Life Can Be Easy And Flexible With Mobile Learning

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With the rapid growth in technology, new and innovative learning devices are getting introduced to the academia, and as a result, students as well as teachers are now able to adopt unconventional learning techniques. It’s been quite some time that tablets and smartphones have made their presence felt among digital learners, instructors and even employers. Now, it’s the trend of mobile learning that is making people of all ages study with absolute convenience and that too without getting compelled to attend classrooms.

Mobile learning has reached millions already

Well, it is news that mobile learning has now reached millions all over the world, and experts have predicted that it will continue to grow in the coming years. Smart devices like kindles and e-readers have already brought major changes in our communication processes. Now, they are moving ahead to bring new e-learning experiences for students who would be able to upgrade themselves unconventionally unlike the classroom learners.

E-learners should now kick off with their lessons not with desktop or a laptop but with a mobile device. In fact, this would help them pursue their mobile learning sessions with ease and convenience. However, it’s a new concept in the world of education and a lot of people are still unaware of it. So, if you are new to mobile learning, here are a few steps you should keep in mind that would let you to pursue a mobile learning course with ease:

• Look for good smartphones – Today, such smartphones have hit the market that can help students learning easy and fun.

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pursue any course from any corner of the world. These phones come with special apps that are designed to ease the learning experiences of students as well as those who work. So, look for smartphones that come with a wide array of features that can make

• Use a device inclining towards mobile ‘delivery’ – Make sure that you are using such a learning device that involves both learning and leisure. Whether it’s a tablet or a smartphone, it must be effective enough to let you study anywhere and anytime you wish. You might prefer going through your lessons during your lunch yours at work. So, your phone should have those supportive features that can let you learn with unlimited flexibility.

• Keep your content compressed – What the majority of today’s online learning providers are doing is that they are making study materials available for students who are able to collect them easily through various resources whenever they want. What’s in fact best about this process is that one can make use of his/her smartphone and access a certain amount of the study material and not the entire thing he/she wants.

• Try using ‘touch’ devices – To be honest, there is no time for people to wait till the laptop is switched on so that they can connect to the web and access their course lessons. Rather, digital touch devices are proving to be more useful and faster for new age learners and working professionals. In this respect, using a smartphone can indeed be a superb strategy for all those who want to pursue a mobile learning course without hassles.

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So, you see how e-learning today can be conducted through smartphones. Rather, using such smart devices can let you work and study at the same time and that too with more interest and pleasure. Even accredited universities today have started considering smartphones for their online learners and this shows how digital education is gradually achieving importance on a global scale.

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Virtual Classrooms Are Equally Effective In Terms Of Interactive Connectivity

With the speedy acquisition of space in education sector, online learning is covering almost the complete public needs for intellectual, emotional and spiritual growth. But one might have in mind whether online learning can replace the in-person interactions, common in in-person classrooms. When one studies online his living room turns out to be his lecture hall, and online chat as student bar, and the computer screen as the interactive window. So, distance learning is not any isolated session of learning without the scope of mutual enrichment from peer-assisted, co-operative learning experience.




Online Community     
   

Virtual classrooms are actually a passive formation of online community that grows with the course of time. Online forums, Social Site Groups are but the online communities gathered online to share views among them. The communities encourage discussions on several problem areas in their course content, and make efforts towards peer-assisted solutions.

Unlike in-person classrooms the tutorials and lectures and supports from the lecturers takes online form in virtual classrooms where the students are not mere audience with no reactions towards the course content. Rather, online distance learning takes the shape of an interactive session between the teacher and the students physically distant from one another, yet connected with the chain of learning interest.


Supports from e-Tutors

Tony Priest who is a course director for the foundation degree in drug and alcohol counselling at the University of Leicester says on “e-tutors” to give support to the students, “Each e-tutor has a certain number of students who they follow through their comments on the discussion boards and answer their questions. They’ll also contact them if they don’t appear for a while and ask if they have problems and how they can help.” Some distance learning programmes give enormous emphasis on time spent on campus, and letting considerable time use on understanding each other’s problem zone. Distance learning, therefore, not merely a session conducted from distance any longer. It actually involves students to get in touch of their peers on account of their mutual benefits.


Students’ Unions are Immensely Supportive
 

The most noteworthy part in this regard is that the universities designing their online curriculums for distance learning programmes are supportive towards the online students with generous backups provided to them via students’ unions. They also provide access to student counsellors through Skype. One is getting all types of information and solutions to his problems from the counsellor even though he is communicating with his counsellor online. Practically, there is no difference in effect. The difference is all in process and medium.

