1. Why become an Edupreneur
now?
Problems and Opportunities
2. The challenges:
• The challenge of numbers (increasing the Gross
Enrolment Ratio)
• The challenge of Quality (providing a high quality
learning experience, at reasonable costs)
• The Challenge of employability (graduating
students to play a leadership role in the emerging
Knowledge Economy )
• The challenge of access (close to the doorstep of
the residence or the desktop at the workplace)
3. But the most important of it all……..
• The challenge of the mind-set
4. Acknowledging de Bono:
• Imagine a ship at sea that is in trouble. The
lights keep going out. The engine is faltering.
The rudder is unreliable. The first mate is
drunk. The crew is very demoralised. The
service is appalling. The passengers on the
ship are very dissatisfied.
5. Then a new captain and first mate
are flown in by helicopter
• Everything changes.
• Crew morale is lifted
• Service improves
• The engine is fixed
• The rudder is fixed
• The lights stay on
• Everything seems fine.
7. What does it mean in the context of our
education system?
• We have to change direction from a system that
provides access to quality education to a very small
fraction(<10%) to creating a high quality education
system that is accessible to almost 100% of the
aspirants in the target age group.
• We also have to provide for up-gradation against
obsolescence through life-long learning
8. Traditional model of education
• Admit a few naturally occurring good learners
• Recruit some naturally occurring good faculty
• Put them in a nice campus, and good learning
would happen
• It does happen…….BUT
9. Limitations of the traditional model
• It is not replicable
• It is not scalable
• It is often not sustainable
10. The skills of a lifetime become
obsolete in an instant
• New skill sets wanted; upgrading existing skills
• Fall in demand of old skill sets
• Life time of particular skill sets decreasing
• Learning how to learn becomes critical
11. Generic skills needed in tomorrow’s
world
• ICT fluency and Communication skills both
face to face and remote
• Adaptive and flexible personality
• Creativity and Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Learnability across disciplines
• Proven mathematical abilities
12. The Frog Story
• The frog is sitting on a log, watching flies, in
the middle of Amazon rain forest
• He is similar to all other of its kind…
• … except by a genetic fluke, he perceives his
surrounds as they were a second ago
13. The Frog Story
• So what happens?
• When the frog sees a fly, within range he lunges
out …
• … but due to his out of date information … he
misses
• Eventually, weakened by a rarely satiated
hunger, the frog dies
• The others which use most recent data survive
14. Reverse innovation in educational
businesses
• It is expected that Indian Educational Ventures
will set an example to the world and will
provide unprecedented growth opportunities.
• This will be faster than any other sector has
ever seen.
15. A picture 10 years hence
• In the past, you had to be born at the right
latitude, longitude and time to be fortunate
enough to access a quality education
• Education in future could include all,
irrespective of the above factors
• Providers and seekers of knowledge are all
connected through an ‘educational grid’.
16. About Fast Cars: Time taken for 0 to
100 kmph
• Bugatti Veyron 2.2 seconds
• Ultima GTR 2.6 seconds
• Porsche 911 Turbo S 2.9 seconds
• Ferrari 430 3.1 seconds
• Porsche Panamera 3.3 seconds
• Lomborgini Gallardo 3.4 seconds
• Mercedez Benz SLR 3.8 seconds
• Mercedez Benz CLK 3.9 seconds
17. Compare with free Fall:
• For comparison, an object in free fall (without
any air resistance) has an acceleration time
from 0–100 km/h of 2.83 seconds
• Apply the formula v=u+g.t
• T= 100x1000/(3600x9.8) seconds= 2.83
seconds
18. ECIP: Enhancing Creativity and
Potential
• The UK has initiated a project to define an
Innovation index for the country
• Research shows that GDP’s are positively
correlated to R&D and Innovation
• Similar concepts and ideas can be applied to
individual innovation and creativity
• Cycles of creative thinking and critical thinking
to solve new problems
19. AORTA:
• Assessment of Replacability by Technological
Advances
• Software is becoming more intelligent (Digital
Socrates)
• Wolfram Alpha Search Engine
• Robots are getting better (Saya)
• Gathering insights from large amounts of data
(periodic table; double helix)
20. Moving away from a uni-dimensional
approach
• We may look at this as a double strand: one of
the traditional academic knowledge in
language, science maths etc. updated as per
present, and the other of a set of generic skills
such as learning to learn, unlearn and re-
learn, together with yearning to learn and a
range of information skills in addition to ICT
fluency.
21. Drawing from the double helix
model:
• One strand is the academic
knowledge/information in
language, science, maths..
