The importance of literacy across the world is being more and more emphasized nowadays. Hence, educational institutions are facing numerous challenges to economically survive and extend education in a stimulating environment that can enrich the learning experience to provide skills that can be marketed locally and globally. The current systems are hindered due to the changing globalization and rapid advances in the technology and learning abilities of the students. In a quest to enable the educational institutions leverage the technological advances to overcome the present day hurdles and prepare for the ensuing learning paths the Smart Educational Institutions framework explores the combinational effect of various current advancements and futuristic indigenous concepts.

With the onset of global communication technologies and the very rapid spread of powerful communication media, like the Internet and satellite TV, the exposure to the world is at its all time best even in the remotest pockets of the world. To prepare the youth better for the global market which is facing an acute shortage of skilled labor force, there is a dire need to shun the old educational techniques and empower the educators and the students with new tools and a new medium of learning that can be adaptive to their personal pace of progress.

In the current setup, any new innovation and scientific advancements have to trickle down into the educational system over an awfully long time. In this rapidly evolving digital technology era, by the time a change is reflected in the educational system, the technology either gets obsolete or has reached its prime with an acute shortage of knowledge workers. The shift of the economies of the world towards a knowledge-based industry has been adding a new curve ball at the educators. A new dimension of challenge to educate the youth about the evolving global fundamentals, its local adaptations and finally the ongoing international advancements in the area is the greatest challenge on hands of educators across the globe.

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