Thriving in the Digital Reality of the Cyber World: Towards a New Teaching and Learning Design

SOUMYA JOSE
Vellore Institute of Technology University, India

Abstract
The digital literacy and awareness are now not just bound with education. The digital expansion is now a part of social, political, cultural, economic, community, and intellectual life. The education systems at business schools need to help future managers to understand and benefit from their engagement with digital technology and digital cultures. Yet, only a little research has been carried out on the conceptual implications in implementing this shift in curriculum in Indian B Schools. The young minds today are living in a digital reality. The role of various ICT programs in elementary education has helped them to exercise, explore and perform in the digital world. This chapter tries to bring out the importance of various digital world entities in understanding the digital communication better. The implementation of these concepts in our curriculum needs a transformation from formal pedagogic techniques to “cybernetically” distributed informal pedagogies of digital learning. This paper proposes the teaching and learning designs by which the student can understand the digital ecology of communication sphere.

Keywords: Data management, digital reality, digital natives, future managers, interactive communication, pedagogical shift

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Dr. Soumya Jose is an assistant professor of English in VIT University, Vellore, Tamil Nadu. Dr. Jose has done her PhD in African American Theatre from the Department of English, Annamalai University, Tamil Nadu, India. Her research interests include post-colonial writings, African-American literature and diaspora studies.