Over time, emerging technologies have demonstrated their staggering capabilities across multiple spheres of activities. Globally, many sectors have already integrated emerging technologies into their operations to significantly boost growth and development. Within educational settings, their careful integration has been proven to enhance learners’ experience substantially.
In today’s rapidly digitising world, we argue that countries within the Middle East, including the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, and Bahrain), can benefit immensely by adopting these advancements to transform their education ecosystems. These benefits, however, must be seen in conjunction with risks and challenges which warrant careful consideration.
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GCC countries have, over time, been gradually integrating digital technologies into education. However, long-term digital transformation depends on a robust ecosystem where stakeholders collaborate to enhance the quality of education through emerging technologies. The road to this ambitious goal has several challenges hindering the process of digital integration with education in the Middle East:
Inadequate infrastructure
Lack of accessibility
Lack of digital culture
Limited digital training for teachers
Absence of content localisation
Insufficient funding and investment
With the objective of addressing these challenges and simplifying the planning and execution of a tech-enabled education strategy, we at the Education and Skills practice at PwC Middle East designed the PwC Digital Education Wireframe, a meticulously structured framework built using five pivotal pillars, each representing a key domain crucial for enabling the sustainable transformation of digital education within the region.
This Wireframe helps us provide policymakers and other primary stakeholders with five key recommendations towards a holistic approach for this transformation. It is enabled through consistent engagement with the interconnected pillars focussing on strategic enablement, requisites identification, education delivery, operational enablers, and educational outputs. Educational institutions and decision-makers can, by utilising this framework, harness the transformative power of emerging technologies and foster an educational ecosystem that not only addresses the present needs but also shapes the future of learning and development in the GCC.
Elevating education with emerging technologies
