No backbenchers allowed here— it's the Hybrid Classroom

In a Dataquest-Microsoft workshop “Bringing hybrid, Blended Classrooms to life”, experts spelled out what the new face of the classroom is looking like.

- Pratima Harigunani

Recall the last time you saw a classroom or learnt something new? Chances are that you were way beyond the old-school (pun intended) way of learning. There must have been some form of technology sitting with you—and giving you flexibility, choice, accuracy, and contextualization like never before.

Hybrid blended learning is now a reality. It is enabling teacher-and-student interactions, securing interactions, bringing in efficiency and widening the horizons for students and enablers. And all this is going to get even more sci-fi-ish, exciting, and fun as we move ahead.

But very few customers have a digital transformation plan and specially when it comes to holistic transformation, reminded Amit Pawar, Director, education, Modern Workplace, Microsoft. “The one thing that saved the planet and the industry during the pandemic was the Internet capacity we had. Somehow, through the miracle of planning, we could have the bandwidth to accommodate every kind of need. We had to ramp up our capacities at server-level, data centre and network-level. It was a great enabler for learning.”