Transforming Education: Embracing Education 5.0 for Sustainable Solutions

The purpose of education is to first equipping learners with the knowledge, skills and values so that they will understand and analyse the national and international challenges and provide better solution for it.

Education 4.0 has given the prime focus to technology which has led to decrease in human interaction resulting in a situation where students are becoming dependent on technology and thereby lacking on the necessary human skills to learn on their own. Comparatively
Education 5.0 represents a transformative change in how education must be delivered as well as on the outcomes of education. Only thing that needs to be ensured is that technology must rather support teacher and not to replace and must foster interaction between student and teachers. Education 5.0 integrates advance Information and Communication Technology (ICT) into the existing education system to enhance the outcome of education, to provide better learning experience and it also decreases the barriers of educating any student. Education 5.0 relies on personalize learning, collaborating, and increasing the interdisciplinary education with the use of digital tools such as IoT, virtual reality, AI and gamification. Additionally, this gives us a framework that make students the agent of sustainable progress by enhancing their creative thinking.

Education 5.0 is providing a model to create more effective, efficient, and equitable education system for a sustainable future. It also emphasises on personalised learning, for an example-a famous Bollywood movie 3 Idiots actor says, “Do what you love” but to know what you love one must know himself and that is why one must focus on self-realization (Bhagwat Gita Ji also focuses that the ultimate goal of life is ‘self-realization’) and that's why modern education institutions ask for psychometric test and personalized counselling sessions to know the interest of a student before admission. Knowing your student is very important if an institution or a teacher wish to focus on personalised learning, if someone wants to learn music with engineering or dance with sciences, he must get the opportunity to learn these skills sets. And here comes the role of Technology, education 5.0 is focusing the strategic utilisation of ICT, where students can register for any online course along with his regular course. With the help of ODL platform educators are removing the constraint of geographical boundaries and are able to serve the students of different time zones. With Education 5.0 the technology and humans can go hand in hand and enable the creation of humans with high values, which will create a global community of likeminded people (Vasudev Kutumbhkam).

Global Sustainability and business challenges are very complex and multifaceted that requires interdisciplinary collaboration to develop unique solution. The education 5.0 provides a model which has the potential to utilise the advanced technology like the big data, block chain, artificial intelligence and quantum computing to provide experiential and collaborative learning for the holistic development of the students so that they can make informed decisions.

Education 5.0 definitely will prove to be the change agent in education field, but there is a strong need to address the challenges on its way like implementation cost, lack of teachers training, digital infrastructure, data security, balancing online and offline learning etc. All these requires careful planning and implementation to ensure the success of education 5.0.