The big question: 'How will e-learning impact the next decade?'
10 years, 11 months ago

The big question: 'How will e-learning impact the next decade?'

Wired  

This article was taken from the April 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online. Alice Bentinck Cofounder, Entrepreneur First "E-learning is being pulled offline into 'traditional' classroom settings. Our student programming course, Code First: Girls, has shown us that the rhythm of classes, peer-group support and interactions are the greatest benefits of in-person education, and not necessarily the quality of teaching. The online programme is supported by weekly in-person sessions and has led to a 100 per cent completion rate, compared to 8-15 per cent for online only.

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What happened to massive open online courses?
2 years, 2 months ago

What happened to massive open online courses?

Slate  

This article originally appeared in Zócalo Public Square. Ten years ago, in May 2012, Harvard and MIT announced the launch of edX, their nonprofit platform for massive open online courses. The New York Times called 2012 “the year of the MOOC,” and the Chronicle of Higher Education covered “MOOC mania.” The promise of MOOCs and the principle of open access …

National Education Day: Here's why it is important to develop skills outside the classroom
2 years, 4 months ago

National Education Day: Here's why it is important to develop skills outside the classroom

India Today  

The pandemic alerted the world to the need to revamp traditional education practices. As a result, the ed-tech industry witnessed a boom and the number of online platforms offering various courses grew significantly. LEARNING BEYOND THE CLASSROOMS: BENEFITS PROMOTING GREATER ACCESS With the increase in emphasis on online learning, students who are willing to learn but do not have access …

Learning process: Online vs traditional
2 years, 10 months ago

Learning process: Online vs traditional

India Today  

The debate between online and traditional education continues to take the center seat with every passing day. Interestingly, the reopening of schools in recent months has reignited the debate if online learning will edge past traditional classrooms. But is the online learning process an absolute alternative to traditional learning? COMPARING ONLINE AND TRADITIONAL LEARNING PROCESSES Features Online Learning Traditional Learning …

Can blended learning be the way forward in higher education?
3 years, 9 months ago

Can blended learning be the way forward in higher education?

Hindustan Times  

Despite the closure of educational institutes for over a year due to Covid-19 and the shift towards online education, colleges and universities say the decision to opt for the blended mode of learning in the post-pandemic era should be decided by students and not implemented in a standardised manner. The report said the blended learning mode would enable students to …

No fun in their virtual classrooms?
3 years, 11 months ago

No fun in their virtual classrooms?

Hindustan Times  

As online classrooms become the order of the day, let's hear it from the students about their experiences and challenges. Nishad Neelambaran and Kavita Awaasthi The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has given rise to ‘new normal’ in education system — online classes. Lenovo Smarter Ed Scholarship — An initiative by Hindustan Times, gives students from class five to 12 to share …

How e-learning is transforming the education sector
4 years, 2 months ago

How e-learning is transforming the education sector

India Today  

The Covid-19 induced shutdown affected schooling and learning, including teaching and assessment methodologies. Learners who view online classes as education through edutainment continually set new learning goals for themselves. As technology develops, these new trends will also develop, but the pillars around which it will advance would be customised learning, accessibility, engagement, and user-centric learning. Overcoming challenges The challenges of …

Revolution of Online Education: Advantages And Disadvantages
4 years, 2 months ago

Revolution of Online Education: Advantages And Disadvantages

India TV News  

The COVID-19 lockdown came as a "shock" for several students as coaching classes and schools closed abruptly after the government announced a 21-day nationwide lockdown from March 25 to check the spread of the coronavirus. However, in 2020, one of the most oft-used terms after the pandemic is the term “new normal.” And the new normal in education is the …

Online learning trend helps students on fringes go to university but reveals stark digital divide
4 years, 3 months ago

Online learning trend helps students on fringes go to university but reveals stark digital divide

ABC  

She hardly fits the stereotype of a university student, but Jessica Royce is a surprisingly typical example of a modern breed of student. Key points: The shift to online learning has led to more older and part-time students The shift to online learning has led to more older and part-time students The average online undergraduate is an over-25 woman with …

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020
4 years, 3 months ago

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020

NPR  

5 Things We've Learned About Virtual School In 2020 Enlarge this image Carson McNamara for NPR Carson McNamara for NPR Deborah Rosenthal starts her virtual kindergarten class on Zoom every morning with a song — today, it's the Spanish version of "If You're Happy and You Know It." Rouse, in Joliet, calls its training "pretty fabulous" and essential to her …

E-learning an emerging industry amid COVID-19 pandemic
4 years, 4 months ago

E-learning an emerging industry amid COVID-19 pandemic

China Daily  

If it had not been for COVID-19, Tom Watkins would have been in China now, serving as the China partner and managing director of WAY American Schools, a private US school using internet to teach students in China and Brazil and offering them an American High School Diploma program. "I recall the blank stares I encountered both in the United …

