Online learning: For the open-minded, an exciting multimedia experience awaits
10 years, 5 months ago

Online learning: For the open-minded, an exciting multimedia experience awaits

The Independent  

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. "When we started online programmes some 12 years ago, they were very linear and text-based," explains Helen O'Sullivan, academic lead for online learning at the University of Liverpool. Today's courses still focus on students remotely discussing the content they have read, she continues, "but they're now supplemented by video, online lectures and other web-based materials". Innovative presentation helps, says Michelle Boardman, senior academic manager of University of Derby Online Learning, whose forensic and crime scene investigation course features a virtual crime scene. open image in gallery Moocs are free and offer courses such as music "We are utilising many tools to provide a rich experience for our students, including videos from industry experts and interactive activities for students to complete to check their understanding," Boardman says.

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Overcoming Common Challenges in Online Learning with EdTech
5 months ago

Overcoming Common Challenges in Online Learning with EdTech

India Today  

Common challenges in online learning are addressed by EdTech solutions, offering creative and effective ways to enhance the learning experience. Interactive learning platforms, collaboration tools, accessibility solutions, and adaptive learning tools help overcome engagement, communication, technical issues, and assessment integrity. By leveraging EdTech, schools can create a more engaging and accessible learning environment for students, fostering their academic success.

Digital education is the future, says expert
1 year, 11 months ago

Digital education is the future, says expert

Deccan Chronicle  

HYDERABAD: Digital education was the only way for the country to meet its goal of increasing the national gross enrollment ratio in higher education from 27 to 50 per cent by 2035, Jagat Bhushan Nadda, director of the Consortium for Educational Communication, said on Thursday. Nadda, who was in town for the launch of the 24th CEC-University Grants Commission Educational …

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 …

5 biggest educational technology trends in near future
2 years, 11 months ago

5 biggest educational technology trends in near future

India Today  

In the past, various trends in the education sector have been deployed with varying degrees of success, but the trends that the previous couple of years brought in the sector have completely changed the sector's dynamics and are surely here to stay for the foreseeable future. LIFELONG LEARNING VIA SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES The education landscape today is vastly different even from …

Online classroom: How students can build an engaging virtual experience
3 years, 11 months ago

Online classroom: How students can build an engaging virtual experience

India Today  

For as long as we can remember, learning has taken place in the classroom. Studies have revealed that students who learn online perform just as well as their peers in brick and mortar classrooms, as physical location is not the only determining factor of a holistic learning environment. With online learning, the focus benefit lies in giving students control of …

From real-time learning to sustainability and innovation: How B-schools rewriting curriculum in post-Covid era
4 years, 2 months ago

From real-time learning to sustainability and innovation: How B-schools rewriting curriculum in post-Covid era

India TV News  

The pandemic has forced several business schools to rewrite their curriculum to move forward in the new session. To foster analytical and critical thinking abilities of students and help them make data-based decisions and inculcate cross-cultural perspectives so they can function seamlessly in a global business environment, business schools are focusing majorly on working on real-time projects with industry professionals …

Revolution of Online Education: Advantages And Disadvantages
4 years, 3 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 problems you can face in online learning and how to deal with them
4 years, 4 months ago

5 problems you can face in online learning and how to deal with them

India Today  

The Covid-19 pandemic and the prolonged lockdown induced by it has made working as well as studying from home the new normal. All stakeholders, including students, teachers and institutions are forced to overcome challenges that have come with this sudden and often hastily executed online learning programmes. In online learning, assessing students through a Multiple-Choice Question mechanism is still feasible …

Debunking five common myths about online-learning
4 years, 6 months ago

Debunking five common myths about online-learning

India Today  

Amid Covid-19 pandemic, online learning is taking over the world because of its availability, accessibility, convenience, and flexibility. Online learning is shrouded in myths that make it difficult for learners to accept it as a better alternative to traditional classroom education. Online-Learning is complicated and incomplete Students stay away from online courses because they believe that the instructor is never …

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 …

5 ways to make online education more relevant in higher education amid Covid-19 pandemic
4 years, 7 months ago

5 ways to make online education more relevant in higher education amid Covid-19 pandemic

India Today  

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought an unprecedented crisis to the education landscape of the world. Most of the Brick and Mortar Higher Education Institutions digitally transformed themselves to provide learning experience to campus students via online teaching. Unlike conventional classroom, online classroom requires teachers to adopt certain instructional strategies such as pre and post class activities using Learning Management System …

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 …

The pandemic of online skill training: Tips to choose the right digital platforms
4 years, 10 months ago

The pandemic of online skill training: Tips to choose the right digital platforms

India Today  

Continuous learning is the key to stay relevant in the evolving education market no matter how challenging your circumstances are. Thanks to the evolution of online learning during the lockdown period, we are able to enhance our existing skills. In the not so distant past, handful of online learning platforms was available and students had no options left other than …

Human intervention in virtual studies: How students can make the best of online learning
4 years, 11 months ago

Human intervention in virtual studies: How students can make the best of online learning

India Today  

Due to the global pandemic caused by Covid-19, one of the sectors witnessing a major evolution is the education sector. It's great to see how teachers and students have adopted various platforms via which they can stay connected and conduct classes online for the collective benefit. One of the major challenges of online classes is that most often students can …

