Trends and issues in education

CURRENT TRENDES AND ISSUES
IN EDUCATION
PRESENTED BY:
Soumya Ranjan Parida
M.SC NURSING
1ST YEAR
SNC, BBSR

DEFINITIONS
 Mahatma Gandhi – “By education I mean an all-
round drawing out of the best in man – body, mind
and spirit.”

TREND
The word justifies about the tendency of a system. With
several educational options available to students today,
newer trends are emerging in this field which has
completely changed the traditional held perceptions about
education in India. Several career options that were earlier
not considered to be traditional have emerged as the most
sought after education and career options. Various career
options in like radio jockeying, radio management, news
anchoring, program anchoring, news reading and
reporting for the electronic media, content writing, fashion
designing, event management, hospital management,
medical transcription etc, have opened up several newer
avenues for education.

CURRENT TRENDS IN EDUCATION
 For over a century, education has remained largely
unchanged. Classroom full of students deferring to the
wisdom of an all-knowing professor has is and many
believe, will continue to be the accepted mode of
instruction. Despite many technological advances and
the introduction of new pedagogical concepts, the
majority of today's classrooms continue to utilize this
traditional mode.

 The world is changing -- it is getting both smaller and
bigger at the same time. Our world shrinks as technologies
now allow us to communicate both synchronously and
asynchronously with peers around the world. Conversely,
the explosion of information now available to us expands
our view of the world. As a result of the ability to
communicate globally and the information explosion,
education must change. Most educators might not want to
change, but the change is coming – it is a matter of when
not if. The challenge is to prepare the children of today for
a world that has yet to be created, for jobs yet to be
invented, and for technologies yet undreamed

 The current teaching paradigm of the teacher as the
possessor and transferor of information is shifting to a
new paradigm of the teacher as a facilitator or coach.
This new teacher will provide contextual learning
environments that engage students in collaborative
activities that will require communications and access
to information that only technology can provide. The
computer and the internet's evolution these past few
years have been staggeringly fast. A computer that
used to fill an entire building in 1965 has about the
same computing power as a modern-day cellphone

Students Teaching Teachers
 Students perform better when they have the
opportunity to tell their teachers what things in the
classroom needs improvement. Contrary to the old
belief that students are too young to know what they
need. Education systems now give the students the
opportunity to give pointers to their teachers on how
they can better deliver their lessons so that the
students can understand.

 It was also found that giving the students the chance in
contributing and even revising the classroom rules
actually make the students abide to them; it gives
them the feeling that they actually have a say on what
goes in the classroom. Students tend to follow the class
rules now since they had a role in making the rules and
regulations.

Paying Close Attention to Each
Students' Needs
 Educators are not looking at their class as a collective;
they see them as different individuals with different
needs, which is why some students lag behind the
others when it comes to the lectures. Educators can
help these students keep up by giving them
personalized attention.
 These are just some of the recent trends in the K-12
education system. These are promising signs that show
the educational system in the country is improving
and no longer stagnant

Virtual or online learning
 48 states and the District of Columbia currently
support online learning opportunities that range from
supplementing classroom instruction on an occasional
basis to enrolling students in full-time programs.
These opportunities include dual enrolment, credit
recovery, and summer school programs, and can make
courses such as Advanced Placement and honours, or
remediation classes available to students.

 Both core subjects and electives can be taken online,
many supported by online learning materials. While
some online schools or programs are home-grown,
many others contract with private providers or other
states to provide online learning opportunities.

Full-time online schools:
 The following online or virtual schools enrol students
on a full-time basis. Students enrolled in these schools
are not attending a bricks and mortar school; instead
they receive all of their instruction and earn all of their
credits through the online school.


Blended learning:
 Blended learning opportunities incorporate both face-
to-face and online learning opportunities. The degree
to which online learning takes place, and the way it is
integrated into the curriculum, can vary across
schools. The strategy of blending online learning with
school-based instruction is often utilized to
accommodate students’ diverse learning styles and to
enable them to work before or after school in ways that
are not possible with full-time conventional classroom
instruction.

 . Online learning has the potential to improve
educational productivity by accelerating the rate of
learning, taking advantage of learning time outside of
school hours, reducing the cost of instructional
materials, and better utilizing teacher time. These
strategies can be particularly useful in rural areas
where blended or online learning can help teachers
and students in remote areas overcome distance.