How Covid-19 pandemic has created spike in demand and popularity of e-learning
4 years, 4 months ago

How Covid-19 pandemic has created spike in demand and popularity of e-learning

India Today  

E-learning is revolutionising our education system as it remains the only option during the ongoing crisis. Many schools are leveraging the crisis as an opportunity to deploy digital technology and make education delivery meaningful, to be more productive and efficient while developing new skills through online learning and assessment. Concrete learning When students and teachers are unable to access physical …

Class of 2020: Meet the educationists making e-learning accessible
4 years, 6 months ago

Class of 2020: Meet the educationists making e-learning accessible

Live Mint  

When India announced a nationwide lockdown on 24 March in a bid to check the spread of the covid-19 pandemic, most schools and colleges were forced to terminate classes in the final months of the academic year. “The offline system is straightforward,” says Mubeen Masudi, founder of RiSE, a Srinagar-based coaching institute for Indian Institutes of Technology entrance and class …

Can online learning replace the school classroom?
4 years, 8 months ago

Can online learning replace the school classroom?

The Hindu  

The COVID-19 outbreak has disrupted the academic year, cancelled classes and examinations across the country. While Maharashtra has banned online classes from pre-primary to Class II, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh have extended the ban till Class V. In a discussion moderated by Puja Pednekar, Kiran Bhatty and Reeta Sonawat look at the pros and cons of online learning. Reeta Sonawat: …

Can online learning be better than campus learning?
4 years, 10 months ago

Can online learning be better than campus learning?

India Today  

Once a niche form of education, online education is now the norm. Previously reserved for those who wanted a cheaper or more flexible form of education primarily working professionals or distance learning students online education is now only medium of education from kindergarten to colleges. Students have more tools to learn at their own pace Online learning means that lessons …

Traditional learning will always have a place in our classrooms
4 years, 10 months ago

Traditional learning will always have a place in our classrooms

India Today  

The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced innovation across all the sectors and education is no exception to this. Traditional learning has qualitative benefits over online learning and this benefit is more relevant among pre-primary and primary students who have short attention span to be spending hours in a virtual classroom environment. Benefits of traditional learning: One-on-one or in-person teaching is …

E-learning: Experts' opinion on the new shift of education system
4 years, 10 months ago

E-learning: Experts' opinion on the new shift of education system

India Today  

Amidst the Covid-19 lockdown, schools have started to conduct online classes for students to keep up with their studies. To find out how useful this digital learning arrangement really is, we spoke to various experts who are supervising the online classes system. Vinod Singh, Head of School, Trio World Academy, Bangalore said, "Online learning needs to be engaging, purposeful, simple …

Govt needs to frame policy for online courses and certification: 5 points to make e-learning mainstream
4 years, 10 months ago

Govt needs to frame policy for online courses and certification: 5 points to make e-learning mainstream

India Today  

With Prime Minister Narendra Modi issuing a directive for a complete lockdown to prevent the widespread of Covid-19 from March 26, 2020 this has raised uncertainty among students who were expecting the resumption of services within a fortnight. But before we can take this opportunity to bring e-learning into mainstream, we need a strong policy to bring ed-tech platforms and …

E-learning: Boon to education system during Covid-19 lockdown
4 years, 10 months ago

E-learning: Boon to education system during Covid-19 lockdown

India Today  

In view of the Covid-19 outbreak all across the world, everyone is taking all precautionary and preventive measures to combat this pandemic. ICT, which a great enabler and facilitator of online learning, has kept the learning process intact even at this time. In the context of this, UGC with the help of ICT has arranged and shared several online links …

COVID-19 lockdown: How students are coping with the online classes and syllabus
4 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 lockdown: How students are coping with the online classes and syllabus

India Today  

The Coronavirus led lockdown has put all of our strength and zeal to a hard test by interrupting our regular lives in recent history. To motivate the online classes, teachers are leaving no stone unturned to ensure joy, warmth, and humour while video conferencing with the students. In context to the same, Mrs Pallavi Uphadhyaya, Principal, DPS Rajnagar Extension said, …

Coronavirus outbreak: Myths around online education effectiveness, efficiency busted
4 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus outbreak: Myths around online education effectiveness, efficiency busted

India Today  

The new coronavirus is spewing its venom relentlessly across the globe. With lockdowns seeing no end in sight, more and more schools are transitioning to online classes to ensure that at least education doesn't take a beating. The teachers and students also use a variety of digital learning tools that ensure that the learning curve never sees a dip. The …

Covid-19 pandemic: E-learning trends you need to watch for
4 years, 11 months ago

Covid-19 pandemic: E-learning trends you need to watch for

India Today  

Due to fast technological innovations over the past decade, e-learning is being widely used globally. More and more Indian students enrolling in e-Learning courses According to a study by Velocity MR, a leading market Research and Analysis company, 72 per cent Indians prefer online or e-learning as compared to traditional classroom training. Indian demography is ideal for online learning because …

