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How digitalization has affected the education sector

Gone are those days when education was limited to Classroom and physical space where teachers were needed because today’s 21st century “power of technology” can never be denied, the internet and big data has played a crucial role in the digitalization of educational sector. Right from k-12 schooling to higher education programs, every level of our education system is affected by digitalization as with increased connectivity, speed and cloud based storage capabilities, schools and colleges have an enhanced communication network that has made ways for improved knowledge sharing. Digital portfolios are becoming quite a rage among school students and in higher education institution most of them provide students with digitalized learning materials managed through online learning management systems. And cherry on the top some universities are also experimenting with virtual learning spaces and have providing free online learning material, E-learning apps. And smart schools consisting basic computer system available and smart tools including smart board, visual audio education. And new initiative of Massive Open Online Courses or MOOC are courses available online that integrate learning materials of different mediums like videos, texts, infographics and so on into a package. Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs are courses available online that integrate learning materials of different mediums like videos, texts, infographics and so on into a package. They encourage consuming this information with the online student community via social networks. This has democratized the way of learning and instruction, especially in higher education programs and now you can get trained at your own pace from any location of your choice.

How goverment sector is affected due to digitalization

A democratic country with 1.32 billion people, where goverment paly a key role has truly transformed through the power of digital technologies by digitizing processes and making organizational changes,  government  enhancing services, saving money and improving quality of life of citizens. Digitizing a goverment requires attention to two major consideration: the core capabilities for engaging citizens and businesses, and the organizational enablers that support those capabilities. The core capabilities of digital goverment typically includes digitalization efforts on four direction i.e. services, processes, decision and data sharing. Significantly, the life of people in a country will be changed if the “ Digital India” programme launched by PM Modi in 2015 progressively be worked upon till the time things can be achieved as per the plan. Glimpse of the plan include the facilities such as: (a)No more submitting documents as ideology is that people would be able to store all government issued documents in Digi locker and then will be able to share these document with government departments whenever required. (b) No more queuing to submit driving licence application as idea is ability of people at large to submit application online it will be signed digitally and payment through e-pay services. (c) Modern post office where basically, in addition to packages emails through connected computers can be transfered.

Inspite of all, one thing is left out without which  all these will remain a myth, is accessibility of internet and hotspots everywhere, which has been decided to work upon by BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited) by setting up internet accessibility across the country so, that above all mentioned things can be fulfilled with tentatively decided arrangement of 53 to 250 BSNL locations But result is overwhelming and happy to know that promises were kept and currently there are 6409 hotspot location where total hotspots are 16121 in number. So, coming years of country can be seen in the glory and developed nation.