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Mobile Media: A New Member Of Modern technology and its contribution to E-Learning

vIntroduction

The Information and Communication Technology witnessed a remarkable growth in the second half of the past century and in the recent years the delivery of education along with the world of professionalism has seen a rapid transformation on the impact of this technology.

Higher Learning used to be a field reserved for a few who got access to the high towers but nowadays education is gradually thrown open with unlimited possibilities for everyone.

vThe Modern Approach

Educational technology is the effective use of technological tools in learning. As a concept, it concerns an array of tools, such as media, machines and networking hardware. Nowadays, a tool for Educational Technology which is mostly used is “E-Learning’’

E-Learning is an educational tool used to study, learn and practice with the online available resources for E.g. Educomp.

With the advanced approaches the educational institutions nowadays offer satellite tutorials for students to study.

In the colleges, students specially opt for distance education, which is nothing but E Learning.

As the technology is moving ahead of the modern times, continuing the tradition of E-Learning most companies have introduced a concept of Mobile Learning (M-Learning), M Learning is accepted worldwide as a new way of Learning across multiple contexts, through social and content interactions, using personal electronic devices.

M-Learning has impacted the E-Learning Industry so much that most of the traffic of the information seekers comes from mobile apps and other devices.

When we talk about teacher learner interaction, for this purpose the companies have launched various platforms such as discussion forums, Screen Sharing software where teacher as well as other students can interact.

Most successful examples that are trending nowadays are Coursera-A Free Online Learning Platform, Team Viewer-A software for screen sharing, Skype- A VOIP service for Internet Calling and conferences. 

For the educational Institutions, E-learning makes good use of database and CMS (Content Management System) technologies. These two work hand in hand to store your course content, test results and student records. The data is stored in the database and the CMS provides a user interface for you to add, update and delete data. A good LMS will often provide reporting tools to generate and store progress reports.

vSocial Media Rules and Tools For E learning and Changing Scenario\

Social media is basically a structure that consists of individuals, communities, companies or organizations with similar interests, attitudes, values, lifestyles, visions and friendships and in the field of eLearning this structure can be used in various ways and through a number of tools.

Let’s see the most popular ones:

•  Facebook
The instructor can effortlessly create a closed or an open group, to share information, ideas, quizzes, questionnaires, materials, pictures, or even an entire page on a specific course or module. Students can freely talk about various course-related issues, questions they might have, post mutually interesting information and generally things they want to share. 

·     Twitter
In eLearning it can be used as a backchannel to connect learning communities or smaller classrooms over a specific topic or event, to share highlights, make statements, upload pictures, etc. All instructors have to do is create an account and communicate its #hashtag to their students/followers. 

·        LinkedIn
This is a purely professional, yet still social network, which has proven to be extremely useful in eLearning. Currently there are thousands of discussions and groups in various languages, where instructors, educators and influencers share views, problems, developments and how-to tips

These are some of the trending tools that have completely changed the way and meaning of education through E-Learning via different platforms. These platforms are also used to disseminate information to the public through apps and other sources of mobile media.

vConclusion:

In this world we are made to believe that internet-based courses can be efficient and ultimately an inexpensive way to deliver quality education, and cater to the vast number of learners anytime and anywhere without any problems and disturbances.

These are the trends that guarantee more app traffic of companies than website traffic.

Mobile Media will move hand in hand with the fastest growing technology and will create, Motivate and educate new people and will also change the present trends for education.

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