Education 3.0 and beyond: A learner-led experience of Education

Abstract

The last decade has seen technology entering the education space in multiple ways – through digitised learning content, adaptive online tests, pre-recorded or real-time videos of teachers, social networking, MOOCs, etc all that have been classified as Education 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0. The predominant reference of these terms has been for higher education (college level and beyond). It assumes that the student is a mature and motivated adult who is able to take in discrete pieces of information and assimiliate it coherently to learn. This paper explores how Education 3.0 concepts are implemented in the realm of elementary education with a focus towards increasing students’ learning outcomes. This paper combines our research in heutagogy by drawing on data from an intelligent tutoring system called Mindspark that has been used by over 80,000 students in 150 private schools over the past five years as well as in 5 after- school remedial centres in urban slums of Delhi. There is a shift in educational processes - characterized by the transformation from a teacher-led delivery model to a student-led learning experience. In this Education 3.0 model, the learner is no longer a passive recipient but rather becomes an active player in defining their learning environment, the teacher-learner interaction, affective factors of learning, evaluation, interventions and finally achievement – all towards achieving higher outcomes on students’ learning.