Digital Education by M. S. Rahman

What is Digital Education?

•It is a dynamic system, which will completely digitize the traditional education system.

•Paperless (in soft form) in audio, video, audio-video, graphics, animation and simulation.

•Information available with the click of the button

•Digital Education is a system which will impart as well as improve all three main components of learning namely contents, learning methodologies and teaching methodologies.

•The advent of digital technology has completely transformed the education sector in India and created an entirely new template for imparting education. Consequently, teaching as well as learning has become more impact-full, student-centric and result oriented. The traditional education system, as we know it, is undergoing a major conceptual overhaul worldwide.

 

 

What does it include?

•Software

–Desktop Applications

–Web-based Applications

–Mobile Applications

•Hardware

–Basic Hardware

–Automation hardware

•Contents

–Lesson contents (Academic)

–Multimedia library

–3D objects

–interactive applications

•Digital Books

–Tutorials

–Multimedia books

 

Digital Education includes e-learning.

        e-learning is an inclusive term that describes educational technology that electronically or technologically supports learning and teaching. The pioneers of e-learning, advocates that the "e" should be interpreted to mean "exciting, energetic, enthusiastic, emotional, extended, excellent, and educational" in addition to "electronic." This broad interpretation focuses on new applications and developments, and also brings learning and media psychology into consideration. It is suggested that the "e" should refer to "everything, everyone, engaging, easy".

Digital Education Imperatives

•Learning on the go – Facilitating students to study at their own convenience anywhere anytime.

•Technology is leading to a revolution in the way we learn. It is helping solve the problems of scale, quality of education, and learnability of the student. Teachers can now reach the full classroom through digital screens, enabling each child to get the same base content. Student engagement is higher as it combines various instructional styles. And each student gets exposure to world-class education, something that was just not available in a chalk and talk approach.

•“Technology makes the teaching-learning process very easy and interesting,”

•Private schools across India today see technology as an imperative.

Digital Education-Emerging Paradigm

•Digital education has taken over the traditional chalk and blackboard method in a big way.

•As per estimates that close to 1 lakh out of India's 2.6 lakh private schools in the country have invested in some form of teaching technology.

Educational institutions are now utilizing technology to make teaching a more interactive and simple affair. Virtual classrooms, e-lectures, web conferencing and online courses are part of the plethora of options that digital education provides.

•Learning at the speed of need – Access to online learning material & digital content through various devices

•Today, due to hi-tech network and multimedia, the education sector has emerged as a fast developing field. Another prominent result of the use of technology in education is that there is an extensive change in the teaching and learning methods, styles, and content across many schools in India. Today, students use a unique form of technology called cloud technology wherein they can easily submit and review their assignment regularly. When a school includes such facilities in a digital learning environment, the classroom becomes much more comfortable and welcoming to students.

Pre-Requisite of Digital Education

•The set up requires high speed internet connection which needs to be on even if classes are not being held.

ICT in Classroom includes Digital Teaching System with Local Area Network (LAN),  LCD Projector, Interactive Board and Knowledge Centre (KC) with server.

 

 

Changing Role of Teachers

•Blackboard to interactive board

•Teacher to Facilitator

•Teaching to Learning

•Multimodal, Multisensory, Multimedia, MI, ML

•i-kids

•Multitasking

 Professional Development of Teachers is a Pre-Requisite

•Digital classrooms promote innovations in teaching methods, improving capabilities of teachers and students alike.

•Ongoing professional development is the key ingredient in the success of technology-driven education in classrooms. Training teachers in technology and retraining them in delivering effective content with the help of that technology is a pre-requisite to modern digital style of education; the approach has to be need-based and continuous. 

 

 

“No Technology Can Replace Teachers”

•Technology is instrumental

•Technology make education/learning easy – any time, any where and every where.

•Transaction of curriculum is made easy.

•Increase conceptual clarity due to multimedia.

•Involves more than one senses- multisensory

•Makes learning illustrative,  interactive and experiential.

•However, it is not the replacement of Teacher.

•Magic lies with the teacher/facilitator.

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Education - Trends 

•Young students today are usually surrounded by computers, iPads and mobiles, bringing the same technology into the classrooms makes them feel easy and acquainted. 

•Video-based learning makes education engaging, entertaining and exploring. The interactive preface of this segment ignites learning with a pedigree of learning out of leisure with creativity, fun and entertainment on cards via the wonderful Apps, podcasts, videos, interactive software, e-books and online interactive electronic boards. Children are excited and operative with interest to manage the showcase via their intelligence, exploring the weak techno skills of teachers and assist them in public with pride and honour and recognition. Now the classes are student-friendly, student-operated and info-packed.

 

 

Class Transformation System(CTS) 

•Class Transformation System — with more features, including simulations, mind maps, worksheets, web links, a diagram maker, graphic organizers and assessment tools.  

•Contents in the form of Audio, Video, Audio-Video, Graphics, Animation, Simulation    

 

 

Service Providers 

•Educomp Solutions, Everon Education, NIIT, Core Education & Technologies, IL&FS and Compucom as dominant players in this sector. New entrants include HCL Infosystems, Learn Next, Tata Interactive Systems, Mexus Education, S. Chand Harcourt (India) and iDiscoveri Education, Pearson Education Service. 

•A recent trend is that schools in tier two and tier three cities are increasingly adopting the latest technology.  

 

 

Digital Education – Information and Communication Technology(ICT)

•“ICT can have a huge impact on our education system.”

•ICT can result in increasing the reach of education and in keeping the costs low.

•Can bridge rural-urban divide. 

•Education at low cost anytime, anywhere and everywhere.

 

 

 

Impact of Technology

•Education too has felt its impact and technology is making inroads in all formats and at all levels of pedagogy, whether content or delivery, evaluation or teaching methodology, transforming classrooms and schools in its wake.

 

 

Role of Technology  

•Technology has brought exciting changes in our day to day life. Today, we can barely imagine our lives without digital tools, devices and applications. 'Technology is not only playing a crucial role in the field of information and entertainment, it also helps create and design tools and applications for our educational system. Technology in education help advance a child' learning through thousands or tablet and Smartphone app, which make the whole process more interactive, entertaining and effective. Apps play a crucial role in developing cognitive skill that is critical for learning among children. Studies have shown that app not only provide educational benefits but can also help in the overall growth and development of children. Children today are growing up in a vastly interconnected world. They are picking up computer literacy almost at the same time as they learn the alphabet. This has altered the education process almost irreversibly. 

 

Potential and Promises of Digital Education

     
 •Access

 •Equity

 •Quality

 •Low Cost

 •Anybody

 •Anytime

 •Anywhere 

 •Everywhere

 

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