Revolutionary and Innovative Changes in Educational Transformation: Education 5.0 – Part I

Abstract

Educational progress and its rapid evolution always positively affected to the society, industrial, productive and service sectors. India with its largest population characterized by diverse linguistic, culture and socio-economic background poses a unique challenge in providing quality education. Traditional education usually struggles to provide personalize and flexible learning environment. The adoption of education 5.0 over Education 4.0 leads to adoption of new technology to make education more constructive and unveiling the latest insight of learning.  Education technology builds a new era of skills, knowledge and competence in the education ecosystem. The execution of advanced educational technologies combined with innovative pedagogy to promote innovation and research to empowers students to thrive in the digital age. The satisfactory implementation of education 5.0 in India requires lots of efforts such as competencies of teachers, advanced teaching-learning methods, information and communication technologies (ICT), curriculum advancement, policies and reforms, financial investment and physical infrastructure. Learning through education 5.0 concept is moving to the next stage of digitalization, providing value creating opportunities, innovating and problem- solving attitude. In this paper, education 5.0 technologies and teaching paradigm for higher and technical education is discussed to re-shape the education system. Education 5.0 framework can be a powerful tool to address new era challenges and provide quality education for all. To address the challenges of new era in education, an online survey was developed and distributed to students and educators active in the field of higher education.