NEW EMERGING EDUCATIONAL CONCERNS

New emerging educational concerns

The rising costs of education, health care, food and shelter shall need a total transformation of the society through education. Is it possible? For 9 billion people in 2050 world we may have 30% in learning age groups ,who will need at least schooling ,college and universities for them. Fortunately ,we are leading the tally as shown Thus we have to prepare ourselves to deliver the education at the doorsteps of the learners through virtual or open universities We place here some records of world success stores in the past

CYBER UNIVERSITIES

In a lecture on Cyber universities Prof Abdul Wahid Khan said that higher education in its present form is not able to meet the challenges of equality .affordability and relevance. Conventional universities are not able to meet the demands as such we may have to plan something more for future .The knowledge resources available on web may soon convert the existing conventional universities into DINASAURES OF tomorrow. The sustainability and survivability shall demand a change which shall mean a combination of open and conventional mix; a continuous change is needed in the curriculum and the set of learning to make it more informative, interesting and knowledgeable.

VIRTUAL UNIVERSITY

       Prof Didier Olio of France fortified above views by describing his rich experiences of virtual education to disabled and underprevilaged.He further said the progress of world depends on knowledge society, it is this society which develops economy and industry, so education and research cannot be and should not be ignored at any cost. WE IN INDIA HAVE YET TO FULLFILL THE PROMISE OF 6% budgetary provision for education. It is half way down 3.83% AGAINST world averaging 5%.Our educationists have take the need to the finanancing sources, we have another problem too. Against 17% universities established during preindependence period like Aligarh Muslim Uniersity,Banaras Hindu University,Jamia Milliah,Annamaile university and instate of sciences only 2% ESTABLISHMENTS CAME THROUGH INVESTMENTS AND ENDOWNMENTS POST INDEPENDENCE  ONLY. They are the Hamdard etc.Thus a post independence thaw is observed in the educational development in India, The big and small industry has been alien to research and development process of the universities.

None of the world universities thrive on their own resources except perhaps the land grant universities of USA to a limited extent.

COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION REVOLUTION

The ICT TOOLS, sites, blogs, feedback, Twitters, vedios, TV, mobile phones may now bridge the gap if proper plans are made to use them effectively. Our young people are more conversant and easy with these ways than the old –a change is needed to use learned and old to expand the horizons of skills, knowledge and information on anything or everything on mobile. It may even help us to conserve our indigenous innovation, handycraft and skills though ICT AND information webs, free web documentation is essential to be created in every state and central universities to develop a knowledge bank.

DIGITAL EDUCATION

Prof Frits Penacook of Canada says 1990 saw a beginning of digital education, It moved fast until 1998 saw it price linked and it is becoming unaffordable day by day, We have a myth in Indian culture the sarasvati and laxmi are two parallel lines do not join them both will lose their importance.Sarasvati is WANI ,VANI OR THE EDUCATION and Laximy is wealth. New links of prices web information is proving counterproductive in the sense written books can be borrowed but these web booked cannot be and hence remain beyond the reach of the true leaners,We may request scholars and teachers to provide short materials on free web to help other to know you and your work,

WEB REVIEWS AND TEACHER SELECTION

A system of web review for every teacher and student is a must. Unfortunately many vice chancellors and those in education erna do not have much to show on web. Why to ask for bio data for these positions when websites can do this analytic job for you.

MUTILINGUISH MODE OF ICT AND IT

The multilinguish transformation of internet and website have made open university more akin to culture .The language barrier overcome the ticking process, It is said one understands in mother tongue as it is known to be learned by the baby while in womb. So the whole think tank develops within womb can be best exploited when process of ticking is done in your own mother tongue. This obverse truth has been of late described through research by Kathleen Wermeke of Germany. Technology and virtual education causes more social bonding than the conventional. The low cost mobiles have made it possible to extend our agricultural and veterinary education in deep deserts of Rajasthan and leach with a similar speed as in USA or new Dedhi.What is needed an effort to bind the artisans and professionals through webs firstly to communicate and then to discuss. It can be a reality if we venture to lower don the cost of web transmissions, When we give electricity subsidies to farmers or other fertilizer etc most of which never reaches the, Make independent India vibrant an transparent through organized and cheap internet and mobile connectivity.