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, …

Industry Dialogue: Teachers Who Are Excellent in Classrooms Have Struggled on The New Stage
4 years, 11 months ago

Industry Dialogue: Teachers Who Are Excellent in Classrooms Have Struggled on The New Stage

News 18  

Editors' Note: The Industry Dialogue is a multi-part series by News18.com in which the industry talks about the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic and the challenges because of the COVID-lockdown, as well as the possible solutions and measures to get the economy back on track at the earliest. This medium was largely restricted to distance learning programs or new age …

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 …

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 …

The revolution of online learning
5 years, 4 months ago

The revolution of online learning

Times of India  

Prof. Sir Manuel Freire-Garabal y Núñez is a lawyer and journalist. That studies had shown that online learning is better than “face to face learning” and its implementation is being more effective because of the different technological and pedagogical systems that are being used, based on marketing and Big Data Systems. Although these issues can also appear in “face-to-face learning”, …

3 ways that how online training add value to your learning
5 years, 5 months ago

3 ways that how online training add value to your learning

India Today  

Online learning has become a fruitful solution for individuals who prefer knowledge and skills over degrees. Hands-on exercises and industrial project - Online trainings usually include a lot of assignments, assessment tests, code challenges, quizzes, and exercises to make way for active learning. Fortunately, online trainings ensure that you get a complimentary placement training along with any of the training …

Five online learning platforms furthering exam-preparation goals of government job aspirants
5 years, 6 months ago

Five online learning platforms furthering exam-preparation goals of government job aspirants

India Today  

As the world is witnessing rapid tech-led transformations, education, like any other sector, has also taken a highly dynamic shape. Five online learning platforms furthering exam-preparation goals of government job aspirants Let’s take a look at some of the leading e-learning platforms, which are truly making a difference: 1. Unacademy: This online ed-tech platform started in 2015, provides education through …

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 …

Online v/s offline learning: Which option is better for personalised learning
6 years, 3 months ago

Online v/s offline learning: Which option is better for personalised learning

Hindustan Times  

What’s plaguing the current education system? First and foremost is the emphasis on theory based rote learning where the focus is centered around securing good grades in examinations, rather than understanding, remembering and applying concepts in the real world. In two of the most watched TED Talks, Sal Khan, founder of non-profit Khan Academy, outlined a mastery-based learning vision, in …

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 …

Educational Delivery: Changing Left, Right & Centre
6 years, 10 months ago

Educational Delivery: Changing Left, Right & Centre

Deccan Chronicle  

Education technology and its delivery are going through a revolutionary change today. Experiential Brick & Portal Learning: As we proceed into a Knowledge Economy, and also a society which needs all the more reasons to interact and mutually empower one another, education is increasingly moving towards the right futuristic model in its delivery: Experiential Brick & Portal Learning. We need …

These 6 online degree courses from top universities of the world could help build your career: Here's how
6 years, 11 months ago

These 6 online degree courses from top universities of the world could help build your career: Here's how

India Today  

Online education is changing the way we learn in these times as jobs demand people who have the required skills needed for the job role even though schools and colleges often fail to teach them. Coursera, one of the most popular websites for online education, recently added six degree courses from some of the world's top universities -- in fields …

Untangling the web: The future of learning is online
8 years, 8 months ago

Untangling the web: The future of learning is online

The Hindu  

I was talking recently to a friend, who mentioned that she was doing an online course on Coursera about “learning to learn”. So, many people I speak to nowadays are doing some sort of online course or the other – learning a language, learning a skill, or simply rediscovering their love for astronomy, physics, literature because they weren’t able to …

Another look at massive online open courses
12 years, 11 months ago

Another look at massive online open courses

China Daily  

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we talked about Massive Open Online Courses, also called MOOCs. SCOTT ANDERSON: "There are parts that will be fine, insofar as mostly when students listen to a lecture, there is no special reason why they need to be physically present to hear and get it. LISA JADWIN: "What's lost in …

Another look at massive online open courses
12 years, 11 months ago

Another look at massive online open courses

China Daily  

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Last week, we talked about Massive Open Online Courses, also called MOOCs. SCOTT ANDERSON: "There are parts that will be fine, insofar as mostly when students listen to a lecture, there is no special reason why they need to be physically present to hear and get it. LISA JADWIN: "What's lost in …

Getting a free education, in huge online classesdownload
13 years ago

Getting a free education, in huge online classesdownload

China Daily  

This is the VOA Special English Education Report. For example, students around the world are taking a free course called "Building a Computer Search Engine." DAVID EVANS: "Quizzes are part of the lecture to keep students engaged and keep them thinking, for students to be able to check that they understood what we covered. DAVID EVANS: "Part of what I …

An iPad University: Giving It the Old College Try
13 years, 8 months ago

An iPad University: Giving It the Old College Try

Wired  

When you think of an online degree, you might imagine a pajama-clad thirty-something, clicking through slides on a text-filled screen, occasionally watching an instructional video or lecture to spice things up. "You can do everything on the iPad app that you could do on your laptop," says Sundt, associate dean of academic programs at USC's Rossier School of Education. "It's …

An online course opens up a virtual world of opportunities
13 years, 11 months ago

An online course opens up a virtual world of opportunities

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. She is studying for a BA in international business …

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