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.

Paper Type: Empirical Research Paper.