Open educational resources:
 Open educational resources are teaching, learning,
and research resources that reside in the public
domain and are freely available to anyone over the
Web. They are an important element of an
infrastructure for learning and range from podcasts to
digital libraries to textbooks and games. It is critical to
ensure that open educational resources meet
standards of quality, integrity, and accuracy—as with
any other educational resource—and that they are
accessible to students with disabilities

Use digital resources well:
 Schools can use digital resources in a variety of ways
to support teaching and learning. Electronic grade
books, digital portfolios, learning games, and real-time
feedback on teacher and student performance, are a
few ways that technology can be utilized to power
learning.

Recent trends and developments
in education
 It highlights the vital and salient role of education in
effectively meeting the growing political and socio-
economic challenges in the society. With the fast
developments and many variations, conflicting trends
can be noticed in the educational system in India

 One of the major conflicting trends that can be
noticed is the cost of education. As the expense of
formal education in the educational institutes is
increasing very fast, the expense of education via the
internet is comparatively low and affordable. Students
can have an easy and cheap access to Internet with the
help of cyber cafes and the various other cheap
internet home connection schemes available these
days. Students here also get the scope to download
many e-books, free of cost.

 Another differing trend can be traced in
the methodology of education. With lots of
information to gather and more and more books to
study, now students are found more burdened with
studying, learning and grasping the materials and the
lectures. On a contrasting note however, so much
efforts are being put into making the learning process
an enjoyable one

 Yet another conflicting tendency can be found in
the results. Roughly in every part of the country a
problem that has been raised is that the type of
education followed by the educational system in
India does not always result in offering jobs to the
graduates. Our education system does not provide the
students with any assurance that they will get a job on
completion of their educational degree. However, jobs
are definitely being generated by the medium of
internet. Writing articles, web designing,
programming, writing reviews etc are among the many
job opportunities offered by the internet.

 The education sector in India has received
significant attention from different quarters like the
investors, policymakers and media. It is filled with
passion and all the enthusiasm on one hand and many
anxieties on the other.

Internationalization of the
Education Process
 Stress on Quality above Quantity
 Increase in the Adoption of Technologies
 Increase in the Need for Professional Talent

Issues In Nursing Education
 Students
 Teachers
 Education environment
 Political environment
 Controlling bodies
 Health care problems
 Health care industry
 Environment
 Globalization
 Modern technology
 Research

NATIONAL POLICY ON EDUCATION
 National policy on education (NPE) is a policy
formulated by the Government of India to promote
education amongst India’s people. The policy covers
elementary education
 to colleges in both rural and urban India. The first NPE
was promulgated in 1968 by the former Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi and the second by Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi in 1986.

 Three Language Formula
 The New Education Policy
 Modified National Education Policy
 The 1968 Education Policy and After
 The Essence And Role Of Education
 Education For Equality
 Education For Women’s Equality.
 The Education Of Scheduled Castes

 The Handicapped
 Adult Education
 Reorganization Of Education At Different Stages Early
Childhood Care And Education (ECCE)
 Elementary Education:
 Child Centered Approach
 School Facilities
 Normal Education
 Secondary Educations

 Pace Settings School
 Vocationalization
 Higher Education
 Open University And Distance Learning
 Rural University.
 Innovation, Research And Development
 Value Education

 Books And Libraries.
 Media And Educational Technology
 Education And Environment
 Science Education
 Sports And Physical Education.
 The Role Of Youth
 The Evaluation Process And Examination Reform
 Teacher Education
 Indian Education Service

 National level.
 State Level
 District And Local Level
 Voluntary Agencies And Aided Institutions
 Educational Commissions

Conclusions:
 Trends in education changes principally through the
advancement and application of knowledge.Changing in
trends education is necessary for the creation, diffusion
and application of knowledge, and for building technical
and professional capacity.Issues helps in Development
countries being further marginalized in a highly
competitive world economy because of the poor quality of
their education systems.The nation has a responsibility to
put in place a framework for the education institutions to
be more innovative and responsive to the needs of a
globally competitive knowledge economy, and the
changing labour market requirements for advanced human
capital

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