Showing posts with label digital education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital education. Show all posts

Wednesday 3 February 2016

How to Improve Research Skill of The Learners

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Introduction to online education and teaching

Online education has proved to be a booming factor towards the growth of education. Students no longer need to travel distances in order to get their pre-binding course materials. What they need to do is just browse sites with a click. Apart from these benefits, the pool of information almost comes free of cost and also both the scholars and the learners could get in touch with each other at any point of time. The educational websites are made available 7 days a week, 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year. In short, online education and teaching have taken the value of education to a new level.

Growth of online education

With the introduction of MOOC in online studies, the growth of online education is on its way. According to recent surveys, more and more people have registered themselves to this type of online learning named MOOC. New online courses have been launched in 2015, and the students who have opted for atleast one course have crossed millions. At the beginning MOOC introducted itself in colleges for online learning but now it's expansion has reached beyond limits. Long term courses have been broken down in semesters and materials of the courses have been so arranged as to fit the busy schedule of thew learners.

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Prediction or strategy for digital education

Since online or digital education are now days booming in the education sector, several predictions and strategies have been adopted in order to keep the pace intact.

  • Among the many predictions or strategies for digital learning, personalised learning and learning through the help of social media sites are the most effective.
  • Access and authenticity is another most important factor to stay updated in digital learning. Student must be able to get proper access to expert learning sites so that they can get benefitted from the same. Learners must be duly authenticated.
  • Blended study and mobile learning also helps keeping up modernisation to an extent. Education apps are available mostly in mobile phones and tablets and learners do not need to sit in front of their pcs to go to study centres for the course. Provided authentication is there, they can anytime download education apps and stay connected. Blended learning has indeed changed the meaning of traditional face to face learning.

Ways to improve the research skills of online learners

While teaching online is advantageous in many ways, capability of the learners to research for the subject is very important as a part of the study. In order to encourage the same, enquiry models are constructed by the educators to facilitate learners look for more. Enquiry models are kind of curiosity infrastructure build by teachers to encourage the participants to solve problems, analyse equations and grow interest to find something new.

Inference gathered

Online mode of study has become one of the most effective form of learning these days. Digital learning help learners stay updated with growing innovations and technology. However while online learning is beneficial, strategies have also taken to encourage the students participate and research well for their subjects. This way the mode of learning will see its future along with more and more adventure with the growing technology.

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