Engagement of young learners. Young children are still developing the ability to stay on task. Consequently, they may be easily distracted by too many special effects or animations in apps and have trouble completing the tasks required to learn. Ideally, apps should make effects contingent on, or in response to, an action taken by the learner.
For example, if a child taps on a picture of an apple, the app then would provide the initial sound of the word. To promote optimal engagement, material presented in an app should fall into the Goldilocks zone—that is, the material should be neither too challenging nor too easy.
Apps that optimize engagement promote intrinsic motivation and a growth mindset, or the desire to keep trying even when tasks are challenging because of a belief that practice leads to improvement. However, when apps provide stickers or a preferred activity upon the completion of a task, young learners may begin to need that external reinforcement and disengage from learning without it.
Meaningful learning. Apps that optimize learning ask children to go beyond rote memorization and perform more cognitively demanding skills, such as analyzing, evaluating, or creating.
To promote meaningful learning, apps can help young learners make connections between their own experience and new content. For example, an app may ask children to activate their prior knowledge of the animals they might see at a zoo before asking the students to create their own zoo.
With this sudden shift away from the classroom in many parts of the globe, some are wondering whether the adoption of online learning will continue to persist post-pandemic, and how such a shift would impact the worldwide education market. Whether it is language apps , virtual tutoring , video conferencing tools, or online learning software , there has been a significant surge in usage since COVID Tencent classroom, meanwhile, has been used extensively since mid-February after the Chinese government instructed a quarter of a billion full-time students to resume their studies through online platforms.
Other companies are bolstering capabilities to provide a one-stop shop for teachers and students. For example, Lark, a Singapore-based collaboration suite initially developed by ByteDance as an internal tool to meet its own exponential growth, began offering teachers and students unlimited video conferencing time, auto-translation capabilities, real-time co-editing of project work, and smart calendar scheduling, amongst other features.
To do so quickly and in a time of crisis, Lark ramped up its global server infrastructure and engineering capabilities to ensure reliable connectivity.
Media organizations such as the BBC are also powering virtual learning; Bitesize Daily , launched on 20 April, is offering 14 weeks of curriculum-based learning for kids across the UK with celebrities like Manchester City footballer Sergio Aguero teaching some of the content. While some believe that the unplanned and rapid move to online learning — with no training, insufficient bandwidth, and little preparation — will result in a poor user experience that is unconducive to sustained growth, others believe that a new hybrid model of education will emerge, with significant benefits.
There have already been successful transitions amongst many universities. The Imperial College London started offering a course on the science of coronavirus, which is now the most enrolled class launched in on Coursera. It enables me to reach out to my students more efficiently and effectively through chat groups, video meetings, voting and also document sharing, especially during this pandemic.
My students also find it is easier to communicate on Lark. I will stick to Lark even after coronavirus, I believe traditional offline learning and e-learning can go hand by hand. There are, however, challenges to overcome. While some schools and governments have been providing digital equipment to students in need, such as in New South Wales , Australia, many are still concerned that the pandemic will widenthe digital divide.
An online learning course is one you take online using a computer, without being with a teacher or other students in a classroom. You have greater flexibility and can study from home.. If you prefer to study at your own pace, in the comfort of your home or somewhere else, or if you live a distance from training colleges, online courses are for you.
Some people find it difficult to study by themselves, and need the face to face contact with the teacher and other students in a classroom setting. If you study online, you need to be very organized, self motivated and have good communication skills. To find out if online learning is for you, take a short quiz, courtesy of OntarioLearn.
On-the-job learning takes place in a normal working situation at a work site. It's face to face learning, where someone who knows how to perform a job shows another person, or a group of people, how to do it. If you need to impart key points or provide a forum for people to ask questions and get everyone on the same page, a Zoom forum might be a better option.
In a meta-analysis of online-learning research compiled by the U. For many teachers right now, moving online is like going back to the first year of teaching, when everything was new, argues Eaton.
Jeffrey R. Young jryoung is the higher education editor at EdSurge and the producer and co-host of the EdSurge Podcast. He can be reached at jeff [at] edsurge [dot] com. Sign up for our Newsletter. Like this article? Next Up. Sustaining Higher Education in the Coronavirus Crisis.
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