My Reflections on ED403 sessions

  Session 2: Learning Resources and Technologies The common goal to make quality education accessible to all irrespective of their physical demographic ensured continuous growth of distance learning. The advent of latest technologies supporting such learning continues to improve day-by-day that now many are more comfortable learning outside of traditional classrooms. This led to an escalating demand for more online educational platforms by educators and learners to ensure active engagement and quality learning taking place. Using online educational platforms, quality and enriched lessons are delivered in real times (synchronous) via some conferencing tool or recorded and shared (asynchronous) so that students are engaged at their comfortable chairs. It becomes extremely important for the educator to ensure the learning goal and pedagogies used along with the digital tools are kept at the focus of learning instead of incorporating a tool that does not support quality learning. Hen...

New technologies are emerging at a rapid rate and are continuously providing platforms for students and teachers to teach and learn in the way the future demands them. Employers have opted to integrate more advanced technologies into workstations to improve the overall output of daily operations. Hence, the chain goes back and it becomes the prime responsibility of Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) to produce graduates who have sound knowledge of the use of technologies. Although technologies or digital tools used during teaching and learning may not be directly used in the work field, some hands-on experience will surely help graduates adopt more advanced technologies. In recent times, it would be difficult to have a course offered by an HEI without using any technology. The use of technology in the course opens more options to teach the same content in multiple styles maintaining the standard to the highest level. Not only that, integrating technology enables more student engageme...