scholarly journals E-LEARNING MARKET FOR EDTECH STARTUPS AFTER COVID-19 IN INDIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (SI-1) ◽  
pp. 271-296
Author(s):  
Dr. Monika Bansal ◽  
Dr.Yogieta S Mehra
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Growth Trends ◽  
Market Growth ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Level Satisfaction ◽  
Awareness Level

Classroom teaching at every level viz., schools, higher education, coaching, and certifications saw a major setback due to pandemic COVID-19. Complete shutdown of classrooms was need of the hour to stop the spread of coronavirus. The current paper is an attempt to understand the various opportunities posed by pandemic for Edtech startups.  This paper attempts to understand the growth trends and growth drivers of Edtech industry in India. Current and popular Indian Edtech startups were reviewed to understand the market for Edtech companies. A survey was conducted to understand the perception of people towards Edtech startups with reference to their awareness level, satisfaction, customer database and market growth. Results have shown that digital learning has substantial potential to grow post- pandemic as well. The results here confirm the worth of EdTech startups in the current pandemic situation, and even after.

scholarly journals Usability and value of a digital learning resource in nursing education across European countries: a cross-sectional exploration

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad ◽  
Esther Navarro-Illana ◽  
Bjørg Oftedal ◽  
Katharine Whittingham ◽  
Santiago Alamar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Nursing Students ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Analysis ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
E Learning ◽  
The University

Abstract Background Higher education is responsible for providing education that meets international benchmarks relevant to the needs of the international community. Due to the increase of digital tools in higher education, the possibility of sharing learning resources across nations has expanded. In the current project, a Norwegian university invited universities in Spain and the United Kingdom to adapt and translate e-learning resources originally developed for Norwegian nursing students for use within their respective Bachelor in Nursing programmes. Aim The aim of the current study was to gain insights into the usability and value for learning of e-compendiums shared and implemented across three European universities. Methods The study adopted a descriptive cross-sectional design and included nursing students from the University of Nottingham, Valencia Catholic University, and the University of Stavanger. Data were collected in Autumn 2017 through a questionnaire adapted from the validated “Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Reusable Learning Object evaluation questionnaire” The questionnaire consisted of 19 items that included two aspects: e-compendiums’ value for learning and e-compendiums’ usability. The different study sites were compared using a binary logistic regression analysis. Subgroups of students were compared based on their gender and age. Results A total of 480 nursing students participated in the study. The e -compendiums were overall positively rated, especially for reinforcing and retaining knowledge. Compared to the students from the University of Stavanger, students from Valencia Catholic University rated the e-compendiums more positively in most aspects of learning. Students from University of Nottingham found the e-compendiums to be more important for learning engagement compared to students at the Norwegian study site, and no differences were found in any other aspects of learning. Younger students rated the interactivity and visual components as more important compared to older students. Conclusions Students from the University of Nottingham and Valencia Catholic University seem to accept the e-compendiums despite the fact that they were originally developed for use in another country. We argue that, when sharing e-learning resources across countries, an adaptation and translation process that includes a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective should be carried out.

scholarly journals Digital Learning Designs in Physiotherapy Education: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Bjerketveit Ødegaard ◽  
Hilde Tinderholt Myrhaug ◽  
Tone Dahl-Michelsen ◽  
Yngve Røe
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Traditional Classroom ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Flipped Classrooms ◽  
Traditional Classroom Teaching ◽  
Physiotherapy Education

Abstract Background: The extent that digital learning designs can improve learning outcomes has been increasingly emphasized in higher education over the last decade, but the research within physiotherapy education is limited. This study identified different types of digital learning designs and their effectiveness in physiotherapy education. Methods: The study was designed as a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and non-randomized trials. A search of eight databases on digital teaching and learning technology was conducted. Study selection, methodology and quality assessment were performed independently by three reviewers. The included studies were mapped according to the types of digital interventions and studies. For interventions that were similar, the learning effects were calculated using meta-analysis. Results: Fifteen randomized and five control trials were included in the review; 8 of 20 articles were included in the meta-analysis. The main digital learning designs were blended learning, flipped classrooms, e-learning course designs and Mobil learning designs (apps) using different digital tools, software and learning platforms. The evidence from two meta-analysis showed statistically significant effects: flipped classrooms on knowledge acquisition, SMD of 0.41 (95% CI 0.20, 0.62) and websites (apps) on practical skills, SMD of 1.06 (95% CI 0.70, 1.42). A meta-analysis of website and knowledge acquisition favoured traditional teaching, SMD of -0.59 (95% CI -1.20, 0.03), but this was not statistically significant. Overall, the effects indicated that digital learning designs are more or equally effective than traditional classroom teaching for achieving learning outcomes. Conclusions The findings of this review show various use of digital learning designs in physiotherapy education, ranging from e-learning using digital learning resources to more complex and coherent flipped learning designs. The results indicate that these designs improved or was equal effective compared to traditional classroom teaching. The meta-analysis revealed a significant effect on student learning in favour of flipped classrooms and websites (apps). However, these results must be confirmed in larger controlled trials or randomized controlled trials. Further research should investigate how digital learning designs can be used to facilitate students’ learning of practical skills and behaviour as well as learning retention, learning approaches and preferences for studying in digital learning environments.

