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PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Delivering a Futuristic

Education in India

Bonjour Readers!!

Indian education sector is rife with immense the advantages of educational reforms into the interstices
possibilities since our country has the world’s largest of our educational system.
population of about 500 million that falls in the age Newly emerged technologies such as automation,
bracket of 5 to 24 years. It is expected to reach US$101.1 robotics, artificial intelligence, and internet of things
billion in financial year 2019. A recent report by Google led us to Education 4.0 from Education 3.0 in just three
and KPMG states that the ed-tech industry of India decades. An additional 600 web and video courses
is poised to attain a growth of $1.96 billion by 2021 as were added under NPTEL Phase II (2009-14) in all
increased number of K-12 institutions now consume major branches of engineering, physical sciences at
content through technological tools. The host of reforms the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This is in
and revolutionary financial outlays that inducted lately accordance with the opinion of father of Indian Space
may transform our country into knowledge economy. Science Programme Vikram Sarabhai who once had
Despite the abundant possibilities which our said, “Basic social and economic change needs to brought
educational arena presents, the ability of class 5 students about gradually and the more carefully and thoughtfully
in a government school to read a text meant for class it is effected, the more permanent it will be.”
2 is still questionable. Public institutions stood at 44.2 Therefore, one imminent objective of World of
percent in 2018 in this while private schools stood at 65.1 Educators is to modernise the Indian education system.
percent in the same year. A slight increase was registered Will I be able to trigger a discourse to change the existing
in arithmetic ability of students in 2016 but this year it teaching-learning mechanisms? Will our country take
demonstrated a dismal trend. India Didactics Association a quantum leap to implement educational reforms?
(IDA) made its advent ten years ago with an intent to Would our educators resolve the stalemate of education
resolve this curricular dystopia in education and became and employability gradually through age old curricular
an exclusive membership association in the country reforms? I came across similar questions when IDA first
engaged in improving conventional teaching-learning held its conference ten years ago. This led to advent of
mechanisms and learning outcomes of educational World of Educators which is a humble effort to bridge
institutions. the gap between educators and changing dynamics in
With a network of more than 83,000 educators as education around the world. It also reminds me that a
members from 250 cities of India it unifies the entire smallest of seed can afforest an entire barren land which
education, training and skills sector. World of Educators can harbour dense biodiversity if nurtured carefully.
is a step ahead in the vision of India Didactics Association
and a humble effort to spread awareness about concerns
prevailing in Indian education arena and opportunities
of reforms that exist in it for all the stakeholders such
as educators, policy-makers, and edu-entrepreneurs.
Another vision of our inaugural issue is to conduct an
active discourse about the measures that could percolate Aditya Gupta

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