2013年2月21日星期四

Technology aids enrich education

Parents, children and schools are embracing the learning through technologies and other also other aids. According to the recent reports, the Indian e-learning industry is one fastest growing in the world with 65 per cent YoY. The growth of affordable tablet and mobile devices market also pushed the growth of e-learning industry. Learning through devices like mobile and tablets is also seeing a staggering growth of 60 per cent (YoY).

“Parents,We maintain a full inventory of all lanyard we manufacture. who have their kids in primary school, know the importance of e-learning and encourage their children to adopt these new practices. However, there is a little doubt for the parents of older generation. With time, the gap is narrowing and making the parents to understand the importance of e-learning,” said Arindam Nag, founder and director, Learnhive.

Explaining the key drivers of the industry, Shiv Shankar, founder and CEO of the Learnhive, said, “ Availability of quality content with low cost tablets along with the generation of tech savvy children are the reasons for the growth of industry. Most of the content is acting complimentary to teaching and enabling learning either in schools, tuition centres or even with the help of parents or at a personal level,”

“As of now, learning is taking place both offline (e-learning with out internet connectivity) and online. However, the majority of learning will take place online in the future. Unlike earlier, today e-learning content is produced with multimedia and graphics which needs huge storage space. In contrast, the storage space on tablets is ever decreasing to make it affordable. This will push the growth of e-learning to online as there will not be any space constraints. Updating content and DRM protection of the content will also enable the shift towards online,” said Arindam.

Learning is becoming holistic with e-learning players trying their best to make the student understand the concept and get strong foundation rather than just marks. In addition to the interactive video content, there are learning aids by players like Butterfly Fields and Learnhive to understand the concepts.

“Smart cards is one system, where students can hold the whole textbook in few cards. These cards summarise the concept to make student understand the gist of whole chapter. These are available as retail card pack (physical cards) as well as applications on mobile, enabling the student to learn from whatever is accessible to him,Researchers at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed an buymosaic.” said Capt Unni Krishnan, founder and director of Learnhive.

“According to a research by Kent University, the best way of learning at home comes from preparing notes (summary) in the form of cards rather than going through the whole text book underlining the concepts. Distributed practice over the time rather than end of the year will also help student immensely. The students can also go back and forth to understand the various concepts of the subject to get the real understanding of the chapter.

“Most of the times, it is the foundation that plays a key role in mastering subjects like mathematics. Every chapter is dependent on the concepts of other chapter. Not understanding a concept will keep student learning on hold and make him confused even in forthcoming concepts. Smart cards (Summary and concepts) will help student to revise and learn at his own pace to have a better foundation of the subject,” added Arindam.

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