scholarly journals New didactic solutions in conditions of higher education digitalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (118) ◽  
pp. 19-28
Author(s):  
Larisa N. Danilova ◽  
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Veronika E. Gaibova ◽  
Aleksander M. Khodyrev ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Future Of Education

The development of digital technologies leads to increasing of their distribution and spread in various areas of everyday life. One of those areas is education. It endures impact of digitalization, while trying to develop students' competencies needed for life in a digital society, and to adapt the capabilities of digital devices to their interests and needs. Their using in pedagogical practice depends directly not only on the educational institutions, but also on the teacher himself. Universities have been interested in E-learning elements since the early 2000s, but COVID-2019 has urged many of them to step up their work, which resulted to active creation of an E-learning environment. At the same time, many teachers feel insecure in the digital educational environment, have a view of possibilities of digital media and programs, their advantages in organizing lectures, seminars, practical classes and homework. It is obvious that digitalization of education is the future of education, and therefore teachers need to be informed and enlightened. The purpose of this article is to analyze a number of didactic aspects in digital education applied to universities. The paper shows the advantages and threats of such educational technologies, and shows the features of their application in higher education using specific universal examples. The authors note that despite the abundance of theoretical works on this topic in the world, there are very few empirical studies comparing separate models of digital learning with traditional ones, and their results are very contradictory. However, although the higher effectiveness of distance learning is not clearly proven, traditional didactic practices in higher education need to be modernized, and digital concepts will be improved to overcome their shortcomings.

scholarly journals Projektaktivitet som kompetenceudvikling

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-19
Author(s):  
Karen Harbo ◽  
Karin Jönsson Jönsson ◽  
Anne Sissel Vedvik Tonning
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Objects ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
University Libraries ◽  
Competency Development ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Academic Network ◽  
The University ◽  
Digital Learning Resources

Institutions of higher education have strategies on digitization and the use of digital learning resources for their teaching in place. One initiative from the university libraries aiming to operationalize such strategies is a three-year Nordplus project that was completed in the autumn of 2019. The libraries at Aarhus University, Lund University and the University of Bergen have worked together on the development of e-learning objects, and their implementation and evaluation. The aim of the project was to develop the library's teaching of information literacy in a co-creation between libraries, the academic community and students. This article will shed light on the prerequisites that must be met for competency development among participants in a project to take place. We present relevant research and literature, and take a closer look at the project's activities and processes. In the analysis we discuss our experiences in relation to the literature presented, and we conclude, among other things, that participating in a project is engaging and enhances quality in learning processes. We also believe that collaboration in a wider academic network for educational librarians in the future will contribute to a stronger and clearer position as an educational actor for Nordic libraries in higher education.

scholarly journals Predictors of perceived importance and acceptance of digital delivery modes in higher education

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Mertens ◽  
Joachim Stöter ◽  
Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Learning Technology ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Student Survey ◽  
Perceived Importance ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Digital Delivery

Teaching and assessment in higher education institutions are increasingly supported by digital tools and services. Students, however, perceive and value the importance of such e-learning offerings in very diverse ways. The goal of this article is to examine which predictors significantly influence students’ perceptions of the value of digital learning formats. Based on Küpper's acceptance model, we generate hypotheses that are subsequently tested using data from a German student survey. The results show that individual-related characteristics, especially motivation and orientation patterns of students, have a high impact on the perceived importance of digital learning formats. Our analyses indicate that besides individual performance and motivation, the practical orientation of a student is also a key predictor for a high rating of the importance of digital learning formats. An analysis of characteristics regarding the field of study shows that students who major in economic sciences, especially those who frequently work with digital learning formats in their classes, find them significantly more important than students who major in social science. Regarding innovation-based characteristics, students who express a need for flexible course offerings rate the use of digital learning formats as particularly important. The discussion provides an evaluation of the results of the student study based on the hypotheses and presents further implications.Keywords: digital learning formats; online learning; online learner characteristics; motivation; perceived benefit(Published: 15 April 2014)Citation: Research in Learning Technology 2014, 22: 23342 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/rlt.v22.23342

scholarly journals The Transformation to an Online Course in Higher Education Results in Better Student Academic Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Freire ◽  
Carolina Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Digital Learning Environment ◽  
Traditional Course ◽  
Student Academic Performance ◽  
The Face ◽  
E Learning

Pandemic-forced remote teaching has highlighted the relevance of redesigning planification in order to transform face-to-face into online courses in higher education. Indeed, the type of e-learning activities, e-assessment and development of student-centred active learning tasks remains a challenge. In this work we investigated the academic performance of an online learning environment in a course with high number of enrolled students carried out in the pandemic context in 2020 and compared it to the 2019 face-to-face version of the course. The e-learning version of the course included some changes regarding the face-to-face to allow active student learning, digital learning environment, knowledge enforcement, and further exploitation of the available activities in the Moodle platform as for the face-to-face course, although the syllabus remained unchanged. This study finds both synchronous and asynchronous problem-solving based e-learning together with self-assessment and team-based continuous and individual questionnaire assessments to be valuable instructional methods that allowed higher student academic performance in comparison to the face-to-face academic student results. Furthermore, the academic performance was directly related to the student participation in both team-based and individual activities during the course, demonstrating that the adaptation of the face-to-face course to the e-learning environment was, at least, as efficient as the traditional course, despite student resistance to e-learning and e-assessment.

