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Cloud for educational transformation in India

Sakshi Patidar

@Sakshi10

March 28, 2023

Cloud Computing

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Education sector has been revolutionized with the advent of cloud technology. With the growing need for digitalization in education, cloud-based solutions have become increasingly popular with their scalability, cost-effectiveness, and high availability. In a diverse and multi-lingual country like India, ensuring effective communication and knowledge-sharing across language barriers is crucial for the education sector. Cloud-based solutions and cloud platforms are enabling this sector to become more efficient and effective while expanding the reach of content even to the remote interiors of the country.

The Institute of Engineering and Management (IEM), Kolkata, has developed its own Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software using cloud technology. This software is helping the institute to better manage the student lifecycle (freshers to alumni), streamline administration processes by providing a detailed dashboard of all departments and offer an e-learning platform for effective collaboration between students and teachers. Additionally, the platform is ensuring 24/7 availability of learning resources, recorded sessions, and built-in analytics to track student performance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the cloud-based ERP solution ensured uninterrupted admission processes and a uniform learning experience for all students. The rich features and flexible architecture of the software have been recognized by AICTE, and other premiere institutes in the region have also adopted it.
Nuvepro is using the cloud to skill, upskill, and reskill individuals based on project/industry demand. The objective is to close skill gaps by enabling hands-on experience of real-world challenges to make the employee base industry ready. Nuvepro is offering its cloud labs to corporates and academia to design experiential learning modules. According to the National Employability Report 2019 by Aspiring Minds (now SHL), even today, 80% of engineers lack the new-age technical skills necessary to be employable in the knowledge economy. IT is an applied discipline, and individuals need to apply their knowledge to learn. Reading and listening alone will not suffice. Therefore, stakeholders like Nuvepro play a critical role in bridging the skill gap.
Cloud technology has helped Acadecraft, an e-learning service provider based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, to improve its performance, seamlessly scale, and grow revenue while saving on costs through the cloud's pay-per-use model. With an increase in its customer base and a vision for business expansion across geographies, Acadecraft could no longer rely on standalone servers due to challenges in speed, monitoring, cost, and performance. After migrating to the cloud, the firm is now providing round-the-clock e-learning services and solutions to clients based in the USA, the UK, Singapore, the UAE, Australia, Ireland, and India with no network latency.
The Ministry of Education (MoE), GoI, in its visionary program of bringing mobility to education, launched a national platform for school education called DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) in 2017. The platform aims to aid teaching and learning processes with its rich repository of varied resources, including video lessons, textbooks, and interactive sessions contributed by teachers, content partners, and NGOs. The platform's wide-scale accessibility across regions and languages, scalability, and availability of bulk resources could only be achieved with the cloud. Additionally, the platform is also available as a mobile application. To date, more than 160 million users have enrolled on DIKSHA basis its website.

In times like the COVID-19 pandemic, we realize the necessity of bringing education out from the classroom to one's home. As we move forward, we will continue to see corporates and the academia increasingly leverage cloud technology in bridging the skill gap in India, in preparing industry-ready workforce, and in improving administrative efficiencies. Cloud technology has the potential to level the playing field for learners and educators from across the country and create equal opportunities irrespective of their socio-economic status, dialects, or gender.

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Sakshi Patidar

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