How revolutionizing Evaluation and Assessments help in Digital Age?
- Professional Skills
Education systems underwent a massive shock globally with the onset of the pandemic. The transformation had compelled a shift to the virtual modes completely – a change that both students and educational institutions were reluctant to make, with one of the major reasons being lack of a digital infrastructure in India. However, the pandemic has taken educational institutes a step closer towards becoming digitally advanced. Education, so far has been successful in adapting to the virtual modes, but the challenge of conducting assessments in the era of #SocialDistancing is still a roadblock for the academia. With all major high-stake exams getting disrupted this year, including CBSE, JEE, NEET etc, the need to have a credible online examination system has jumped into focus.
A blog by Amrita Basu and Ankit Singh on ‘Teaching, Learning and Assessments in the Digital Age’ published on NASSCOM Future Skills portal highlights that online learning and assessments need to be transformative enough to enable a student respond with agility towards the fast-changing technology and changes in the labour market. The blog takes into limelight the lives of students and job ready youth that will be scarred by the global health crisis forever, and thus suggests that the role of a virtual assessment then becomes to minimize the effects of this scar.
The blog discusses how virtual proctoring is a key concern area for the development of an online assessment model, and how moving the proctor online will make invigilation undergo a paradigm shift. It also offers some ready-to-adopt monitoring solutions based on multiple parameters like face-detection and web-cam monitoring powered by Machine-Learning and AI-Based Platforms.
It’s worth noting that adoption of virtual assessments by academia is no short of a digital revolution in a country like India. Indian Education System is one of the largest in the world with more than 1.5 million schools and over 260 million students enrolled in about 751 universities and 35,539 colleges. Further, after the US, India is ranked as the second-largest market for e-learning, currently valued at US$ 180 billion. This scenario poses both a challenge and an opportunity in the form of a digital transformation where virtual learning can be a game changer for millions of students.
A virtual model, in a country like India, can take education to the corners of the country and ensure continuous learning and development aligned with the 21st century skill requirements. Apart from the many benefits, a virtual learning model can help create a digital talent pool by leveraging India’s advantage of the demographic dividend and prepare the youth on skills of the future.
Our world is becoming technologically advanced with each passing minute, what it demands is an army of digital workforce that understands how to keep that pace moving. Digital fluency, then becomes one of the major aspects of not just an individual’s career, but life. The basics of IT skills and emerging technology becomes an essential learning stage for both IT and non-IT professionals to be able to drive and get driven by the technology that, in turn, sets the pace of our lives.
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