What’s lost in the rush to online learning (Opinion)
4 years, 11 months ago

What’s lost in the rush to online learning (Opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: David M. Perry is a journalist and historian. There’s just no way to provide quality education to all students absent full-time on-site parental support. It’s understandable why nearly every school in the country has shut down through at least April, but this massive rush to move K-12 education online is a mistake. Unequal access to technology and internet …

Top trends that will redefine the online learning for the 'next decade'
5 years ago

Top trends that will redefine the online learning for the 'next decade'

India Today  

The education industry has seen radical changes in the past decade, transforming its very framework across the globe. As we venture into 2020 and the next decade’, let’s look back at how online learning has evolved in the last year and what the future holds: Online learning made more accessible While online learning has been playing an instrumental role in …

Online education: Students making the transition
5 years ago

Online education: Students making the transition

CNN  

CNN — Students across the country are making the transition to an online format to finish out the school year. “We’re set to make a few short films for the class before the semester ends and NYU has halted all production of that till further notice so it’s been rather disappointing for the film kids.” Preparing to go online-only Trevor …

Education trends 2020: What will redefine the education sector?
5 years ago

Education trends 2020: What will redefine the education sector?

India Today  

The year 2019 saw some incredible technological advances in education. Personalized Learning Humans are not machines and up until recently, universities - big and small - have been guilty of continuing to impart education via 'one-size-fits-all' models. New forms of learning have proven to generate creative people who are able to leverage technology far better than those that graduate from …

How teachers are responding to online classes
5 years ago

How teachers are responding to online classes

China Daily  

After COVID-19 hit, all of a sudden teachers and students celebrating Spring Festival were now stuck in their hometowns with nothing to do but eat dumplings, sleep and eat more dumplings. I’ve always used WeChat groups for my classes, as a way to deliver course materials, check homework and class work and communicate with students, but could I actually run …

Virtual Learning vs. Classroom Learning: Which is better and more impactful
5 years, 5 months ago

Virtual Learning vs. Classroom Learning: Which is better and more impactful

India Today  

The current technological advancements in the way we use the internet have narrowed the bridge between virtual and classroom learning to quite an extent. Let's consider a few parameters and delve deeper into which is better - virtual learning or classroom learning? Virtual Learning vs. Classroom Learning: Which is better and more impactful Face-to-face interaction and group study: Irrespective of …

E-learning platforms slowly changing Indian education landscape
5 years, 11 months ago

E-learning platforms slowly changing Indian education landscape

India TV News  

E-learning platforms are changing the Indian education landscape by addressing the demand-supply gap of both students as well as corporate employees by dispensing personalised learning outcomes, experts say. All this put together makes e-learning platforms complete, and students and working professionals future-ready, in a matter of months," he said. "In the current scenario, professionals will be required to re-skill themselves …

Is online learning making education easier?
6 years, 3 months ago

Is online learning making education easier?

India Today  

Online education has become popular among working professionals and students in higher education. Setting goals, tracking progress and meeting deadlines Online courses involve setting our own goals, tracking progress and meeting deadlines Online courses call for a greater amount of motivation and self-discipline than a classroom-based course. Online learning can help them pursue highly individualized learning programmes, possibly even college-level …

How online learning is doing away with traditional learning methods
6 years, 4 months ago

How online learning is doing away with traditional learning methods

India Today  

Online learning has widened the scope of education and transcended it beyond classroom boundaries. Read: 7 ways classroom teaching is better than online education Favorable government initiatives for digital reform The government of India has taken some strong steps to push for digital reform in the country. How corporate and educational institutes are shifting to online learning Internet boom has …

Does online education really work? 14 online learners share their experiences
6 years, 7 months ago

Does online education really work? 14 online learners share their experiences

India Today  

We live at a time when artificial intelligence and robots are coming to take away routine jobs. The main problem with online learning Online education has one major problem even if we do not consider that a large population of India doesn't have access to the internet and cannot read English. The content of the online education course was extremely …

Busting e-learning myths with 4 perks of digital education
7 years, 2 months ago

Busting e-learning myths with 4 perks of digital education

India Today  

After graduation, Kriti started looking for opportunities, but despite consistent efforts, she couldn't get what she was aiming for. Read: 6 technology trends that pushing up digital education in India While I was growing up, if I ever wanted to learn a new skill, I had to travel a minimum of 2-3 km to the nearest learning pr tuition centre …

The digital leap
9 years, 6 months ago

The digital leap

The Hindu  

When she finished her Bachelor’s degree in Zoology, Chemistry and Botany, 21 year old Adithi Shenoy went online and signed up for a course on animal welfare and behaviour. Even a market research survey conducted by Talentedge reveals that around 43 percent of the students who opt for online courses come from the IT/BPO sector followed by 20 percent from …

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