Education In Digital Era

Abstract

   This paper explores student’s view on the effectiveness of online learning and how it has transformed their lives for better and for worse. A self-made questionnaire was used for data collection from students of graduate level. A total of 30 students completed the study by using their first-hand experiences. It was observed from their responses that one of the virtues of online learning is that it had opened the gates of multitudinous educational platforms which enabled students of all backgrounds to take advantage of it. Not all students find online learning as a boon in their academics due to various physical, mental and social hindrances that it possesses in the life of a student. The study also throughs light on the dying peer interaction and student teacher exchange that was a crucial asset in traditional learning. It also dug up a rough estimate on how many learners actually own proper digital tools required to be a part of this transforming age and what consequences they face when they lack such resources. The aim of these findings is also to provide ample data for further improvement in the field of Online Learning that has become a part of exceeding households in the country. The study can also be used to analyse the adjustment of the students from their traditional teaching learning environment to a new found digital world and to prepare suitable tools to assist this transitioning.

Keywords- Online learning; Teaching technology; Innovative teaching; Student–centred teaching; Digitalisation; Computer-assisted learning; Self learning packages; Curriculum Mapping; multitudinous educational platforms; lecture capture software.