Today Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are subjects that
never cease to amaze us with their scope in our daily life, basically everything
that surrounds us is susceptible to the study of these areas.
In this digital procedure, education plays a fundamental role, not only because it allows students to acquire the necessary skills to
function in this society focused on technological knowledge, but because of it
provides tools to Higher Education institutions to improve the quality of life
of the whole community.
Technology is being integrated into processes that range
from academic planning and evaluation to student follow-up, and provides a
series of benefits that help improve efficiency and productivity. Here we tell
you what they are:
6 Benefits of
technology in education:
Collaboration :
Classroom management is no longer just the task of the
teacher, new technological platforms for Higher Education integrate all
stakeholders to improve the learning experience; Administrators can monitor if
class objectives are met, and students can share their concerns and track them
grades.
Optimization of time:
The systematization of academic planning through a software helps to a better distribution of the available infrastructure
(considering the time of displacement of students and teachers), to a teaching
assignment according to the time availability and decreases the planning time.
Flexibility and
continuous improvement :
There are already platforms that assist the institutions in
the management of the information of the exit profile, curricular meshes of
curricula, programs, and syllabus of the courses, facilitating the handling for
the accreditation processes and ensuring the coherence with the objectives
declared in the exit profile.
Greater communication
and management of teachers:
The implementation of software covers a follow-up not only
of the actions of the teachers in relation to the classes, but also in other
aspects such as research, academic management and the improvement of personal
competences. With this, the universities can monitor the work and align it with
their strategic plans.
Costs reduction:
The use of new technologies in education allows for the
reduction of costs. Graphics Significant is not necessary, and everything can be
done through a program.
Enriched data :
Before the digital transformation of Higher Education,
departments made decisions based on their experience; today the public is
diverse and that character becomes an advantage to achieve student success
. Software that uses machine learning can identify early the risk of dropping
out and support students to reach their goal.
The data is facilitating the management of educational
facilities, according to a report from Huddersfield University, who has
already implemented an analytical reading system, "have been able to
increase retention by providing a personalized service that has allowed to
reach a dropout rate under 10%".
In the not too distant future, it is possible that, thanks
to the implementation of a data reading service, a completely customized
attention and assistance service can be delivered, oriented to the needs of
each member of the community.
Integrating
information technologies in education
It is one thing to know the importance of ICT. Another is to
be able to implement your application. Unesco itself has prepared a framework
program on information technologies, with the level of skills that teachers
need to integrate ICT into their professional practices.
This integrates not only the knowledge of the technologies
for the classroom and the planning of the courses, but tools to improve the
capacities of organization and management of both the class and
Collaborative groups. The project ends with the integration of technologies in
educational institutions as a whole.
Thus, it will be increasingly necessary that teachers have
the ability to create networking environments for students to save, share and
collaboratively develop their work, and learn to use technologies
with flexible teaching-centered teaching strategies centered on the student.
This requires leadership. Teachers must be transformed for
the process of continuous teaching and support, and educational institutions
must develop a correct vision of their establishments as a community, based on
innovation and continuous learning, which is enriched by information
technologies.
conclusion
How do institutions of Higher Education adapt to the
changing reality of society, actively contributing changes from the training of
the best professionals?
It is about acting as an institution that learns and
advances and new technologies have made available the tools that provide
multiple benefits to make the leap from being an outdated institution to
achieve high performance and continuous improvement.
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