Most Valued Digital Skills to Fast Become an Online Teacher
More than ever before, up-skilling and upgrading to a digital teacher have become inexorable! What are those 10 digital skills a teacher needs to know in order to transform into
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Author: Rikisha Bhaumik
COVID-19 and Online Education in India: Trends and Emerging issues
A healthy trend for the growth of the online learning industry is on the cards, along with some issues.
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Online MBA Slowly Gaining Currency Among Professionals in India
Given its numerous benefits, the online MBA is increasingly becoming the preferred mode for acquiring the degree by working professionals in India, a positive sign for the e-learning companies who are trying to make a mark in the industry.
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How Mechanics of Gamification is Altering the Learning Dynamics in K-12 Segment
For more than a decade, the elements of game-design thinking has been utilized in varied fields for obtaining desirable outcomes. Gamification has been found to yield positive results in the formative learning stages of young learners in schools and hence being increasingly used by the EdTech companies.
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Can Open Educational Resources Take Education Beyond Utopian Equity & Quality?
Education is seen as the tool to bring progressive changes in society. However, the cost of access to quality learning material and teachers makes it sound more utopian than practical. Will then the concept of open educational resources (OERs) prove worthwhile for egalitarian goals of education?
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Automated Remote Proctoring, the Final Frontier of a Successful Online Learning Experience
Quality online learning can be ensured only with a fool proof, precise, and trustworthy examination. Automated remote proctoring therefore is a must for a viable online learning scenario. Are the latest technologies capable to provide such remote yet viable proctoring experience?
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10-Step Cycle for Online Teachers’ Professional Self-Development
Online teaching is emerging as a dynamic profession requiring constant upgradation of knowledge and skills to fit into the changing digital scenario. This requires online tutors to take charge of their own professional development.
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Expanding Smartphone User Base Good for M-Learning in India
Smartphones have become unarguably the strongest channel of modern communication, commerce and collaboration. They also carry tremendous possibilities to alter the course of instructional delivery via mobile learning.
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Whither E-learning, to Digital divide or to Digital Inclusion?
The unequal spread of technology is often blamed for creating a digital divide between those enjoying affordances of technology and others devoid of its benefits. E-learning is also accused of
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How Online Reskilling Courses Nurture the Idea of Lifelong Learning
The swiftly emerging technology-led education has rekindled the spirit of lifelong learning through making seamless education available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Online learning today has lent new meaning to the idea of lifelong learning.
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Blended Learning: The Way Forward Amid F2F-Online Conflict in India
Blended learning is the best way to fill the gaps of face-to-face and online modes of learning in India. The F2F classroom interaction is condemned for killing creativity and individualization
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10 Effective Strategies for Higher Learners Engagement in OLE
MOOCs and various online courses are often criticized for their high drop-out ratios and its inability to motivate learners to persist. These online courses often replicates monotonous face-to-face learning without overcoming its inefficiencies.
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10 Major Pedagogical Principles Shaping Online Learning
Online learning has been mooted as the most desirable form of learning these days. But why are they becoming so popular among the learners? Is it the technology that attracts the youth and professionals alike, or is it something beyond it?
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15 Reasons Why Online Courses Offer the Most Suitable Learning in Today’s Time
New digital times require new knowledge, understanding, and skills. Learning these skills require new ways of learning too! Online learning offers just the right mix to provide you with the most flexible, convenient and engaging environment in tune with the needs of the present and the future.
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Learning Management Systems, Tools of Today’s and Tomorrow’s Learning
While learning management systems are making it easy for the teachers to create, manage and monitor their online courses, it is also allowing learners to fully manage and track their own learning by opening up new doorways towards flexible and individualized learning. Its potential to completely replace face-to-face classroom teaching in coming times can’t be negated.
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Technology Driven Influences and Trends Changing Indian Education Spectrum
An ancestor from the previous century if happens to time travel would literally scratch his head on seeing everyone busy with their smart phones. These smartphones have also become a conduit for learning dissemination of late by integrating technological trends of many fields.
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MOOCs, an Educational Innovation Ensuring Greater Learners’ Participation Online
With potential to change the educational landscape, MOOCs are rising as an educational innovation. After an overwhelming initial response, MOOC providers are trying to sustain the momentum by bringing in more research and development using the latest technology backed by an effective pedagogy.
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Flexible Learning, a Concept That Truly Resonates With New India’s Educational Needs
There is a consensus towards convergence of technology leading to more flexible learning which is believed to inculcate higher order critical thinking skills and generate deep learning.
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