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Digital Transformation in Education

Digital transformation in education does not only mean improving students’ experience; it also focuses on enhancing campus environment, teaching and learning methods

Post by on Friday, August 6, 2021

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Digital transformation means enhancing an organization’s core business operations to meet customer requirements efficiently by leveraging data and technology. In the education industry, the target customer can be student, faculty, staff and alumni and digitizing the education sector can benefit both students and faculty. 
 
Digital Transformation aimed at enhancing the student experience might include:
Allowing students to register for admission via mobile app or web app.
Providing a wide array of online learning options.
Using technology to track student progress and run intervention protocols.
Allowing faculties to organize online classes. 
 
Main areas of Digital Transformation in Education
Digital transformation in education does not only mean improving students’ experience; it also focuses on enhancing campus environment, teaching and learning methods. Therefore, we have classified the digital transformation in education sector into three categories:
Transformation in campus environment.
Transformation in Learning Methods.
Transformation in Teaching Methods.
 
Digital Transformation in Campus Environment
Though Denmark eased its lockdown on April 14th and reopened schools and daycare centers, parents have a concern that they might become grounds for a second wave of COVID-19 cases due to which they are not sending their children to schools. Parents can overcome the fear of not sending children to schools if there are some strategies in place that ensure educational institutes are safe for children and do not have a risk of infection. Technology can help determine whether students should start going to school or university.
 
Technologies and applications that can help transform the environment at school/university premises are:
 
Thermal Screening at Entry
Authorities at schools can use thermal imaging equipment to detect if a student’s or teacher’s body temperature is normal or above the normal range. In case, the body temperature is found to be high; authorities should not allow that student or teacher to enter the school and suggest them to visit a doctor for the treatment. The essential data of students and teachers captured by thermal equipment can be sent to the cloud using which educational institutes can identify if that person came in contact with anyone at the campus and trace all contacts to contain the spread of the virus.
 
Contactless Attendance
Schools/Universities need to replace the biometric attendance systems with contactless attendance to avoid the risk of the spread of the virus. In the biometric attendance system, many people successively touch the attendance system that poses a risk. Therefore, it is essential for schools, universities and all other educational institutes to avoid punching attendance in biometric systems. There is a need to introduce better replacement to biometric systems, which is a contactless attendance system. As the name suggests, contactless attendance does not involve anyone to come in contact.
 
Using a contactless attendance system does not require setting up new hardware equipment. Instead, you can use your existing IP or CCTV cameras that will capture a person’s face and mark their attendance by identifying them with facial recognition. IP cameras can be installed at the entrance of the institute and classes that will capture the faces of teachers and students and add their face data along with time log to the attendance record in real-time. It will reduce the risk of infection exposure.
 
Social Distancing & Alert System
In future there is a need that both teachers and students should adhere to guidelines provided to contain the risk of COVID-19. Students and teachers both need to follow social distancing and should maintain a specific distance so that infection does not spread from one person to another. However, it seems impossible to keep an eye on everyone manually, whether they are maintaining social distancing or not. But, there is a solution to monitor people by using a social distancing alert system. Technology experts has built a social distancing alert system that uses AI and Computer Vision to detect the distance between two or more people and send a notification to them or concerned authorities to take action against them. With existing IP or CCTV cameras, it can become possible to track people and monitor if they have a specific distance between them or not. In case someone is not found to be maintaining distancing at an educational institute, strict action can be taken against them. It will help you ensure that the institute is safe for teachers and students.
 
Face Mask detection System
To ensure the safety of students and staff, face mask detection systems can be used at schools and universities. Wearing a face mask can save lives and help contain the spread of the virus. Educational institutes should make it mandatory for everyone to wear face masks all the time. Therefore, the institute administration needs to monitor if everyone is wearing face masks or not. You won’t require a new hardware setup to use the face mask detection technology in your school or university. Instead, you can use your existing IP or CCTV cameras to enable the face mask detection solution and find people without masks. The system uses computer vision and AI to track if everyone is wearing face masks or not. If anyone is seen without a mask, the system sends a notification to the recognized person or concerned authorities. Using face mask detection can help you create a safe environment for students and staff when schools/universities will reopen.
 
 
(Author is a Teacher and can be reached at: lonenaseemnazir@gmail.com)
 

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