The rapid adoption of technology has hit the Education Industry as well. One can find multiple technologies are adopted to replace the monotonous and time consuming tasks in academic sector. Schools, colleges and universities are fast in adopting the recent trends, in imparting education. Looking at the current scenario, one can find that the private institutions are fast adopting latest technologies in education segment. The government universities are not lagging behind, and in fact the premium government institutions are the early adopters of technology.

Let’s have a glimpse over the opportunity sector in the India’s Education Market. The market is huge with around 700 universities, and more than 35,000 affiliated colleges enrolling more than 20 million students. Below is the graph, which gives the break-up for Institutions in India.

BITS group of institutions has upgraded the technology in all its 4 campuses in Pilani, Goa, Hyderabad and Dubai. Sri Chaitanya Schools in collaboration with Microsoft is working on the digital classrooms program. Sri Chaitanya Schools recently announced adopting Microsoft India’s Edu-Cloud infrastructure and sourced around14,000 Windows-based tablets for their students and teachers of Class 3, 4 and 5 in 80 schools to connect, collaborate, create, and share content. The objective was to make teaching and learning more engaging and fun. This is associated with the trend among the educational institutions to make every possible effort to improve the overall performance of students. Technology is found to be one among the top solutions for the same. This results in increased adoption of technology in education sector. This will further result in a plethora of tools for increased school management, student management and learning management in the coming days.

Considering this opportunity major providers are widening their activities in the educational sector. Cisco provides remote learning services to schools for a monthly fee. Intel, which runs a teacher training programme in villages has an education product that is sold for a price.

In addition there are lot of small companies work in this market. The entire effort will be to increase the collaboration among teachers, students, college authorities and parents. This helps all stake holders to have access over the exam scores, performance and thus influence in improving class participation, tracking assignments, attendance and more. Through these efforts, students who need special attention can be easily identified, and performance of teachers will become measurable as well which ultimately beneficial for students, institutions, and policy makers. Now, need a constant watch of the developments to assess this industry in the coming days.

This Blog is written by Lekha Gyanchandan. You can reach her lekha@dartconsulting.co.in