Empowering Leadership in Education Ecosystem through Technology Enabled Practices

Abstract

Purpose: This paper focuses on antecedent’s educational leadership in higher education
ecosystem through technology enabled practices. It also involves the identification of
changes required in management practices and structural factors in higher education
for better dissemination of knowledge in a student-centered ecosystem. In fact, rapid
changing technology has created new and constantly evolving job, and competencies
demands new skills, which has facilitated significant progress in accommodating the
need of students in various aspects. Technological changes revolutionize the delivery of
education by allowing access to higher education for greater numbers of students at low
cost, flexibility of adoption of latest courses in demand and providing student centred
ecosystem. Surprisingly, technology solution has transformative effect on students’
learning and success by laying foundation according to goal, need, and interest of the
students. While addition of innovative technology in the existing structures has made
the goal barely more efficient and flexible.

Design/ Methodology/ Approach: This study is based on data taken from Noida it
comprises of four universities and 20 colleges and Lucknow with 13 universities and
20 colleges. Overall, 438 respondents were selected randomly from various higher
education institution located in the two cities. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and
structural equation modeling (SEM) were carried out for data analysis.

Findings: The result indicates, taking full advantage of technology helps in setting
cutting edge standards among educational leadership through creating a shared vision,
plan for achieving goal, and the ability to build capacity for adopting innovation and
change. As a starting point, leaders across higher education ecosystem need to prioritize
the success of all students while engaging technology to expand appropriate support
for all students, especially for those who lack traditional support networks. Using
ICT effectively throughout the higher education institutions and across the ecosystem
around student-centered design strategies while supporting the institutional structures,
education policies, and teaching practices helps in evaluating and developing evaluated
greater access, affordability, and overall success.