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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