• The other strand is generic
skills of learning to learn,
learning to think, enhancing
learner motivation….
• There are links at several levels
between the two strands
22. Rapid growth of information
• In the 1930’s the world-wide information
quantity doubled in 70 years
• In the 1970’s this became 30 years
• It is projected that by 2015 this doubling
would happen every 11 hours
• Every morning you could wake up obsolete
23. Moving from a mere lecture to the creation
of a learning event
• It is not enough that a lecture was taken
• What about the learning transactions?
• Did learning take place?
• Did an interest in learning take place?
• Did the learner learn how to learn?
• Did the learner learn how to think?
• Can the learner find meaning in large amounts
of data?
24. To be leaders in the knowledge
economy…
• Teachers will play the central role.. following
the earlier success of the shopkeepers,
traders, contractors, lawyers…
• We need to be owners and creators of
knowledge products not a passive market
• Needs creativity, innovation on a continuous
basis and not conformity and repetition
25. Emergence of the Independent Educator
• Doctors, Engineers, Architects, CA’s , lawyers
can all work either within Government,
corporate or independently
• Qualified educationists would work
independently ... as Teachers, quality
assessors, curriculum designers, advisors,
creators of IP…
26. A teacher vs. a mere expert
• An expert can do it;
• A teacher can do it but also knows what it
takes to progress from novice to expert
• Those who can do, do.
• Those who understand, teach.
27. New skills for good teaching…
• Traditional face to face teachers need to be
trained in using ICT to enhance their learning
experience and to be able to deliver remotely
as well
• Webagogy is evolving and developing and
needs to be adopted to become a successful
21st century professor
28. A list of almost 50 business ideas in
education: You can add many more
• Traditional Brick and mortar Institutions
• Technologically empowered Systems
• Learner Centric Systems
• Personalizing the Learning Experience
• Disruptive and Transformational Systems
• Blue Ocean Strategies
• Edutainment
• Parent Education
• Teacher Training
• Technician Training
29. Traditional Brick and Mortar
Institutions: (7)
• Pre-School(s) School for inclusive education (
visually disabled and sighted).
• International School.
• A high quality private university.
• High Quality Tertiary Institute for Liberal
Education.
• An MBA Institute.
• An Educational Mall
• A large ( 1000 acres) integrated Education City
30. Technologically Empowered Systems:
• Online variants of all the earlier systems (7)
• Special mention of Educational Grid
• Educational Back-Office Services
• de-materialized degrees and certificates
• e-pen type technology for assessment
• Handheld Learning
• Learning with Social Media
31. Learner Centric Systems
• Language Learning Gyms: English and other
languages.
• Chain of Maths Learning Centres
• L2L Centres: Awakening the Learner within
• Knowledge Studio: Nano-learning content;
Long Tail.
32. Personalizing the Learning Experience:
• Managerial Skills Self Taught (MBA
unbundled): Hindi and other regional
languages.
• International Qualifications : Self-acquired.
• Teaching to a class of one: Joel Kline
• Custom-built one point learning satchets
• Creativity and Innovation Spas
33. Disruptive and Transformational
Solutions:
• Dashboards for monitoring learning for
Teachers, Students and Parents.
• Using ringtones and caller tunes for
reinforcing learning
• Network of Independent Educators (
organised as MLM ???)
• Learning Communities and Professor 2.0;
Teacher 2.0
34. Blue Ocean Strategies:
• Development of Learning metrics/instruments
for their measurement
• Educational Diagnostics/ Learning Metrics.
• Learning Analytics.
• Education for Behavioural Change
35. Learning Metrics
Traditional Transformational ( new)
• Learner side: Marks, • Learner Kinetics: rates of
Grades, hours of learning learning, personalisation
• Teaching side: Syllabus, • Choice in courses, variety of
number of exam papers, assessment methods,
hours of teaching interactivity
• Institutional: Accreditation, • Educational Analytics:
Rankings, Grievance
Redressals
36. Edutainment
• Magazine dedicated to Education…on the lines
of Wired
• Reality Show on education ( Maths and
English): TV and new media.
• Games based learning systems: The epistemic
value of games
37. Parental Education:
• Pre-natal, neo-natal and pre-school learning.
• Parental Education: Dealing with the
educational concerns of their children
• Centre for Financial Literacy
38. Teacher Training
• ICEQUALM: International Centre for
Educational Quality Leadership and
Management.
• Annual educational events for Continuous
Professional Development: about 3 to 4 every
year.
• The Learning Observatory.
39. Technician Training
• Training a million technicians in the skills for
tomorrow.
• Special Programs in English for Digital
Participation
• The second Strand