The maximum benefits online students can ascertain from their learning programme through the self-motivated study, engaging the peer students in every little affair in the process. Being online the possibility even becomes bigger. One can get in touch of his teacher, counsellors and friends continuously, even on the go.

The benefits of technology in online learning are immeasurable. The development of mobile learning has made the advantages of unperturbed connectivity intact whereon one remains always attached to one’s course content, teachers as well as peer students. The interactive effects are, therefore, not any less in online distance learning. Of course, the style and mode is different from the on-campus learning sessions.

Summaries:


 

A) online learning is as effective as offline one in terms of interaction

Online learning involves as much interactive benefits as any on-campus course. Here, in distance education the style and mode of interactions are different. But, at the end of the day the process serves all requirements of online students.



B) Online distance education complies to the every communicative requirements

The modern technological developments supply every requirement online students need to communicate with each other, and with their teachers and counsellors. Online students enjoy the full session of collective connectivity like the ones in any campus-based course.

C) Distance education is no inferior so far interactive utilities are concerned

In terms of connectivity among students and between students and teachers online distance education is far above than being any inferior to the on-campus education. The techniques and medium of communication is only different.


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http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/nov/13/human-interaction-distance-learning

Apple store (iOS) or Google Play, who’s got better education apps?

There is a very interesting fact which recently came up regarding the Apple Store and Google Play. The fight between the two was on since beginning and however, it is true that the Apple Store have experienced larger sales than that of Google Play, still the latter is seen to be growing much more rapidly than the former one. The growth is so swift that we can now expect to see Google Play overhaul the Apple Store in the near future.

According to a study by the App Annie, an app analytics firm, it is quite evident that the Apple Store in no doubt experiencing four times greater revenues than that of Google Play but still the apps in Apple Store isn’t growing at an interesting rate. In fact, the Google Play store has an annual growth of 311% as compared to iOS, whose growth was just 12.9% in the year of 2012.

Educational Apps in Google Play and Apple Store

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The apps in Apple Store and Google Play are many and among them, the educational ones have attracted a lot of users around the globe. For example, the Kid Science Frog Dissection in the Apple Store now allows seeing how the body of a frog works with the help of videos and audio messages. It is an absolutely no smell and no mess procedure and also if you want to do the dissection yourself live, you can follow the step-by-step instructions given in the app and then carry on with the same.

Math Bingo is another app on the Apple Store which aids the little ones to learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and much more about mathematics in an easy and fun way. Here, the users can choose from three different levels, i.e. hard, medium and easy and likewise can carry on with the same.

If you hated Physics in schools and if you believed that it is the toughest subject in your curriculum, then you should try out the Monster Physics on your iPhone. Help your kids to learn physics in a fun way with this app. It is now easy to make cranes, design cars and rocket ships and operate them with the help of this app.

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Google Play recently launched its Google Play for Education where they have made it easier for the educators to teach their students and the learners to get used to their subjects in a better way. It has apps for kids as well as for adults. For e.g. the Monkey Preschool Lunchbox is loved by the kids all around the globe. It consists of 5 different educational games for the preschoolers and it teaches them about colour, counting, letters, matching and differences.

The VCE Mobile is an equally important educational app for the grownups. It prepares the users for IT Certification while on the go. Here, one can take the tests from the .vce files. With the multiple choice questions, it helps the users to revise their lessons to a great extent.

If it becomes tough for your son or daughter to solve the algebra at his/her school, buy them the Math Algebra Solving Calculator from the Google Play. Now, it will solve all the algebra problems and the results are so accurate that the teachers will not make a fuss in accepting them. It can solve each and every kind of algebra problems.

Mobile Learning: The 21^st Century Learning

The revolutionary invention is here. The much awaited Mobile learning is being introduced in various schools and colleges across the globe. It has actually simplified the whole process of learning and teaching. Now, with the help of various mobile apps, students have started grasping their lessons much more swiftly.

The iPod touch is assumingly the most exclusive mobile learning device which comes with an in-built Wi-Fi and thus the user can go through the various eBooks and applications to support his/her subjects.

Mobile Learning has actually made things easier in education. Not only one can use it in the classrooms, but now, with the help of various online courses, one can make use of mobile learning from home as well. Even the topmost universities are offering their courses in distance mode these days and now the learners can simply get their degree at the comfort of their home.

Hence, with the help of mobile learning, even the online courses are taking a big leap towards globalisation. One now needs to have just a mobile device and earning a college or university degree will not be a problem for him anymore.

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