How Digital Learning Can Help Deliver Better Results In Universities

Digital Learning In Universities
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Summary: With changing times, technological advancements have revolutionized how we consume information on a daily basis. In this article, we’ll discuss how digital learning can help universities educate their students better and make life easier for them.

Implementing Digital Learning In Universities

With changing times, technological advancements have revolutionized how we consume information on a daily basis. Traditional classroom instruction and training have simply become obsolete in a world where students have access to information all the time through technology. These technological advancements have also led to universities becoming competitive and joining the digital revolution by implementing digital learning facilities. As the higher education industry is one of the strongest pillars of academic as well as professional learning and development worldwide, its acknowledgment of digital learning as being the most accessible and efficient method of acquiring knowledge in modern times, and the subsequent application of digital learning facilities in universities, matters a lot. In this article, we’ll discuss how digital learning can help universities educate their students better and make life easier for them.

1. By Offering Students Freedom From The Constraints Of Location And Time

There are a number of young students as well as working professionals in universities who would benefit from not having to sit in a physical classroom for several hours each day. Fortunately, digital learning allows such students to connect with their teachers regardless of location and time. Using smartphones and other mobile technologies, these students can attend live lectures by teachers on their devices, access recorded lectures, or even take eLearning courses based on the day’s lectures. This helps students learn at their own pace, in a comfortable environment of their own choice, and at a time of their own choosing.

2. By Allowing Students To Learn According To Their Own Learning Styles

Every person learns in their own individual way. How an individual learns is called a learning style. Although there is much debate on the number of learning styles there are, most experts acknowledge and agree that there are at least four, including visual learners (those who learn by watching), audial or auditory learners (those who learn by listening), textual learners (those who learn by reading and writing) as well as kinesthetic learners (those who learn by doing things). Digital learning offers students the choice to learn according to their own learning style. Visual learners can learn via video-based learning courses and images, audial learners can listen to narration in digital learning courses, textual learners can use reading and writing to learn, while kinesthetic learners can use simulations in eLearning courses to directly apply learned knowledge in a virtual space and learn that way.

3. By Being More Affordable To Students Than Traditional Classroom Training

Digital learning is a tad more affordable than attending lectures in a physical classroom on a daily basis. It cuts back on travel expenses, books, stationery as well as course material, in addition to having to pay for accommodation in or around the university. Add up all that, and the average student ends up paying a lot less than what they’d have to pay if they attended university the traditional way.

4. By Delivering Lessons Faster And In A Shorter Amount Of Time

It is a fact proven time and again that digital learning courses can reduce the time required to learn a specific subject material by 25% (even as much as 60%) as compared to traditional teaching methods. This is made possible by the fact that content is more focused and concise and it is wrapped up in a single eLearning course, which means that the course material that was supposed to take weeks, now takes days. Secondly, students have the choice to study modules and courses which they deem relevant while skipping lessons and chapters they do not find relevant to their academic or professional goals.

Digital learning for universities can offer a number of benefits to students as well as the universities themselves, as mentioned above. Universities should seriously consider implementing digital learning in all of their colleges to ensure quality education and they should research their students before they are forced to do it out of sheer competition. And, students should appeal to their universities to provide them with digital learning facilities for better learning and knowledge retention. The changing times warrant universities to adjust their teaching strategies and make them more learner-centric, or else they will become obsolete and be lost in oblivion.

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Originally published at cblpro.com.