Learning has hugely shifted online and is no more restricted to schools and colleges. The modern ways of learning have evolved with technology with a variety of tools and resources available online to facilitate this learning. It is to understand and deliberate on this that the 4th ICT in Education Summit was conceptualized and organized, which was attended by around 200 guests comprising of academicians, think tanks from the corporate world and government representatives.

“The panel discussion theme “Education in India: merits Change””

The panel discussion this time was moderated jointly by Mr. Vijay Shukla, Managing Director, Eduvisors and Mr. Sujit Panigrahi, CTO, Convergent Technologies. The panellists who participated in the discussion were Mr. Adil Usman, Business Head, iProf Learning Solutions; Mr. R. Sreenivasan, Co-Founder, Indus World School of Business; Ms Vineeta Mittal, Principal, The Millennium School, Gurgaon; Mr. Gaurav Tomar, Director, Rabindranath World School, Gurgaon; Mr. Varadarajan Sridharan, Fellow, Ed Tech; and Ms Sara H. Basson, Ph.D., Worldwide Program Director, IBM – TJ Watson Research Center. Topics for discussion revolved around the present education system in India, spanning from how to make Schools ICT Investment Count and technology-led disruption for Indian education ecosystem to upgrading ICT infrastructure to make learning environment fit for the future and safeguarding devices and prioritizing cyber safety and security.