The document discusses innovations needed in the Indian education system. It notes that the current system produces only 25% of employable graduates, whereas Western countries produce 96% employable graduates. The key difference is that Western education fosters out-of-the-box thinking and entrepreneurship. Indian education lacks self-learning, encourages memorizing over learning, and rewards conformity over creativity. There is a need to shift to a skills-based learning approach that emphasizes learning over teaching and uses technology to make learning engaging and student-centered.
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Innovations in Education
Dr. R.Sunderaraj
Assistant Professor of Commerce
ANJAC, Sivakasi
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2. In this session we shall discuss about
Skills acquiring approach
- need of the hour
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5. NASSCO
M says
Colleges produce only 25% of Employable
graduates (10% in Tamil Nadu), 96% in
western countries
Unskilled people increase production cost by
20 50 %
Unskilled students takes jobs by chance not by
desire.
60% recruits are fresher 5
6. The key element here is that the education
system in the West fosters
"out of the box thinking".
For example, it strongly encourages
entrepreneurship.
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What we lack..?
Self learning
South Asians are weakness centered
Deviance is discouraged.
Risk taking is mocked.
Students here now routinely score 90 per
cent marks
Memorising is no learning
8. We may have the most number of
engineering graduates in the
world, but that certainly has not
translated into much
technological innovation here.
Rather, we are busy running the
call centres of the rest of the world
that is where our engineering
skills end. 8
11. I hear and I forget.
I see and I believe.
I do and I understand.
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12. They are not students of our
generation, where they sit down
and listen. Things have changed
now; they want to explore.
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13. Use of Technology
-How does this help?
Allows students more control of their own
learning
Allows teachers to guide more, teach less
Allows student to build up knowledge, and
become part of the teaching process
Can provide some really engaging learning
experiences
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14. "brain drainbrain drain"
In the past decade alone, there has been a
256 per cent increase in the number of
students studying abroad. The number
now stands at 200,000 annually, cost
India $17 billion annually in lost revenue.14