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Friday, August 31, 2018

E-Learning and Digital Initiatives – Reviving the Indian Education System


By the turn of century, the Indian educational sector has witnessed a gigantic change and continues to evolve at a steady pace. Since inception, education sector has been given utmost importance; however the growing imbalance of the student-teacher ratio stands to be a major concern in meeting the objective of imparting education to all. Also, traditional education has failed to transform itself in order to be relevant for today’s educational requirements. With the advent of technological innovations, E-learning and digital platforms are playing a crucial role in helping to bring a step change to ensure quality education for everyone.

With the passage of time and increased availability, the changing trends in education sector have created a broader choice for the students. Independent researchers suggest that by the end of 2018, the e-learning sector in India is expected to reach $1.29 billion, which is a staggering growth of seventeen percent. E-learning is a revolutionary concept which assists to deliver impactful courses that are fun and engaging. Incorporating e-learning into education sector have also helped to increase the IT skills of the teaching staffs. As the majority of workplaces have transformed into digital workplaces, e-learning is becoming widely popular platform in delivering education effectively.

The Paradigm Shift

Traditional education systems are slowly losing their relevance as both students and educators are embracing what e-learning offers – convenience, personalization, and agility. Merging education with technology has opened new gateways in terms of reach, quality, and awareness. The rapid increase of robust internet ecosystem has been an important catalyst for the growth of e-learning platform in the country. Other prominent factors like Government initiatives, multitude of local and global players is assisting e-learning make further inroads. The education sector is witnessing a paradigm shift from a one-size-fits-all factory approach, to a much more agile and tailored form of learning. Innovations like e-books, e-content, e-learning technologies have introduced a plethora of developments in the existing teaching methodologies.

Tapping New Horizons

As the number of internet users in India soars above five hundred million, India’s potential as a huge e-learning market is enormous. Majority of new users are accessing internet from their smartphones which is an ideal, personalized and commerce-enabled platform for e-learning education. Working as a cohesive unit, platform providers have played the role of content providers and curators of online modules. Emerging business models have further broadened the scope of online education in India. The C2C model provides a platform that connects prospective teachers with students whereas B2B business model offer higher education, where institutes accredit degree or diploma courses to students either through their own platform or by collaborating with third party aggregators.

Emerging Categories in Online Education

Although online education sector is witnessing a steady growth, few key categories are dominating the online education sector and are the driving force to enhance e-learning in India. Some of the mentionable categories are:

Primary and Secondary Education

Adoption of online supplementary courses alongside tuitions and classroom training is on a high note. Evolving consumer behavior is the major reason for this upsurge. Majority of science students are adopting this mode as it helps them for preparing for competitive exams in addition to the school curriculum.

Test Preparation

This category has the potential to be the highest growing sector in online education as it can evolve as a genuine substitute or supplement to the existing offline test preparation market. Independent researchers predict that online test preparation market is expected to be an eleven billion USD market by 2021.

Reskilling and Online Certifications

The online reskilling and certification market is growing at a steady pace due to the requirement from the professionals in corporate sectors. Continuous evolving technologies and demand from new entrants to the workforce is another prime reason for high demand.

Higher Education

Innovative learning technologies like virtual labs provide convenient access and increases acceptance of online education in the higher education sector. MBA and MCA courses are dominating the higher education sector in online domain.

Language and Casual Learning

The online language learning space is driven by the demand of learning English and other foreign languages. Language courses have a higher adoption rate as compared to other hobby related courses. The learning market is expected to grow further as industry players come up with newer, differentiated alternatives.

Future Prospective

Technology is leading to a revolution as every student is getting exposed to a world-class education system, something which is not available in the traditional system. With computers and digital elements entering the classrooms, students are finding it more exciting and easy to adapt the new environment. Innovative digital tools, applications, tablets, and laptops have transformed learner’s education process and delivery procedures as they are more engaging, entertaining and exploring. Evolution of ed-tech sector has made it possible for education to be accessed from anywhere and anytime. The ratio of online education in the rural sector is on a high trajectory as a result of affordable high-speed internet and direct-to-device-technologies are empowering students to access quality education. Going forward, there would be a convergence of digital and physical worlds, as internet becomes more flexible and accessible to everyone.



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Educational Videos: A Digital Touch to Our Future Education System


It has been always said that the learning is the only way to get to know the world around us and constitute us to be well aware and well knowledged about the multi-dimensional propositions of it. The process of learning starts at a very tender age and we always thought there has to be the most effective way to make the learning process simple and potent, and there comes the importance of digital media! Digital media is making its way through almost every sector of our lives and education too, is not far from its reach as this is the most constructive and fastest growing sector. Educational Videos are too perfect to get its way for spreading knowledge among the kids, but the best part is that, it is not strictly confined to this section only.

Improvise Education System

The growth and strategies of education have changed with the time. The learning process has recently taken diverse turns. Presently, we are at the mid of the digital era and as a matter of fact, our way of teaching and learning has taken a different dimension. The first change came with designing books with pictures and then it became more colourful to make it more relatable to the kids. Now, with the advancement of digitalization, we have taken a step forward towards digital learning and educational videos and animated videos, which are getting significant importance and immense success among the kids.

The Benefits of Educational Videos

We all know the concept of educational videos. But now comes the query, how it can be beneficial to the users, as they are mostly kids! Let us delve into the detail:

Educational videos have a great potentiality to be the best medium for learning, as they can create a visual impact, and sensory impact is the most powerful medium for learning and most trustworthy too.

Educational videos grab the attention of the kids like no other mediums. This becomes the smoothest way to help them learn. Mostly kids are inattentive to boring methods like explaining or teaching or preaching. But with something in motion in front of them, it at once catches the attention of them.

It is a more effective way to remember things. Yes, it is a fact that once you see something that remains in your heart for a long time, rather than mugging something without understanding or even realizing. Such videos can help in pictorial stimulation among the kids.

Educational videos save a lot of time and do not force the kids to spend hours seating impatiently. Or on the contrary, help the kids learn a lot in apparently lesser time.
  • The one big favour educational videos have done for the kids, is to relieve the poor souls from the black and white world of the classroom teaching.
  • We all agree that there are a lot of things to learn apart from the syllabus and such videos create the opportunity to learn extra curriculum activities with ease.
  • It is a cost-effective learning. This is one of the major facts that can create a great future for digital learning in a country like India. In interiors, where the schooling system is too feeble, educational videos can create the option of higher studies or to avail multiple courses.
Is it only a Medium for the Kids and Children?

Interestingly a lot of people have the thought in mind that educational videos are for the kids, which only help them in their initial learning days. But we often forget digital media can never have that minimal reinforcement in the field of education. This can be a great way to spread the knowledge among the old ones also. Even in rural areas, where you cannot come up with a structural educational system like schools and other institutions, to provide adequate knowledge to the poor farmers or fishers about the latest technologies in their respective fields, educational videos can do the trick. It can be a great encouragement in women literacy too, in villages and interiors. Educational videos help students from all over the world to get the degrees from prestigious institutions nowadays, making the doors wide open for global education. Thus we can say at once that the digital education and the use of educational videos have their wide-stretched arms to embrace all!

The digital enhancement is everywhere. It has become part and parcel of our lives and education being the most formidable sector, cannot be devoid of its touch. India is growing rapidly digitally, making us curious how many more ways it can touch the lives of a country like India. Aspiring on the current scenarios, we are awaiting the glorious day when every kid of our nation will be digitally educated.



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