The pandemic accelerated technological changes in higher educational organizations. Using digital resources in the learning process is nothing new for higher education. However, hybrid education – which mixes face-to-face activities with other remote activities – had slow adoption and was met with much resistance. This paradigm had to be overcome for classes and the school calendar to resume during these challenging times.

This new reality does not indicate it is going away, even with mass vaccination. The tendency is precisely the opposite; after all, innovative gamification resources, machine learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and distance learning platforms, and remote classes, showed their classroom efficiency with students and teachers at home. The adaptation had to be abrupt, but even so, the educational process’s upgrade was here to stay in higher education organizations.

Digital Transformation

With the rupture and the need for adaptation, the digital transformation took over the educators’, managers’, and professors’ agendas. The so-called blended learning, another name for hybrid education, with new technologies, went from being a differential of educational institutions to essential for survival in such a challenging market.

Technological resources will continue to be necessary as a means of connecting students and facilitating learning. However, from now on, it will be possible to perceive the expansion and consolidation of technology in the cognitive and socioemotional development strategies of students, and it will be up to each higher education organization to choose whether to stay with the times or not.

Here are some trends in this context that are worth highlighting for 2021:

Gamification

Digital games are an excellent solution to increase student engagement – a critical aspect of the educational process. Through gamification, skills such as creativity, competitiveness, problem-solving, and teamwork are developed and improved.

Artificial Intelligence (IA)

Artificial Intelligence has multiple applications in the educational context. For example, in addition to contributing to the offering of content according to the student’s knowledge level and skills, machine learning can still help professors focus on individualized teaching and support them more effectively in the teaching-learning process. That way, you can let the machines take care of the repetitive tasks that take so much time from the teachers. 

On the other hand, data management and administrative demands are also met with IT service management systems, such as AIOps (Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations), which keeps all critical IT systems and tools available anywhere and preserving information security.

Technology Analytics

Analytical technology unites diverse applications and tools that convert data objectively and in real-time. In the pedagogical area, this opens up a range of possibilities for monitoring educational diagnosis to personalize teaching based on data from the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). In administrative management, it contributes to coordinating the use of resources and automation of management processes.

Run2biz can help your educational institution in the digital transformation with solutions like Tasker and Simon. Schedule your time with one of our consultants and learn about our solutions.