scholarly journals TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN INTEGRATION AND INTERCONNECTION OF SCIENCE IN ISLAMIC HIGHER EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Muh Syauqi Malik
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Religious Knowledge ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Study Results ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Digital Learning Resources

Technological progress cannot be hindered because today, education is entering the industrial era 4.0 characterized by education that uses digital technology in the learning process. With the use of this technology, the learning process is not limited to space and time. The terms religious knowledge and general science should not exist. Science is one unit because its source is from the Koran. This study aims to explain technological innovation in the integration and interconnection of science in Islamic higher education. This research is a research library. Therefore, what is done is exploring several data by examining in-depth reference sources from national and international journal articles and reading books relevant to the research. The data collection method that researchers use is by collecting books, articles, journals, and opinions which reveal and study the Interconnection Integration. The study results indicate that the integration and interconnection of knowledge can be achieved if learning refers to the principles of integration between Hadarah an-Nash, Hadarah al-Ilm, and Hadarah al-Falsafah. Technological advances can be used to achieve these goals, such as e-learning, digital learning resources, and teleconferencing.

scholarly journals Integrating E-learning for Administrative Staff Professional Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Layla Ajrouh ◽  
Karima Slamti
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The World ◽  
Unstable Environment ◽  
E Learning

Online learning is increasingly solicited around the world within and across several sectors. It also involves higher education (HE), as it operates in a global, unstable environment, where communication and information technology are the fundamental keys. This study seeks to examine the Moroccan employees’ perception of this innovative way of learning and its impact on their professional development. It also aims at investigating the presence of distance learning as an approach growing in popularity within the administration of Moroccan universities. This qualitative study uses a semi-structured interview with 76 employees in seven Moroccan Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The results reveal that the majority of participants have rarely used online learning, in spite of their willingness and insistence on its positive impact on their professional progress. The interviewees reported their proactive view to accelerate the implementation of digital learning to meet the world standards, as it would also serve as an appropriate way for their continuous professional development and their ability to face critical situations. The present research shows the significant necessity of integrating new ways of learning in Higher Education Administrations (HEAs). The present work assumes the research hypothesis H1: e-learning is not promoted for employees’ career advancement in Moroccan HEAs. This study recommends an anticipatory vision to transgress any reticence to change, since online learning approach would bring more productivity and success for the administrations and the employees themselves, as well as closer institutional alignment with the revolutionary digital world.

A Case Study on Web-based Learning Environment Evaluation in Higher Education: Learner Perspectives in a Private University in Malaysia.

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-33
Author(s):  
Zarina Che Imbi ◽  
Tse-Kian Neo ◽  
Mai Neo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Private University ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Kirkpatrick’S Model

In the era of digital learning, multimedia-based classroom has been commonly used in higher education including Malaysian higher education institutions. A case study has been performed to evaluate web-based learning using Level 1 to 3 of Kirkpatrick's model in a multi-disciplinary course at Multimedia University, Malaysia. In this study, mixed method research was employed in which triangulation was performed from multiple sources of data collection to give deeper understanding. Students perceived that learning with multimedia was enjoyable. They were also motivated in learning and engaged through the use of web module as multimedia was perceived to motivate them and make learning fun. Students showed significant improvements in their knowledge based on the pre-test and post-test results on learning evaluation. Students were perceived to transfer the learning from web-based learning into the learning outcome. The systematic evaluation can provide the feedback that educators and institution as a whole need to improve the learning environment and programme quality. This study contributes to the research field by adding another perspective in evaluations of web-based learning. It also provides empirical evidence on student perspectives, learning and behaviour in a private university. It demonstrated that the Kirkpatrick's model is useful as an evaluation tool to be used in higher education.

USE OF BLENDED LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION – SOME EXPERIENCES

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
R J Singh
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Made In

This article reports on the use of blended learning in higher education. Blended learning has become popular in higher education in recent years. It is a move beyond traditional lecturing to incorporate face-to-face learning with e-learning, thereby creating a blend of learning experiences. The problem is that learning in higher education is complex and learning situations differ across contexts. Whilst there is face-to-face contact at some institutions, others offer distance learning or correspondence learning. In each context, the mode of learning may differ. The challenge is to cater for various learning opportunities through a series of learning interactions and to incorporate a blended approach. The aim of this study was to examine various ways of defining blended learning in different contexts. This was done through an examination of experiences of the use of blended learning in different higher education contexts. The study presents a case of blended learning in a postgraduate course. The experiences from all these cases are summarised and conclusions and recommendations are made in the context of blended learning in higher education in South Africa.

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