RESEARCH AND OUTREACH

Rapid growth of research need fast outreach. Today papers were caring two technological news on nanotechnology and artificial photosynthesis. These two new may take a second to traverse from north to south or east to west as information mechanisms is independent and can be passed on even when you do not have access to electicity.Japans new invention to manufacture  liquid fuel through artificial plants and artificial photosynthesis can relieve many industrial establishments of future extensions in their business, This information revolution is possible today perhaps  Morgan imagination vision can be broadening by our open educational establishments and conventional varsities become the dinosaurs of education sooner the latter. This shall free of our bureaucratic and political manouvering.We are at the turn of a new revolution in education where new styles, new ways and new leaders will emerge and refine the system and free it of the dusty bins filling the coffins of our universities. A growth of 314 universities, each teaching 500 students on an average may need 100 fold increase to educates our coming 3 billion populace share of 20% .A core waiting for higher education may double in next few years and may reset alarming thrust for education by2050, Let sharpen our tools of ICT and use every platform available or vacant to use the opportunity

NEW CONCEPT OF SCHOOLS SHALL EMERGE .

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 schools with due print shall be preferred over fixed mode institutions; A new system of free knowledge centres shall emerge to impart desired knowledge on a particular topic and job. Job learning shall be specified in learners attitude than acquiring knowledge without bounderiers, This shall help work culture and industry too, I have seen MVSC FIRST POSITIONERS working in banks rather be the don of a university for which he had aptitude and training.A best surgeon was forced to abandon his profession as his guide never humbled to less knowledgeable than him. A new era of self motivation and self learning will merge in India where transmigrations from one field to another shall become a reality. I saw in 1980 in Germany rush for changing disciplines during graduation from medicine to veterinary medicine or dentistry and vies versa. A holistic change on examination system is in offering in schools and it may transcend it offshoots to the higher education system in a few years time. The system will imbibe understanding of a field, discussions and lecturing on specific topics, seminars and conference as potent method of latent education make up.

To be continued .readers please sends your comments to the author on

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Critical Issues for Robotic Application

The technology of the 21st century promises to bring the computing power and efficiency of laptops and handheld mobile devices to new heights. But one feature that remains critical to delivering these powerful gadgets to their intended usefulness is their battery power. Batteries for mobile computing devices remain a sore issue that unless satisfactorily addressed, will just limit the increasing power of portable devices to just a few minutes of use.

Powering them Up

In robotics, the same issue needs to be addressed if robots are to be deployed anywhere or given unlimited mobility. While this will not be a problem on stationary robotic application in manufacturing plants, it gets critical consideration powering mobile robots, whether they move on motorized wheels on human-like leg contraptions. Current progress in hybrid automobiles seems like the best solution for robots on wheels with just one caveat – size.

Movie robot characters like Pixar’s Wall-E. C3PO and R2D2 in Spielberg’s Star Wars franchise are amazing enough in their functions but what these movies gloss over is how are they powered. We know that Wall-E is solar chargeable and that may signal another option to take for simple robots. Large mobile robots that can do more complex tasks will require a more reliable powering solution under any weather. Nuclear fusion (as opposed to fission used in making nuclear warheads) holds another promise here but that’s one technology that has been put on hold pending newer and safer forms of energy sources.

A good solution would be to use separate independent power sources for each major robotic function, such as for mobility, cognition, computing, telecommunications and database functions. Thus, losing mobility power will not compromise other functions and might even benefit from cross-powering from its other power sources, and vice versa for other robotic functions.

Miniaturization

We all know the vast computing power of PCs and laptops but are they small enough to fit inside a cube or sphere no bigger than a human skull? If cellphones and gaming consoles are any indication, perhaps they can. Nanotechnology promises to bring miniaturization to the next level of bio-molecular sizes that can multiply tenfold the current computational prowess of processors and memory modules at a fraction of their current footprint.

Enabling robotic applications to exercise any form of thinking autonomy will require massive inferential databases that can store data for them to learn and make decisions and actions without human intervention. More than anything else, this is what distinguishes robots from computers – autonomic thought and action. And you can not do that with the current spinning platters in hard drives. This technology is old, unreliable (vulnerable to motion-induced crashes) and inadequate. While piling up 203 1TB hard disk might so the job, it’s still slow and bulky.

Enter the solid state hard drive. It’s amazing that computer companies preferred to concentrate all their time and energies increasing the capacities and seek times of traditional hard drives when they could have done so with solid state storage devices that remain an expensive alternative at this time. Your 16 GB flash drive uses solid state storage technology that happily has gone down in price per GB over the last 12 months. GP

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