Statistics
Coursewise Page Views

400

350
Page Views/Average Time on Site(Secs)

300

250

200

150

100

50

0
Fundamentals-of- Information Security Graphics and COMPUTER- System Software Artificial Intelligence
computing-First-Year- Lectures Multimedia HARDWARE Notes
Ist-Sem
Course Name

Pageviews Unique Pageviews Avg. Time on Page

 Future Work
A project will be under taken in future to
simulate the Re-engineering of the
educational processes and the outcome
will be measured to find out whether
drastic improvements have taken place in
speed, cost in the teaching and learning
process.
 Conclusion
 The problems and challenges faced by current Educational systems
suggest improving the teaching and learning process to suit current needs of
Industry and society.
 Re-engineering can be applied to educational systems by redesigning the
education processes which can produce dramatic improvement in the
Teaching and Learning Process.
 Re-engineering suggests using latest Technology as IT Levers which are
also called change enablers.
 Some of the paradigms discussed for improving the teaching and learning
process are BPR, Kaizen, and e-learning etc.
 Major change in educational systems would happen by moving from
Instruction Paradigm to Learning Paradigm.
 Experimental results on an alternate form of learning based on e-learning
paradigm was presented and discussed.
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