Author: Lalith Kumar Vemali

A Product Management professional, with an overall experience of 19+ Years in strategic business domains, Product vision, Product strategy, Roadmap, Innovation, Data Analytics, Market Insights (Research), and trending technologies in the IT industry known for delivering innovative products. Passionate about understanding customer needs and delivering solutions that address them. Adept at growing and scaling product organizations. Excels at product strategy, building strong relationships with engineering teams, and market analysis. Focus areas include Product Management, Product Vision, Strategy, and Roadmap, Innovation, Customer Experience, Strategic partnerships, and Growth Planning. Competence – Problem-Solving, Innovation enthusiast, Thought Leader, Leading cross-functional teams, Strong communication skills, and Fast learner. I am a digital evangelist, designing trending technology solutions through innovation and design thinking techniques following Agile processes for third-generation clients. Diligent Product Manager offering industry success, including Product vision & roadmap development, market research, and data analysis, executing the go-to-market plan. Highly skilled in identifying opportunities to maximize revenue. Help translate market requirements into product requirements that will be used by Technical teams, Engineering teams to develop the product. Well-experienced in requirement analysis to system study, design, testing, documentation, and implementation. Excellent analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills with demonstrated abilities in customer relationship management, sales support, training, and documentation. Worked on technology adoption in the education sector with a special focus on the K-12 segment, developing Sustainable Business Models that could enable Rural development using Technology. Worked with Vision India Foundation as part of Policy Boot Camp on Public Policy & Leadership in association with Indian School of Business – Drafted Education Policy for AP Govt, Railway reform policy during 2015 for Central Govt of India. I am likely to seek novelty and excitement in work and avoid too much structure. I'm most energized by innovation, social energy, and peer recognition.

Future – ICT in Education sector

Knowledge, Networking, ICT, Education, Socializing, Society

Use of ICT in the education sector, though recent, has picked up fast.

Computer has bought the revolution in the field of education exploring and expanding towards new extremes. Thanks to Social Networking which added pepper to give it a perfect blend. Previously cable television was the medium for expanding the education, coaching classes set up dedicated channels for distance learning. Then VSAT technology extended this to remote regions. Now it is digital television with service providers beaming educational programs for school children into homes and schools. That’s where ICT comes into picture.

We have been witnessing lots of radical changes and fast paced growth in education sector all over the world supported by factors like:

Digital / Technological Revolution
Social Networking
Telecom Coverage
Hardware Penetration (Laptops, PC etc)

So far we haven’t used much of these Upto satisfactory levels! Infact if we question ourselves, is education reaching all?

It had just begun; we started identifying Information Communication Technology as a medium. Using of technology for delivering has started in most of the developing countries, this would be a good sign, as in developed countries opportunities for education are little ahead.

Availability of prospective and transformative education system is considered to be a crucial factor for the development of human resources for any country, ensuring that fruits of economic growth reach the masses and the development is sustained. The thrust of global economies to emerge as the knowledge economy has also reinforced education as the key economic and business driver.

Here I would like to give you a glimpse of Education how it got transformed into present state.

Traditional refers to pre-industrial and post-agricultural society that was based on linear, task-oriented relationships. The role of the corresponding regime was to create followers of the traditional family based systematic processes.

Education 1.0 refers to post-industrial society that is been driven by glocal and the little impact of Computers. In this paradigm, technology has been entered in the last stages and it has been used as a medium in developed nations for delivering purpose.

Education 2.0 refers to present technological/digital society driven by globalizing thought process and a collaborative approach with ICT as medium of tool in building and transforming the education system. Thanks to social networking, information is no longer as important as the knowledge that’s created as we interpret information and create meaning. Increasingly, people are becoming more valued for their personal knowledge rather than their ability to perform tasks. Moreover, rapidly evolving information and communications technologies allow us to socially construct knowledge in new ways (i.e., social networking tools). The role of Education 2.0 is to develop our talents to compete in a global market with new social relationships, and where we are able to leverage our knowledge.

Education 3.0 refers to the emerging innovation based knowledge society which is not quite here, yet. This is a society that is driven by accelerating change, universalized relationships, and fueled by knowledge networking. In an era of accelerating change, the amount of information available doubles at an increasing rate, and the half-life of useful knowledge decreases exponentially. This requires innovative thinking and action by all members of society. Social Learning takes over Social Networking.

Challenges

Those thinking about tapping the opportunities in the education sector should also take note of the typical challenges. It’s not as simple as installing a PC and running a CBT (Computer Based Training) package. “There are many challenges when setting up projects at each level. One challenge is the consistency in the way teaching is done. The second challenge is that, small schools & colleges with limited staff. The teacher plays multiple roles—as a teacher, administrator, principal and one who is highly respected at the local community level. So the challenge lies in consistency in the delivery of education and also in evaluation. In that context digital technology gives you the ability to bring about a standard in the delivery of education.” Language and contextualization is one of the bigger challenges. “The teachers and students should be able to relate to the content, rather than just mug it up.”

ICT can certainly help in disseminating educational content, and facilitate remote learning. It can overcome challenges like teacher shortage and student dropout—and bridge the digital divide.

Gurukul Education Vs School

Human brain tends to change and synchronizes itself according to circumstances. I have seen this when iam exploring myself at “Kala Ashram”. A place where i met many intellectuals with different thoughts and ideologies along with different set of religions, age group etc. People meet here to learn, engage and share. Guruji shares his experiences in the past, how system used to be and how it used to work etc. Learning comes when we have something in our brain which is eating to explore.

Here i have seen a different world which may be a replica of once upon a time in India. The system is set in such a way, one who visits will feel like he is in some Gurukul.

I don’t know whether we do have similar places any where in India, but in a life time i have experienced it. We shared various views related to the Systems that used to be existed in India, different types of rulings, starting from colonial rule to present system. One realizes what we used to be and what we have lost in life due to modernization and liberalization of course even though it bought development, but still it exploited the culture and customs prevailing according to our Indian System or ecology. So many customs, culture are getting extinct due to present day chaos. Can we get rid of this ? Can we safe guard ourselves ? Can we identify solution ?

Since few days i was reading in many news papers, magazines and Internet articles about Indian Education opened new vistas by allowing foreign universities to set up their campuses within India. I was in a dilemma are we lost some where ?

The concept of School came in the minds of British only after seeing the Gurukul System in India, It is our Vedas gave solutions and thought process for scientific innovation and development, and today we are in a state of extinct.

I accept that foreign universities like Harvard’s, MIT, Yale, CMU etc had lot of intellectual capital and research base, but in my opinion these universities should have collaboration campuses with Universities and affiliated or extension campuses with private colleges. This would bring exchange of knowledge and even development of the Education considering world as global village.

Here i would like to add some information with regards to the various educations systems that used to exist in Indian system, we used to have Pottery, Painting, Clay toys, Bamboo toys, music etc. these are not treated as a course list in any education institute ( Music & Dance is exceptional). These used to be learnt by the traditional family persons and those were exploited in Industrial revolution, now we could not even see a person who knew those. Pre-British our education system was totally different, infact Britishers could break the Indian jinx and could rule us for 150 years only after disturbing our Indian Education system.

I would share few snaps with regards to “Kala Ashram” where i could see some Gurukul is still prevailing in India.

In search of . . .

World is a global village, but have seen different culture,systems, ecosystems in each and every place. Few are failures and few are success in each and every aspect, A question araises in my mind saying, why do these differ ? why do they change ? Another one is Do human brain changes and behaves differently when we change place, system, region, culture etc?

Iam in search of this hidden secret which brings new paradigms in Education development.

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