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CHANGING THE LEARNING PARADIGM RE/INNOVATION IN TODAY’S HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA

Author: 
Ms. Shilpa Joshi
Abstract: 

In the present scenario, technology is playing a vital role towards increasing the quality of higher education. Many educational institutions are adopting various methods with innovative ideas that will change and motivate the students to learn, communicate, and bridge the gap between education and practicality. Students learn effectively only when they have strong inner motivation to develop a new skill or acquire a particular type of knowledge. They are practical in their approach to learning and wish to learn how it would serve their current and future needs. Their goals and purposes for learning, their style and application of learning are unparalleled. Conditioning the young learners’ mind becomes a Herculean task for the simulators of knowledge as they have to facilitate the desire for learning and concurrently supplement the knowledge reservoir of the adults with new and innovative methods. Traditional ways of facilitating knowledge in the classrooms have already been contested and defeated where knowledge flow was unidirectional and the biggest boon in the system of higher education, as presently the lecture halls have been equipped with technological aids to provide a helping hand to the instructor whose intelligent approach and usage of the same brings out the potentials of the learner inviting participatory learning in lecture halls. In this hour of excellence, the twist in successful learning comes in when the interaction based learning is threatened by a lack. The lack is the gap that is brought in by technology. Paradoxically, technology has equipped everything within the four walls of the classroom but it has failed to equip the processes of imparting education. This being one o of the major concerns, the present paper attempts to observe the areas which can be improved for successful conveyance of knowledge in higher education. India being a country which had always revered the “guru-shishya” relationship and at the same time always inquisitive to magnify the process of education, it cannot be denied that the country lacks in its equipment but where lies the lacuna that the system of higher education is still incompetent when it comes to practicality. Gone are the good old days of learning under the tree-sheds and following the blackboard instructions. In an era where the internet has glued the young minds to itself there are n-number of scopes that can be considered to improve and stimulate the process of learning. Examples of online, blended and hybrid learning have taken a grip of the tender minds have honed much of their curiosity. Students spend much of their free time on the Internet, in learning and exchanging new information. Renovation as well as innovations in the field of academics must both be theoretically and practically oriented. The perception of the students, their growing expertise in each subject should be the criteria for constructing such pedagogies & andragogies.. Breaking the barriers of hindrances in teachers/students, would motivate them to be more confident of the practical situations. A student should be trained for fluent and unperturbed oral communication, compassionate teamwork spirit and a challenging leader at the end of the day.

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