COVID-19 outbreak has transformed our thought process in all spheres and domains of our lives. Yesterday’s life style seems to be unrealistic for today’s acceptance. As all the parts of country are under lockdown, nation is looking to make most out of technology. During the time of adversities, world of Education is moving to learn new skills and devise methods using different technologies and pedagogies.

Today all the institutes have become E-institutes, Learning is being done from homes and all the activities of the institute have become cloud-based and automatic. In this scenario, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system has become the buzzword in almost every type of organization to provide the stable and seamless workflow. Education sector is not an exception in using ERP to meet the challenges faced in the times of adversities.

The uncertainty of recurring pandemic situations has ensured the institutional stakeholders to believe in adapting hybrid approach to education. Now classroom learning can not be afforded to be a single form of learning and same with institution management, a cloud based remote institution management has become the need of the hour.

In a latest white paper, Huron charted how this unfamiliar environment has made education sector evolved into a three-phase model. This framework is mainly concerned to higher education paradigm.

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In this model, the first

Triage

period is focussed on prompt and intellectual decisions of market leaders on the continuation of important activities like education, clinical etc. but not at the cost of safety of the participants. Therefore, the leaders are responsible to maintain a trade-off between persistence of actions and protection of their constituents.
After the Triage Period, next is a passing Stabilization period which deals with evaluating the usefulness and reliability of current technology. Here the leaders are supposed to review the capabilities of their current administrative technologies like ERP, customer relationship management (CRM) etc. that can reduce the burden on administration and can make the best use of employees’ time and academic resources to further enhance the productivity.

Next Phase is the Transformation period, in which the leaders use their prior judgement and implement their plans to ensure the adaptability of new methodologies for long-term success of their organizations.

Now, during such kind of evolvement of Education Sector, the selection of a right strategic partner can make a lot of difference to use technology in innovative ways that can accelerate the growth of institute.

The choice of an efficient ERP support is an integrated solution to create a Pandemic immune education model. Here are some features of ERP that outline the importance of remote institution management using a comprehensive cloud-based digital platform.

1. Collaboration of Student & Teacher: Using an integrated web-based ERP software allows inviting school atmosphere beyond classroom boundaries to interact between teachers and students that creates student-teachers connection ahead of the classrooms.

2. Reduces the exploitation of Natural Resources: A cloud-based ERP platform keeps the records at one click of mouse that saves the over-usage of paper work and reduces the mess of huge records and its maintenance.

3. Online assessment and evaluation: The most tedious tasks like attendance records, assessment, grading and evaluation have become the automated and simple with the help of University ERP solutions that encourages continuous quality improvement approach which is the basis of Outcome Based Education.

4. All time and Anywhere access: With the use of ERP platform, The massive records have become easy to be accessed anytime and from anywhere that increases the transparency of the system for the stakeholders.

5. Accounting and Communication: ERP has provided a hassle -free fee collection approach and allowed a secure communication between students-teachers and parents.

Conclusion: The COVID-19 pandemic has made it mandatory to being open in adopting the changes and being tech-savvy to let the learning go-on. It is the time for the market leaders to invest in academic digitization that allows a hybrid or online education model for the institutes. The potential of ERP is much more than already discussed, that allowed the academic activities to remain effortless and streamline during the crisis of pandemic and lockdown.

In the times of adversities, advancing the existing enterprise technology solution is the major requirement of the institutes to get the best of technology. iCloudEMS
was founded in 2017 with a notion that “ We honor great education and educationist” It provides a complete ERP solution implementation and a comprehensive digital support to the educational institutions to become a reliable partner in the journey of education transformation through pandemic.
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