The two important educational themes that surfaced in 2020 are the National Education Policy (NEP) that delves about the shift from classic rote finding out to applications or abilities-based finding out, enabling students to have more flexibility in the way they want to create their education path and the encouragement from the UGC and the AICTE on the use of digital options that meet the needs for high-quality education delivered on the internet.
Globally also quite a few institutions have transitioned away from focusing on just rote finding out, ordinarily in a class setting, and are now focusing on abilities-based education and personalised finding out.
“While educational institutions in India are trying to innovate as far as dissemination of education is concerned, the question many are facing now is how do they make that smooth transition from their existing course syllabus and material in a manner that does not deviate too much from what they are used to for decades? As they explore ways to change the way they teach, naturally more will turn to digitising education,” says Prem Das Maheshwari, enterprise director, South Asia, D2L (the corporation that delivers the Brightspace on the internet finding out platform to educational institutions). “Learning management systems such as the Brightspace enable institutions to structure learning according to the needs based on their skill-levels and preferences of individual students.”
Learning management systems, in common, develop an atmosphere that is centred about student finding out outcomes, student and faculty engagement, while the automation capabilities relieve faculty of mundane tasks, enabling them to concentrate on delivering powerful finding out.
Moving forward, Maheshwari says, there will be an uptake of blended finding out due to the fact it delivers the advantage of each digitisation and in-particular person communication. “Faculty members will also need the right training support, hardware and software to enable them to teach and evolve their roles in education,” he adds.
He also says that text notes are a passé. “Animated videos, interactive content, bite-sized videos and gamified content—these are the means that students employ to consume content today. The engagement in online learning goes far beyond just content upload and download, and video delivery to replicate the face-to-face classroom.”
Learning is currently becoming more collaborative specifically in the virtual atmosphere, involving peers and involving teachers and learners, moving away from lecture-style one-way delivery. Online finding out, Maheshwari says, tends to make students more empowered as they can set their personal finding out paths. “With technology, students in the same course can choose what they want to learn as a sub-course—if it’s something they like, it’s more likely that they will excel in it,” he says.
As far as the important variables that are accelerating the development of the e-finding out business are concerned, Maheshwari says that in 2020 quite a few educational institutions in India had to urgently react to the pandemic, by a flurry of video calls and distribution of soft copy supplies, just to retain the classes on. In the method, he says, a lot of them found the proper tools for education continuity. “We have seen that the level of understanding of online teaching and learning tools has increased.”
D2L’s Brightspace finding out management technique, Maheshwari adds, is a UGC-compliant platform with exceptional capabilities and functionalities that allow Indian universities to provide state-of-the-art finding out and teaching experiences to their students and faculty. “Having worked with more than 1,500 customers, supporting more than 15 million learners globally, we (D2L) are an education-centred company,” he says. “Moving classes from the traditional classroom-based structure to an online space was not an easy task, but we have helped schools and higher education institutions make that switch successfully, with guidance throughout.”