Importance of Digital Learning in Education - Desklib

Running head: Digital learning
How is digital learning going to change schools and education?
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Executive summary
With the increasing importance of technological advantages, the world is getting digitized.
The educational field is not at behind. As student are the future of every country and are
responsible for constructing a developed country; hence, they need to be provided with
efficient educational environment. Therefore, the digital engineering approach has come up
with the solution of providing technological advanced teaching to the students. The
classrooms are getting digitized and the student are getting simplified and flexible learning
facility along with multiple study materials and lecture videos available online. However, it is
important for the educators to select suitable digital learning tools; thereby avoiding the
potential challenges. This report is going to discuss about the importance of digital learning
approaches in the educational institute and schools.

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................4
Digital learning...........................................................................................................................5
Importance of digital learning....................................................................................................6
Freedom of choosing space....................................................................................................6
No time restriction..................................................................................................................7
The digitalized content...........................................................................................................7
Self-pace learning...................................................................................................................7
Digital learning tools..................................................................................................................8
Edmodo..................................................................................................................................9
Socrative.................................................................................................................................9
Projeqt....................................................................................................................................9
Storybird...............................................................................................................................10
TED-Ed................................................................................................................................10
Animoto................................................................................................................................10
Opportunity and challenges in digital learning........................................................................11
Recommendations....................................................................................................................13
Conclusion................................................................................................................................14
References................................................................................................................................15

Introduction
With the changing technology and continuous innovations, almost every field is
getting digitized. The education system also not at behind, staying parallel to all other fields,
the current age education system is gathering impactful advantages from the digital
approaches. This 21st century can be alternatively called as the digital era, where every
individual wants digitization to simplify the everyday activities (Bekker et al., 2015).
Therefore, in the current age, the parents want their children to walk hand in hand with the
new innovations and technologies. Similar to all other field, the digital technologies are
highly enhancing the skills and education domain. Knowing the fact that, qualitative
education is the key driver towards successful future of the children, every school and
education providers are heading towards the adoption of digital learning. The traditional
teaching or learning methods was mainly dependent on blackboard, chalk and dusters.
Changing the traditional education system, the new age education system focuses on the
digitalized classroom. However, even in some case the digital learning also focuses on going
beyond the classroom and focuses on online education system (HAßLER, Major & Hennessy,
2016). Few years back the concept of digital learning has been introduced to the education
systems; however, its tremendous advantages took no longer to create buzz around the world.
Nonetheless, before adopting digital learning inside the classrooms, it is vital for the teachers
to gather sufficient idea regarding the proper operation and utilization of the tools and
technologies (Niemi et al., 2014).
Over past few decades the Government of Australia has invested extensively attention
towards adopting and improving the digital education by highlighting the increasing
connection between the technology and economic prosperity. This report is going to give a
brief discussion regarding the digital learning phenomenon and its importance in context to
Australia. In addition to that, the existing digital learning tools that can be adopted by the
schools or the education systems for enhancing the learning process is going to be discussed